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.
Season 1 Episodes
E1
Lucas McCain and his son Mark arrive in North Fork, New Mexico. Looking to start a new life, they come across a ranch to…
E2
Two hired hands of a wealthy cattleman, who has been using the ranch for grazing his cattle, demand that Lucas move out.…
E3
Lucas is forced to give refuge to Will Fulton, a young bank robber, who was injured while saving Mark's life. While stay…
E4
Micah Torrance, a once famous lawman, is introduced as a drunken derelict, who stumbles into North Fork. Micah, nursing …
E5
Mark's uncle, Johnny Gibb, a big time rodeo rider, comes to visit. While Mark idolizes his uncle, Lucas discovers that J…
E6
Judge Burton seeks ""Justice"" against the Hangman, who hanged his son; the Judge, who sentenced his son; and Lucas, the…
E7
When an Italian Count arrives in North Fork, his strange attire attracts the attention of Groder, a town bully. Groder t…
E8
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 h…
E9
Rebecca Snipe is returning to North Fork after a long visit away. Before her stage left, she over hears a man saying he'…
E10
Tiffauges, a wealthy and sadistic Frenchman, who is used to getting whatever he wants, decides he wishes to purchase the…
E11
Dan Willard is filling in as temporary marshal while Micah is away. Some Texas cowhands are in North Fork looking for so…
E12
Lucas accuses the young foreman of a neighboring ranch of rustling one of his calves.
E13
Lucas and Mark return from a cattle sale when their stagecoach is robbed by three outlaws led by sharpshooter Johnny Cot…
E14
Rumson, without even saying to whom he had sold his property, left the bill of sale with the bank and moved away from No…
E15
Ward Haskins guns down Joe Flecker, who has evidence that could be used to blackmail him. Haskins thinks the information…
E16
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 …
Wes Carney and his wife Clair want to settle down and they figure North Fork might do fine. Wes is a well known gunfight…
Abel Goss, the photographer who took Lucas' wedding photograph, is in North Fork doing a portrait of Mark standing in th…
Aaron Pelser's wagon train came across a pair of young boys on a buck board heading west and invited them to join the tr…
McCain befriends Donnel O'Mahoney, a tough kid from Brooklyn, and arranges with two men for the young man to continue hi…
U.S. Marshal Sam Buckhart arrives in North Fork in search of renegade Indians suspected of the brutal killing of a Texas…
Reformed card sharp Julia Massini now runs a respectable boarding house in North Fork, but Sid Fallon is threatening to …
Lucas puts his life in jeopardy when he agrees to testify in a murder case where the first witness was killed before he …
Outlaw Sam Morley falls in love with a young woman who has a serious illness, and asks Lucas to turn him in for the rewa…
Lucas welcomes his old friend Tom Birch, who once saved his life, unaware that the man is now a bank robber who is on th…
Dan Nowry, released from Yuma prison, arrives in North Fork intent on getting even with Marshal Torrance,who helped send…
Young Mark McCain is eager to help lawman Jay Jefferson, who has arrived in North Fork intent on killing an outlaw for t…
When escaped convicts hold up the general store in North Fork and take Marshal Torrance hostage, Lucas comes to the resc…
Young Mark manages to capture a hawk, but then falls into danger from a rattlesnake. When a stranger comes to his rescu…
When a rambunctious teenager wrecks a schoolroom, Lucas McCain, as a member of the North Fork school board, asks the boy…
The McCains try to be tolerant of their embittered neighbor Abel MacDonald, who tels Lucas to keep off his land and won'…
An unfounded rumor causes North Fork's outspoken feminist schoolteacher to be attacked by a mob of angry townspeople.
When his employer begins to suspect him of embezzlement, bookkeeper Asa Manning decides to hire a professional gunman to…
Although a drought has forced local cowhands to seek work on a railroad construction project, railraod executives are af…
Lucas McCain gives blood to save a dying man and is surprised by Marshal Torrance's odd behavior toward the man. Then th…
Mark's finding of the body of a murder victim starts Lucas, his friend Artemus, and Marshal Torrance on a search for the…
When renegade Apaches wound Lucas and kidnap Mark, Marshal Torrance joins with U.S. Marshal Sam Buckhart to form a rescu…
E38
Lucas is the town's representative to the railroad commission until an infamous train robber dies and leaves his ill-got…
E39
When a rancher dies after the bank forecloses the mortgage on his property, his son blames the banker for his father's d…
When a wealthy rancher is killed, Mark suggests that they seek the aid of a mind reader to identify the murderer.
Cast
