Dick Powell's Zane Grey Theatre is an American Western anthology television series broadcast on CBS from October 5, 1956 until May 18, 1961.

While he spoke of "the vast output of wonderful action stories from Zane Grey's pen", he acknowledged the challenge of "trying to compress a novel into half an hour of storytelling on television.

"[13] Note:All times Eastern Zane Grey Theatre first aired on Fridays when it replaced Our Miss Brooks in the fall of 1956, then it moved to Thursdays during its third season.

[5] In the summer of 1959, episodes of the program were repeated on a "rerun subsidiary" titled Frontier Justice, with Melvyn Douglas as host, on Mondays from 9 to 9:30 P.M.

[5] In early February 1957, Billboard evaluated Zane Grey Theatre as "one of the strong contenders for the title of most important new show, according to many of its ratings.

The “lineage” of Zane Grey Theatre also includes the NBC series, Law of the Plainsman, which originated from a February 17, 1959 episode of The Rifleman starring Michael Ansara as Marshal Sam Buckhart (The Indian).