Gunsmoke - Season 12
Run Time: 45 mins
Air Date: Fri, 16 Sept 1966
Average Rating: ⭐ 6.553 (103 votes)
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Snap Decision
Season 12 - Episode 1
Disturbed over being forced to kill a prisoner who was trying to save his life, Matt Dillion turns in his badge.
The Goldtakers
Season 12 - Episode 2
A gang of thieves commandeers the Dodge City blacksmith shop to divide a gigantic bar of gold.
The Jailer
Season 12 - Episode 3
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 ja...
The Mission
Season 12 - Episode 4
Marshal Dillon is helped by an apparently friendly young runaway who later faces him as a deadly adversary.
The Good People
Season 12 - Episode 5
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.
Season 12 - Episode 6
A gunfighter (McGavin) hired to murder Matt Dillion gets wounded while trying to save the life of an elderly Chinese man.
The Wrong Man
Season 12 - Episode 7
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 i...
The Whispering Tree
Season 12 - Episode 8
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
Season 12 - Episode 9
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...
Stage Stop
Season 12 - Episode 10
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...
The Newcomers
Season 12 - Episode 11
Lars Karlgren, a Scandinavian immigrant and his teenage son Petter, find the West even wilder than they had imagined when they settle in Dod...
Quaker Girl
Season 12 - Episode 12
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
Season 12 - Episode 13
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
Season 12 - Episode 14
Bull Bannock (Alan Hale), retired heavyweight champion of the world, attempts to make a home for himself in Dodge City, and tries to buy Mis...
The Hanging
Season 12 - Episode 15
To Marshal Matt Dillon and his deputies falls their grimmest task in many years-- the hanging of a ruthless gunman.
Saturday Night
Season 12 - Episode 16
A vengeful prisoner poses a continual threat to the life of Marshal Matt Dillon.
Mad Dog
Season 12 - Episode 17
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 ki...
Muley
Season 12 - Episode 18
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 ban...
Mail Drop
Season 12 - Episode 19
A boy (Eddie Hodges) comes to Dodge City in search of his father only to learn that he is a wanted criminal.
Old Friend
Season 12 - Episode 20
An embittered lawman (Fritz Weaver) seeks revenge against the men who destroyed his town and took away his wife.
Fandango
Season 12 - Episode 21
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
Season 12 - Episode 22
After eight years as a down-on-his-luck farmer, husband & father, and reformed outlaw (Michael Ansara) tries to make ends meet by rejoinning...
The Lure
Season 12 - Episode 23
Private detectives use Kitty and the daughter (Kim Darby) of an outlaw to trap the girl's fugitive father (Stephen McNally).
Noose of Gold
Season 12 - Episode 24
Deputy District Attorney Shephard will do anything to further his career, including having outlaw John Farron killed, instead of being able...
The Favor
Season 12 - Episode 25
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 ...
Mistaken Identity
Season 12 - Episode 26
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 t...
Ladies from St. Louis
Season 12 - Episode 27
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)
Season 12 - Episode 28
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 ban...
Nitro! (2)
Season 12 - Episode 29
Part 2: George wants to quit making the nitro, feeling that his luck is running out, but his outlaw partners won't let him.