Episode

Gunsmoke: Snap Decision

Name: Gunsmoke: Snap Decision
Released: 1966-09-17
Duration: 45 min
Cast: James Arness, Amanda Blake, Milburn Stone, Ken Curtis, Dennis Weaver

GunsmokeSeason 121966-09-17

Overview

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

Details

Series: Gunsmoke
Season: Season 12
Episode: Episode 1
Air date: 1966-09-17
Runtime: 45 min

Episode context

Snap Decision is Episode 1 in Season 12 of Gunsmoke. It aired on 1966-09-17. The runtime is 45 min.

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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.

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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.