

The Rifleman
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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1.The Sharpshooter
30-09-195830mLucas 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...

2.Home Ranch
10.007-10-195830mTwo 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...

3.End of a Young Gun
14-10-195830mLucas 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...

4.The Marshal
21-10-195830mMicah 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...

5.The Brother-in-Law
28-10-195830mMark'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...

6.Eight Hours to Die
04-11-195830mJudge 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...

7.Duel of Honor
11-11-195830mWhen 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...

8.The Safe Guard
18-10-195830mFloyd 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...

9.The Sister
25-11-195830mRebecca 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...

10.New Orleans Menace
26-12-195830mTiffauges, 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...

11.The Apprentice Sheriff
09-12-195830mDan 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...

12.Young Englishman
16-12-195830mLucas accuses the young foreman of a neighboring ranch of rustling one of his calves.

13.The Angry Gun
23-12-195830mLucas 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...

14.The Gaucho
30-12-195830mRumson, 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...

15.The Pet
06-01-195930mWard 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...

16.The Sheridan Story
13-01-195930mFrank 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
20-01-195930mWes 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
27-01-195930mAbel 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
03-02-195930mAaron 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
10-02-195930mMcCain 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
17-02-195930mU.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
24-02-195930mReformed 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
30-03-195930mLucas 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
10-03-195930mOutlaw 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
17-03-195930mLucas 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
24-03-195930mDan 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
31-03-195930mYoung 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
07-04-195930mWhen 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
14-04-195930mYoung 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
21-04-195930mWhen 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
28-04-195930mThe 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
05-05-195930mAn unfounded rumor causes North Fork's outspoken feminist schoolteacher to be attacked by a mob of angry townspeople.
- Ep 33
33.The Money Gun
12-05-195930mWhen 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
19-05-195930mAlthough 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
26-05-195930mLucas 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
20-06-195930mMark'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
09-06-195930mWhen renegade Apaches wound Lucas and kidnap Mark, Marshal Torrance joins with U.S. Marshal Sam Buckhart to form a rescue posse.

38.Outlaw's Inheritance
16-06-195930mLucas 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...

39.Boomerang
23-06-195930mWhen 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
30-06-195930mWhen a wealthy rancher is killed, Mark suggests that they seek the aid of a mind reader to identify the murderer.
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