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The Rifleman : Season 5
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Air date: 01 Oct '62 - 26 episodesThe 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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List of Episodes (26)
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The Rifleman (1958)
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1. Waste (1)
01 Oct '62Marshal Torrance is heading home from a cattle sale with Lucas and Mark when the old lawman mysteriously disappears. They trace him to a nearby Mexican ghost town. (Part 1 of 2)
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2. Waste (2)
08 Oct '62Conclusion. After Alphonso's wife gives birth, the bandits holding Marshal Torrance relax their guard, enabling Lucas and Mark to rescue the old man.
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3. Lou Mallory
15 Oct '62Red-headed Lou Mallory arrives in North Fork and soon arouses the townpeople's suspicions.
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4. Quiet Night, Deadly Night
22 Oct '62Townspeople brace for the worst when a new girl arrives—with symptoms of smallpox.
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5. Death Never Rides Alone
29 Oct '62A gunslinger rides into North Fork for a meeting with Lucas.
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6. I Take This Woman
05 Nov '62Lou looks for a way out when the man her dying father promised her to arrives.
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7. The Assailants
12 Nov '62An assassination plot unfolds as four gunmen disguised as cavalrymen enter North Fork. Their target: Sen. Jim Borden. Their weapon: a Gatling gun.
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8. Mark's Rifle
19 Nov '62Sharpshooter Marty Blair tries to persuade Lucas to buy Mark a rifle.
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9. The Most Amazing Man
26 Nov '62Fast-draw artist Wade Randall is less than anxious to display his prowess.
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10. Squeeze Play
03 Dec '62A speculator will stop at nothing to grab Lucas's land.
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11. Gun Shy
10 Dec '62Mark blames himself for a friend's accidental death.
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12. The Anvil Chorus
17 Dec '62A blacksmith-turned-deputy sets the stage for trouble when he demands that all townspeople turn in their weapons.
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13. Conflict
24 Dec '62Lucas's self-confidence begins to slip away when he misses an easy shot.
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14. Incident at Line Shack Six
07 Jan '63A railroad gang boss frames an Apache.
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15. Suspicion
14 Jan '63A peddler is implicated in a series of murders.
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16. The Sidewinder
21 Jan '63Gridley Mau is gunning for Lucas, who killed his father during an attempted robbery.
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17. The Sixteenth Cousin
28 Jan '62A Japanese nobleman seeks revenge when his servant is insulted.
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18. Hostages to Fortune
04 Feb '63At Halloween, rustlers take advantage of the seasonal disguises to raid a cattle ranch.
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19. And the Devil Makes Five
11 Feb '63A snake crawls into Lucas's bed, and Mark must lure it away before it strikes.
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20. End of the Hunt
18 Feb '63Lucas is thrown into jail to stop him from murdering an old enemy.
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21. The Bullet
25 Feb '63Lucas is baffled when the marshal of a neighboring town refuses to hold a gambler who just attempted murder.
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22. Requiem at Mission Springs
04 Mar '63Lucas begins a trek to find a cure for Mark, who is paralyzed after a bad fall.
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23. The Guest
11 Mar '63New arrival Mario Arsatti becomes very friendly with Lucas, but this turns out to be merely pleasure before business: he's been hired to kill Lucas.
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24. Old Man Running (aka The Wanted Man)
18 Mar '63Lucas, who blames his wife's death on his father-in-law, refuses to help the old man elude gunmen.
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25. Which Way'd They Go?
01 Apr '63The notoriously lazy Jackman brothers discover their mortgage has been foreclosed.
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