
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-a...
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.
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-a...

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Episode 1: The Sharpshooter
Lucas McCain and his son Mark arrive in North Fork, New Mexico. Looking to start a new life, they co...

Episode 2: Home Ranch
Two hired hands of a wealthy cattleman, who has been using the ranch for grazing his cattle, demand...

Episode 3: End of a Young Gun
Lucas is forced to give refuge to Will Fulton, a young bank robber, who was injured while saving Mar...

Episode 4: The Marshal
Micah Torrance, a once famous lawman, is introduced as a drunken derelict, who stumbles into North F...

Episode 5: The Brother-in-Law
Mark's uncle, Johnny Gibb, a big time rodeo rider, comes to visit. While Mark idolizes his uncle, Lu...

Episode 6: Eight Hours to Die
Judge Burton seeks ""Justice"" against the Hangman, who hanged his son; the Judge, who sentenced his...

Episode 7: Duel of Honor
When an Italian Count arrives in North Fork, his strange attire attracts the attention of Groder, a...

Episode 8: The Safe Guard
Floyd Doniger comes to North Fork, looking to start a new life. He's got a steady job as the guard a...

Episode 9: The Sister
Rebecca Snipe is returning to North Fork after a long visit away. Before her stage left, she over he...

Episode 10: New Orleans Menace
Tiffauges, a wealthy and sadistic Frenchman, who is used to getting whatever he wants, decides he wi...

Episode 11: The Apprentice Sheriff
Dan Willard is filling in as temporary marshal while Micah is away. Some Texas cowhands are in North...

Episode 12: Young Englishman
Lucas accuses the young foreman of a neighboring ranch of rustling one of his calves.

Episode 13: The Angry Gun
Lucas and Mark return from a cattle sale when their stagecoach is robbed by three outlaws led by sha...

Episode 14: The Gaucho
Rumson, without even saying to whom he had sold his property, left the bill of sale with the bank an...

Episode 15: The Pet
Ward Haskins guns down Joe Flecker, who has evidence that could be used to blackmail him. Haskins th...

Episode 16: The Sheridan Story
Frank Blandon, a man with only one good arm, wanders on to the ranch. Lucas gave Blandon a job to ""...
Episode 17: The Retired Gun
Wes Carney and his wife Clair want to settle down and they figure North Fork might do fine. Wes is a...
Episode 18: The Photographer
Abel Goss, the photographer who took Lucas' wedding photograph, is in North Fork doing a portrait of...
Episode 19: Shivaree
Aaron Pelser's wagon train came across a pair of young boys on a buck board heading west and invited...
Episode 20: The Deadeye Kid
McCain befriends Donnel O'Mahoney, a tough kid from Brooklyn, and arranges with two men for the youn...
Episode 21: The Indian
U.S. Marshal Sam Buckhart arrives in North Fork in search of renegade Indians suspected of the bruta...
Episode 22: The Boarding House
Reformed card sharp Julia Massini now runs a respectable boarding house in North Fork, but Sid Fallo...
Episode 23: The Second Witness
Lucas puts his life in jeopardy when he agrees to testify in a murder case where the first witness w...
Episode 24: The Trade
Outlaw Sam Morley falls in love with a young woman who has a serious illness, and asks Lucas to turn...
Episode 25: One Went to Denver
Lucas welcomes his old friend Tom Birch, who once saved his life, unaware that the man is now a bank...
Episode 26: The Deadly Wait
Dan Nowry, released from Yuma prison, arrives in North Fork intent on getting even with Marshal Torr...
Episode 27: The Wrong Man
Young Mark McCain is eager to help lawman Jay Jefferson, who has arrived in North Fork intent on kil...
Episode 28: The Challenge
When escaped convicts hold up the general store in North Fork and take Marshal Torrance hostage, Luc...
Episode 29: The Hawk
Young Mark manages to capture a hawk, but then falls into danger from a rattlesnake. When a strange...
Episode 30: Three-Legged Terror
When a rambunctious teenager wrecks a schoolroom, Lucas McCain, as a member of the North Fork school...
Episode 31: The Angry Man
The McCains try to be tolerant of their embittered neighbor Abel MacDonald, who tels Lucas to keep o...
Episode 32: The Woman
An unfounded rumor causes North Fork's outspoken feminist schoolteacher to be attacked by a mob of a...
Episode 33: The Money Gun
When his employer begins to suspect him of embezzlement, bookkeeper Asa Manning decides to hire a pr...
Episode 34: A Matter of Faith
Although a drought has forced local cowhands to seek work on a railroad construction project, railra...
Episode 35: Blood Brothers
Lucas McCain gives blood to save a dying man and is surprised by Marshal Torrance's odd behavior tow...
Episode 36: Stranger at Night
Mark's finding of the body of a murder victim starts Lucas, his friend Artemus, and Marshal Torrance...
Episode 37: The Raid
When renegade Apaches wound Lucas and kidnap Mark, Marshal Torrance joins with U.S. Marshal Sam Buck...

Episode 38: Outlaw's Inheritance
Lucas is the town's representative to the railroad commission until an infamous train robber dies an...

Episode 39: Boomerang
When a rancher dies after the bank forecloses the mortgage on his property, his son blames the banke...
Episode 40: The Mind Reader
When a wealthy rancher is killed, Mark suggests that they seek the aid of a mind reader to identify...
Episode 1: The Patsy
A group of outlaws devise a plan to get rid of Lucas so that they can take over the town of North Fo...
Episode 2: Bloodlines
After Lucas kills a mountain man in a barrom brawl, his father arrives in North Fork determined to t...
Episode 3: The Blowout
Newly arrived gunslinger Al Walker throws a mammoth party at the saloon, keeping acting Marshal Ben...
Episode 4: Obituary
Newspaperman Byron Claremont specializes in profiles of famous gunmen. One of his stories was respon...
Episode 5: Tension
Gavin and Ezra Martin think that Lucas killed their son Clemmie while taking part in a train robbery...
Episode 6: Eddie's Daughter
After the daughter of Lucas's friend the hotel clerk arrives in North Fork, two strangers threaten h...
Episode 7: Panic
Town character Brett Conway blackmails Lucas with the knowledge that a young couple Lucas rescued ar...
Episode 8: Ordeal
When their wagon breaks down, Mark and an injured Lucas are stranded in the desert.
Episode 9: The Spiked Rifle
Mark is kidnapped as he and his father try to protect Banker Hamilton's gold.
Episode 10: Letter of the Law
Lucas makes a life-or-death decision when Micah is held hostage and the kidnappers demand the releas...
Episode 11: The Legacy
Lucas tries to do a good deed for the old town drunk but it backfires when the drunk's son believes...
Episode 12: The Baby Sitter
A dance hall singer asks Lucas to care for her daughter in an effort to hide the baby from her self-...
Episode 13: The Coward
Lucas becomes involved in a battle between an aspiring writer and a cocky, bragging trail boss.
Episode 14: Surveyors
Mark runs away from home after his father questions his story about overhearing a plot to rob the ba...

Episode 15: Day of the Hunter
A famous buffalo hunter tries to goad Lucas into a shooting match.

Episode 16: Mail Order Groom
When a stranger arrives to marry the town spinster, two brothers who want her land try to discourage...
Episode 17: A Case of Identity
Mark finds himself in grave danger when two unscrupulous detectives searching for a man's long-lost...
Episode 18: The Visitors
Lucas is drawn to a young widow passing through town on her way to claim an inheritance, but others...
Episode 19: The Hero
After a young stablehand kills a notorious gunslinger, he is baffled by the hostility of the townspe...
Episode 20: The Horse Traders
When a horse dealer transporting a prize stallion stops in North Fork, two saddle tramps try to use...
Episode 21: The Spoiler
An elderly couple moves to North Fork under an assumed name to hide the fact that they are the paren...
Episode 22: Heller
After foiling a girl's attempt to rob the general store, Lucas finds that she and her brother are pl...
Episode 23: The Grasshopper
A condemned killer being transported by train murders a marshal and takes Mark hostage.
Episode 24: A Time for Singing
Mark discovers that the new preacher and his wife are impostors planning a robbery.
Episode 25: The Deserter
Lucas and Marshal Torrance get into trouble with the Army when they try to help a wounded young sold...
Episode 26: The Vision
After Mark contracts typhoid fever and has a vision of his dead mother, he no longer seems intereste...
Episode 27: The Lariat
An old friend of Lucas's returns to town in the company of a shady gambler and is accused of cheatin...
Episode 28: Smoke Screen
Several men are vying for a rancher's daughter's affections. When she is found dead, one of them be...
Episode 29: Shotgun Man
Shotgun man John Beaumont, who Lucas sent to prison, returns with vengeance on his mind.
Episode 30: Sins of the Father
After shooting a man in self-defense, Andy Moon turns to Lucas for protection from his vengeful brot...
Episode 31: The Prodigal
To keep his invalid mother happy, an outlaw forces Lucas and Mark to go along with a masquerade that...
Episode 32: The Fourflusher
A sharecropper enters his colt in a horse race, hoping to win enough money to buy his farm from the...
Episode 33: The Jailbird
When Lucas hires an ex-con as a ranch hand, the man is the first one under suspicion when a robbery...
Episode 34: Meeting at Midnight
Lucas helps his former Army captain, now an undercover federal agent, infiltrate a gang of bank robb...
Episode 35: Nora
Lucas finds himself involved in murder when he gallantly steps to the aid of a beautiful woman.
Episode 36: The Hangman
An ex-convict is blamed for a brutal crime despite his claims of rehabilitation.
Episode 1: Trail of Hate
Lucas is out for vengeance when Mark is used as a pawn in a bank robbery scheme.
Episode 2: Woman From Hog Ridge
Lucas shoots a horse thief who turns out to be a member of the Boyle clan, and now Ma Boyle is after...
Episode 3: Seven
Seven condemned murderers escape and take over the town of North Fork.
Episode 4: The Pitchman
When Mark finds gold on their property, a fast-talking salesman who tried to sell Lucas a new lightn...
Episode 5: Strange Town
Lucas tracks an escaped prisoner to a town that turns out to be run by the gunman's brother, notorio...
Episode 6: Baranca
When an outlaw leader lures Marshal Torrance out of town, Lucas is the only one who can stop him fro...
Episode 7: The Martinet
A former army captain comes to North Fork to kill the man who shot down his son in a gunfight - Luca...
Episode 8: Miss Milly
A new store owner upsets the town by demanding that all credit accounts be paid off.
Episode 9: Dead Cold Cash
The widow of a bandit killed by Lucas plots a grotesque revenge.
Episode 10: The Schoolmaster
Mark and his friend become trapped in an old mine.
Episode 11: The Promoter
Lucas and Mark attempt to reform a con-man.
Episode 12: The Illustrator
Lucas encourages a drunken artist charged with murder to use his talents to identify the true killer...
Episode 13: The Silent Knife
Lucas and Mark try to persuade a persecuted young mute to return stolen money.
Episode 14: Miss Bertie
A lively old lady arrives in town hot on the trail of a notorious bandit—and the reward money for...
Episode 15: Six Years and a Day
A doctor seeks revenge on the man he blames for ruining his practice.
Episode 16: Flowers by the Door
Lucas unmasks a killer posing as a door-to-door seed salesman.
Episode 17: Long Trek
Lucas and Marshal Torrance run in trouble transporting a captured killer back to face trial.
Episode 18: The Actress
A deathbed request from an old friend sends Lucas to a neighboring town in search of the man's long-...
Episode 19: Face of Yesterday
Lucas thinks he has seen a ghost when a young man, eerily similar to a man he killed in the Civil Wa...
Episode 20: The Wyoming Story (1)
Lucas agrees to take a job as a federal undercover agent and goes to Wyoming to investigate rumors o...
Episode 21: The Wyoming Story (2)
Mark heads for Wyoming to search for Lucas, who's on the trail of a gang illegally selling weapons t...
Episode 22: Closer than a Brother
Lucas looks for answers when recovering alcoholic Micah Torrence returns to the bottle—and turns i...
Episode 23: The Lost Treasure of Canyon Town
In a ghost town, Lucas, Mark and Micah tangle with the Newman family and learn the secret of the tow...
Episode 24: Dark Day at North Fork
Blinded in an explosion, Lucas fights despair as he prepares for a meeting with a gun-toting enemy.
Episode 25: The Prisoner
Two ex-Confederate officers seek revenge on Lucas, who served as prison guard during their internmen...
Episode 26: Assault
A salesman can't talk his way out of an assault charge.
Episode 27: Short Rope for a Tall Man
Lucas, accused of horse theft, struggles to clear himself before a lynch mob catches up.
Episode 28: The Clarence Bibs Story
A janitor-turned-gunfighter whose reputation hangs on one lucky shot—and a lot of gall.
Episode 29: The Score is Even
Lucas tries to get help when he is shot after witnessing a murder.
Episode 30: The Mescalaro Curse
Lucas is marked for death: he was foreman of a jury that convicted an Apache.
Episode 31: Stopover
Trouble brews at Lucas's when a whisky salesman and a gunfighter fall for the same woman.
Episode 32: The Lonesome Bride
Two pranksters write away for a mail-order bride, using Lucas's name.
Episode 33: Death Trap
Lucas recognizes Dr. Simon Battle as an ex-gunslinger with whom he once traded shots.
Episode 34: The Queue
A Chinese man and his son fight prejudice as they try to open a laundry in North Fork.
Episode 1: The Vaqueros
A bandit imprisons Lucas and Mark.
Episode 2: First Wages
Lucas tries to find out why Mark has taken a job as a stableboy.
Episode 3: Sheer Terror
Mark and Milly are held prisoner in her general store when two gunmen attempt a daring robbery.
Episode 4: The Stand-In
Lucas is taken hostage by two prison wagon drivers angered that he won't give them more whiskey.
Episode 5: The Journey Back
Mark goes to work for Will Temple, a badly scarred and very mysterious rancher.
Episode 6: The Decision
Corey Hazlett insists he's innocent of murder, despite Lucas's eyewitness testimony.
Episode 7: Knight Errant
Lucas tries to dissuade a latter-day knight from rushing into battle.
Episode 8: Honest Abe
Able Lincoln's claim that he's the Great Emancipator himself amuses everyone except Matt Yorty.
Episode 9: The Long Goodbye
Stubborn Grandpa Fogarty is Lucas's main roadblock as he tries to get young Woody Fogarty to attend...
Episode 10: The Shattered Idol
Mark Twain visits Southfork, and quickly alienates the townspeople.
Episode 11: Long Gun From Tucson
Lucas tries to stop embittered John Holliver from venting his wrath on the people who expelled him f...
Episode 12: The High Country
Lucas becomes the target of a vengeful mountaineer.
Episode 13: A Friend in Need
Mark finds himself the unwilling companion of gunman Carl Avery.
Episode 14: Skull
Lucas seeks an escape when he's captured by outlaws while seeking help for an injured Mark.
Episode 15: The Princess
The Queen-to-be of France hides out in Northfork.
Episode 16: Gunfire
When an expected lawman doesn't arrive from Denver, several gunfighters arrive in North Fork and cau...
Episode 17: The Quiet Fear
Lucas's old Army pal settles in North Fork with his deaf daughter.

Episode 18: Sporting Chance
An Englishman arrives with a custom-made rifle—and a plan to kill Lucas.

Episode 19: A Young Man's Fancy
The pangs of first love are painful for Mark: the object of his affections has eyes for another.

Episode 20: The Man from Salinas
Banker Hamilton is closing up for the day when Rudy Gray persuades him to stay open for one more tra...

Episode 21: Two Ounces of Tin
Sammy Davis Jr. stars as Tip Corey, son of a man allegedly murdered in North Fork.

Episode 22: Deadly Image
Lucas has double trouble: his lookalike is tearing up the town.

Episode 23: The Debt
Mark learns that the prisoner Micah is escorting to the gallows is the man that saved his life three...
Episode 24: The Tinhorn
Mark is shocked when he discovers that his father is a poker player.
Episode 25: None So Blind
Mark befriends singer-banjoist Lafayette Bly, a blind man with an acute sense of hearing—and a ver...
Episode 26: Jealous Man
Episode 27: Guilty Conscience
No one's more surprised than Micah when newcomer Leota Carraway claims he's her long-lost husband an...
Episode 28: Day of Reckoning
Lucas is torn by conflicting emotions when he meets the town's new preacher—a former outlaw whom t...
Episode 29: The Day the Town Slept
The town of North Fork becomes a haven for outlaws when suave Ben Judson smooth-talks his way into t...
Episode 30: Milly's Brother
A veteran returns with tales of heroism and the fate of Milly's brother in the Civil War.
Episode 31: Outlaw's Shoes
A head wound wipes out Lucas's memory, leaving him with only one clue: he's wearing an outlaw's gun.
Episode 32: The Executioner

Episode 1: Waste (1)
Marshal Torrance is heading home from a cattle sale with Lucas and Mark when the old lawman mysterio...

Episode 2: Waste (2)
Conclusion. After Alphonso's wife gives birth, the bandits holding Marshal Torrance relax their guar...

Episode 3: Lou Mallory
Red-headed Lou Mallory arrives in North Fork and soon arouses the townpeople's suspicions.
Episode 4: Quiet Night, Deadly Night
Townspeople brace for the worst when a new girl arrives—with symptoms of smallpox.
Episode 5: Death Never Rides Alone
A gunslinger rides into North Fork for a meeting with Lucas.
Episode 6: I Take This Woman
Lou looks for a way out when the man her dying father promised her to arrives.
Episode 7: The Assailants
An assassination plot unfolds as four gunmen disguised as cavalrymen enter North Fork. Their target:...
Episode 8: Mark's Rifle
Sharpshooter Marty Blair tries to persuade Lucas to buy Mark a rifle.
Episode 9: The Most Amazing Man
Fast-draw artist Wade Randall is less than anxious to display his prowess.
Episode 10: Squeeze Play
A speculator will stop at nothing to grab Lucas's land.
Episode 11: Gun Shy
Mark blames himself for a friend's accidental death.
Episode 12: The Anvil Chorus
A blacksmith-turned-deputy sets the stage for trouble when he demands that all townspeople turn in t...
Episode 13: Conflict
Lucas's self-confidence begins to slip away when he misses an easy shot.
Episode 14: Incident at Line Shack Six
A railroad gang boss frames an Apache.
Episode 15: Suspicion
A peddler is implicated in a series of murders.
Episode 16: The Sidewinder
Gridley Mau is gunning for Lucas, who killed his father during an attempted robbery.
Episode 17: The Sixteenth Cousin
A Japanese nobleman seeks revenge when his servant is insulted.
Episode 18: Hostages to Fortune
At Halloween, rustlers take advantage of the seasonal disguises to raid a cattle ranch.
Episode 19: And the Devil Makes Five
A snake crawls into Lucas's bed, and Mark must lure it away before it strikes.
Episode 20: End of the Hunt
Lucas is thrown into jail to stop him from murdering an old enemy.
Episode 21: The Bullet
Lucas is baffled when the marshal of a neighboring town refuses to hold a gambler who just attempted...
Episode 22: Requiem at Mission Springs
Lucas begins a trek to find a cure for Mark, who is paralyzed after a bad fall.
Episode 23: The Guest
New arrival Mario Arsatti becomes very friendly with Lucas, but this turns out to be merely pleasure...
Episode 24: Old Man Running (aka The Wanted Man)
Lucas, who blames his wife's death on his father-in-law, refuses to help the old man elude gunmen.
Episode 25: Which Way'd They Go?
The notoriously lazy Jackman brothers discover their mortgage has been foreclosed.
Episode 26: Old Tony
Mark and his girlfriend Laurie discover that an old hermit is very lonely.
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