The Rifleman (1958)
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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Episode 1 - Trail of Hate
Release Date: 1960-09-27Lucas is out for vengeance when Mark is used as a pawn in a bank robbery scheme.
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Episode 2 - Woman From Hog Ridge
Release Date: 1960-10-04Lucas shoots a horse thief who turns out to be a member of the Boyle clan, and now Ma Boyle is after him.
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Episode 3 - Seven
Release Date: 1960-10-11Seven condemned murderers escape and take over the town of North Fork.
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Episode 4 - The Pitchman
Release Date: 1960-09-18When Mark finds gold on their property, a fast-talking salesman who tried to sell Lucas a new lightning rod offers instead to buy the ranch's mineral rights.
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Episode 5 - Strange Town
Release Date: 1960-10-25Lucas tracks an escaped prisoner to a town that turns out to be run by the gunman's brother, notorious for shooting people in the back.
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Episode 6 - Baranca
Release Date: 1960-11-01When an outlaw leader lures Marshal Torrance out of town, Lucas is the only one who can stop him from lynching a local man who killed one of the members of his gang.
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Episode 7 - The Martinet
Release Date: 1960-11-08A former army captain comes to North Fork to kill the man who shot down his son in a gunfight - Lucas McCain.
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Episode 8 - Miss Milly
Release Date: 1960-11-15A new store owner upsets the town by demanding that all credit accounts be paid off.
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Episode 9 - Dead Cold Cash
Release Date: 1960-11-22The widow of a bandit killed by Lucas plots a grotesque revenge.
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Episode 10 - The Schoolmaster
Release Date: 1960-11-29Mark and his friend become trapped in an old mine.
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Episode 11 - The Promoter
Release Date: 1960-12-06Lucas and Mark attempt to reform a con-man.
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Episode 12 - The Illustrator
Release Date: 1960-12-13Lucas encourages a drunken artist charged with murder to use his talents to identify the true killer.
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Episode 13 - The Silent Knife
Release Date: 1960-12-20Lucas and Mark try to persuade a persecuted young mute to return stolen money.
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Episode 14 - Miss Bertie
Release Date: 1960-12-27A lively old lady arrives in town hot on the trail of a notorious bandit—and the reward money for capturing him.
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Episode 15 - Six Years and a Day
Release Date: 1961-01-30A doctor seeks revenge on the man he blames for ruining his practice.
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Episode 16 - Flowers by the Door
Release Date: 1961-01-10Lucas unmasks a killer posing as a door-to-door seed salesman.
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Episode 17 - Long Trek
Release Date: 1961-01-17Lucas and Marshal Torrance run in trouble transporting a captured killer back to face trial.
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Episode 18 - The Actress
Release Date: 1961-01-24A deathbed request from an old friend sends Lucas to a neighboring town in search of the man's long-lost sweetheart.
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Episode 19 - Face of Yesterday
Release Date: 1961-01-31Lucas thinks he has seen a ghost when a young man, eerily similar to a man he killed in the Civil War, challenges him to a gunfight.
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Episode 20 - The Wyoming Story (1)
Release Date: 1961-02-07Lucas agrees to take a job as a federal undercover agent and goes to Wyoming to investigate rumors of sales of arms to renegade indians. His life is endagered by the town drunk who stumbles onto his true identity and purpose. (Part 1 of 2)
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Episode 21 - The Wyoming Story (2)
Release Date: 1961-02-14Mark heads for Wyoming to search for Lucas, who's on the trail of a gang illegally selling weapons to the Indians. (Part 2 of 2)
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Episode 22 - Closer than a Brother
Release Date: 1961-02-21Lucas looks for answers when recovering alcoholic Micah Torrence returns to the bottle—and turns in his badge.
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Episode 23 - The Lost Treasure of Canyon Town
Release Date: 1961-02-28In a ghost town, Lucas, Mark and Micah tangle with the Newman family and learn the secret of the town's 20-year-old mystery of a lost gold mine.
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Episode 24 - Dark Day at North Fork
Release Date: 1961-03-07Blinded in an explosion, Lucas fights despair as he prepares for a meeting with a gun-toting enemy.
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Episode 25 - The Prisoner
Release Date: 1961-03-14Two ex-Confederate officers seek revenge on Lucas, who served as prison guard during their internment.
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Episode 26 - Assault
Release Date: 1961-03-21A salesman can't talk his way out of an assault charge.
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Episode 27 - Short Rope for a Tall Man
Release Date: 1961-03-28Lucas, accused of horse theft, struggles to clear himself before a lynch mob catches up.
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Episode 28 - The Clarence Bibs Story
Release Date: 1961-04-04A janitor-turned-gunfighter whose reputation hangs on one lucky shot—and a lot of gall.
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Episode 29 - The Score is Even
Release Date: 1961-04-11Lucas tries to get help when he is shot after witnessing a murder.
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Episode 30 - The Mescalaro Curse
Release Date: 1961-04-18Lucas is marked for death: he was foreman of a jury that convicted an Apache.
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Episode 31 - Stopover
Release Date: 1961-04-25Trouble brews at Lucas's when a whisky salesman and a gunfighter fall for the same woman.
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Episode 32 - The Lonesome Bride
Release Date: 1961-05-02Two pranksters write away for a mail-order bride, using Lucas's name.
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Episode 33 - Death Trap
Release Date: 1961-05-09Lucas recognizes Dr. Simon Battle as an ex-gunslinger with whom he once traded shots.
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Episode 34 - The Queue
Release Date: 1961-05-16A Chinese man and his son fight prejudice as they try to open a laundry in North Fork.