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FILER:

	COMPANY DATA:	
		COMPANY CONFORMED NAME:			ZWEIG TOTAL RETURN FUND INC
		CENTRAL INDEX KEY:			0000836412
		IRS NUMBER:				133474242
		STATE OF INCORPORATION:			MD
		FISCAL YEAR END:			1231

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		FILM NUMBER:		05643023

	BUSINESS ADDRESS:	
		STREET 1:		900 THIRD AVE., 31ST FLOOR
		CITY:			NEW YORK
		STATE:			NY
		ZIP:			10022
		BUSINESS PHONE:		212 451-1100

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		STREET 1:		900 THIRD AVE., 31ST FLOOR
		CITY:			NEW YORK
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                       EXHIBIT INDEX

EXHIBIT A:
  Attachment to item 77B:
  Accountant's report on internal control.

EXHIBIT B:
  Attachment to item 77Q1:
  Exhibits
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EXHIBIT A:

To the Board of Directors and Shareholders of
The Zweig Total Return Fund, Inc.

In planning and performing our audit of the financial
statements of The Zweig Total Return Fund, Inc. (hereafter
referred to as the "Fund") for the year ended December 31,
2004, we considered its internal control, including control
activities for safeguarding securities, in order to determine
our auditing procedures for the purpose of expressing our
opinion on the financial statements and to comply with the
requirements of Form N-SAR, not to provide assurance on
internal control.

The management of the Fund is responsible for establishing and
maintaining internal control.  In fulfilling this
responsibility, estimates and judgments by management are
required to assess the expected benefits and related costs of
controls.  Generally, controls that are relevant to an audit
pertain to the entity's objective of preparing financial
statements for external purposes that are fairly presented in
conformity with generally accepted accounting principles.
Those controls include the safeguarding of assets against
unauthorized acquisition, use or disposition.

Because of inherent limitations in internal control, errors or
fraud may occur and not be detected.  Also, projection of any
evaluation of internal control to future periods is subject to
the risk that controls may become inadequate because of changes
in conditions or that the effectiveness of their design and
operation may deteriorate.

Our consideration of internal control would not necessarily
disclose all matters in internal control that might be material
weaknesses under standards established by the Public Company
Accounting Oversight Board (United States).  A material
weakness, for purposes of this report, is a condition in which
the design or operation of one or more of the internal control
components does not reduce to a relatively low level the risk
that misstatements caused by error or fraud in amounts that
would be material in relation to the financial statements being
audited may occur and not be detected within a timely period by
employees in the normal course of performing their assigned
functions.  However, we noted no matters involving internal
control and its operation, including controls for safeguarding
securities, that we consider to be material weaknesses as
defined above as of December 31, 2004.

This report is intended solely for the information and use of
the Board of Directors, management and the Securities and
Exchange Commission and is not intended to be and should not be
used by anyone other than these specified parties.

/s/ PricewaterhouseCoopers LLP

Boston, Massachusetts
February 17, 2005




EXHIBIT B:
               THE ZWEIG TOTAL RETURN FUND, INC.

                     ARTICLES SUPPLEMENTARY

     The Zweig Total Return Fund, Inc., a Maryland corporation having
its principal office, in Maryland, in Baltimore City, Maryland
(hereinafter called the "Corporation"), hereby certifies to the
Maryland State Department of Assessments and Taxation that:

	First:  Pursuant to Title 3, Subtitle 8 of the Maryland
General Corporation Law (the "MGCL"), by resolution of its Board
of Directors adopted on August 10, 2004, the Corporation elected
to become subject to Section 3-804(c) of the MGCL with respect to
vacancies on the Board of Directors, subject to the provisions of
the Investment Company Act of 1940, as amended.  Section 3-804(c)
of the MGCL provides that all vacancies on the Board of Directors,
whether resulting from the death, resignation, or removal of a
director or from an increase in the size of Board of Directors,
may be filled only by vote of the remaining members of the Board
of Directors, even if they do not constitute a quorum, and further
that a director elected by the Board of Directors to fill a
vacancy shall hold office for the remainder of the full term of
the class of directors in which the vacancy occurred and until a
successor is elected and qualifies.  In the event of any
inconsistency with the Charter or Bylaws of the Corporation, the
aforesaid provisions of the MGCL will govern, subject to the
provisions of the Investment Company Act of 1940, as amended.

	IN WITNESS WHEREOF, the Corporation has caused these presents
to be signed in its name and on its behalf by its President and
witnessed by it Secretary as of this 10th day of August, 2004, and
the undersigned officers acknowledge that these Articles
Supplementary are the act of the Corporation, that to the best of
their knowledge, information and belief all matters and facts set
forth herein with respect to the authorization and approval of
these Articles Supplementary are true in all material respects,
and that this statement is made under the penalties of perjury.

WITNESS:                              THE ZWEIG TOTAL RETURN FUND, INC.

/s/Megan Huddleston                   /s/Daniel T. Geraci
Megan Huddleston, Secretary           Daniel T. Geraci, President

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