Dick Powell's Zane Grey Theatre: Season 4
Season 4 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 3.
- 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 4 Progress Shield
Interrogation
Oct 1, 1959 · 30 min
After being captured by the Mexican Army, Captain Kraig holds fast to the interrogation concerning the whereabouts of the coming troops.
The Lone Woman
Oct 8, 1959 · 30 min
An Indian is skulking around a ranch house and kills the eldest son of the family living there. The mother is filled with hate and wants him dead. Soon the Indian returns.
Confession
Oct 15, 1959 · 30 min
A New York newspaper reporter comes West to do a story on Sheriff Agate Slade. He forms an immediate dislike for the sheriff.
The Lonely Gun
Oct 22, 1959 · 30 min
An outlaw returns home to see his brother. He finds that his brother is dead. His nephew has sold the ranch to pay debts and is about to set out on a life of getting rich fast.
Hand on the Latch
Oct 29, 1959 · 30 min
A man is shot while escaping from an army prison camp during the civil war. He happens upon a small farm house where there are two women alone.
Shadows
Nov 5, 1959 · 30 min
Loy Bannister is the town's most powerful figure because of his political and economic influence. In a wild bid to gain Bannister's admiration, young Branch Neeley agrees to stand
Mission
Nov 12, 1959 · 30 min
At a frontier cavalry post, a newly arrived black trooper must earn the respect and trust of his fellow cavalrymen, most of whom are white and don't want a black in their outfit.
Lonesome Road
Nov 19, 1959 · 30 min
Marshall Ben Clark cleaned up the town, but now he is going to far in his effort to suppress dissent. The townspeople decide he needs to leave town. He doesn't want to leave quietl
King of the Valley
Nov 26, 1959 · 30 min
A wealthy rancher is blamed for missing funds at a bank.
Rebel Range
Dec 3, 1959 · 30 min
A strong willed woman and her son return to their old home to find it occupied by a former civil war soldier who refuses to leave.
Death in a Wood
Dec 17, 1959 · 30 min
Two Confederate soldiers, sent into the woods on a reconnaissance mission, suddenly realize that they are being watched.
The Grubstake
Dec 24, 1959 · 30 min
Released after a long prison term, prospector Jim Goad is ready to resume panning for gold and he plans to take his son with him. But the boy who was raised by friends of Jim's has
The Ghost
Dec 31, 1959 · 30 min
Marshal Monty Elstrode is captured by an outlaw gang who are planning to organize a new Confederate Army. Elstrode is shocked to learn that the leader of the group is the supposedl
Miss Jenny
Jan 7, 1960 · 30 min
Jenny Breckenridge is unhappy with her life. She would much rather be back in the city, where she comes from. than out west with her husband, a lazy drunk. A good-looking young cow
The Reckoning
Jan 14, 1960 · 30 min
Mace, a cattleman, hates sheepherders because he believes that sheep ruin good grazing land.
Wayfarers
Jan 21, 1960 · 30 min
A forlorn young woman comes to a hostile village to tell her husband, who has been working there, she is pregnant.
Picture of Sal
Jan 28, 1960 · 30 min
Jed a former spy during the Civil War shows up in a Nevada casino run by Sal, whom he left standing at the altar years before.
Never Too Late
Feb 4, 1960 · 30 min
Ginger Rogers plays a land-hungry woman who hires a gunman to help her.
Man in the Middle
Feb 11, 1960 · 30 min
An Indian agent has a double task: convincing the townspeople that a young man deserves punishment for shooting an Indian and arresting the culprit.
Guns for Garibaldi
Feb 18, 1960 · 30 min
Townspeople are disappointed when Giulio Mandati comes to Indian Creek to take over his brother's gold claim. They had hoped that the gold would be used to pay for a much needed da
The Sunday Man
Feb 25, 1960 · 30 min
Sheriff Walt Devlin and his brother, Deputy Bill Devlin, are alike in name only. Walt is a letter-of-the-law man who believes the end does not justify the means. Bill's methods are
Set-Up
Mar 3, 1960 · 30 min
When a rancher is set-up for a crime he did not commit he finds out more than he needed to know.
A Small Town That Died
Mar 10, 1960 · 30 min
An ex-convict hears about a good ranch job - but he arrives to find the rancher murdered.
Killer Instinct
Mar 17, 1960 · 30 min
McGill acts the big man in town and makes the sheriff look bad to the townspeople.
Sundown Smith
Mar 24, 1960 · 30 min
After Bobby's mother is murdered by Outlaw Jesse Harp, he runs into Sundown Smith and sets him up for the fall as the murderer.
Calico Bait
Mar 31, 1960 · 30 min
Deputy Sam Anders is looking for Davey Morse for the murder of a shopkeeper.
Seed of Evil
Apr 7, 1960 · 30 min
Malachi West has developed a bitter hatred for the Union secret-service man who was responsible for his son's death during the war. The townspeople are very afraid of West until Sa
Deception
Apr 14, 1960 · 30 min
In an effort to thwart thieving outlaws that rob their stagecoaches, the stage-line's main operators come up with a plan that is not only unorthodox but risky as well.
Stagecoach to Yuma
May 5, 1960 · 30 min
Marshal Dave Harmon heads for Yuma to end the lawless reign of a notorious woman.