Season 12

Episode Guide

Snap Decision

S12 E1
Sep 18, 1966
Matt Dillon, disturbed over being forced to kill a prisoner who was trying to save his life, turns in his badge.

The Goldtakers

S12 E2
Sep 25, 1966
A gang steals a gigantic bar of gold and commandeers the Dodge City blacksmith shop in order to divide the loot.

The Jailer

S12 E3
Oct 2, 1966
An embittered ranch woman holds Matt Dillon and Kitty prisoner while plotting Matt's execution to avenge her husband's hanging.

The Mission

S12 E4
Oct 9, 1966
Marshal Dillon is helped by a friendly young runaway who later faces him as a deadly adversary.

The Good People

S12 E5
Oct 16, 1966
A respectable rancher and his son hang an innocent man and let a bewhiskered bounty hunter go on trial for the murder

Gunfighter, R.I.P.

S12 E6
Oct 23, 1966
A gunfighter hired to kill Marshal Dillon is wounded trying to save the life of an aged Chinese.

The Wrong Man

S12 E7
Oct 30, 1966
A farmer whose credit has run out gets a loan from Marshal Dillon and Festus Haggen, then loses the money in a poker game.

Whispering Tree

S12 E8
Nov 13, 1966
After eight years in prison for robbery, a farmer returns home and hopes to find the stolen fortune he had buried under a tree.

The Well

S12 E9
Nov 20, 1966
A rainmaker tries to end Dodge City's drought before a public well, the town's last source of water, runs dry.

Stage Stop

S12 E10
Nov 27, 1966
Doc Adams takes up arms to defend a gold shipment from bandits, first during a stagecoach ambush and then at a way station.

Newcomers

S12 E11
Dec 4, 1966
A Scandinavian immigrant and his teen-age son find the West even wilder than they had imagined when they settle in Dodge City.

Quaker Girl

S12 E12
Dec 11, 1966
The identity of a criminal is confused with that of a deputy marshal when a Quaker party rescues the pair from a do-or-die fight.

Moonstone

S12 E13
Dec 18, 1966
A young fanner's ex-partner in crime, his girl friend and his slow-witted brother figure in the discovery of his forgotten past.

Champion Of The World

S12 E14
Dec 25, 1966
Bull Bannock, retired heavyweight champion of the world, tries to make a place for himself in Dodge City.

Hanging

S12 E15
Jan 1, 1967
To Marshal Matt Dillon and his deputies falls their grimmest task in many years -- the hanging of a ruthless gunman.

Saturday Night

S12 E16
Jan 8, 1967
A vengeful prisoner poses a continual threat to the life of Marshal Matt Dillon.

Mad Dog

S12 E17
Jan 15, 1967
Festus Haggen, mistaken for a hired gunman, is offered $300 to fight the three sons of a man his cousin is accused of killing.

Muley

S12 E18
Jan 22, 1967
A young gunman falls for one of Kitty's saloon girls while waiting to finish off Marshal Dillon and rob the bank.

Mail Drop

S12 E19
Jan 29, 1967
A boy comes to Dodge City in search of his father only to learn that he is a wanted criminal.

Old Friend

S12 E20
Feb 5, 1967
An embittered lawman seeks revenge against the men who destroyed his town and took away his wife.

Fandango

S12 E21
Feb 12, 1967
Matt Dillon tries to bring a man to justice despite the onslaughts of an almost maniacal man wishing to exact his own revenge.

The Returning

S12 E22
Feb 19, 1967
After eight years as a debt-plagued dirt farmer, a reformed outlaw rejoins his old gang to rob the Dodge City freight office.

The Lure

S12 E23
Feb 26, 1967
Private detectives use Kitty and the daughter of an outlaw as lures to trap the girl's fugitive father.

Noose of Gold

S12 E24
Mar 5, 1967
An assistant attorney general uses Matt Dillon's long-time friendship for an outlaw to further his political ambitions.

The Favor

S12 E25
Mar 12, 1967
Kitty's conscience is torn between her sense of obligation to a man who saved her life and her concern for the law and Matt Dillon.

Mistaken Identity

S12 E26
Mar 19, 1967
A fugitive assumes the identity of another man after the latter has apparently been fatally bitten by a rattlesnake.

The Ladies From St.Louis

S12 E27
Mar 26, 1967
Five nuns bring a wounded outlaw into Dodge City, then are reluctant to turn him in because he saved their lives.

Nitro Part 1

S12 E28
Apr 9, 1967
A lovesick, broke transient embarks on a lucrative but perilous career-boiling nitroglycerine off dynamite for a gang of robbers.

Nitro Part 2

S12 E29
Apr 16, 1967
Matt Dillon hunts a gang that has shattered one safe after another with nitroglycerine.