The Rifleman
The Rifleman
TV ShowEnded

The Rifleman

7.1 / 10
1958
5 seasons
168 episodes
Action & AdventureWesternFamily

The Rifleman is an American Western television program starring Chuck Connors as rancher Lucas McCain and Johnny Crawford as his son, Mark McCain. It was set in the 1880s in the town of North Fork, New Mexico Territory. The show was filmed in black-and-white, half-hour episodes. "The Rifleman" aired on ABC from September 30, 1958 to April 8, 1963 as a production of Four Star Television. It was one of the first prime time series to have a widowed parent raise a child.

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"The Rifleman" circa 1958

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Cast

Seasons

  • The Sharpshooter

    1.The Sharpshooter

    30-09-195830m

    Lucas McCain and his son Mark arrive in North Fork, New Mexico. Looking to start a new life, they come across a ranch to their liking, which is for sale. Lucas enters a Turkey Shoo...

  • Home Ranch

    2.Home Ranch

    10.0
    07-10-195830m

    Two hired hands of a wealthy cattleman, who has been using the ranch for grazing his cattle, demand that Lucas move out. When Lucas refuses, he is beaten and dragged and then the r...

  • End of a Young Gun

    3.End of a Young Gun

    14-10-195830m

    Lucas is forced to give refuge to Will Fulton, a young bank robber, who was injured while saving Mark's life. While staying at the McCain ranch Will gets a taste of a life better t...

  • The Marshal

    4.The Marshal

    21-10-195830m

    Micah Torrance, a once famous lawman, is introduced as a drunken derelict, who stumbles into North Fork. Micah, nursing an arm crippled in a gunfight, is hired by Lucas to help out...

  • The Brother-in-Law

    5.The Brother-in-Law

    28-10-195830m

    Mark's uncle, Johnny Gibb, a big time rodeo rider, comes to visit. While Mark idolizes his uncle, Lucas discovers that Johnny is on the run from the law for an Express Office Robbe...

  • Eight Hours to Die

    6.Eight Hours to Die

    04-11-195830m

    Judge Burton seeks ""Justice"" against the Hangman, who hanged his son; the Judge, who sentenced his son; and Lucas, the man who caught his son. When Judge Burton discovers that Lu...

  • Duel of Honor

    7.Duel of Honor

    11-11-195830m

    When an Italian Count arrives in North Fork, his strange attire attracts the attention of Groder, a town bully. Groder trying to have fun with this stranger, destroys some of the C...

  • The Safe Guard

    8.The Safe Guard

    18-10-195830m

    Floyd Doniger comes to North Fork, looking to start a new life. He's got a steady job as the guard at the new bank and he's entertaining ideas of settling down on a spread of his o...

  • The Sister

    9.The Sister

    25-11-195830m

    Rebecca Snipe is returning to North Fork after a long visit away. Before her stage left, she over hears a man saying he's going to North Fork to kill a big man with a big mouth. Up...

  • New Orleans Menace

    10.New Orleans Menace

    26-12-195830m

    Tiffauges, a wealthy and sadistic Frenchman, who is used to getting whatever he wants, decides he wishes to purchase the McCain Ranch. Tiffauges' lead man, Xavier, proclaims Lucas...

  • The Apprentice Sheriff

    11.The Apprentice Sheriff

    09-12-195830m

    Dan Willard is filling in as temporary marshal while Micah is away. Some Texas cowhands are in North Fork looking for some fun and relaxation, but Dan keeps coming down hard on the...

  • Young Englishman

    12.Young Englishman

    16-12-195830m

    Lucas accuses the young foreman of a neighboring ranch of rustling one of his calves.

  • The Angry Gun

    13.The Angry Gun

    23-12-195830m

    Lucas and Mark return from a cattle sale when their stagecoach is robbed by three outlaws led by sharpshooter Johnny Cotton (Vic Morrow). Lucas sends Mark on in the stagecoach whil...

  • The Gaucho

    14.The Gaucho

    30-12-195830m

    Rumson, without even saying to whom he had sold his property, left the bill of sale with the bank and moved away from North Fork. Curge, who's highest offer was upped by $1,000.00...

  • The Pet

    15.The Pet

    06-01-195930m

    Ward Haskins guns down Joe Flecker, who has evidence that could be used to blackmail him. Haskins thinks the information was given to Lucas, since he brought Flecker to the doctor...

  • The Sheridan Story

    16.The Sheridan Story

    13-01-195930m

    Frank Blandon, a man with only one good arm, wanders on to the ranch. Lucas gave Blandon a job to ""hire him and Mark a clear conscience"". General Sheridan and his patrol wandered...

  • Ep 17

    17.The Retired Gun

    20-01-195930m

    Wes Carney and his wife Clair want to settle down and they figure North Fork might do fine. Wes is a well known gunfighter, who has promised Clair that he would hang up his guns fo...

  • Ep 18

    18.The Photographer

    27-01-195930m

    Abel Goss, the photographer who took Lucas' wedding photograph, is in North Fork doing a portrait of Mark standing in the street. When Goss sees Col. Whiteside and his sidekick Jam...

  • Ep 19

    19.Shivaree

    03-02-195930m

    Aaron Pelser's wagon train came across a pair of young boys on a buck board heading west and invited them to join the train. When he found out that one of the boys was actually a g...

  • Ep 20

    20.The Deadeye Kid

    10-02-195930m

    McCain befriends Donnel O'Mahoney, a tough kid from Brooklyn, and arranges with two men for the young man to continue his travels on their wagon, but then one of them is murdered a...

  • Ep 21

    21.The Indian

    17-02-195930m

    U.S. Marshal Sam Buckhart arrives in North Fork in search of renegade Indians suspected of the brutal killing of a Texas Ranger and his family, but the townspeople are suspicious o...

  • Ep 22

    22.The Boarding House

    24-02-195930m

    Reformed card sharp Julia Massini now runs a respectable boarding house in North Fork, but Sid Fallon is threatening to reveal her sordid past unless she lets him turn the establis...

  • Ep 23

    23.The Second Witness

    30-03-195930m

    Lucas puts his life in jeopardy when he agrees to testify in a murder case where the first witness was killed before he could testify, and the killer is still at large.

  • Ep 24

    24.The Trade

    10-03-195930m

    Outlaw Sam Morley falls in love with a young woman who has a serious illness, and asks Lucas to turn him in for the reward and then use the money to pay for her medical care.

  • Ep 25

    25.One Went to Denver

    17-03-195930m

    Lucas welcomes his old friend Tom Birch, who once saved his life, unaware that the man is now a bank robber who is on the run with his gang.

  • Ep 26

    26.The Deadly Wait

    24-03-195930m

    Dan Nowry, released from Yuma prison, arrives in North Fork intent on getting even with Marshal Torrance,who helped send him to jail.

  • Ep 27

    27.The Wrong Man

    31-03-195930m

    Young Mark McCain is eager to help lawman Jay Jefferson, who has arrived in North Fork intent on killing an outlaw for the reward, whether he is the right man or not.

  • Ep 28

    28.The Challenge

    07-04-195930m

    When escaped convicts hold up the general store in North Fork and take Marshal Torrance hostage, Lucas comes to the rescue.

  • Ep 29

    29.The Hawk

    14-04-195930m

    Young Mark manages to capture a hawk, but then falls into danger from a rattlesnake. When a stranger comes to his rescue, the grateful Mark invites the man home, unaware that he i...

  • Ep 30

    30.Three-Legged Terror

    21-04-195930m

    When a rambunctious teenager wrecks a schoolroom, Lucas McCain, as a member of the North Fork school board, asks the boy's reluctant uncle to pay for the damages.

  • Ep 31

    31.The Angry Man

    28-04-195930m

    The McCains try to be tolerant of their embittered neighbor Abel MacDonald, who tels Lucas to keep off his land and won't allow his son to become friends with Mark, but they decide...

  • Ep 32

    32.The Woman

    05-05-195930m

    An unfounded rumor causes North Fork's outspoken feminist schoolteacher to be attacked by a mob of angry townspeople.

  • Ep 33

    33.The Money Gun

    12-05-195930m

    When his employer begins to suspect him of embezzlement, bookkeeper Asa Manning decides to hire a professional gunman to take care of the problem.

  • Ep 34

    34.A Matter of Faith

    19-05-195930m

    Although a drought has forced local cowhands to seek work on a railroad construction project, railraod executives are afraid that their workers will desert them if they believe an...

  • Ep 35

    35.Blood Brothers

    26-05-195930m

    Lucas McCain gives blood to save a dying man and is surprised by Marshal Torrance's odd behavior toward the man. Then three men arrive from a nearby town and demand custody of the...

  • Ep 36

    36.Stranger at Night

    20-06-195930m

    Mark's finding of the body of a murder victim starts Lucas, his friend Artemus, and Marshal Torrance on a search for the killer.

  • Ep 37

    37.The Raid

    09-06-195930m

    When renegade Apaches wound Lucas and kidnap Mark, Marshal Torrance joins with U.S. Marshal Sam Buckhart to form a rescue posse.

  • Outlaw's Inheritance

    38.Outlaw's Inheritance

    16-06-195930m

    Lucas is the town's representative to the railroad commission until an infamous train robber dies and leaves his ill-gotten wealth to Lucas. Lucas must clear his name and stop the...

  • Boomerang

    39.Boomerang

    23-06-195930m

    When a rancher dies after the bank forecloses the mortgage on his property, his son blames the banker for his father's death.

  • Ep 40

    40.The Mind Reader

    30-06-195930m

    When a wealthy rancher is killed, Mark suggests that they seek the aid of a mind reader to identify the murderer.

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