Dick Powell's Zane Grey Theatre: Season 5
Season 5 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 4.
- 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 5 Progress Shield
A Gun for Willie
Oct 6, 1960 · 30 min
When simple Willie receives a reward for killing an outlaw he becomes the big man in town, until it turns out that Willie killed the wrong man.
Desert Flight
Oct 13, 1960 · 30 min
Brenner, Doyle and Sandy are a trio of bank robbers, who've come up with a really slick plan. But Brenner, the mastermind, hasn't taken Doyle's itchy trigger finger into account.
Cry Hope! Cry Hate!
Oct 20, 1960 · 30 min
After her son goes missing a search party goes out looking for the youngster.
The Ox
Nov 3, 1960 · 30 min
A former Confederate soldier who has spent some long years in prison, Ox has only one thing in mind - revenge on his old commanding officer for putting him behind bars.
So Young the Savage Land
Nov 10, 1960 · 30 min
Beth and Jim Brayden have struggled to keep their ranch when the greed of a neighboring rancher tries to lay claim to their land.
Ransom
Nov 17, 1960 · 30 min
Comanche Indians raid a shepherd's camp, killing all the hands except an itinerant cowboy named Dundee. He doesn't have to wait long before he learns why he have to wait long befor
The Last Bugle
Nov 24, 1960 · 30 min
Geronimo and his renagades are on the warpath again. Army officer Gatewood heads for the Mexican Sierras with two Apache prisoners to try and talk the ruthless leader into surrende
The Black Wagon
Dec 1, 1960 · 30 min
Sarah Harmon is traveling in a wagon train which halts at the scene of an Apache raid.
Knife of Hate
Dec 8, 1960 · 30 min
Dr. Pittman's daughter is held hostage until the good doctor performs surgery on one of the outlaws.
The Mormons
Dec 15, 1960 · 30 min
Matt Rowland is determined to prevent Mormons from entering into Joshua City after he hears there is cholera aboard the wagon train. His son Tod begins to question his father's mot
The Man From Yesterday
Dec 22, 1960 · 30 min
An old-time gunslinger named Mapes gets out of prison and returns to track down John Duncan, the man who framed him many years ago.
Morning Incident
Dec 29, 1960 · 30 min
Laurie Pritchard is a farm girl engaged to a farm boy but the farm life isn't consistent with her dreams. Then she meets a man who might be able to make her dreams come true.
Ambush
Jan 5, 1961 · 30 min
Union Army Col. Blackburn commands a squad of mercenary soldiers whose current mission is to get vital papers through Confederate lines. There's an air of mutiny as the mercenaries
One Must Die
Jan 12, 1961 · 30 min
John Baylor is summoned to the home of a friend of his fathers. The man is dying and wishes to leave everything to one of his two daughters. John wants to find out why one daughter
The Long Shadow
Jan 19, 1961 · 30 min
Widow Amy Lawson's son, a Cavalry Officer, is killed in action. Amy blames Major Sinclair for her son's death. The major isn't just the Cavalry commander - he's Amy's fiance.
Blood Red
Jan 29, 1961 · 30 min
Jess Whiting is a driven man, he is afraid that the Indian uprising is because of his Indian wife and that she will be taken from him.
Honor Bright
Feb 2, 1961 · 30 min
Ex-convict Ed Dubro has reluctantly agreed to his daughter's marriage to Vince Harwell. But on the wedding day, Laurie learns that Vince is already married.
The Broken Wing
Feb 9, 1961 · 30 min
Lyman now a cripple, years ago tried to fly through the air under his own power. Now Lyman's nephew Thalian is determined to do the same thing.
The Silent Sentry
Feb 16, 1961 · 30 min
A wintery outpost leaves the last two soldiers, one a Rebel the other Confederate to survive their blistering hatred.
The Bible Man
Feb 23, 1961 · 30 min
Jimmy Pierce holds his father, a religious preacher responsible for the death of his mother.
The Scar
Mar 2, 1961 · 30 min
The scar on Jesse Martin's life is his memory of his months in a prison camp during the Civil War.
Knight of the Sun
Mar 9, 1961 · 30 min
Henry Jacob Hanley, a drunken desert rat, is just making himself at home in a deserted fort when he acquires some company. Beth Woodfield arrives on a mission taken over from her d
A Warm Day in Heaven
Mar 23, 1961 · 30 min
In the sleepy decent town of Heaven, evil arrives in the form of Nick Finn, as Michael Peters soon finds out he is the only one not swayed by the devil.
The Empty Shell
Mar 30, 1961 · 30 min
Madden a cowardly farmer is fearful that not only are they after his land but his wife as well.
The Atoner
Apr 6, 1961 · 30 min
New Bethlehem, Arizona, has no saloons or gambling halls because of the House of Matthew religious sect which inhabits it.
Man from Everywhere
Apr 13, 1961 · 30 min
Sheriff Jed Morgan is worried about his prisoner, Tom Bowdry, because the local gentry seems to be getting lynch fever. Morgan hires guide Branch Taylor to hustle Bowdry to the nea
The Release
Apr 27, 1961 · 30 min
Prisoner Lee DuVal could go free by working for the governor of Texas.
Storm Over Eden
May 4, 1961 · 30 min
Chet Loring, Ellen Gaynor, and Billie Gaynor grew up together in the same house. Chet wants to marry Ellen but accidentally shoots and kills Billie. Now Ellen and Billie's father w
Image of a Drawn Sword
May 11, 1961 · 30 min
Union Lieutenant Sam Kenyon informs the citizens of an isolated Rebel community that some rookie troops will be camping near there for a few days. For the sake of their own health,
Jericho
May 18, 1961 · 30 min
A woman sentenced to hang for the murder of her husband is sent a second chance by a Government Agent.