Gunsmoke Season 12, Episode 28: Nitro! (1)

1

Snap Decision

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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2

The Goldtakers

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

45 min

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.

45 min

4

The Mission

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

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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.

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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.

45 min

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.

45 min

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.

45 min

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.

45 min

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.

45 min

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.

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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.

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13

The Moonstone

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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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.

45 min

15

The Hanging

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

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16

Saturday Night

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

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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.

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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.

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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.

45 min

20

Old Friend

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

45 min

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.

45 min

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.

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23

The Lure

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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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.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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