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Article: Dick Powell's Zane Grey Theatre.(Video recording review)
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- Wild West
- Article date:
- December 1, 2009
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Dick Powell's Zane Grey Theatre, VCI Entertainment, complete first season on four disks, 870 minutes, B&W, $39.99.
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This Western anthology series ran on CBS for five seasons (1956-61) at a time when Westerns were top gun on the small screen and kids craved Zane Grey's action-packed books. Some of the 29 first-season episodes were adapted from Grey stories, but his name was incorporated into the show's title primarily to say, "This is a program about exciting Wild West tales." Dick Powell's name, which received top billing at first, certainly called to mind other roles--his 1930s musicals, his tough-guy leads in the 1940s and his ...
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