Overview
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.
Created by: Sam Peckinpah
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Episodes - Season 1
Episode 1: The Sharpshooter
Sep 30, 1958
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 sa...
Episode 2: Home Ranch
Oct 07, 1958
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 bea...
Episode 3: End of a Young Gun
Oct 14, 1958
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 W...
Episode 4: The Marshal
Oct 21, 1958
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,...
Episode 5: The Brother-in-Law
Oct 28, 1958
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 ...
Episode 6: Eight Hours to Die
Nov 04, 1958
Judge Burton seeks ""Justice"" against the Hangman, who hanged his son; the Judge, who sentenced his son; and Lucas, the man who c...
Episode 7: Duel of Honor
Nov 11, 1958
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 st...
Episode 8: The Safe Guard
Oct 18, 1958
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 ide...
Episode 9: The Sister
Nov 25, 1958
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 ...
Episode 10: New Orleans Menace
Dec 26, 1958
Tiffauges, a wealthy and sadistic Frenchman, who is used to getting whatever he wants, decides he wishes to purchase the McCain Ranch. Tiffauges'...
Episode 11: The Apprentice Sheriff
Dec 09, 1958
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...
Episode 12: Young Englishman
Dec 16, 1958
Lucas accuses the young foreman of a neighboring ranch of rustling one of his calves.
Episode 13: The Angry Gun
Dec 23, 1958
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 ...
Episode 14: The Gaucho
Dec 30, 1958
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 hi...
Episode 15: The Pet
Jan 06, 1959
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 ...
Episode 16: The Sheridan Story
Jan 13, 1959
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&quo...
Episode 17: The Retired Gun
Jan 20, 1959
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 tha...
Episode 18: The Photographer
Jan 27, 1959
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 ...
Episode 19: Shivaree
Feb 03, 1959
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 th...
Episode 20: The Deadeye Kid
Feb 10, 1959
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,...
Episode 21: The Indian
Feb 17, 1959
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 th...
Episode 22: The Boarding House
Feb 24, 1959
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 ...
Episode 23: The Second Witness
Mar 30, 1959
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 ...
Episode 24: The Trade
Mar 10, 1959
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 p...
Episode 25: One Went to Denver
Mar 17, 1959
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.
Episode 26: The Deadly Wait
Mar 24, 1959
Dan Nowry, released from Yuma prison, arrives in North Fork intent on getting even with Marshal Torrance,who helped send him to jail.
Episode 27: The Wrong Man
Mar 31, 1959
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 r...
Episode 28: The Challenge
Apr 07, 1959
When escaped convicts hold up the general store in North Fork and take Marshal Torrance hostage, Lucas comes to the rescue.
Episode 29: The Hawk
Apr 14, 1959
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 t...
Episode 30: Three-Legged Terror
Apr 21, 1959
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...
Episode 31: The Angry Man
Apr 28, 1959
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...
Episode 32: The Woman
May 05, 1959
An unfounded rumor causes North Fork's outspoken feminist schoolteacher to be attacked by a mob of angry townspeople.
Episode 33: The Money Gun
May 12, 1959
When his employer begins to suspect him of embezzlement, bookkeeper Asa Manning decides to hire a professional gunman to take care of the problem.
Episode 34: A Matter of Faith
May 19, 1959
Although a drought has forced local cowhands to seek work on a railroad construction project, railraod executives are afraid that their workers will d...
Episode 35: Blood Brothers
May 26, 1959
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 nea...
Episode 36: Stranger at Night
Jun 20, 1959
Mark's finding of the body of a murder victim starts Lucas, his friend Artemus, and Marshal Torrance on a search for the killer.
Episode 37: The Raid
Jun 09, 1959
When renegade Apaches wound Lucas and kidnap Mark, Marshal Torrance joins with U.S. Marshal Sam Buckhart to form a rescue posse.
Episode 38: Outlaw's Inheritance
Jun 16, 1959
Lucas is the town's representative to the railroad commission until an infamous train robber dies and leaves his ill-gotten wealth to Lucas. Luca...
Episode 39: Boomerang
Jun 23, 1959
When a rancher dies after the bank forecloses the mortgage on his property, his son blames the banker for his father's death.
Episode 40: The Mind Reader
Jun 30, 1959
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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"The Rifleman" circa 1958
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