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The Best Episodes of Gunsmoke Season 12

Genres:WesternAction & AdventureDrama
Network:CBS

Every episode of Gunsmoke Season 12 ranked from best to worst. Discover the Best Episodes of Gunsmoke Season 12!

Gunsmoke is an American radio and television Western drama series created by director Norman MacDonnell and writer John Meston. The stories take place in and...
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  1. 8.7/10(697 votes)

    #1 - The Jailer

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    S12:E3

    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.

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    Writer:N/A
  2. 8.7/10(286 votes)

    #2 - Gunfighter, R.I.P.

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    S12:E6

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

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    Director:Mark Rydell
    Writer:N/A
  3. 8.3/10(182 votes)

    #3 - The Good People

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    S12:E5

    A 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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    Director:Robert Totten
    Writer:N/A
  4. 8.3/10(180 votes)

    #4 - The Favor

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    S12:E25

    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.

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    Director:Marc Daniels
    Writer:N/A
  5. 8.2/10(225 votes)

    #5 - Snap Decision

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    S12:E1

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

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    Director:Mark Rydell
    Writer:N/A
  6. 8.1/10(179 votes)

    #6 - Saturday Night

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    S12:E16

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

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    Director:Robert Totten
    Writer:N/A
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  8. 8.1/10(212 votes)

    #7 - Fandango

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    S12:E21

    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.

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    Director:N/A
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  9. 8.1/10(181 votes)

    #8 - The Returning

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    S12:E22

    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.

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    Director:Marc Daniels
    Writer:N/A
  10. 8.1/10(172 votes)

    #9 - Noose of Gold

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    S12:E24

    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.

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  11. 8.0/10(220 votes)

    #10 - The Whispering Tree

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    S12:E8

    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.

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  12. 8.0/10(189 votes)

    #11 - Ladies from St. Louis

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    S12:E27

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

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  13. 8.0/10(202 votes)

    #12 - Nitro! (2)

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    S12:E29

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

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    Director:Robert Totten
    Writer:N/A
  14. 7.9/10(195 votes)

    #13 - The Mission

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    S12:E4

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

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    Director:Mark Rydell
    Writer:N/A
  15. 7.9/10(208 votes)

    #14 - Stage Stop

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    S12:E10

    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.

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  16. 7.9/10(165 votes)

    #15 - The Lure

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    S12:E23

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

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    Director:Marc Daniels
    Writer:N/A
  17. 7.9/10(177 votes)

    #16 - Mistaken Identity

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    S12:E26

    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.

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    Director:Robert Totten
  18. 7.8/10(198 votes)

    #17 - The Well

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    S12:E9

    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.

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  19. 7.8/10(203 votes)

    #18 - The Moonstone

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    S12:E13

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

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    Director:N/A
  20. 7.8/10(193 votes)

    #19 - Mad Dog

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    S12:E17

    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.

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  21. 7.8/10(205 votes)

    #20 - Nitro! (1)

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    S12:E28

    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.

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    Director:Robert Totten
    Writer:N/A
  22. 7.7/10(188 votes)

    #21 - The Newcomers

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    S12:E11

    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.

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    Director:Robert Totten
    Writer:N/A
  23. 7.7/10(183 votes)

    #22 - The Hanging

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    S12:E15

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

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  24. 7.7/10(199 votes)

    #23 - Muley

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    S12:E18

    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.

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    Director:Allen Reisner
    Writer:N/A
  25. 7.6/10(174 votes)

    #24 - Old Friend

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    S12:E20

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

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    Director:Allen Reisner
    Writer:N/A
  26. 7.5/10(205 votes)

    #25 - The Goldtakers

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    S12:E2

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

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Season 12 Ratings Summary

"The Jailer" is the best rated episode of "Gunsmoke" season 12. It scored 8.7/10 based on 697 votes. Directed by Vincent McEveety and written by N/A, it aired on 10/1/1966. This episode is rated 0.0 points higher than the second-best, "Gunfighter, R.I.P.".