The Best Episodes of The Rifleman Season 4

A bandit imprisons Lucas and Mark.

Director: Joseph H. Lewis

Writer: N/A

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

Director: Gene Nelson

Writer: Ed Adamson

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

Director: Joseph H. Lewis

Writer: N/A

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

Director: Joseph H. Lewis

Writer: N/A

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

Director: Joseph H. Lewis

Writer: Herman Groves

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

Director: Gene Nelson

Writer: Ed Adamson

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

Director: Gene Nelson

Writer: Ed Adamson

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

Director: Joseph H. Lewis

Writer: N/A

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

Director: Gene Nelson

Writer: N/A

Mark Twain visits Southfork, and quickly alienates the townspeople.

Director: Joseph H. Lewis

Writer: N/A

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

Director: Joseph H. Lewis

Writer: N/A

Lucas becomes the target of a vengeful mountaineer.

Director: Gene Nelson

Writer: N/A

Mark finds himself the unwilling companion of gunman Carl Avery.

Director: Gene Nelson

Writer: N/A

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

Director: William Claxton

Writer: N/A

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

Director: Robert Butler

Writer: N/A

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

Director: Richard Donner

Writer: N/A

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

Director: Gene Nelson

Writer: N/A

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

Director: Gene Nelson

Writer: N/A

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

Director: Joseph H. Lewis

Writer: N/A

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

Director: Lawrence Dobkin

Writer: N/A

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

Director: N/A

Writer: N/A

Lucas has double trouble: his lookalike is tearing up the town.

Director: Richard Donner

Writer: N/A

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

Director: Richard Donner

Writer: N/A

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

Director: Lawrence Dobkin

Writer: Paul Mazursky

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

Director: N/A

Writer: Cyril Hume