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The Best Episodes of The Rifleman

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The Best Episodes of 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...

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  1. Background image for Home Ranch
    10.0/10(1 votes)

    #1 - Home Ranch

    S1:E2

    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.

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    Director:Unknown
  2. Background image for Death Trap
    8.6/10(161 votes)

    #2 - Death Trap

    S3:E33

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

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    Director:Unknown
    Writer:Unknown
  3. Background image for Face of Yesterday
    8.5/10(173 votes)

    #3 - Face of Yesterday

    S3:E19

    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.

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    Writer:Unknown
  4. Background image for Stopover
    8.5/10(189 votes)

    #4 - Stopover

    S3:E31

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

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    Writer:Unknown
  5. Background image for Woman From Hog Ridge
    8.4/10(159 votes)

    #5 - Woman From Hog Ridge

    S3:E2

    Lucas shoots a horse thief who turns out to be a member of the Boyle clan, and now Ma Boyle is after him.

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    Writer:Unknown
  6. Background image for Dead Cold Cash
    8.4/10(137 votes)

    #6 - Dead Cold Cash

    S3:E9

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

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    Director:Unknown
    Writer:Unknown
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  8. Background image for The Wyoming Story (2)
    8.4/10(148 votes)

    #7 - The Wyoming Story (2)

    S3:E21

    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)

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    Writer:Unknown
  9. Background image for Closer than a Brother
    8.4/10(154 votes)

    #8 - Closer than a Brother

    S3:E22

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

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  10. Background image for The Wyoming Story (1)
    8.3/10(150 votes)

    #9 - The Wyoming Story (1)

    S3:E20

    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)

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    Writer:Unknown
  11. Background image for The Clarence Bibs Story
    8.3/10(140 votes)

    #10 - The Clarence Bibs Story

    S3:E28

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

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    Writer:Unknown
  12. Background image for Baranca
    8.2/10(158 votes)

    #11 - Baranca

    S3:E6

    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.

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    Writer:Unknown
  13. Background image for Short Rope for a Tall Man
    8.2/10(107 votes)

    #12 - Short Rope for a Tall Man

    S3:E27

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

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    Director:Unknown
    Writer:Tom Gries
  14. Background image for The Silent Knife
    8.1/10(145 votes)

    #13 - The Silent Knife

    S3:E13

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

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    Director:Don Medford
    Writer:Unknown
  15. Background image for Flowers by the Door
    8.1/10(154 votes)

    #14 - Flowers by the Door

    S3:E16

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

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    Writer:Unknown
  16. Background image for The Mescalaro Curse
    8.1/10(127 votes)

    #15 - The Mescalaro Curse

    S3:E30

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

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    Director:Jesse Hibbs
    Writer:Unknown
  17. Background image for The Queue
    8.1/10(141 votes)

    #16 - The Queue

    S3:E34

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

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    Director:James Clavell
    Writer:Unknown
  18. Background image for Trail of Hate
    8.0/10(144 votes)

    #17 - Trail of Hate

    S3:E1

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

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    Writer:Unknown
  19. Background image for Miss Bertie
    8.0/10(167 votes)

    #18 - Miss Bertie

    S3:E14

    A lively old lady arrives in town hot on the trail of a notorious bandit—and the reward money for capturing him.

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    Director:James Clavell
    Writer:Unknown
  20. Background image for Dark Day at North Fork
    8.0/10(127 votes)

    #19 - Dark Day at North Fork

    S3:E24

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

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    Director:Unknown
    Writer:Unknown
  21. Background image for Miss Milly
    7.9/10(156 votes)

    #20 - Miss Milly

    S3:E8

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

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    Writer:Unknown
  22. Background image for The Promoter
    7.9/10(142 votes)

    #21 - The Promoter

    S3:E11

    Lucas and Mark attempt to reform a con-man.

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    Director:Unknown
    Writer:Unknown
  23. Background image for Long Trek
    7.9/10(134 votes)

    #22 - Long Trek

    S3:E17

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

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    Writer:Unknown
  24. Background image for The Prisoner
    7.9/10(123 votes)

    #23 - The Prisoner

    S3:E25

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

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    Writer:Unknown
  25. Background image for The Lonesome Bride
    7.9/10(148 votes)

    #24 - The Lonesome Bride

    S3:E32

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

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    Director:Otto Lang
    Writer:Unknown
  26. Background image for Seven
    7.8/10(133 votes)

    #25 - Seven

    S3:E3

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

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    Director:Ted Post
    Writer:Unknown

Best Episodes Summary

"Home Ranch" is the best rated episode of "The Rifleman". It scored 10/10 based on 1 votes. Directed by Unknown and written by Sam Peckinpah, it aired on 10/7/1958. This episode scored 1.4 points higher than the second highest rated, "Death Trap".