Dick Powell's Zane Grey Theatre: Season 2
Season 2 Lore Primer
Key plot threads, lore context, and character stakes you need to remember before diving into this season.
- Directly follows the overarching narrative developments of Dick Powell's Zane Grey Theatre Season 1.
- Faction dynamics and core character alliances shift under escalating external stakes.
- Crucial mysteries introduced previously reach key turning points and narrative reckonings.
- Sets up serialized story arcs that build directly toward the climactic season finale.
Episode Guide
Season 2 Progress Shield
The Deserters
Oct 4, 1957 · 30 min
Sergeant Major Dravo is on the trail of deserters, and his disgust with these traitors has no bounds.
Blood in the Dust
Oct 11, 1957 · 30 min
Yankee Jim Horncuff is confronted by gunman Burke.
A Gun is for Killing
Oct 18, 1957 · 30 min
""Make your play Billy Jack,"" says young Bobby as he pretends with his father's pistol, which is against the family's rules. But when the real Billy Jack shows up in town and thre
Proud Woman
Oct 25, 1957 · 30 min
When Consuela Bowers arrives in the West, she hires a man to work on her father's ranch. She does not know that he is a professional gunman.
Ride a Lonely Trail
Nov 2, 1957 · 30 min
The town council decides to retire old Sheriff Larson against much protest from the oldtime sheriff himself who does not want to be put out to pasture. He tries to prove to the tow
The Promise
Nov 8, 1957 · 30 min
A dying rancher forces his restless young son to promise he will remain on the ranch with his older brother Noah.
Episode in Darkness
Nov 15, 1957 · 30 min
Traveling cattleman Ethan Boyan is framed in a frontier town for the slaying of a woman in a stagecoach holdup. The only person present when the crime was committed was Isabelle Ru
The Open Cell
Nov 22, 1957 · 30 min
Sheriff Morgan Winter decides to give a young man involved in a shooting another chance by taking him into his custody for a year. But the rest of the town, including Winter's depu
A Man to Look Up To
Nov 29, 1957 · 30 min
Lawyer Jud Lester is just arriving in town right after a robbery when he finds one of the robbers hiding in his office wounded. The robber passes out and people in town assume that
The Bitter Land
Dec 6, 1957 · 30 min
A matriarch is adamanant about keeping the Spring Waters for her ranch and endangers her grandson, while other ranchers seek to use the water for their cattle, trouble ensues.
Gift From a Gunman
Dec 13, 1957 · 30 min
After he is wounded in a gun duel, Will Gorman resolves to forsake the gunman's life. He visits an old friend, whose restless wife and gun-eager son weaken his resolution to reform
A Gun for My Bride
Dec 27, 1957 · 30 min
The daughter of a wealthy cattleman elopes with one of her father's ranch hands. Then he learns that her new husband is a fugitive from justice.
Man Unforgiving
Jan 3, 1958 · 30 min
Ex-army Medical corp doctor Ben Harper winds up in a town run by a crippled sheriff who holds a personal grudge against the doctor.
Trial by Fear
Jan 10, 1958 · 30 min
Gunslinger Tod Owen is on trial for murder, when he is found not guilty, it comes out that the dead man's brother had more reason to want his brother dead.
The Freighter
Jan 17, 1958 · 30 min
Belle is running a freightline outfit. Murdock and his sons are causing problems for Belle and are forcing a merger the hard way. Without the contracts needed for her line, the Mur
This Man Must Die
Jan 24, 1958 · 30 min
A sentenced to hang man escapes and returns to his home town to kill the witness whose false testimony convicted him.
Wire
Jan 31, 1958 · 30 min
A man who has spent most of his life working other people's property, vows to own land of his own. He homesteads on government land until violence breaks out with ranchers who want
License to Kill
Feb 7, 1958 · 30 min
A frontier sheriff finds he is unable to cope with a group of trouble-making trailherders when he breaks his arm. The his younger brother arrives in town and the sheriff swears him
Sundown at Bitter Creek
Feb 14, 1958 · 30 min
A man arrives in the town of Bitter Creek. Though he is trying to live down his past as a gun fighter the stranger learns that his appearance has a decided effect on three of the t
The Stranger
Feb 28, 1958 · 30 min
Cort McConnell rides into town, when he sees a man running out of the general store and after he wrestles him down they fight until a shot goes off killing the man. With the shopke
The Sharpshooter
Mar 7, 1958 · 30 min
Lucas McCain and his son Mark arrive in North Fork, New Mexico. Looking to start a new life, they come across a ranch to their liking, which is for sale.
Man of Fear
Mar 14, 1958 · 30 min
The famed gunman Doc Holliday visits a young married couple who are friends of his. He learns that the wife holds her husband in contempt because he is paying protection money to a
The Doctor Keeps a Promise
Mar 21, 1958 · 30 min
Dr. Allan McMurdo tries to save the life of Dave Bechdolt who was shot when he tried to rob a man so that he could buy some seeds to grow his crops for his family.
Three Days to Death
Apr 4, 1958 · 30 min
An Easterner learns that his brother has been killed out West and sets out to find the murderer. He learns that the killer's identity is known, but that the law does not have the m
Shadow of a Dead Man
Apr 11, 1958 · 30 min
Logan Wheeler seeks Raney Benson, a wanted bank robber for the reward money. Logan's father is close to losing his ranch and Logan sets out to help him.
Debt of Gratitude
Apr 18, 1958 · 30 min
Marshal Cam Tolby faces the enmity of the townspeople when he tries to take an outlaw to Prescott, Ariz., to stand trial for robbery and murder. His difficulties increase when the
A Handful of Ashes
May 2, 1958 · 30 min
Old timer Ben Carey wants to become Deputy but the town thinks he's too old for the job. He takes in a man with a snake bite and realizes that he is outlaw Jerrod Toll.
Threat of Violence
May 23, 1958 · 30 min
A gunman, tired of violence, hangs up his guns and tries to make a new life for himself as an attorney. But he finds that his reputation as a gunman hinders him. Then he takes the
Utopia, Wyoming
Jun 6, 1958 · 30 min
A clan of Confederates from Georgia looking for a new way of life settle in a deserted Wyoming ghost town that they have named 'Utopia'.