• Air date: 27 Sep '60 34 episodes
      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.
  • List of Episodes (34)
    • 1. Trail of Hate

      27 Sep '60
      Lucas is out for vengeance when Mark is used as a pawn in a bank robbery scheme.
    • 2. Woman From Hog Ridge

      04 Oct '60
      Lucas shoots a horse thief who turns out to be a member of the Boyle clan, and now Ma Boyle is after him.
    • 3. Seven

      11 Oct '60
      Seven condemned murderers escape and take over the town of North Fork.
    • 4. The Pitchman

      18 Sep '60
      When 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.
    • 5. Strange Town

      25 Oct '60
      Lucas 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.
    • 6. Baranca

      01 Nov '60
      When 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.
    • 7. The Martinet

      08 Nov '60
      A former army captain comes to North Fork to kill the man who shot down his son in a gunfight - Lucas McCain.
    • 8. Miss Milly

      15 Nov '60
      A new store owner upsets the town by demanding that all credit accounts be paid off.
    • 9. Dead Cold Cash

      22 Nov '60
      The widow of a bandit killed by Lucas plots a grotesque revenge.
    • 10. The Schoolmaster

      29 Nov '60
      Mark and his friend become trapped in an old mine.
    • 11. The Promoter

      06 Dec '60
      Lucas and Mark attempt to reform a con-man.
    • 12. The Illustrator

      13 Dec '60
      Lucas encourages a drunken artist charged with murder to use his talents to identify the true killer.
    • 13. The Silent Knife

      20 Dec '60
      Lucas and Mark try to persuade a persecuted young mute to return stolen money.
    • 14. Miss Bertie

      27 Dec '60
      A lively old lady arrives in town hot on the trail of a notorious bandit—and the reward money for capturing him.
    • 15. Six Years and a Day

      30 Jan '61
      A doctor seeks revenge on the man he blames for ruining his practice.
    • 16. Flowers by the Door

      10 Jan '61
      Lucas unmasks a killer posing as a door-to-door seed salesman.
    • 17. Long Trek

      17 Jan '61
      Lucas and Marshal Torrance run in trouble transporting a captured killer back to face trial.
    • 18. The Actress

      24 Jan '61
      A deathbed request from an old friend sends Lucas to a neighboring town in search of the man's long-lost sweetheart.
    • 19. Face of Yesterday

      31 Jan '61
      Lucas 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.
    • 20. The Wyoming Story (1)

      07 Feb '61
      Lucas 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)
    • 21. The Wyoming Story (2)

      14 Feb '61
      Mark 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)
    • 22. Closer than a Brother

      21 Feb '61
      Lucas looks for answers when recovering alcoholic Micah Torrence returns to the bottle—and turns in his badge.
    • 23. The Lost Treasure of Canyon Town

      28 Feb '61
      In 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.
    • 24. Dark Day at North Fork

      07 Mar '61
      Blinded in an explosion, Lucas fights despair as he prepares for a meeting with a gun-toting enemy.
    • 25. The Prisoner

      14 Mar '61
      Two ex-Confederate officers seek revenge on Lucas, who served as prison guard during their internment.