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The Rifleman

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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.

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Episodes

5 seasons · 168 episodes
Season 140 ep. · 1958–1959
  1. Episode 1: The Sharpshooter

    Sep 30, 1958 · 30 min

    Lucas McCain and his son Mark arrive in North Fork, New Mexico. Looking to start a new life, they come across a ranch to their liking, which is for sale. Lucas enters a Turkey Shoot in hopes of winning the down payment for the ranch. Jim Lewis, the man who runs North Fork, has bet on Vernon, a young gun he brought in, to win. When talk of Lucas' reputation back in the Nations circulates around town, Mr. Lewis gets nervous and he makes trouble for Lucas by threatening Mark's life.

  2. Episode 2: Home Ranch

    Oct 7, 1958 · 30 min

    Two hired hands of a wealthy cattleman, who has been using the ranch for grazing his cattle, demand that Lucas move out. When Lucas refuses, he is beaten and dragged and then the ranch house is burned down. They left Lucas and Mark with the burning house and rode off with Lucas' rifle. Leaving Mark to tend to the animals, Lucas tracks them down and confronts their boss, Mr. Jackford.

  3. Episode 3: End of a Young Gun

    Oct 14, 1958 · 30 min

    Lucas is forced to give refuge to Will Fulton, a young bank robber, who was injured while saving Mark's life. While staying at the McCain ranch Will gets a taste of a life better than the one he's been leading. He's met a girl and grows tired of a life on the run.

  4. Episode 4: The Marshal

    Oct 21, 1958 · 30 min

    Micah Torrance, a once famous lawman, is introduced as a drunken derelict, who stumbles into North Fork. Micah, nursing an arm crippled in a gunfight, is hired by Lucas to help out at the ranch. Three outlaws ride into town looking for revenge against Micah. When they kill the sheriff, it's up to Lucas and Micah to protect North Fork. Micah becomes North Fork's full-time Marshal.

  5. Episode 5: The Brother-in-Law

    Oct 28, 1958 · 30 min

    Mark's uncle, Johnny Gibb, a big time rodeo rider, comes to visit. While Mark idolizes his uncle, Lucas discovers that Johnny is on the run from the law for an Express Office Robbery.

  6. Episode 6: Eight Hours to Die

    Nov 4, 1958 · 30 min

    Judge Burton seeks justice against the hangman who hanged his son; the Judge, who sentenced his son; and Lucas, the man who caught his son.

  7. Episode 7: Duel of Honor

    Nov 11, 1958 · 30 min

    When an Italian Count arrives in North Fork, his strange attire attracts the attention of Groder, a town bully. Groder, trying to have fun with this stranger, destroys some of the Counts currency, mocks him, and tries to humiliate him. Eventually, the Count challenges Groder to a duel and asks Lucas to be his Second.

  8. Episode 8: The Safe Guard

    Oct 18, 1958 · 30 min

    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 he's entertaining ideas of settling down on a spread of his own. Also arriving in North Fork are three men who followed the bank's new safe, figuring any town needing a safe like that must have money to put into it.

  9. Episode 9: The Sister

    Nov 25, 1958 · 30 min

    Rebecca Snipe is returning to North Fork after a long visit away. Before her stage leaves, she overhears a man saying he's going to North Fork to kill a big man with a big mouth. Upon Rebecca's arrival in North Fork, Mark becomes smitten with her and gets it in his head to play matchmaker between her and his pa.

  10. Episode 10: New Orleans Menace

    Dec 26, 1958 · 30 min

    Tiffauges, a wealthy and sadistic Frenchman, who is used to getting whatever he wants, decides he wishes to purchase the McCain Ranch. Tiffauges' lead man, Xavier, proclaims Lucas to be muy macho, and does not believe Lucas will give in so easily. Xavier and the other men are tiring of being subjected to Tiffauges' whippings and cruel treatment. Lucas plays on the men's longing for freedom to keep his ranch.

  11. Episode 11: The Apprentice Sheriff

    Dec 9, 1958 · 30 min

    Dan Willard is filling in as temporary marshal while Micah is away. Meanwhile, some Texas cowhands are in North Fork looking for fun and relaxation, but Dan keeps coming down hard on them, which leads to blowback.

  12. Episode 12: Young Englishman

    Dec 16, 1958 · 30 min

    Lucas accuses the young foreman of a neighboring ranch of rustling one of his calves.

  13. Episode 13: The Angry Gun

    Dec 23, 1958 · 30 min

    Lucas and Mark return from a cattle sale when their stagecoach is robbed by three outlaws led by sharpshooter Johnny Cotton (Vic Morrow). Lucas sends Mark on in the stagecoach while he goes after the outlaws on foot without his rifle.

  14. Episode 14: The Gaucho

    Dec 30, 1958 · 30 min

    There’s prejudice all around, when Rumson moves away from North Fork, having sold his property to the Argentez family, who are originally from Argentina. Curge, who was outbid for the property, is upset because Rumson sold out to a "peppergut". Meanwhile, Manolo, the son of the Argentinian, has a problem with his sister being with a “gringo”.

  15. Episode 15: The Pet

    Jan 6, 1959 · 30 min

    Ward Haskins guns down Joe Flecker, who has evidence that could be used to blackmail him. Haskins thinks the information was given to Lucas, since he brought Flecker to the doctor before he died. Later, Haskins rides out to the ranch and is bitten by Flecker's horse, which is now believed to have anthrax.

  16. Episode 16: The Sheridan Story

    Jan 13, 1959 · 30 min

    When Frank Blandon, a man with only one good arm, wanders onto the ranch, Lucas gives him a job. This leads to major complications later.

  17. Episode 17: The Retired Gun

    Jan 20, 1959 · 30 min

    Wes Carney and his wife Clair want to settle down and they figure North Fork might do fine. Wes is a well known gunfighter, who has promised Clair that he would hang up his guns for good. The Carney's want to live a simple, honest life and the Feed and Grain Store, which is up for sale, seems like it might work for them. Carney's reputation and the news that he's settling down brings troublemakers to North Fork.

  18. Episode 18: The Photographer

    Jan 27, 1959 · 30 min

    Abel Goss, the photographer who took Lucas' wedding photograph, is in North Fork doing a portrait of Mark standing in the street. When Goss sees Colonel Whiteside and his sidekick, Jamison, he recognizes them as the butchers who tortured him, and others, while he was captive in their POW camp.

  19. Episode 19: Shivaree

    Feb 3, 1959 · 30 min

    Aaron Pelser's wagon train comes across a pair of young boys on a buck board heading west and he invites them to join the train. When he finds out that one of the boys was actually a girl and the two claimed to be headed to Yuma to get married, Pelser and his crowd force them to be married in North Fork.

  20. Episode 20: The Deadeye Kid

    Feb 10, 1959 · 30 min

    McCain befriends Donnel O'Mahoney, a tough kid from Brooklyn, and arranges with two men for the young man to continue his travels on their wagon, but then one of them is murdered and the other accuses the boy of having done it.

  21. Episode 21: The Indian

    Feb 17, 1959 · 30 min

    U.S. Marshal Sam Buckhart arrives in North Fork in search of renegade Indians suspected of the brutal killing of a Texas Ranger and his family, but the townspeople are suspicious of him when they discover that he too is an Indian.

  22. Episode 22: The Boarding House

    Feb 24, 1959 · 30 min

    Reformed card sharp Julia Massini now runs a respectable boarding house in North Fork, but Sid Fallon is threatening to reveal her sordid past unless she lets him turn the establishment into a saloon and gambling hall.

  23. Episode 23: The Second Witness

    Mar 30, 1959 · 30 min

    Lucas puts his life in jeopardy when he agrees to testify in a murder case where the first witness was killed before he could testify, and the killer is still at large.

  24. Episode 24: The Trade

    Mar 10, 1959 · 30 min

    Outlaw Sam Morley falls in love with a young woman who has a serious illness, and asks Lucas to turn him in for the reward and then use the money to pay for her medical care.

  25. Episode 25: One Went to Denver

    Mar 17, 1959 · 30 min

    Lucas welcomes his old friend Tom Birch, who once saved his life, unaware that the man is now a bank robber who is on the run with his gang.

  26. Episode 26: The Deadly Wait

    Mar 24, 1959 · 30 min

    Dan Nowry, released from Yuma prison, arrives in North Fork intent on getting even with Marshal Torrance,who helped send him to jail.

  27. Episode 27: The Wrong Man

    Mar 31, 1959 · 30 min

    Young Mark McCain is eager to help lawman Jay Jefferson, who has arrived in North Fork intent on killing an outlaw for the reward, whether he is the right man or not.

  28. Episode 28: The Challenge

    Apr 7, 1959 · 30 min

    When escaped convicts hold up the general store in North Fork and take Marshal Torrance hostage, Lucas comes to the rescue.

  29. Episode 29: The Hawk

    Apr 14, 1959 · 30 min

    Young Mark manages to capture a hawk, but then falls into danger from a rattlesnake. When a stranger comes to his rescue, the grateful Mark invites the man home, unaware that he is on the run from the law.

  30. Episode 30: Three-Legged Terror

    Apr 21, 1959 · 30 min

    When a rambunctious teenager wrecks a schoolroom, Lucas McCain, as a member of the North Fork school board, asks the boy's reluctant uncle to pay for the damages.

  31. Episode 31: The Angry Man

    Apr 28, 1959 · 30 min

    The McCains try to be tolerant of their embittered neighbor Abel MacDonald, who tels Lucas to keep off his land and won't allow his son to become friends with Mark, but they decide he's gone too far when he won't allow his injured boy to get medical treatment.

  32. Episode 32: The Woman

    May 5, 1959 · 30 min

    An unfounded rumor causes North Fork's outspoken feminist schoolteacher to be attacked by a mob of angry townspeople.

  33. Episode 33: The Money Gun

    May 12, 1959 · 30 min

    When his employer begins to suspect him of embezzlement, bookkeeper Asa Manning decides to hire a professional gunman to take care of the problem.

  34. Episode 34: A Matter of Faith

    May 19, 1959 · 30 min

    Although a drought has forced local cowhands to seek work on a railroad construction project, railraod executives are afraid that their workers will desert them if they believe an old man's claim to have found a way to make rain.

  35. Episode 35: Blood Brothers

    May 26, 1959 · 30 min

    Lucas McCain gives blood to save a dying man and is surprised by Marshal Torrance's odd behavior toward the man. Then three men arrive from a nearby town and demand custody of the stranger.

  36. Episode 36: Stranger at Night

    Jun 20, 1959 · 30 min

    Mark's finding of the body of a murder victim starts Lucas, his friend Artemus, and Marshal Torrance on a search for the killer.

  37. Episode 37: The Raid

    Jun 9, 1959 · 30 min

    When renegade Apaches wound Lucas and kidnap Mark, Marshal Torrance joins with U.S. Marshal Sam Buckhart to form a rescue posse.

  38. Episode 38: Outlaw's Inheritance

    Jun 16, 1959 · 30 min

    Lucas is the town's representative to the railroad commission until an infamous train robber dies and leaves his ill-gotten wealth to Lucas. Lucas must clear his name and stop the reckless ambition of his replacement.

  39. Episode 39: Boomerang

    Jun 23, 1959 · 30 min

    When a rancher dies after the bank forecloses the mortgage on his property, his son blames the banker for his father's death.

  40. Episode 40: The Mind Reader

    Jun 30, 1959 · 30 min

    When a wealthy rancher is killed, Mark suggests that they seek the aid of a mind reader to identify the murderer.

Season 236 ep. · 1959–1960
  1. Episode 1: The Patsy

    Sep 29, 1959 · 30 min

    A group of outlaws devise a plan to get rid of Lucas so that they can take over the town of North Fork.

  2. Episode 2: Bloodlines

    Oct 6, 1959 · 30 min

    After Lucas kills a mountain man in a barrom brawl, his father arrives in North Fork determined to take revenge on Lucas and Marshal Torrance, once he breaks his other two boys out of jail.

  3. Episode 3: The Blowout

    Oct 13, 1959 · 30 min

    Newly arrived gunslinger Al Walker throws a mammoth party at the saloon, keeping acting Marshal Ben Waller busy until Lucas is forced to intervene.

  4. Episode 4: Obituary

    Oct 20, 1959 · 30 min

    Newspaperman Byron Claremont specializes in profiles of famous gunmen. One of his stories was responsible for an old-time marshal's death; and his next subject is Lucas.

  5. Episode 5: Tension

    Oct 27, 1959 · 30 min

    Gavin and Ezra Martin think that Lucas killed their son Clemmie while taking part in a train robbery, and Lucas refuses to tell them what really happened.

  6. Episode 6: Eddie's Daughter

    Nov 3, 1959 · 30 min

    After the daughter of Lucas's friend the hotel clerk arrives in North Fork, two strangers threaten her life.

  7. Episode 7: Panic

    Nov 10, 1959 · 30 min

    Town character Brett Conway blackmails Lucas with the knowledge that a young couple Lucas rescued are suffering from yellow fever.

  8. Episode 8: Ordeal

    Nov 17, 1959 · 30 min

    When their wagon breaks down, Mark and an injured Lucas are stranded in the desert.

  9. Episode 9: The Spiked Rifle

    Nov 24, 1959 · 30 min

    Mark is kidnapped as he and his father try to protect Banker Hamilton's gold.

  10. Episode 10: Letter of the Law

    Dec 1, 1959 · 30 min

    Lucas makes a life-or-death decision when Micah is held hostage and the kidnappers demand the release of a notorious outlaw.

  11. Episode 11: The Legacy

    Dec 8, 1959 · 30 min

    Lucas tries to do a good deed for the old town drunk but it backfires when the drunk's son believes he inherited Lucas' ranch.

  12. Episode 12: The Baby Sitter

    Dec 15, 1959 · 30 min

    A dance hall singer asks Lucas to care for her daughter in an effort to hide the baby from her self-righteous, bigoted father.

  13. Episode 13: The Coward

    Dec 22, 1959 · 30 min

    Lucas becomes involved in a battle between an aspiring writer and a cocky, bragging trail boss.

  14. Episode 14: Surveyors

    Dec 29, 1959 · 30 min

    Mark runs away from home after his father questions his story about overhearing a plot to rob the bank.

  15. Episode 15: Day of the Hunter

    Jan 5, 1960 · 30 min

    A famous buffalo hunter tries to goad Lucas into a shooting match.

  16. Episode 16: Mail Order Groom

    Jan 12, 1960 · 30 min

    When a stranger arrives to marry the town spinster, two brothers who want her land try to discourage him with threats and a beating.

  17. Episode 17: A Case of Identity

    Jan 19, 1960 · 30 min

    Mark finds himself in grave danger when two unscrupulous detectives searching for a man's long-lost son claim that it is Mark.

  18. Episode 18: The Visitors

    Jan 26, 1960 · 30 min

    Lucas is drawn to a young widow passing through town on her way to claim an inheritance, but others who covet it are trying to kill her.

  19. Episode 19: The Hero

    Feb 2, 1960 · 30 min

    After a young stablehand kills a notorious gunslinger, he is baffled by the hostility of the townspeople about giving him the reward.

  20. Episode 20: The Horse Traders

    Feb 9, 1960 · 30 min

    When a horse dealer transporting a prize stallion stops in North Fork, two saddle tramps try to use trickery to obtain it.

  21. Episode 21: The Spoiler

    Feb 16, 1960 · 30 min

    An elderly couple moves to North Fork under an assumed name to hide the fact that they are the parents of a vicious killer. The plan backfires when the son shows up at their home.

  22. Episode 22: Heller

    Feb 23, 1960 · 30 min

    After foiling a girl's attempt to rob the general store, Lucas finds that she and her brother are plotting the murder of their abusive stepfather.

  23. Episode 23: The Grasshopper

    Mar 1, 1960 · 30 min

    A condemned killer being transported by train murders a marshal and takes Mark hostage.

  24. Episode 24: A Time for Singing

    Mar 8, 1960 · 30 min

    Mark discovers that the new preacher and his wife are impostors planning a robbery.

  25. Episode 25: The Deserter

    Mar 15, 1960 · 30 min

    Lucas and Marshal Torrance get into trouble with the Army when they try to help a wounded young soldier who deserted.

  26. Episode 26: The Vision

    Mar 22, 1960 · 30 min

    After Mark contracts typhoid fever and has a vision of his dead mother, he no longer seems interested in getting well.

  27. Episode 27: The Lariat

    Mar 29, 1960 · 30 min

    An old friend of Lucas's returns to town in the company of a shady gambler and is accused of cheating at cards.

  28. Episode 28: Smoke Screen

    Apr 5, 1960 · 30 min

    Several men are vying for a rancher's daughter's affections. When she is found dead, one of them becomes the prime suspect in her murder.

  29. Episode 29: Shotgun Man

    Apr 12, 1960 · 30 min

    Shotgun man John Beaumont, who Lucas sent to prison, returns with vengeance on his mind.

  30. Episode 30: Sins of the Father

    Apr 19, 1960 · 30 min

    After shooting a man in self-defense, Andy Moon turns to Lucas for protection from his vengeful brothers.

  31. Episode 31: The Prodigal

    Apr 26, 1960 · 30 min

    To keep his invalid mother happy, an outlaw forces Lucas and Mark to go along with a masquerade that he is the owner of Lucas's ranch.

  32. Episode 32: The Fourflusher

    May 3, 1960 · 30 min

    A sharecropper enters his colt in a horse race, hoping to win enough money to buy his farm from the owner, who has bet on Mark McCain's entry.

  33. Episode 33: The Jailbird

    May 10, 1960 · 30 min

    When Lucas hires an ex-con as a ranch hand, the man is the first one under suspicion when a robbery and murder occur in the area.

  34. Episode 34: Meeting at Midnight

    May 17, 1960 · 30 min

    Lucas helps his former Army captain, now an undercover federal agent, infiltrate a gang of bank robbers.

  35. Episode 35: Nora

    May 24, 1960 · 30 min

    Lucas finds himself involved in murder when he gallantly steps to the aid of a beautiful woman.

  36. Episode 36: The Hangman

    May 31, 1960 · 30 min

    An ex-convict is blamed for a brutal crime despite his claims of rehabilitation.

Season 334 ep. · 1960–1961
  1. Episode 1: Trail of Hate

    Sep 27, 1960 · 30 min

    Lucas is out for vengeance when Mark is used as a pawn in a bank robbery scheme.

  2. Episode 2: Woman From Hog Ridge

    Oct 4, 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. Episode 3: Seven

    Oct 11, 1960 · 30 min

    Seven condemned murderers escape and take over the town of North Fork.

  4. Episode 4: The Pitchman

    Sep 18, 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. Episode 5: Strange Town

    Oct 25, 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. Episode 6: Baranca

    Nov 1, 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. Episode 7: The Martinet

    Nov 8, 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. Episode 8: Miss Milly

    Nov 15, 1960 · 30 min

    A new store owner upsets the town by demanding that all credit accounts be paid off.

  9. Episode 9: Dead Cold Cash

    Nov 22, 1960 · 30 min

    The widow of a bandit killed by Lucas plots a grotesque revenge.

  10. Episode 10: The Schoolmaster

    Nov 29, 1960 · 30 min

    Mark and his friend become trapped in an old mine.

  11. Episode 11: The Promoter

    Dec 6, 1960 · 30 min

    A con man and his fast-gun friend come to North Fork. Lucas enters a target shooting contest.

  12. Episode 12: The Illustrator

    Dec 13, 1960 · 30 min

    Lucas encourages a drunken artist charged with murder to use his talents to identify the true killer.

  13. Episode 13: The Silent Knife

    Dec 20, 1960 · 30 min

    Lucas and Mark try to persuade a persecuted young mute to return stolen money.

  14. Episode 14: Miss Bertie

    Dec 27, 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. Episode 15: Six Years and a Day

    Jan 30, 1961 · 30 min

    A doctor seeks revenge on the man he blames for ruining his practice.

  16. Episode 16: Flowers by the Door

    Jan 10, 1961 · 30 min

    Lucas unmasks a killer posing as a door-to-door seed salesman.

  17. Episode 17: Long Trek

    Jan 17, 1961 · 30 min

    Lucas and Marshal Torrance run in trouble transporting a captured killer back to face trial.

  18. Episode 18: The Actress

    Jan 24, 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. Episode 19: Face of Yesterday

    Jan 31, 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. Episode 20: The Wyoming Story (1)

    Feb 7, 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. Episode 21: The Wyoming Story (2)

    Feb 14, 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. Episode 22: Closer than a Brother

    Feb 21, 1961 · 30 min

    Lucas looks for answers when recovering alcoholic Micah Torrence returns to the bottle—and turns in his badge.

  23. Episode 23: The Lost Treasure of Canyon Town

    Feb 28, 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. Episode 24: Dark Day at North Fork

    Mar 7, 1961 · 30 min

    Blinded in an explosion, Lucas fights despair as he prepares for a meeting with a gun-toting enemy.

  25. Episode 25: The Prisoner

    Mar 14, 1961 · 30 min

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

  26. Episode 26: Assault

    Mar 21, 1961 · 30 min

    A salesman can't talk his way out of an assault charge.

  27. Episode 27: Short Rope for a Tall Man

    Mar 28, 1961 · 30 min

    Lucas, accused of horse theft, struggles to clear himself before a lynch mob catches up.

  28. Episode 28: The Clarence Bibs Story

    Apr 4, 1961 · 30 min

    A janitor-turned-gunfighter whose reputation hangs on one lucky shot—and a lot of gall.

  29. Episode 29: The Score is Even

    Apr 11, 1961 · 30 min

    Lucas tries to get help when he is shot after witnessing a murder.

  30. Episode 30: The Mescalaro Curse

    Apr 18, 1961 · 30 min

    Lucas is marked for death: he was foreman of a jury that convicted an Apache.

  31. Episode 31: Stopover

    Apr 25, 1961 · 30 min

    Trouble brews at Lucas's when a whisky salesman and a gunfighter fall for the same woman.

  32. Episode 32: The Lonesome Bride

    May 2, 1961 · 30 min

    Two pranksters write away for a mail-order bride, using Lucas's name.

  33. Episode 33: Death Trap

    May 9, 1961 · 30 min

    Lucas recognizes Dr. Simon Battle as an ex-gunslinger with whom he once traded shots.

  34. Episode 34: The Queue

    May 16, 1961 · 30 min

    A Chinese man and his son fight prejudice as they try to open a laundry in North Fork.

Season 432 ep. · 1961–1962
  1. Episode 1: The Vaqueros

    Oct 2, 1961 · 30 min

    A bandit imprisons Lucas and Mark.

  2. Episode 2: First Wages

    Oct 9, 1961 · 30 min

    Lucas tries to find out why Mark has taken a job as a stableboy.

  3. Episode 3: Sheer Terror

    Sep 16, 1961 · 30 min

    Mark and Milly are held prisoner in her general store when two gunmen attempt a daring robbery.

  4. Episode 4: The Stand-In

    Oct 23, 1961 · 30 min

    Lucas is taken hostage by two prison wagon drivers angered that he won't give them more whiskey.

  5. Episode 5: The Journey Back

    Oct 30, 1961 · 30 min

    Mark goes to work for Will Temple, a badly scarred and very mysterious rancher.

  6. Episode 6: The Decision

    Nov 6, 1961 · 30 min

    Corey Hazlett insists he's innocent of murder, despite Lucas's eyewitness testimony.

  7. Episode 7: Knight Errant

    Nov 13, 1961 · 30 min

    Lucas tries to dissuade a latter-day knight from rushing into battle.

  8. Episode 8: Honest Abe

    Nov 20, 1961 · 30 min

    Able Lincoln's claim that he's the Great Emancipator himself amuses everyone except Matt Yorty.

  9. Episode 9: The Long Goodbye

    Nov 27, 1961 · 30 min

    Stubborn Grandpa Fogarty is Lucas's main roadblock as he tries to get young Woody Fogarty to attend school.

  10. Episode 10: The Shattered Idol

    Dec 4, 1961 · 30 min

    Mark Twain visits Southfork, and quickly alienates the townspeople.

  11. Episode 11: Long Gun From Tucson

    Dec 11, 1961 · 30 min

    Lucas tries to stop embittered John Holliver from venting his wrath on the people who expelled him from town years before.

  12. Episode 12: The High Country

    Dec 18, 1961 · 30 min

    Lucas becomes the target of a vengeful mountaineer.

  13. Episode 13: A Friend in Need

    Dec 25, 1961 · 30 min

    Mark finds himself the unwilling companion of gunman Carl Avery.

  14. Episode 14: Skull

    Jan 1, 1962 · 30 min

    Lucas seeks an escape when he's captured by outlaws while seeking help for an injured Mark.

  15. Episode 15: The Princess

    Jan 8, 1962 · 30 min

    The Queen-to-be of France hides out in Northfork.

  16. Episode 16: Gunfire

    Jan 15, 1962 · 30 min

    When an expected lawman doesn't arrive from Denver, several gunfighters arrive in North Fork and cause trouble.

  17. Episode 17: The Quiet Fear

    Jan 22, 1962 · 30 min

    Lucas's old Army pal settles in North Fork with his deaf daughter.

  18. Episode 18: Sporting Chance

    Jan 29, 1962 · 30 min

    An Englishman arrives with a custom-made rifle—and a plan to kill Lucas.

  19. Episode 19: A Young Man's Fancy

    Feb 5, 1962 · 30 min

    The pangs of first love are painful for Mark: the object of his affections has eyes for another.

  20. Episode 20: The Man from Salinas

    Feb 12, 1962 · 30 min

    Banker Hamilton is closing up for the day when Rudy Gray persuades him to stay open for one more transaction - a withdrawal at gunpoint.

  21. Episode 21: Two Ounces of Tin

    Feb 19, 1962 · 30 min

    Sammy Davis Jr. stars as Tip Corey, son of a man allegedly murdered in North Fork.

  22. Episode 22: Deadly Image

    Feb 26, 1962 · 30 min

    A reliable eye-witness rides into North Fork and accuses Lucas McCain of cattle rustling and cold-blooded murder.

  23. Episode 23: The Debt

    Mar 5, 1962 · 30 min

    Mark learns that the prisoner Micah is escorting to the gallows is the man that saved his life three years previously.

  24. Episode 24: The Tinhorn

    Mar 12, 1962 · 30 min

    Mark is shocked when he discovers that his father is a poker player.

  25. Episode 25: None So Blind

    Mar 19, 1962 · 30 min

    Mark befriends singer-banjoist Lafayette Bly, a blind man with an acute sense of hearing—and a very strong grip.

  26. Episode 26: Jealous Man

    Mar 26, 1962 · 30 min

  27. Episode 27: Guilty Conscience

    Apr 2, 1962 · 30 min

    No one's more surprised than Micah when newcomer Leota Carraway claims he's her long-lost husband and the father of her child.

  28. Episode 28: Day of Reckoning

    Apr 9, 1962 · 30 min

    Lucas is torn by conflicting emotions when he meets the town's new preacher—a former outlaw whom the Rifleman vowed to kill.

  29. Episode 29: The Day the Town Slept

    Apr 16, 1962 · 30 min

    The town of North Fork becomes a haven for outlaws when suave Ben Judson smooth-talks his way into the marshal's job.

  30. Episode 30: Milly's Brother

    Apr 23, 1962 · 30 min

    A veteran returns with tales of heroism and the fate of Milly's brother in the Civil War.

  31. Episode 31: Outlaw's Shoes

    Apr 30, 1962 · 30 min

    A head wound wipes out Lucas's memory, leaving him with only one clue: he's wearing an outlaw's gun.

  32. Episode 32: The Executioner

    May 7, 1962 · 30 min

Season 526 ep. · 1962–1963
  1. Episode 1: Waste (1)

    Oct 1, 1962 · 30 min

    Marshal 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)

  2. Episode 2: Waste (2)

    Oct 8, 1962 · 30 min

    Conclusion. After Alphonso's wife gives birth, the bandits holding Marshal Torrance relax their guard, enabling Lucas and Mark to rescue the old man.

  3. Episode 3: Lou Mallory

    Oct 15, 1962 · 30 min

    Red-headed Lou Mallory arrives in North Fork and soon arouses the townpeople's suspicions.

  4. Episode 4: Quiet Night, Deadly Night

    Oct 22, 1962 · 30 min

    Townspeople brace for the worst when a new girl arrives—with symptoms of smallpox.

  5. Episode 5: Death Never Rides Alone

    Oct 29, 1962 · 30 min

    A gunslinger rides into North Fork for a meeting with Lucas.

  6. Episode 6: I Take This Woman

    Nov 5, 1962 · 30 min

    Lou looks for a way out when the man her dying father promised her to arrives.

  7. Episode 7: The Assailants

    Nov 12, 1962 · 30 min

    An assassination plot unfolds as four gunmen disguised as cavalrymen enter North Fork. Their target: Sen. Jim Borden. Their weapon: a Gatling gun.

  8. Episode 8: Mark's Rifle

    Nov 19, 1962 · 30 min

    Sharpshooter Marty Blair tries to persuade Lucas to buy Mark a rifle.

  9. Episode 9: The Most Amazing Man

    Nov 26, 1962 · 30 min

    Fast-draw artist Wade Randall is less than anxious to display his prowess.

  10. Episode 10: Squeeze Play

    Dec 3, 1962 · 30 min

    A speculator will stop at nothing to grab Lucas's land.

  11. Episode 11: Gun Shy

    Dec 10, 1962 · 30 min

    Mark blames himself for a friend's accidental death.

  12. Episode 12: The Anvil Chorus

    Dec 17, 1962 · 30 min

    A blacksmith-turned-deputy sets the stage for trouble when he demands that all townspeople turn in their weapons.

  13. Episode 13: Conflict

    Dec 24, 1962 · 30 min

    Lucas's self-confidence begins to slip away when he misses an easy shot.

  14. Episode 14: Incident at Line Shack Six

    Jan 7, 1963 · 30 min

    A railroad gang boss frames an Apache.

  15. Episode 15: Suspicion

    Jan 14, 1963 · 30 min

    A peddler is implicated in a series of murders.

  16. Episode 16: The Sidewinder

    Jan 21, 1963 · 30 min

    Gridley Mau is gunning for Lucas, who killed his father during an attempted robbery.

  17. Episode 17: The Sixteenth Cousin

    Jan 28, 1962 · 30 min

    A Japanese nobleman seeks revenge when his servant is insulted.

  18. Episode 18: Hostages to Fortune

    Feb 4, 1963 · 30 min

    At Halloween, rustlers take advantage of the seasonal disguises to raid a cattle ranch.

  19. Episode 19: And the Devil Makes Five

    Feb 11, 1963 · 30 min

    A snake crawls into Lucas's bed, and Mark must lure it away before it strikes.

  20. Episode 20: End of the Hunt

    Feb 18, 1963 · 30 min

    Lucas is thrown into jail to stop him from murdering an old enemy.

  21. Episode 21: The Bullet

    Feb 25, 1963 · 30 min

    Lucas is baffled when the marshal of a neighboring town refuses to hold a gambler who just attempted murder.

  22. Episode 22: Requiem at Mission Springs

    Mar 4, 1963 · 30 min

    Lucas begins a trek to find a cure for Mark, who is paralyzed after a bad fall.

  23. Episode 23: The Guest

    Mar 11, 1963 · 30 min

    New 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.

  24. Episode 24: Old Man Running (aka The Wanted Man)

    Mar 18, 1963 · 30 min

    Lucas, who blames his wife's death on his father-in-law, refuses to help the old man elude gunmen.

  25. Episode 25: Which Way'd They Go?

    Apr 1, 1963 · 30 min

    The notoriously lazy Jackman brothers discover their mortgage has been foreclosed.

  26. Episode 26: Old Tony

    Apr 8, 1963 · 30 min

    Mark and his girlfriend Laurie discover that an old hermit is very lonely.