James Arness
Marshal Matt Dillon
Series SeasonSeason 12 episodes1966
Gunsmoke
Season 12
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Episode 145 min1966-09-17
Snap Decision
Disturbed over being forced to kill a prisoner who was trying to save his life, Matt Dillion turns in his badge.
Episode 245 min1966-09-24
The Goldtakers
A gang of thieves commandeers the Dodge City blacksmith shop to divide a gigantic bar of gold.
Episode 345 min1966-10-01
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 445 min1966-10-08
The Mission
Marshal Dillon is helped by an apparently friendly young runaway who later faces him as a deadly adversary.
Episode 545 min1966-10-15
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.
Episode 645 min1966-10-22
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 745 min1966-10-29
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 845 min1966-11-12
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 945 min1966-11-19
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 1045 min1966-11-26
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 1145 min1966-12-03
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 1245 min1966-12-10
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 1345 min1966-12-17
The Moonstone
A young farmer's former partner-in-crime, girlfriend and slow-witted brother figure in the discovery of his forgotten past.
Episode 1445 min1966-12-24
Champion of the World
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 1545 min1966-12-31
The Hanging
To Marshal Matt Dillon and his deputies falls their grimmest task in many years-- the hanging of a ruthless gunman.
Episode 1645 min1967-01-07
Saturday Night
A vengeful prisoner poses a continual threat to the life of Marshal Matt Dillon.
Episode 1745 min1967-01-14
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.
Episode 1845 min1967-01-21
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 1945 min1967-01-28
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 2045 min1967-02-04
Old Friend
An embittered lawman (Fritz Weaver) seeks revenge against the men who destroyed his town and took away his wife.
Episode 2145 min1967-02-11
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 2245 min1967-02-18
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.
Episode 2345 min1967-02-25
The Lure
Private detectives use Kitty and the daughter (Kim Darby) of an outlaw to trap the girl's fugitive father (Stephen McNally).
Episode 2445 min1967-03-04
Noose of Gold
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 2545 min1967-03-11
The Favor
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 2645 min1967-03-18
Mistaken Identity
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 2745 min1967-03-25
Ladies from St. Louis
A group of Nuns traveling out West nurse the wounds of outlaw Worth Sweeney, who was injured while defending them from his partners.
Episode 2845 min1967-04-08
Nitro! (1)
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 2945 min1967-04-15
Nitro! (2)
Part 2: George wants to quit making the nitro, feeling that his luck is running out, but his outlaw partners won't let him.