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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,
Season 1
10.0/10362 votesHome Ranch
Season 1 Episode 2 - Aired 10/7/1958
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 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.
Director: Unknown
Writer: Sam Peckinpah
N/A/10525 votesThe Sharpshooter
Season 1 Episode 1 - Aired 9/30/1958
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 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.
Director: Arnold Laven
Writer: Sam Peckinpah
N/A/10348 votesEnd of a Young Gun
Season 1 Episode 3 - Aired 10/14/1958
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 the one he's been leading. He's met a girl and grows tired of a life on the run.
Director: Jerry Hopper
Writer: Frank D. Gilroy
N/A/10354 votesThe Marshal
Season 1 Episode 4 - Aired 10/21/1958
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 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.
Director: Sam Peckinpah
Writer: Sam Peckinpah
N/A/10256 votesDuel of Honor
Season 1 Episode 7 - Aired 11/11/1958
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 currency, mocks him, and tries to humiliate him. Eventually, the Count challenges Groder to a duel and asks Lucas to be his Second.
Director: Joseph H. Lewis
Writer: Ken Kolb
N/A/10251 votesThe Safe Guard
Season 1 Episode 8 - Aired 10/18/1958
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. 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.
Director: Joseph H. Lewis
Writer: David Swift
N/A/10264 votesThe Sister
Season 1 Episode 9 - Aired 11/25/1958
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.
Director: Montgomery Pittman
Writer: Montgomery Pittman
N/A/10227 votesNew Orleans Menace
Season 1 Episode 10 - Aired 12/26/1958
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 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.
Director: Unknown
Writer: Cyril Hume
N/A/10222 votesThe Apprentice Sheriff
Season 1 Episode 11 - Aired 12/9/1958
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.
Director: Arthur Hiller
Writer: Unknown
N/A/10238 votesYoung Englishman
Season 1 Episode 12 - Aired 12/16/1958
Lucas accuses the young foreman of a neighboring ranch of rustling one of his calves.
Director: David Swift
Writer: Samuel A. Peeples
N/A/10217 votesThe Angry Gun
Season 1 Episode 13 - Aired 12/23/1958
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.
Director: David Swift
Writer: Samuel A. Peeples
N/A/10222 votesThe Gaucho
Season 1 Episode 14 - Aired 12/30/1958
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”.
Director: Jerry Hopper
Writer: Bruce Geller
N/A/10190 votesThe Pet
Season 1 Episode 15 - Aired 1/6/1959
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 he died. Later, Haskins rides out to the ranch and is bitten by Flecker's horse, which is now believed to have anthrax.
Director: Joseph H. Lewis
Writer: Unknown
N/A/10312 votesThe Sheridan Story
Season 1 Episode 16 - Aired 1/13/1959
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.
Director: Unknown
Writer: Cyril Hume
N/A/10210 votesThe Retired Gun
Season 1 Episode 17 - Aired 1/20/1959
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 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.
Director: Unknown
Writer: Unknown
- N/A/10210 votes
The Photographer
Season 1 Episode 18 - Aired 1/27/1959
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 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.
Director: Unknown
Writer: Unknown
- N/A/10219 votes
Shivaree
Season 1 Episode 19 - Aired 2/3/1959
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.
Director: Joseph H. Lewis
Writer: Unknown
- N/A/10196 votes
The Deadeye Kid
Season 1 Episode 20 - Aired 2/10/1959
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.
Director: Jerry Hopper
Writer: Unknown
- N/A/10224 votes
The Indian
Season 1 Episode 21 - Aired 2/17/1959
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.
Director: Unknown
Writer: Cyril Hume
- N/A/10220 votes
The Boarding House
Season 1 Episode 22 - Aired 2/24/1959
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.
Director: Sam Peckinpah
Writer: Unknown
- N/A/10201 votes
The Second Witness
Season 1 Episode 23 - Aired 3/30/1959
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.
Director: Lewis Allen
Writer: George W. George
- N/A/10186 votes
The Trade
Season 1 Episode 24 - Aired 3/10/1959
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.
Director: Joseph H. Lewis
Writer: Unknown
- N/A/10180 votes
One Went to Denver
Season 1 Episode 25 - Aired 3/17/1959
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.
Director: Lewis Allen
Writer: Unknown
- N/A/10200 votes
The Deadly Wait
Season 1 Episode 26 - Aired 3/24/1959
Dan Nowry, released from Yuma prison, arrives in North Fork intent on getting even with Marshal Torrance,who helped send him to jail.
Director: Joseph H. Lewis
Writer: Unknown
- N/A/10208 votes
The Challenge
Season 1 Episode 28 - Aired 4/7/1959
When escaped convicts hold up the general store in North Fork and take Marshal Torrance hostage, Lucas comes to the rescue.
Director: Lewis Allen
Writer: Unknown
- N/A/10184 votes
The Hawk
Season 1 Episode 29 - Aired 4/14/1959
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.
Director: Lamont Johnson
Writer: Unknown
- N/A/10194 votes
Three-Legged Terror
Season 1 Episode 30 - Aired 4/21/1959
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.
Director: William Conrad
Writer: Palmer Thompson
- N/A/10205 votes
The Angry Man
Season 1 Episode 31 - Aired 4/28/1959
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 gone too far when he won't allow his injured boy to get medical treatment.
Director: Jerry Hopper
Writer: Unknown
- N/A/10205 votes
The Money Gun
Season 1 Episode 33 - Aired 5/12/1959
When his employer begins to suspect him of embezzlement, bookkeeper Asa Manning decides to hire a professional gunman to take care of the problem.
Director: Sam Peckinpah
Writer: Sam Peckinpah, Bruce Geller
- N/A/10176 votes
A Matter of Faith
Season 1 Episode 34 - Aired 5/19/1959
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.
Director: Don Taylor
Writer: Unknown
- N/A/10165 votes
Stranger at Night
Season 1 Episode 36 - Aired 6/20/1959
Mark's finding of the body of a murder victim starts Lucas, his friend Artemus, and Marshal Torrance on a search for the killer.
Director: Lewis Allen
Writer: Unknown
N/A/10188 votesOutlaw's Inheritance
Season 1 Episode 38 - Aired 6/16/1959
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.
Director: Don Taylor
Writer: George W. George, Judy George
N/A/10190 votesBoomerang
Season 1 Episode 39 - Aired 6/23/1959
When a rancher dies after the bank forecloses the mortgage on his property, his son blames the banker for his father's death.
Director: Joseph H. Lewis
Writer: Unknown
- N/A/10198 votes
The Mind Reader
Season 1 Episode 40 - Aired 6/30/1959
When a wealthy rancher is killed, Mark suggests that they seek the aid of a mind reader to identify the murderer.
Director: Don Medford
Writer: Robert C. Dennis
