Episode
Gunsmoke: The Mission
Overview
Marshal Dillon is helped by an apparently friendly young runaway who later faces him as a deadly adversary.
Details
- Series
- Gunsmoke
- Season
- Season 12
- Episode
- Episode 4
- Air date
- 1966-10-08
- Runtime
- 45 min
Episode context
The Mission is Episode 4 in Season 12 of Gunsmoke. It aired on 1966-10-08. The runtime is 45 min.
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Episode 3: The Jailer
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 5: The Good People
A respectable rancher and his son hang an innocent man and allow a bewhiskered bounty hunter to go on trial for the murder.
More episodes from this season
Episode 2: The Goldtakers
A gang of thieves commandeers the Dodge City blacksmith shop to divide a gigantic bar of gold.
Episode 6: Gunfighter, R.I.P.
A gunfighter (McGavin) hired to murder Matt Dillion gets wounded while trying to save the life of an elderly Chinese man.
Episode 1: Snap Decision
Disturbed over being forced to kill a prisoner who was trying to save his life, Matt Dillion turns in his badge.
Episode 7: The Wrong Man
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
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
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
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
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
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
A young farmer's former partner-in-crime, girlfriend and slow-witted brother figure in the discovery of his forgotten past.