

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.


Sep 27, 1960 - 30m
Lucas is out for vengeance when Mark is used as a pawn in a bank robbery scheme.

Oct 4, 1960 - 30m
Lucas shoots a horse thief who turns out to be a member of the Boyle clan, and now Ma Boyle is after him.

Oct 11, 1960 - 30m
Seven condemned murderers escape and take over the town of North Fork.

Sep 18, 1960 - 30m
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.

Oct 25, 1960 - 30m
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.

Nov 1, 1960 - 30m
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.

Nov 8, 1960 - 30m
A former army captain comes to North Fork to kill the man who shot down his son in a gunfight - Lucas McCain.

Nov 15, 1960 - 30m
A new store owner upsets the town by demanding that all credit accounts be paid off.

Nov 22, 1960 - 30m
The widow of a bandit killed by Lucas plots a grotesque revenge.

Nov 29, 1960 - 30m
Mark and his friend become trapped in an old mine.

Dec 6, 1960 - 30m
A con man and his fast-gun friend come to North Fork. Lucas enters a target shooting contest.

Dec 13, 1960 - 30m
Lucas encourages a drunken artist charged with murder to use his talents to identify the true killer.

Dec 20, 1960 - 30m
Lucas and Mark try to persuade a persecuted young mute to return stolen money.

Dec 27, 1960 - 30m
A lively old lady arrives in town hot on the trail of a notorious bandit—and the reward money for capturing him.

Jan 30, 1961 - 30m
A doctor seeks revenge on the man he blames for ruining his practice.

Jan 10, 1961 - 30m
Lucas unmasks a killer posing as a door-to-door seed salesman.

Jan 17, 1961 - 30m
Lucas and Marshal Torrance run in trouble transporting a captured killer back to face trial.

Jan 24, 1961 - 30m
A deathbed request from an old friend sends Lucas to a neighboring town in search of the man's long-lost sweetheart.

Jan 31, 1961 - 30m
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.

Feb 7, 1961 - 30m
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)

Feb 14, 1961 - 30m
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)

Feb 21, 1961 - 30m
Lucas looks for answers when recovering alcoholic Micah Torrence returns to the bottle—and turns in his badge.

Feb 28, 1961 - 30m
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.

Mar 7, 1961 - 30m
Blinded in an explosion, Lucas fights despair as he prepares for a meeting with a gun-toting enemy.

Mar 14, 1961 - 30m
Two ex-Confederate officers seek revenge on Lucas, who served as prison guard during their internment.

Mar 21, 1961 - 30m
A salesman can't talk his way out of an assault charge.

Mar 28, 1961 - 30m
Lucas, accused of horse theft, struggles to clear himself before a lynch mob catches up.

Apr 4, 1961 - 30m
A janitor-turned-gunfighter whose reputation hangs on one lucky shot—and a lot of gall.

Apr 11, 1961 - 30m
Lucas tries to get help when he is shot after witnessing a murder.

Apr 18, 1961 - 30m
Lucas is marked for death: he was foreman of a jury that convicted an Apache.

Apr 25, 1961 - 30m
Trouble brews at Lucas's when a whisky salesman and a gunfighter fall for the same woman.

May 2, 1961 - 30m
Two pranksters write away for a mail-order bride, using Lucas's name.

May 9, 1961 - 30m
Lucas recognizes Dr. Simon Battle as an ex-gunslinger with whom he once traded shots.

May 16, 1961 - 30m
A Chinese man and his son fight prejudice as they try to open a laundry in North Fork.