Season 12 (1966)
Release date: 1966-09-16
User rating:
8.5 / 10
Episodes (29):
1. Snap Decision
Disturbed over being forced to kill a prisoner who was trying to save his life, Matt Dillion turns in his badge.
Release date: 1966-09-17
2. The Goldtakers
A gang of thieves commandeers the Dodge City blacksmith shop to divide a gigantic bar of gold.
Release date: 1966-09-24
3. 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.
Release date: 1966-10-01
4. The Mission
Marshal Dillon is helped by an apparently friendly young runaway who later faces him as a deadly adversary.
Release date: 1966-10-08
5. 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.
Release date: 1966-10-15
6. 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.
Release date: 1966-10-22
7. 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.
Release date: 1966-10-29
8. 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.
Release date: 1966-11-12
9. 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.
Release date: 1966-11-19
10. 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.
Release date: 1966-11-26
11. 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.
Release date: 1966-12-03
12. 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.
Release date: 1966-12-10
13. The Moonstone
A young farmer's former partner-in-crime, girlfriend and slow-witted brother figure in the discovery of his forgotten past.
Release date: 1966-12-17
14. 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.
Release date: 1966-12-24
15. The Hanging
To Marshal Matt Dillon and his deputies falls their grimmest task in many years-- the hanging of a ruthless gunman.
Release date: 1966-12-31
16. Saturday Night
A vengeful prisoner poses a continual threat to the life of Marshal Matt Dillon.
Release date: 1967-01-07
17. 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.
Release date: 1967-01-14
18. 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.
Release date: 1967-01-21
19. Mail Drop
A boy (Eddie Hodges) comes to Dodge City in search of his father only to learn that he is a wanted criminal.
Release date: 1967-01-28
20. Old Friend
An embittered lawman (Fritz Weaver) seeks revenge against the men who destroyed his town and took away his wife.
Release date: 1967-02-04
21. 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.
Release date: 1967-02-11
22. 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.
Release date: 1967-02-18
23. The Lure
Private detectives use Kitty and the daughter (Kim Darby) of an outlaw to trap the girl's fugitive father (Stephen McNally).
Release date: 1967-02-25
24. 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.
Release date: 1967-03-04
25. 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.
Release date: 1967-03-11
26. 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.
Release date: 1967-03-18
27. 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.
Release date: 1967-03-25
28. 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.
Release date: 1967-04-08
29. 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.
Release date: 1967-04-15
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Philip Leacock - Producer, James Arness - Producer, John Mantley - Producer, Norman Macdonnell - Producer