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.
EP2 Desert FlightOct 13, 1960
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.
EP3 Cry Hope! Cry Hate!Oct 20, 1960
After her son goes missing a search party goes out looking for the youngster.
EP4 The OxNov 03, 1960
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.
EP5 So Young the Savage LandNov 10, 1960
Beth and Jim Brayden have struggled to keep their ranch when the greed of a neighboring rancher tries to lay claim to their land.
EP6 RansomNov 17, 1960
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.
EP7 The Last BugleNov 24, 1960
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.
EP8 The Black WagonDec 01, 1960
Sarah Harmon is traveling in a wagon train which halts at the scene of an Apache raid.
EP9 Knife of HateDec 08, 1960
Dr. Pittman's daughter is held hostage until the good doctor performs surgery on one of the outlaws.
EP10 The MormonsDec 15, 1960
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.
EP11 The Man From YesterdayDec 22, 1960
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.
EP12 Morning IncidentDec 29, 1960
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.
EP13 AmbushJan 05, 1961
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.
EP14 One Must DieJan 12, 1961
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.
EP15 The Long ShadowJan 19, 1961
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.
EP16 Blood RedJan 29, 1961
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.
EP17 Honor BrightFeb 02, 1961
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.
EP18 The Broken WingFeb 09, 1961
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.
EP19 The Silent SentryFeb 16, 1961
A wintery outpost leaves the last two soldiers, one a Rebel the other Confederate to survive their blistering hatred.
EP20 The Bible ManFeb 23, 1961
Jimmy Pierce holds his father, a religious preacher responsible for the death of his mother.
EP21 The ScarMar 02, 1961
The scar on Jesse Martin's life is his memory of his months in a prison camp during the Civil War.
EP22 Knight of the SunMar 09, 1961
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.
EP23 A Warm Day in HeavenMar 23, 1961
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.
EP24 The Empty ShellMar 30, 1961
Madden a cowardly farmer is fearful that not only are they after his land but his wife as well.
EP25 The AtonerApr 06, 1961
New Bethlehem, Arizona, has no saloons or gambling halls because of the House of Matthew religious sect which inhabits it.
EP26 Man from EverywhereApr 13, 1961
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.
EP27 The ReleaseApr 27, 1961
Prisoner Lee DuVal could go free by working for the governor of Texas.
EP28 Storm Over EdenMay 04, 1961
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.
EP29 Image of a Drawn SwordMay 11, 1961
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.
EP30 JerichoMay 18, 1961
A woman sentenced to hang for the murder of her husband is sent a second chance by a Government Agent.
Dick Powell's Zane Grey Theatre, sometimes simply called Zane Grey Theatre, is an American Western anthology series which ran on CBS from 1956 to 1961.