Gunsmoke
Set in and around Dodge City, Kansas, this Western drama follows a steady lawman trying to keep order in a rough frontier town. As settlers arrive and tensions rise, the show blends action, character drama, and stories about justice, loyalty, and the challenges of life in the American West.
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Season 12
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E1
Snap Decision
Disturbed over being forced to kill a prisoner who was trying to save his life, Matt Dillion turns in his badge.
Sep 17, 1966 · 60m -
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E2
The Goldtakers
A gang of thieves commandeers the Dodge City blacksmith shop to divide a gigantic bar of gold.
Sep 24, 1966 · 60m -
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E3
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.
Oct 1, 1966 · 60m -
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E4
The Mission
Marshal Dillon is helped by an apparently friendly young runaway who later faces him as a deadly adversary.
Oct 8, 1966 · 60m -
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E5
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.
Oct 15, 1966 · 60m -
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E6
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.
Oct 22, 1966 · 60m -
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E7
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.
Oct 29, 1966 · 60m -
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E8
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.
Nov 12, 1966 · 60m -
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E9
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.
Nov 19, 1966 · 30m -
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E10
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.
Nov 26, 1966 · 60m -
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E11
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.
Dec 3, 1966 · 60m -
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E12
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.
Dec 10, 1966 · 60m -
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E13
The Moonstone
A young farmer's former partner-in-crime, girlfriend and slow-witted brother figure in the discovery of his forgotten past.
Dec 17, 1966 · 60m -
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E14
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.
Dec 24, 1966 · 60m -
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E15
The Hanging
To Marshal Matt Dillon and his deputies falls their grimmest task in many years-- the hanging of a ruthless gunman.
Dec 31, 1966 · 60m -
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E16
Saturday Night
A vengeful prisoner poses a continual threat to the life of Marshal Matt Dillon.
Jan 7, 1967 · 60m -
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E17
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.
Jan 14, 1967 · 60m -
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E18
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.
Jan 21, 1967 · 60m -
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E19
Mail Drop
A boy (Eddie Hodges) comes to Dodge City in search of his father only to learn that he is a wanted criminal.
Jan 28, 1967 · 60m -
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E20
Old Friend
An embittered lawman (Fritz Weaver) seeks revenge against the men who destroyed his town and took away his wife.
Feb 4, 1967 · 60m -
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E21
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.
Feb 11, 1967 · 60m -
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E22
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.
Feb 18, 1967 · 60m -
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E23
The Lure
Private detectives use Kitty and the daughter (Kim Darby) of an outlaw to trap the girl's fugitive father (Stephen McNally).
Feb 25, 1967 · 60m -
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E24
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.
Mar 4, 1967 · 60m -
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E25
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.
Mar 11, 1967 · 60m -
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E26
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.
Mar 18, 1967 · 60m -
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E27
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.
Mar 25, 1967 · 60m -
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E28
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.
Apr 8, 1967 · 60m -
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E29
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.
Apr 15, 1967 · 60m