Gunsmoke: Season 12

Episode 1: Snap Decision 1966-09-17 | 45 min Disturbed over being forced to kill a prisoner who was trying to save his life, Matt Dillion turns in his badge. Episode 2: The Goldtakers 1966-09-24 | 45 min A gang of thieves commandeers the Dodge City blacksmith shop to divide a gigantic bar of gold. Episode 3: The Jailer 1966-10-01 | 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. Episode 4: The Mission 1966-10-08 | 45 min Marshal Dillon is helped by an apparently friendly young runaway who later faces him as a deadly adversary. Episode 5: The Good People 1966-10-15 | 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. Episode 6: Gunfighter, R.I.P. 1966-10-22 | 45 min A gunfighter (McGavin) hired to murder Matt Dillion gets wounded while trying to save the life of an elderly Chinese man. Episode 7: The Wrong Man 1966-10-29 | 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. Episode 8: The Whispering Tree 1966-11-12 | 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. Episode 9: The Well 1966-11-19 | 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. Episode 10: Stage Stop 1966-11-26 | 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. Episode 11: The Newcomers 1966-12-03 | 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. Episode 12: Quaker Girl 1966-12-10 | 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. Episode 13: The Moonstone 1966-12-17 | 45 min A young farmer's former partner-in-crime, girlfriend and slow-witted brother figure in the discovery of his forgotten past. Episode 14: Champion of the World 1966-12-24 | 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. Episode 15: The Hanging 1966-12-31 | 45 min To Marshal Matt Dillon and his deputies falls their grimmest task in many years-- the hanging of a ruthless gunman. Episode 16: Saturday Night 1967-01-07 | 45 min A vengeful prisoner poses a continual threat to the life of Marshal Matt Dillon. Episode 17: Mad Dog 1967-01-14 | 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. Episode 18: Muley 1967-01-21 | 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. Episode 19: Mail Drop 1967-01-28 | 45 min A boy (Eddie Hodges) comes to Dodge City in search of his father only to learn that he is a wanted criminal. Episode 20: Old Friend 1967-02-04 | 45 min An embittered lawman (Fritz Weaver) seeks revenge against the men who destroyed his town and took away his wife. Episode 21: Fandango 1967-02-11 | 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. Episode 22: The Returning 1967-02-18 | 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. Episode 23: The Lure 1967-02-25 | 45 min Private detectives use Kitty and the daughter (Kim Darby) of an outlaw to trap the girl's fugitive father (Stephen McNally). Episode 24: Noose of Gold 1967-03-04 | 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. Episode 25: The Favor 1967-03-11 | 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. Episode 26: Mistaken Identity 1967-03-18 | 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. Episode 27: Ladies from St. Louis 1967-03-25 | 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. Episode 28: Nitro! (1) 1967-04-08 | 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. Episode 29: Nitro! (2) 1967-04-15 | 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.