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 - The Vaqueros
Release Date: 1961-10-02A bandit imprisons Lucas and Mark.
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Episode 2 - First Wages
Release Date: 1961-10-09Lucas tries to find out why Mark has taken a job as a stableboy.
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Episode 3 - Sheer Terror
Release Date: 1961-09-16Mark and Milly are held prisoner in her general store when two gunmen attempt a daring robbery.
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Episode 4 - The Stand-In
Release Date: 1961-10-23Lucas is taken hostage by two prison wagon drivers angered that he won't give them more whiskey.
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Episode 5 - The Journey Back
Release Date: 1961-10-30Mark goes to work for Will Temple, a badly scarred and very mysterious rancher.
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Episode 6 - The Decision
Release Date: 1961-11-06Corey Hazlett insists he's innocent of murder, despite Lucas's eyewitness testimony.
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Episode 7 - Knight Errant
Release Date: 1961-11-13Lucas tries to dissuade a latter-day knight from rushing into battle.
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Episode 8 - Honest Abe
Release Date: 1961-11-20Able Lincoln's claim that he's the Great Emancipator himself amuses everyone except Matt Yorty.
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Episode 9 - The Long Goodbye
Release Date: 1961-11-27Stubborn Grandpa Fogarty is Lucas's main roadblock as he tries to get young Woody Fogarty to attend school.
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Episode 10 - The Shattered Idol
Release Date: 1961-12-04Mark Twain visits Southfork, and quickly alienates the townspeople.
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Episode 11 - Long Gun From Tucson
Release Date: 1961-12-11Lucas tries to stop embittered John Holliver from venting his wrath on the people who expelled him from town years before.
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Episode 12 - The High Country
Release Date: 1961-12-18Lucas becomes the target of a vengeful mountaineer.
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Episode 13 - A Friend in Need
Release Date: 1961-12-25Mark finds himself the unwilling companion of gunman Carl Avery.
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Episode 14 - Skull
Release Date: 1962-01-01Lucas seeks an escape when he's captured by outlaws while seeking help for an injured Mark.
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Episode 15 - The Princess
Release Date: 1962-01-08The Queen-to-be of France hides out in Northfork.
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Episode 16 - Gunfire
Release Date: 1962-01-15When an expected lawman doesn't arrive from Denver, several gunfighters arrive in North Fork and cause trouble.
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Episode 17 - The Quiet Fear
Release Date: 1962-01-22Lucas's old Army pal settles in North Fork with his deaf daughter.
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Episode 18 - Sporting Chance
Release Date: 1962-01-29An Englishman arrives with a custom-made rifle—and a plan to kill Lucas.
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Episode 19 - A Young Man's Fancy
Release Date: 1962-02-05The pangs of first love are painful for Mark: the object of his affections has eyes for another.
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Episode 20 - The Man from Salinas
Release Date: 1962-02-12Banker Hamilton is closing up for the day when Rudy Gray persuades him to stay open for one more transaction - a withdrawal at gunpoint.
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Episode 21 - Two Ounces of Tin
Release Date: 1962-02-19Sammy Davis Jr. stars as Tip Corey, son of a man allegedly murdered in North Fork.
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Episode 22 - Deadly Image
Release Date: 1962-02-26Lucas has double trouble: his lookalike is tearing up the town.
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Episode 23 - The Debt
Release Date: 1962-03-05Mark learns that the prisoner Micah is escorting to the gallows is the man that saved his life three years previously.
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Episode 24 - The Tinhorn
Release Date: 1962-03-12Mark is shocked when he discovers that his father is a poker player.
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Episode 25 - None So Blind
Release Date: 1962-03-19Mark befriends singer-banjoist Lafayette Bly, a blind man with an acute sense of hearing—and a very strong grip.
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Episode 26 - Jealous Man
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Episode 27 - Guilty Conscience
Release Date: 1962-04-02No one's more surprised than Micah when newcomer Leota Carraway claims he's her long-lost husband and the father of her child.
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Episode 28 - Day of Reckoning
Release Date: 1962-04-09Lucas is torn by conflicting emotions when he meets the town's new preacher—a former outlaw whom the Rifleman vowed to kill.
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Episode 29 - The Day the Town Slept
Release Date: 1962-04-16The town of North Fork becomes a haven for outlaws when suave Ben Judson smooth-talks his way into the marshal's job.
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Episode 30 - Milly's Brother
Release Date: 1962-04-23A veteran returns with tales of heroism and the fate of Milly's brother in the Civil War.
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Episode 31 - Outlaw's Shoes
Release Date: 1962-04-30A head wound wipes out Lucas's memory, leaving him with only one clue: he's wearing an outlaw's gun.
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Episode 32 - The Executioner
Release Date: 1962-05-07