ZANE GREY THEATRE COMPLETE SEASON ONE

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• Release Year: 1956
• Genre: Drama, Western
• Plot: Wonderful tales of the Old West laden with history and adventure are presented in Dick Powell's Zane Grey Theatre, a half-hour western anthology TV series that debuted on CBS, October 5, 1956 and ran for 5 whole seasons. Dick Powell served as the host for the entire series and also starred as various characters in 15 episodes. The series was originally based on the short stories and novels of western author Zane Grey, but as the series continued, new material was included. Aaron Spelling, who later became a legend in Hollywood, wrote twenty Zane Grey episodes.; ; ; ZANE GREY THEATRE was also ground-breaking for producing five episodes which were spun-off into subsequent TV series: (1) TRACKDOWN (from Season one's 'Badge of Honor') starring Robert Culp as Texas Ranger Hoby Gilman, (2) THE RIFLEMAN (from Season 2's 'The Sharpshooter') with Chuck Connors as Lucas McCain, (3) BLACK SADDLE (from Season 2's 'Threat of Violence' with Chris Alcaide instead of series star Peter Breck as Clay Culhane), (4) JOHNNY RINGO (from Season 3's 'Man Alone') starring Don Durant, and (5) THE WESTERNER (from Season 3's 'Trouble at Tres Cruces') starring Brian Keith as Dave Blassingame. In addition, WANTED: DEAD OR ALIVE, with Steve McQueen playing the bounty hunter Josh Randall, was a CBS spinoff of TRACKDOWN, and LAW OF THE PLAINSMAN, starring Michael Ansara as a Harvard-educated, Native American U.S. Marshal was an NBC spin-off of THE RIFLEMAN.
• Cast: Dick Powell; Whitey Hughes; Walter Sande; Denver Pyle; Chris Alcaide; Jason Johnson; Bill Erwin; John Falvo; Michael Hinn; Ed Nelson; William Henry; Paul Richards; Dabbs Greer; Harry Lauter; John Hackett; Richard Shannon; Ethan Laidlaw; Robert Ryan; Lloyd Bridges; Barbara Stanwyck; Stephen McNally; Eddie Albert; Gary Merrill; James Whitmore; John Ericson; Beverly Garland; John Dehner; Marsha Hunt; Ben Cooper; Claude Akins; Michael Pate; Jack Elam; Willis Bouchey; Parley Baer; David Janssen; Peter Whitney; Harry Dean Stanton; James Anderson; DeForest Kelley; John Pickard; Robert F. Hoy; Carl Benton Reid; Raymond Bailey; Stacy Harris; Brett King; Lane Bradford; Joseph V. Perry; William Schallert; Richard Devon; Howard Culver; George Wallace; John Hoyt; Chuck Hayward; John Newton; Jack Kenny; Lew Ayres; Wendell Corey; Dewey Martin; Frank Lovejoy; Michael Rennie; Barry Sullivan; Cameron Mitchell; Jane Greer; Thomas Mitchell; Cesar Romero; Robert Culp; John Larch; Jean Willes; Robert Harland; Karl Swenson; John Anderson; Paul Birch; J. Pat O'Malley; Mort Mills; Frank Ferguson; Peter Breck; Dan Barton; Don Diamond; Robert Gothie; Russell Thorson; Walter Coy; Roy Barcroft; K.L. Smith; Paul Sorensen; Bing Russell; Dick Rich; Roy Engel; Jess Kirkpatrick; Bill Catching; Troy Melton; David Niven; Carolyn Jones; Robert Karnes; Kenneth Patterson; Ken Mayer; Craig Duncan; Ned Glass; Charles E. Fredericks; Tyler McVey; Felix E. Feist; Bernard Girard; Ted Post; Robert Florey; Lawrence L. Goldman; Richard Wilson; John English; Lesley Selander; Harold D. Schuster; Christian Nyby; Roy Del Ruth; Lewis R. Foster; Lewis Allen; Arthur Hiller; Louis King; John McGreevey; Arthur A. Ross; Harold Swanton; Aaron Spelling; Harold Shumate; Otis Carney; James Edmiston; Lawrence Menkin; Zane Grey; Frederick Louis Fox; Norman Daniels; Stirling Silliphant; Sidney Morse; Theodore V. Olsen; Les Savage Jr.; D.D. Beauchamp; Clarke Reynolds; Antony Ellis; Bob Barbash; Steve Frazee; Berne Giler; Joseph Chadwick; John Robinson; Marc Brandel; Richard Wormser
• Director: Felix E. Feist
• Runtime: 14:30
• Company: Four Star Productions, Pamric Productions, Zane Grey Enterprises, VCI Entertainment
• Media Format: Series