Episode
Gunsmoke: Saturday Night
Overview
A vengeful prisoner poses a continual threat to the life of Marshal Matt Dillon.
Details
- Series
- Gunsmoke
- Season
- Season 12
- Episode
- Episode 16
- Air date
- 1967-01-07
- Runtime
- 45 min
Episode context
Saturday Night is Episode 16 in Season 12 of Gunsmoke. It aired on 1967-01-07. The runtime is 45 min.
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Episode 17: Mad Dog
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.
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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 18: Muley
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 13: The Moonstone
A young farmer's former partner-in-crime, girlfriend and slow-witted brother figure in the discovery of his forgotten past.
Episode 19: Mail Drop
A boy (Eddie Hodges) comes to Dodge City in search of his father only to learn that he is a wanted criminal.
Episode 12: Quaker Girl
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 20: Old Friend
An embittered lawman (Fritz Weaver) seeks revenge against the men who destroyed his town and took away his wife.
Episode 11: The Newcomers
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 21: Fandango
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 10: Stage Stop
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 22: The Returning
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.