The Rifleman

  • Premiered: Sep 1958
  • Episodes: 168
  • Followers: 9
  • Ended
  • ABC (US)
  • Unknown
  • Action Adventure Family Western

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Season 1
1x1
The Sharpshooter
Episode overview
Air date
Sep 30, 1958
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 .. show full overview
1x2
Home Ranch
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Air date
Oct 07, 1958
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 .. show full overview
1x3
End of a Young Gun
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Air date
Oct 14, 1958
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 .. show full overview
1x8
The Safe Guard
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Air date
Oct 18, 1958
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. .. show full overview
1x4
The Marshal
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Air date
Oct 21, 1958
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 .. show full overview
1x5
The Brother-in-Law
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Oct 28, 1958
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. .. show full overview
1x6
Eight Hours to Die
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Nov 04, 1958
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. When Judge Burton discovers that Lucas has .. show full overview
1x7
Duel of Honor
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Air date
Nov 11, 1958
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 .. show full overview
1x9
The Sister
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Air date
Nov 25, 1958
Rebecca Snipe is returning to North Fork after a long visit away. Before her stage left, she over hears a man saying he's going to North Fork to kill a big man with a big mouth. Upon .. show full overview
1x11
The Apprentice Sheriff
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Air date
Dec 09, 1958
Dan Willard is filling in as temporary marshal while Micah is away. Some Texas cowhands are in North Fork looking for some fun and relaxation, but Dan keeps coming down hard on them. .. show full overview
1x12
The Angry Gun
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Air date
Dec 16, 1958
Lucas and Mark, returning from selling their herd, share the stagecoach trip with a Marshal and his prisoner, Johnny Cotton. Johnny's gang arrives to free their partner and steal the .. show full overview
1x13
Young Englishman
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Air date
Dec 23, 1958
Lucas gets in trouble when he accuses the foreman of a neighboring ranch of rustling some of his cattle.
1x10
New Orleans Menace
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Air date
Dec 26, 1958
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 .. show full overview
1x14
The Gaucho
Episode overview
Air date
Dec 30, 1958
Rumson, without even saying to whom he had sold his property, left the bill of sale with the bank and moved away from North Fork. Curge, who's highest offer was upped by $1,000.00 is .. show full overview
1x15
The Pet
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Jan 06, 1959
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 .. show full overview
1x16
The Sheridan Story
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Jan 13, 1959
Frank Blandon, a man with only one good arm, wanders on to the ranch. Lucas gave Blandon a job to "hire him and Mark a clear conscience". General Sheridan and his patrol wandered by and .. show full overview
1x17
The Retired Gun
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Jan 20, 1959
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 .. show full overview
1x18
The Photographer
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Air date
Jan 27, 1959
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 Col. Whiteside and his sidekick Jamison, .. show full overview
1x19
Shivaree
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Air date
Feb 03, 1959
Aaron Pelser's wagon train came across a pair of young boys on a buck board heading west and invited them to join the train. When he found out that one of the boys was actually a girl .. show full overview
1x20
The Deadeye Kid
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Air date
Feb 10, 1959
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.
1x21
The Indian
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Air date
Feb 17, 1959
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.
1x22
The Boarding House
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Air date
Feb 24, 1959
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.
1x24
The Trade
Episode overview
Air date
Mar 10, 1959
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.
1x25
One Went to Denver
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Air date
Mar 17, 1959
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.
1x26
The Deadly Wait
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Mar 24, 1959
Dan Nowry, released from Yuma prison, arrives in North Fork intent on getting even with Marshal Torrance,who helped send him to jail.
1x23
The Second Witness
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Air date
Mar 30, 1959
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.
1x27
The Wrong Man
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Air date
Mar 31, 1959
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.
1x28
The Challenge
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Air date
Apr 07, 1959
When escaped convicts hold up the general store in North Fork and take Marshal Torrance hostage, Lucas comes to the rescue.
1x29
The Hawk
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Air date
Apr 14, 1959
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.
1x30
Three-Legged Terror
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Air date
Apr 21, 1959
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.
1x31
The Angry Man
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Air date
Apr 28, 1959
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 .. show full overview
1x32
The Woman
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May 05, 1959
An unfounded rumor causes North Fork's outspoken feminist schoolteacher to be attacked by a mob of angry townspeople.
1x33
The Money Gun
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Air date
May 12, 1959
When his employer begins to suspect him of embezzlement, bookkeeper Asa Manning decides to hire a professional gunman to take care of the problem.
1x34
A Matter of Faith
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Air date
May 19, 1959
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.
1x35
Blood Brothers
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Air date
May 26, 1959
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.
1x37
The Raid
Episode overview
Air date
Jun 09, 1959
When renegade Apaches wound Lucas and kidnap Mark, Marshal Torrance joins with U.S. Marshal Sam Buckhart to form a rescue posse.
1x38
Outlaw's Inheritance
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Air date
Jun 16, 1959
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.
1x36
Stranger at Night
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Air date
Jun 20, 1959
Mark's finding of the body of a murder victim starts Lucas, his friend Artemus, and Marshal Torrance on a search for the killer.
1x39
Boomerang
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Air date
Jun 23, 1959
When a rancher dies after the bank forecloses the mortgage on his property, his son blames the banker for his father's death.
1x40 Season finale
The Mind Reader
Episode overview
Air date
Jun 30, 1959
When a wealthy rancher is killed, Mark suggests that they seek the aid of a mind reader to identify the murderer.

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