Episode 1: Snap Decision
1966-09-1745 min
Disturbed over being forced to kill a prisoner who was trying to save his life, Matt Dillion turns in his badge.
Season guide
Gunsmoke Season 12 — Episodes and Where to Watch
29 episodes · first aired 1966-09-16
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Episode guide
Episode 2: The Goldtakers
1966-09-2445 min
A gang of thieves commandeers the Dodge City blacksmith shop to divide a gigantic bar of gold.
Episode 3: The Jailer
1966-10-0145 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
1966-10-0845 min
Marshal Dillon is helped by an apparently friendly young runaway who later faces him as a deadly adversary.
Episode 5: The Good People
1966-10-1545 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.
1966-10-2245 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
1966-10-2945 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
1966-11-1245 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
1966-11-1945 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
1966-11-2645 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
1966-12-0345 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
1966-12-1045 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
1966-12-1745 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
1966-12-2445 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
1966-12-3145 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
1967-01-0745 min
A vengeful prisoner poses a continual threat to the life of Marshal Matt Dillon.
Episode 17: Mad Dog
1967-01-1445 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
1967-01-2145 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
1967-01-2845 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
1967-02-0445 min
An embittered lawman (Fritz Weaver) seeks revenge against the men who destroyed his town and took away his wife.
Episode 21: Fandango
1967-02-1145 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
1967-02-1845 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
1967-02-2545 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
1967-03-0445 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
1967-03-1145 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
1967-03-1845 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
1967-03-2545 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)
1967-04-0845 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)
1967-04-1545 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.
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