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Gunsmoke : Season 12
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Air date: 17 Sep '66 - 29 episodesGunsmoke is an American radio and television Western drama series created by director Norman MacDonnell and writer John Meston. The stories take place in and around Dodge City, Kansas, during the settlement of the American West. The central character is lawman Marshal Matt Dillon, played by William Conrad on radio and James Arness on television.
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List of Episodes (29)
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1. Snap Decision
17 Sep '66Disturbed over being forced to kill a prisoner who was trying to save his life, Matt Dillion turns in his badge.
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2. The Goldtakers
24 Sep '66A gang of thieves commandeers the Dodge City blacksmith shop to divide a gigantic bar of gold.
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3. The Jailer
01 Oct '66Six 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.
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4. The Mission
08 Oct '66Marshal Dillon is helped by an apparently friendly young runaway who later faces him as a deadly adversary.
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5. The Good People
15 Oct '66A respectable rancher and his son hang an innocent man and allow a bewhiskered bounty hunter to go on trial for the murder.
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6. Gunfighter, R.I.P.
22 Oct '66A gunfighter (McGavin) hired to murder Matt Dillion gets wounded while trying to save the life of an elderly Chinese man.
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7. The Wrong Man
29 Oct '66Hootie 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.
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8. The Whispering Tree
12 Nov '66After eight years in a prison for robbery a farmer returns home and hopes to find the stolen fortune he had buried under a tree.
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9. The Well
19 Nov '66All 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.
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10. Stage Stop
26 Nov '66Doc 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.
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11. The Newcomers
03 Dec '66Lars 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.
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12. Quaker Girl
10 Dec '66The 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.
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13. The Moonstone
17 Dec '66A young farmer's former partner-in-crime, girlfriend and slow-witted brother figure in the discovery of his forgotten past.
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14. Champion of the World
24 Dec '66Bull 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.
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15. The Hanging
31 Dec '66To Marshal Matt Dillon and his deputies falls their grimmest task in many years-- the hanging of a ruthless gunman.
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16. Saturday Night
07 Jan '67A vengeful prisoner poses a continual threat to the life of Marshal Matt Dillon.
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17. Mad Dog
14 Jan '67Festus 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.
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18. Muley
21 Jan '67A 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.
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19. Mail Drop
28 Jan '67A boy (Eddie Hodges) comes to Dodge City in search of his father only to learn that he is a wanted criminal.
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20. Old Friend
04 Feb '67An embittered lawman (Fritz Weaver) seeks revenge against the men who destroyed his town and took away his wife.
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21. Fandango
11 Feb '67Matt Dillon tries to bring a man to justice in spite of an onslaught of an crazed vengeful lawman wishing to exact his own revenge.
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22. The Returning
18 Feb '67After 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.
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23. The Lure
25 Feb '67Private detectives use Kitty and the daughter (Kim Darby) of an outlaw to trap the girl's fugitive father (Stephen McNally).
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24. Noose of Gold
04 Mar '67Deputy District Attorney Shephard will do anything to further his career, including having outlaw John Farron killed, instead of being able to give himself up.
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25. The Favor
11 Mar '67Kitty'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.
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