
Gunsmoke — Season 12

The weight of the decision pressed upon Matt Dillon, the memory of the prisoner’s desperate attempt to save him a constant, sickening ache. Unable to reconcile the act with his conscience, he submitted his badge.

Under the harsh glare of the prairie sun, a band of thieves seized the blacksmith shop in Dodge City. Their purpose was singular: to divide a bar of gold of truly impressive size.

Six years had passed since the execution of her husband, and Ma Stone meticulously planned her vengeance against Matt Dillon. Her scheme began with the abduction of Kitty, intended as a cruel lure. Then, she would ensure Dillon's imprisonme…

Marshal Dillon found an unexpected ally in a young man who had fled his home, a boy who seemed harmless enough. But this fragile trust would prove deceptive, for the runaway would one day emerge as Dillon's most dangerous opponent.

A man of standing in the cattle business, along with his son, orchestrate a false execution, framing an innocent soul. Meanwhile, a grizzled bounty hunter, distinguished by his prominent whiskers, is permitted to face a trial for a crime he…

McGavin, a gunfighter by trade, had accepted a contract to kill Matt Dillon. But in the course of carrying out his assignment, he sustained a wound while attempting to save the life of an elderly Chinese man.

Hootie Kyle was a man of meager means, but possessed of an honest heart; now, his credit had failed him. Matt Dillon and Festus offered him a loan, a kindness that quickly soured when Hootie was cheated out of the money in a dishonest game …

He emerged after eight years of incarceration, the weight of his crime – a robbery – a heavy shadow over his past. Returning to his farm, he carried a fragile hope: that the fortune he’d buried beneath the old oak still lay undisturbed, wai…

A relentless drought grips Dodge City. Hope rests on the shoulders of a rainmaker, Guy Raymond, who strives to break the dry spell before the town’s vital well – their sole remaining water source – is exhausted.

Doc Adams found himself compelled to fight when a gold shipment was targeted by bandits. The first encounter came during a stagecoach ambush, and later, a confrontation erupted at a weigh station. In the ensuing conflict against the outlaws…

Lars Karlgren, a recent arrival from Scandinavia, and his son Petter, still a teenager, discovered the West held a rawness that surpassed their expectations upon settling in Dodge City. Soon after, Petter found himself implicated in the mur…

In the heat of a desperate struggle, the lines blurred. A criminal’s persona became entangled with that of Deputy Marshal Thad, until a party of Quakers intervened, pulling both from the brink of death.

The woman who had once shared in his youthful mischief, the one who was both his lover and a steady, if somewhat slow, presence like a brother, proved instrumental in uncovering the secrets of his forgotten history.

Alan Hale portrays Bull Bannock, the retired heavyweight champion, seeking a quiet life in Dodge City. He sets his sights on purchasing Miss Kitty's Longbranch Saloon, hoping to establish a new home for himself within its walls.

Marshal Matt Dillon and his deputies faced their most difficult duty in years: the execution of a cold-blooded outlaw.

The prisoner harbored a relentless desire for retribution, making him a constant danger to Marshal Matt Dillon's well-being.

Mistaken for a mercenary, Festus Haggen receives an offer of three hundred dollars: to fight and flee the territory after the sons of a man his cousin is accused of murdering.

While poised to execute his violent plan – to kill Marshal Matt Dillon and rob the bank – a young gunman named Zalman King finds himself unexpectedly drawn to Lane Bradbury, one of Kitty's saloon girls.

Eddie Hodges arrived in Dodge City with a singular purpose: to find his father. Instead, he discovered a truth far more complicated than he could have imagined – a truth that painted his father not as a man of simple devotion, but as a fugi…

Haunted by loss, the weary lawman, Fritz Weaver, harbors a deep-seated desire for retribution against those responsible for the devastation of his home and the theft of his wife.

Matt Dillon struggles to bring a man to justice, facing a relentless onslaught from a vengeful lawman consumed by a desire for personal retribution.

Michael Ansara, a man weathered by eight years of hardship as farmer, husband, and father – and a past life as an outlaw he'd sought to leave behind – finds himself driven to desperation. He contemplates a dangerous path: a return to his fo…

Employing a young woman named Kitty and the daughter of a wanted criminal, private investigators set a snare to capture the girl's father, who is living as a fugitive.

Deputy District Attorney Shephard was driven by ambition, willing to pursue any course to advance his standing. This desire led him to orchestrate the killing of John Farron, a man who had chosen to surrender to justice, rather than face th…

A conflict gnawed at Kitty. She felt bound by gratitude to James Daly, the man who had rescued her, yet this loyalty warred with her respect for the law and for Marshal Matt Dillon.

Ed Carstairs, a man living outside the law, made a dangerous bargain: he exchanged places with a dying man, felled by a venomous strike. He was taken aback, however, when the man, now brought to Dodge, showed signs of recovery.

Across the vast West, a company of nuns tended to the grievous wounds of Worth Sweeney. He lay injured, the result of a desperate defense against his own men.

George, adrift and without prospects, received an offer – a perilous one, yet promising considerable reward. The work involved the volatile task of mixing nitroglycerin for outlaws who planned to rob banks. Amidst this dangerous undertaking…

The fumes clung to George, a bitter reminder of dwindling fortune. He felt a certainty, a deep-seated conviction that his time with the nitro was nearing its end, that his luck had irrevocably run out. Yet, the men who shared his precarious…


