Dick Powell's Zane Grey Theatre

VCI Entertainment has released Dick Powell's Zane Grey Theatre: Complete Season One, a four-disc, 29-episode collection of the first 1956-1957 season of this well-remembered CBS hit. The series offered a weekly dramatic anthology format set in the Old West that featured a cornucopia of established stars and promising up-and-comers enacting these trim, tight little black-and-white morality tales.

Most of the episodes provide solid drama and fine acting. In the first episode, for instance, reliable Robert Ryan is believable as a rancher nearly hanged by vigilantes.

'Chuck Connors and Johnny Crawford are Lucas and Mark McCain in this excellent half hour western. It was so good they decided to make it a series.'

I started this long TV western series, and I must admit that I am bit deceived...