Season 12

Season 12 (1966)






Episodes List

Ep.1 Snap Decision

Air Date: 1966-09-17

Disturbed over being forced to kill a prisoner who was trying to save his life, Matt Dillion turns in his badge.

Ep.2 The Goldtakers

Air Date: 1966-09-24

A gang of thieves commandeers the Dodge City blacksmith shop to divide a gigantic bar of gold.

Ep.3 The Jailer

Air Date: 1966-10-01

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.

Ep.4 The Mission

Air Date: 1966-10-08

Marshal Dillon is helped by an apparently friendly young runaway who later faces him as a deadly adversary.

Ep.5 The Good People

Air Date: 1966-10-15

A respectable rancher and his son hang an innocent man and allow a bewhiskered bounty hunter to go on trial for the murder.

Ep.6 Gunfighter, R.I.P.

Air Date: 1966-10-22

A gunfighter (McGavin) hired to murder Matt Dillion gets wounded while trying to save the life of an elderly Chinese man.

Ep.7 The Wrong Man

Air Date: 1966-10-29

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.

Ep.8 The Whispering Tree

Air Date: 1966-11-12

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.

Ep.9 The Well

Air Date: 1966-11-19

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.

Ep.10 Stage Stop

Air Date: 1966-11-26

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.

Ep.11 The Newcomers

Air Date: 1966-12-03

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.

Ep.12 Quaker Girl

Air Date: 1966-12-10

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.

Ep.13 The Moonstone

Air Date: 1966-12-17

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

Ep.14 Champion of the World

Air Date: 1966-12-24

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.

Ep.15 The Hanging

Air Date: 1966-12-31

To Marshal Matt Dillon and his deputies falls their grimmest task in many years-- the hanging of a ruthless gunman.

Ep.16 Saturday Night

Air Date: 1967-01-07

A vengeful prisoner poses a continual threat to the life of Marshal Matt Dillon.

Ep.17 Mad Dog

Air Date: 1967-01-14

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.

Ep.18 Muley

Air Date: 1967-01-21

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.

Ep.19 Mail Drop

Air Date: 1967-01-28

A boy (Eddie Hodges) comes to Dodge City in search of his father only to learn that he is a wanted criminal.

Ep.20 Old Friend

Air Date: 1967-02-04

An embittered lawman (Fritz Weaver) seeks revenge against the men who destroyed his town and took away his wife.

Ep.21 Fandango

Air Date: 1967-02-11

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.

Ep.22 The Returning

Air Date: 1967-02-18

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.

Ep.23 The Lure

Air Date: 1967-02-25

Private detectives use Kitty and the daughter (Kim Darby) of an outlaw to trap the girl's fugitive father (Stephen McNally).

Ep.24 Noose of Gold

Air Date: 1967-03-04

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.

Ep.25 The Favor

Air Date: 1967-03-11

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.

Ep.26 Mistaken Identity

Air Date: 1967-03-18

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.

Ep.27 Ladies from St. Louis

Air Date: 1967-03-25

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

Ep.28 Nitro! (1)

Air Date: 1967-04-08

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.

Ep.29 Nitro! (2)

Air Date: 1967-04-15

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