Gunsmoke

Gunsmoke

Season 12

29 Episodes

Snap Decision
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1. Snap Decision

Sep 17, 1966 · 45 min
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Disturbed over being forced to kill a prisoner who was trying to save his life, Matt Dillion turns in his badge.

The Goldtakers
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2. The Goldtakers

Sep 24, 1966 · 45 min
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A gang of thieves commandeers the Dodge City blacksmith shop to divide a gigantic bar of gold.

The Jailer
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3. The Jailer

Oct 1, 1966 · 45 min · 7.5
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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.

The Mission
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4. The Mission

Oct 8, 1966 · 45 min · 8
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Marshal Dillon is helped by an apparently friendly young runaway who later faces him as a deadly adversary.

The Good People
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5. The Good People

Oct 15, 1966 · 45 min
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A respectable rancher and his son hang an innocent man and allow a bewhiskered bounty hunter to go on trial for the murder.

Gunfighter, R.I.P.
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6. Gunfighter, R.I.P.

Oct 22, 1966 · 45 min · 8
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A gunfighter (McGavin) hired to murder Matt Dillion gets wounded while trying to save the life of an elderly Chinese man.

The Wrong Man
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7. The Wrong Man

Oct 29, 1966 · 45 min
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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.

The Whispering Tree
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8. The Whispering Tree

Nov 12, 1966 · 45 min
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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.

The Well
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9. The Well

Nov 19, 1966 · 45 min
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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.

Stage Stop
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10. Stage Stop

Nov 26, 1966 · 45 min · 10
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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.

The Newcomers
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11. The Newcomers

Dec 3, 1966 · 45 min
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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.

Quaker Girl
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12. Quaker Girl

Dec 10, 1966 · 45 min
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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.

The Moonstone
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13. The Moonstone

Dec 17, 1966 · 45 min
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A young farmer's former partner-in-crime, girlfriend and slow-witted brother figure in the discovery of his forgotten past.

Champion of the World
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14. Champion of the World

Dec 24, 1966 · 45 min
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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.

The Hanging
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15. The Hanging

Dec 31, 1966 · 45 min
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To Marshal Matt Dillon and his deputies falls their grimmest task in many years-- the hanging of a ruthless gunman.

Saturday Night
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16. Saturday Night

Jan 7, 1967 · 45 min
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A vengeful prisoner poses a continual threat to the life of Marshal Matt Dillon.

Mad Dog
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17. Mad Dog

Jan 14, 1967 · 45 min · 7
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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.

Muley
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18. Muley

Jan 21, 1967 · 45 min
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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.

Mail Drop
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19. Mail Drop

Jan 28, 1967 · 45 min
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A boy (Eddie Hodges) comes to Dodge City in search of his father only to learn that he is a wanted criminal.

Old Friend
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20. Old Friend

Feb 4, 1967 · 45 min
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An embittered lawman (Fritz Weaver) seeks revenge against the men who destroyed his town and took away his wife.

Fandango
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21. Fandango

Feb 11, 1967 · 45 min
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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.

The Returning
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22. The Returning

Feb 18, 1967 · 45 min
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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.

The Lure
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23. The Lure

Feb 25, 1967 · 45 min
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Private detectives use Kitty and the daughter (Kim Darby) of an outlaw to trap the girl's fugitive father (Stephen McNally).

Noose of Gold
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24. Noose of Gold

Mar 4, 1967 · 45 min · 9
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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.

The Favor
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25. The Favor

Mar 11, 1967 · 45 min
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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.

Mistaken Identity
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26. Mistaken Identity

Mar 18, 1967 · 45 min
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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.

Ladies from St. Louis
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27. Ladies from St. Louis

Mar 25, 1967 · 45 min
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A group of Nuns traveling out West nurse the wounds of outlaw Worth Sweeney, who was injured while defending them from his partners.

Nitro! (1)
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28. Nitro! (1)

Apr 8, 1967 · 45 min
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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.

Nitro! (2)
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29. Nitro! (2)

Apr 15, 1967 · 45 min
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Part 2: George wants to quit making the nitro, feeling that his luck is running out, but his outlaw partners won't let him.