Zane Grey Theater
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1. You Only Run Once
Community Score
| 8.9 Great |
On the run from the law a man maintains his innocence while searching for the real killer.
2. The Fearful Courage
Community Score
| 8.6 Great |
After witnessing a murder Louise Brandon is then hunted by the gunmen who want to end her life for fear she will testify.
Director: Bernard Girard
Guest star: Ida Lupino (Louise Brandon), James Whitmore (Jeb), Michael Pate (Gunman), Paul Hahn (Neighbor), Robert Karnes (Rider)
3. The Long Road Home
Community Score
| 9.1 Superb |
A man returns to his Texas home with his mind set on accomplishing two things, he wants to avenge his brother's death and also settle an old feud.
Director: Felix Feist
Guest star: Dick Powell (Sam Gracie), Ray Collins (Evan Gracie), Ainslie Pryor (Kimbal Hatton), Jean Willes (Jenny Gracie), Conrad Janis (Ben Gracie), Robert Armstrong (Sheriff), Francis McDonald (Yancey Hatton), Alan Wells (Tom Gracie)
4. The Unrelenting Sky
Community Score
| 8.7 Great |
When the drought causes much suffering in a small town and one man has water but will not let anyone near his ranch or land the citizens take matters into their own hands for survival.
Director: Felix Feist
Guest star: Lew Ayres (Clint Howard), Phyllis Avery (Peg Howard), Walter Sande (Beecher), Willis Bouchey (Paul Travers), Steven Geray (Alex Rozky)
5. The Lariat
Community Score
| 8.8 Great |
After serving five years for accidentally killing a man with a lariat, Morgan returns to seek justice from the Judge who sentenced him.
Director: Felix Feist
Guest star: Jack Palance (Dan Morgan), Constance Ford (Laura Lovett), Addison Richards (Judge Lovett), Robert Anderson (Pace Williams), Michael Garrett (Sheriff), Guy Teague (Charlie), Buff Brady (Roper)
6. Death Watch
Community Score
| 9.3 Superb |
After his troops are killed Captain Warling decides to face the Indians alone, they turn and flee when they realize that the Captain is no longer in his right mind and they fear evil spirits may come after them.
Director: Bernard Girard
Guest star: Lee J. Cobb (Captain Andrew Watling), John Larch (Quine), John Alderson (Corporal Durkin), Bobby Driscoll (Trumpeter Jones), Abel Fernandez (Indian)
7. Stage To Tucson
Community Score
| 8.8 Great |
Marshal Thorpe has received a tip that bank robber Bide Turley is on the stage from Las Cruces to Tucson.
Director: Bernard Girard
Guest star: Eddie Albert (Bide Turley), Mona Freeman (Sandy Neal), John Ericson (Will Ruxton), Rusty Lane (Tharpe), Ian MacDonald (I) (Ed Loomis), Jaclynne Greene (May Farrell), DeForest Kelley (Les Porter), Bing Russell (Sam), Ray Baxter (Jake), Tyler McVey (Big George)
8. A Quiet Sunday In San Ardo
Community Score
| 8.2 Great |
Retired gunfighter wants to live a peaceful quiet life but there are those that won't let that happen.
Director: Ted Post
Guest star: Wendell Corey (Clay Burnett), Gerald Mohr (Veringo), Peggie Castle (Charity), Harry Lauter (Maurie), Morgan Woodward (Pete Daley), Robert Burton (Mayor), Tim Graham (I) (Jess Robbins), Sam Flint (Jason O'Neill)
9. Vengeance Canyon
Community Score
| 8.3 Great |
A young man sets out to find the father who long ago deserted his mother.
Director: Robert Florey
Guest star: Walter Brennan (Joe), Ben Cooper (Clint Harding), Sheb Wooley (Brock), Robert Griffin (Killion)
10. Return To Nowhere
Community Score
| 7.6 Good |
A gunslinger, believed dead, returns to find his wife married to the marshal.
Director: Richard Wilson (VI)
Guest star: Chris Alcaide (Morgan), Dan Riss (Hodges), Ralph Moody (Cluny), Jimmy Baird (Andy), Stephen McNally (Steve), Audrey Totter (Martha), John Ireland (Marshal Phillips)
11. Courage Is A Gun
Community Score
| 9.0 Superb |
A gunslinger is wounded by the marshal in a shooting while waiting to settle a feud. He then plots to kill the marshal as well.
Director: John English
Guest star: Leonard Penn (Walter Blake), James Westerfield (Bert), Beverly Garland (Dr. Ellen Kimberley), Robert Vaughn (Johnny Adler), Dick Powell (Marshal Jess Brackett), Robert Bice (Todd Felton), Claude Akins (Collins)
12. Muletown Gold Strike
Community Score
| 8.3 Great |
Mason Ward just back from the war discovers his law office destroyed he heads west to a new town and another job. Hired by the mayor as the new schoolteacher, he learns of a treasure map from one of his students.
Director: John English
Guest star: Rory Calhoun (Mason Ward), Barbara Eiler (Peg Saunders), Bobby Clark (Howie Saunders), Parley Baer (Mayor Homer Bellam), Dabbs Greer (Simon Marsh), Denver Pyle (John Baker), Arthur Space (Lee Rabin)
13. Stars Over Texas
Community Score
| 8.7 Great |
When a Wagon from Indiana is ambushed and burned by bushwackers, little Annie Morgan loses her family and gains a new one in the Todds.
Director: Lesley Selander
Guest star: Max Wagner (Freighter), Richard Farnsworth (Trooper), Guy Teague (Sergeant), Gloria Talbott (Caroline Todd), James Garner (Lt. Jim Collins), Beverly Washburn (Annie Morgan), Ralph Bellamy (Joel Todd)
14. The Three Graves
First aired: 1/4/1957 Production Code: 9416A gunman moves into a sleepy western town with the intention of taking it over for himself. But a pretty young woman sets her sights on him as a prospective husband.
Director: John English
Guest star: Jack Lemmon (Cass Kendall), Nan Leslie (Nancy Barnett), Frank Ferguson (T.J. Barnett), James Best (Pyke Dillon), Michael Galloway (Thompson), Pat Collins (Bartender), Richard H. Cutting (Drover), Don Kennedy (Stony Fields), Terry Frost (Blaze Moylan)
15. No Man Living
First aired: 1/11/1957 Production Code: 9428A sheriff gives up his badge to exact personal revenge on an outlaw who has wronged him. The criminal he seeks has carefully disguised himself as a lawabiding citizen.
Director: John English
Guest star: Frank Lovejoy (Jim Todd), Margaret Hayes (Susan), Judson Pratt (Ramsey), Peter Whitney (Chub), Russ Conway (Marshal Andy Barrow), James Anderson (I) (Tatum), Stafford Repp (Bartender), William Newell (Sam Evans)
16. Time Of Decision
Community Score
| 8.8 Great |
A land baron's son provokes a homesteader into a gun fight and ends up dead. The town hates homesteaders but finds a kindly allie in Evan Tapper.
Director: Harold Schuster
Guest star: Lloyd Bridges (Evan Tapper), Diane Brewster (Nancy Tapper), Walter Sande (Dan Slater), Trevor Bardette (Jed Curtis), Jean Howell (Mrs. Townley), Tommy Cook (Ted Curtis), Bill Erwin (Sam Townley), Mimi Gibson (Pattie Tapper), Mort Mills (Bart Miller), Regis Toomey (Will Jenkins)
17. Until The Man Dies
Community Score
| 7.5 Good |
Cattle rancher Clint Belmet saves criminal Dave Jordan from a lynching determined not to allow mob rule to deprive Nevada of her chance for statehood.
18. Back Trail
First aired: 2/1/1957 Production Code: 9438Ex-gunman John Fallon takes on the town bullies who are trying to get rid of the farmers and take their land.
Director: Christian Nyby
Guest star: Dick Powell (John Fallon), James Anderson (I) (Frank Lomax), Emile Meyer (Eldredge), Catherine McLeod (Effie Fallon), Kim Charney (Timmy Fallon), Robert Crosson (Hugh Beckworth), Raymond Bailey (March Beckworth), John Pickard (I) (Tom Clauson)
19. Dangerous Orders
First aired: 2/8/1957 Production Code: 9436Captain Hunter is sent to deliver important orders to the next fort and encounters several disruptions along his way. A turncoat, a drunk, a Confederate spy and Indians.
Director: John English
Guest star: Mark Stevens (I) (Captain John Hunter), Jack Elam (Hock Ellis), Willis Bouchey (George Mott), Robert Cornthwaite (Sheraton Wade), William Leicester (Major Carr), Thomas Browne Henry (Colonel Radford), John Eldredge (Colonel Phelps), Simon Scott (Captain Prentiss)
20. The Necessary Breed
First aired: 2/15/1957 Production Code: 9440Bounty hunter, Link returns to the town where he once lived, killing a man the town thinks is innocent of the crime they demand he pay for the crime.
Director: Christian Nyby
Guest star: William Fawcett (Petey), Sterling Hayden (Link Stevens), Jean Willes (Kate), James Griffith (Taggert), Strother Martin (Joby), Carlyle Mitchell (Dr. Asher), Roy Barcroft (Carl Neuman), Frank Scannell (Stranger), Gregory Walcott (Rafe), Bill Henry (Frank Carter), Fred Sherman (Bartender)
21. The Hanging Tree
First aired: 2/22/1957The town is out to hang a man without the marshal around, they become the judge jury and executioner.
Director: Felix Feist
Guest star: Robert Ryan (Matt), Cloris Leachman (Martha), John Hoyt (Frank Hale), Howard Petrie (Kroll), Stuart Randall (Sayers), Whit Bissell (Kerney Boles), Parley Baer (Dan Morrison), Rayford Barnes, Kem Dibbs, Douglas Fowley, Leo Gordon, Jason Johnson
22. Village Of Fear
First aired: 3/1/1957 Production Code: 9444A traveling book salesman is greeted by a dead man hanging in an alley when he arrives in a deserted Western town.
Director: Christian Nyby
Guest star: David Niven (Allan Raikes), George D. Wallace (Brill), Ross Elliott (Donnelly), DeForest Kelley (Sherm Pickard), Peter Hansen (Holton), Don Diamond (Jones), Harry Lauter (Karger), Dan Barton (Dave Maxon), Anne Barton (Mrs. Maxon), Bill Catching (Faylen), Troy Melton (Torrence), Gary Hunley (Peter)
23. Black Creek Encounter
First aired: 3/8/1957 Production Code: 9448A man is faced with a difficult decision when challenged by a gunman who has searched for him for years. To accept the challenge would mean almost certain death.
24. There Were Four
First aired: 3/15/1957 Production Code: 9446A young man vows to get revenge on a wealthy rancher. He uses lawless methods because he regards an outlaw he knows as a hero. These methods, however, result in his being involved in a rustling scheme.
Director: Christian Nyby
Guest star: John Derek (Andy Todd), Dean Jagger (Bert), David Janssen (Danny Ensign), James Gavin (Dutch), Dick Rich (Champion), Grant Withers (Sheriff Metz), James Komack (Whitey), Kenneth R. MacDonald (Jury Foreman)
25. Fugitive
First aired: 3/22/1957 Production Code: 9442Fleeing from Union soldiers, an ex-Confederate is helped by a young widow, who believes he's a Union man. The soldier soon realizes he has fallen in love with the widow.
Director: John English
Guest star: Eddie Albert (Sam Barlow), Celeste Holm (Sarah Kimball), Peter Votrian (Jody Kimball), Richard Shannon (Clay Rickert), Denver Pyle (Quimby)
27. A Time To Live
Community Score
| 10.0 Perfect |
A dance-hall singer tries to dissuade the man she loves from seeking revenge on a man who shot him and left him for dead.
Director: Lewis Foster
Guest star: Ralph Meeker (Steve Elkins), Julie London (Julie), John Larch (Cole Gentry), Ken Lynch (Collins), Forrest Lewis (Dr. Bishop), Walter Barnes (Gus), Alan Wells (Bartender)
28. Black Is For Grief
First aired: 4/12/1957 Production Code: 9454After serving in the Union Army, a young man learns that his wife has been murdered. In trying to find the killer he learns a strange story.
Director: Lewis Allen
Guest star: Tom Tryon (Jeff Anderson), Mala Powers (Barbara Anderson), Mary Astor (Sarah Simmons), Beulah Bondi (Ma Anderson), Skip Homeier (Cleve Roarke), Chester Morris (Frank Simmons), Tom Tully (Tom Roarke), Dick Anderson (Sheriff Bates)
29. Badge Of Honor
First aired: 5/3/1957 Production Code: 9456Returning from the Civil War and tired of violence and bloodshed, Hoby Gilman is shocked to find his hometown in the grip of the cruel and power mad Colonel Boyd Nelson.
Director: Arthur Hillier
Guest star: Gary Merrill (Colonel Boyd Nelson), Tom Tully (Jed Phillips), Robert Culp (Hoby Gilman), Peggy Webber (Nora), Dick Gardner (Tim Dougherty), Holly Bane (Sam Gibson), Walter Coy (Jim Shane), Bill Henry (George Wallace), William Leicester (Ranger), Richard Devon (Army Hendricks), Eddie Parker (Rowdy Townsman)
30. Decision At Wilson's Creek
First aired: 5/17/1957 Production Code: 9452The Battle of Wilson's Creek occurred August 10, 1861 along Wilson's Creek, about ten miles south of Springfield. This six hour battle is considered to be the second major battle of the Civil War and the first major battle west of the Mississippi River.
Director: Louis King
Guest star: John Forsyth (Lt. David Marr), Marjorie Lord (Amy Marr), John Dehner (Jim Randolph), Bart Burns (Lt. Hobson), Willis Bouchey (General Price), Harry Lauter (Sgt. Stone), Joe Di Reda (Sgt. Jasper), John Wilder (Sanborn), William Swan (Lt. Grimes), Don House (Captain Bell), William Boyett (Union Captain)
31. Man On The Run
First aired: 6/21/1957 Production Code: 7203An outlaw on the run winds up at a ranch run by more outlaws who have taken over the ranch. Duane tries to help the sisters regain control of the ranch.
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