Gunsmoke
Gunsmoke: Season 12

Air Date

September 17, 1966

Episodes

29 episodes

Gunsmoke

Season 12

Episodes

Snap Decision

1. Snap Decision

September 17, 1966
45 min

Disturbed over being forced to kill a prisoner who was trying to save his life, Matt Dillion turns in his badge.

The Goldtakers

2. The Goldtakers

September 24, 1966
45 min

A gang of thieves commandeers the Dodge City blacksmith shop to divide a gigantic bar of gold.

The Jailer

3. The Jailer

7.5
October 1, 1966
45 min

Six years after her husband's hanging, Ma Stone plots her revenge against Matt Dillon by first kidnapping Kitty to use as a lure and then jailing Matt to be hanged on the morning of the second day with Kitty watching as her man died.

The Mission

4. The Mission

8.0
October 8, 1966
45 min

Marshal Dillon is helped by an apparently friendly young runaway who later faces him as a deadly adversary.

The Good People

5. The Good People

October 15, 1966
45 min

A respectable rancher and his son hang an innocent man and allow a bewhiskered bounty hunter to go on trial for the murder.

Gunfighter, R.I.P.

6. Gunfighter, R.I.P.

8.0
October 22, 1966
45 min

A gunfighter (McGavin) hired to murder Matt Dillion gets wounded while trying to save the life of an elderly Chinese man.

The Wrong Man

7. The Wrong Man

October 29, 1966
45 min

Hootie Kyle is a poor but honest farmer whose credit has run out. Matt Dillon and Festus lend him some money, then he gets swindled out of it in a poker game. Later Hootie gets circumstantially framed for the murder of the card shark who swindled him.

The Whispering Tree

8. The Whispering Tree

November 12, 1966
45 min

After eight years in a prison for robbery a farmer returns home and hopes to find the stolen fortune he had buried under a tree.

The Well

9. The Well

November 19, 1966
45 min

All of Dodge City is suffering from a drought. A rainmaker (Guy Raymond) tries to put an end to it before the town's public well, their last source of water, runs dry.

Stage Stop

10. Stage Stop

10.0
November 26, 1966
45 min

Doc Adams takes up arms to defend a gold shipment from bandits, first during a stagecoach ambush and then at a weigh station. He is aided by a blind man and a wounded man in the battle against the bandits.

The Newcomers

11. The Newcomers

December 3, 1966
45 min

Lars Karlgren, a Scandinavian immigrant and his teenage son Petter, find the West even wilder than they had imagined when they settle in Dodge City. Petter gets framed for a murder of a man who was picking a fight with him.

Quaker Girl

12. Quaker Girl

December 10, 1966
45 min

The identity of a criminal is confused with that of deputy marshal Thad, when a Quaker party rescues the pair from a do-or-die fight.

The Moonstone

13. The Moonstone

December 17, 1966
45 min

A young farmer's former partner-in-crime, girlfriend and slow-witted brother figure in the discovery of his forgotten past.

Champion of the World

14. Champion of the World

December 24, 1966
45 min

Bull Bannock (Alan Hale), retired heavyweight champion of the world, attempts to make a home for himself in Dodge City, and tries to buy Miss Kitty's Longbranch Saloon.

The Hanging

15. The Hanging

December 31, 1966
45 min

To Marshal Matt Dillon and his deputies falls their grimmest task in many years-- the hanging of a ruthless gunman.

Saturday Night

16. Saturday Night

January 7, 1967
45 min

A vengeful prisoner poses a continual threat to the life of Marshal Matt Dillon.

Mad Dog

17. Mad Dog

January 14, 1967
45 min

Festus Haggen is mistaken for a hired gunman and offered $300 to fight, and run out of town, the 3 sons of a man his cousin is accused of killing.

Muley

18. Muley

January 21, 1967
45 min

A young gunman (Zalman King) falls for one of Kitty's saloon girls (Lane Bradbury) while waiting to kill Marshal Matt Dillon and rob the bank.

Mail Drop

19. Mail Drop

January 28, 1967
45 min

A boy (Eddie Hodges) comes to Dodge City in search of his father only to learn that he is a wanted criminal.

Old Friend

20. Old Friend

February 4, 1967
45 min

An embittered lawman (Fritz Weaver) seeks revenge against the men who destroyed his town and took away his wife.

Fandango

21. Fandango

February 11, 1967
45 min

Matt Dillon tries to bring a man to justice in spite of an onslaught of an crazed vengeful lawman wishing to exact his own revenge.

The Returning

22. The Returning

February 18, 1967
45 min

After eight years as a down-on-his-luck farmer, husband & father, and reformed outlaw (Michael Ansara) tries to make ends meet by rejoinning his old gang to rob the Dodge City freight office.

The Lure

23. The Lure

February 25, 1967
45 min

Private detectives use Kitty and the daughter (Kim Darby) of an outlaw to trap the girl's fugitive father (Stephen McNally).

Noose of Gold

24. Noose of Gold

9.0
March 4, 1967
45 min

Deputy District Attorney Shephard will do anything to further his career, including having outlaw John Farron killed, instead of being able to give himself up.

The Favor

25. The Favor

March 11, 1967
45 min

Kitty's conscience is torn between her sense of obligation to a man (James Daly) who saved her life and her concern for the law and Marshal Matt Dillon.

Mistaken Identity

26. Mistaken Identity

March 18, 1967
45 min

Outlaw Ed Carstairs trades identities with a man dying of a snakebite wound, then is suprised when the man is brought into Dodge and seems to be recovering.

Ladies from St. Louis

27. Ladies from St. Louis

March 25, 1967
45 min

A group of Nuns traveling out West nurse the wounds of outlaw Worth Sweeney, who was injured while defending them from his partners.

Nitro! (1)

28. Nitro! (1)

April 8, 1967
45 min

Part 1: Down on his luck drifter is offered a dangerous, but profitable job of mixing nitroglycerine for outlaws who are using it to rob banks. George also falls in love with a saloon girl and begins a business venture with his earnings.

Nitro! (2)

29. Nitro! (2)

April 15, 1967
45 min

Part 2: George wants to quit making the nitro, feeling that his luck is running out, but his outlaw partners won't let him.