Dick Powell's Zane Grey Theatre Season 5, Episode 1: A Gun for Willie

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A Gun for Willie

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.

30 min

2

Desert Flight

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.

30 min

3

Cry Hope! Cry Hate!

After her son goes missing a search party goes out looking for the youngster.

30 min

4

The Ox

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.

30 min

5

So Young the Savage Land

Beth and Jim Brayden have struggled to keep their ranch when the greed of a neighboring rancher tries to lay claim to their land.

30 min

6

Ransom

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 before he learns why he was spared. The Indians plan to trade him for horses and guns.

30 min

7

The Last Bugle

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 surrender.

30 min

8

The Black Wagon

Sarah Harmon is traveling in a wagon train which halts at the scene of an Apache raid.

30 min

9

Knife of Hate

Dr. Pittman's daughter is held hostage until the good doctor performs surgery on one of the outlaws.

30 min

10

The Mormons

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 motives after he meets a young lady from the train.

30 min

11

The Man From Yesterday

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.

30 min

12

Morning Incident

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.

30 min

13

Ambush

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 complain about the dangerous duty.

30 min

14

One Must Die

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 is excluded.

30 min

15

The Long Shadow

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.

30 min

16

Blood Red

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.

30 min

17

Honor Bright

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.

30 min

18

The Broken Wing

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.

30 min

19

The Silent Sentry

A wintery outpost leaves the last two soldiers, one a Rebel the other Confederate to survive their blistering hatred.

30 min

20

The Bible Man

Jimmy Pierce holds his father, a religious preacher responsible for the death of his mother.

30 min

21

The Scar

The scar on Jesse Martin's life is his memory of his months in a prison camp during the Civil War.

30 min

22

Knight of the Sun

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 dead father- delivering the new Gatling gun to the troops in Mexico.

30 min

23

A Warm Day in Heaven

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.

30 min

24

The Empty Shell

Madden a cowardly farmer is fearful that not only are they after his land but his wife as well.

30 min

25

The Atoner

New Bethlehem, Arizona, has no saloons or gambling halls because of the House of Matthew religious sect which inhabits it.

30 min

26

Man from Everywhere

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 nearby town of Borrego.

30 min

27

The Release

Prisoner Lee DuVal could go free by working for the governor of Texas.

30 min

28

Storm Over Eden

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 wants to hang Chet.

30 min

29

Image of a Drawn Sword

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, he offers the townspeople a warning - don't taunt the young soldiers.

30 min

30

Jericho

A woman sentenced to hang for the murder of her husband is sent a second chance by a Government Agent.

30 min