About this season
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.
Episodes (34)
1. Trail of Hate
Aired 27 September 1960 • 30 min
Lucas is out for vengeance when Mark is used as a pawn in a bank robbery scheme.
2. Woman From Hog Ridge
Aired 4 October 1960 • 30 min
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
Aired 11 October 1960 • 30 min
Seven condemned murderers escape and take over the town of North Fork.
4. The Pitchman
Aired 18 September 1960 • 30 min
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
Aired 25 October 1960 • 30 min
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
Aired 1 November 1960 • 30 min
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
Aired 8 November 1960 • 30 min
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
Aired 15 November 1960 • 30 min
A new store owner upsets the town by demanding that all credit accounts be paid off.
9. Dead Cold Cash
Aired 22 November 1960 • 30 min
The widow of a bandit killed by Lucas plots a grotesque revenge.
10. The Schoolmaster
Aired 29 November 1960 • 30 min
Mark and his friend become trapped in an old mine.
11. The Promoter
Aired 6 December 1960 • 30 min
A con man and his fast-gun friend come to North Fork. Lucas enters a target shooting contest.
12. The Illustrator
Aired 13 December 1960 • 30 min
Lucas encourages a drunken artist charged with murder to use his talents to identify the true killer.
13. The Silent Knife
Aired 20 December 1960 • 30 min
Lucas and Mark try to persuade a persecuted young mute to return stolen money.
14. Miss Bertie
Aired 27 December 1960 • 30 min
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
Aired 30 January 1961 • 30 min
A doctor seeks revenge on the man he blames for ruining his practice.
16. Flowers by the Door
Aired 10 January 1961 • 30 min
Lucas unmasks a killer posing as a door-to-door seed salesman.
17. Long Trek
Aired 17 January 1961 • 30 min
Lucas and Marshal Torrance run in trouble transporting a captured killer back to face trial.
18. The Actress
Aired 24 January 1961 • 30 min
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
Aired 31 January 1961 • 30 min
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)
Aired 7 February 1961 • 30 min
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)
Aired 14 February 1961 • 30 min
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
Aired 21 February 1961 • 30 min
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
Aired 28 February 1961 • 30 min
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
Aired 7 March 1961 • 30 min
Blinded in an explosion, Lucas fights despair as he prepares for a meeting with a gun-toting enemy.
25. The Prisoner
Aired 14 March 1961 • 30 min
Two ex-Confederate officers seek revenge on Lucas, who served as prison guard during their internment.
26. Assault
Aired 21 March 1961 • 30 min
A salesman can't talk his way out of an assault charge.
27. Short Rope for a Tall Man
Aired 28 March 1961 • 30 min
Lucas, accused of horse theft, struggles to clear himself before a lynch mob catches up.
28. The Clarence Bibs Story
Aired 4 April 1961 • 30 min
A janitor-turned-gunfighter whose reputation hangs on one lucky shot—and a lot of gall.
29. The Score is Even
Aired 11 April 1961 • 30 min
Lucas tries to get help when he is shot after witnessing a murder.
30. The Mescalaro Curse
Aired 18 April 1961 • 30 min
Lucas is marked for death: he was foreman of a jury that convicted an Apache.
31. Stopover
Aired 25 April 1961 • 30 min
Trouble brews at Lucas's when a whisky salesman and a gunfighter fall for the same woman.
32. The Lonesome Bride
Aired 2 May 1961 • 30 min
Two pranksters write away for a mail-order bride, using Lucas's name.
33. Death Trap
Aired 9 May 1961 • 30 min
Lucas recognizes Dr. Simon Battle as an ex-gunslinger with whom he once traded shots.
34. The Queue
Aired 16 May 1961 • 30 min
A Chinese man and his son fight prejudice as they try to open a laundry in North Fork.