Season 12

1966 · 29 episodes

Episodes

1Snap DecisionDisturbed over being forced to kill a prisoner who was trying to save his life, Matt Dillion turns in his badge.
2The GoldtakersA gang of thieves commandeers the Dodge City blacksmith shop to divide a gigantic bar of gold.
3The JailerSix 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.
4The MissionMarshal Dillon is helped by an apparently friendly young runaway who later faces him as a deadly adversary.
5The Good PeopleA respectable rancher and his son hang an innocent man and allow a bewhiskered bounty hunter to go on trial for the murder.
6Gunfighter, R.I.P.A gunfighter (McGavin) hired to murder Matt Dillion gets wounded while trying to save the life of an elderly Chinese man.
7The Wrong ManHootie 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.
8The Whispering TreeAfter eight years in a prison for robbery a farmer returns home and hopes to find the stolen fortune he had buried under a tree.
9The WellAll 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.
10Stage StopDoc 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.
11The NewcomersLars 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.
12Quaker GirlThe 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.
13The MoonstoneA young farmer's former partner-in-crime, girlfriend and slow-witted brother figure in the discovery of his forgotten past.
14Champion of the WorldBull 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.
15The HangingTo Marshal Matt Dillon and his deputies falls their grimmest task in many years-- the hanging of a ruthless gunman.
16Saturday NightA vengeful prisoner poses a continual threat to the life of Marshal Matt Dillon.
17Mad DogFestus 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.
18MuleyA 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.
19Mail DropA boy (Eddie Hodges) comes to Dodge City in search of his father only to learn that he is a wanted criminal.
20Old FriendAn embittered lawman (Fritz Weaver) seeks revenge against the men who destroyed his town and took away his wife.
21FandangoMatt Dillon tries to bring a man to justice in spite of an onslaught of an crazed vengeful lawman wishing to exact his own revenge.
22The ReturningAfter 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.
23The LurePrivate detectives use Kitty and the daughter (Kim Darby) of an outlaw to trap the girl's fugitive father (Stephen McNally).
24Noose of GoldDeputy District Attorney Shephard will do anything to further his career, including having outlaw John Farron killed, instead of being able to give himself up.
25The FavorKitty'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.
26Mistaken IdentityOutlaw 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.
27Ladies from St. LouisA group of Nuns traveling out West nurse the wounds of outlaw Worth Sweeney, who was injured while defending them from his partners.
28Nitro! (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.
29Nitro! (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.