- 6.3/10157 votesLoading...
#1 - Which Way'd They Go?
Season 5 Episode 25 - Aired 4/1/1963
The notoriously lazy Jackman brothers discover their mortgage has been foreclosed.
Director: Arthur H. Nadel
Writer: N/A
- 7.3/10160 votesLoading...
#2 - The Baby Sitter
Season 2 Episode 12 - Aired 12/15/1959
A dance hall singer asks Lucas to care for her daughter in an effort to hide the baby from her self-righteous, bigoted father.
Director: Sam Peckinpah
Writer: Sam Peckinpah
- 7.3/10118 votesLoading...
#3 - Assault
Season 3 Episode 26 - Aired 3/21/1961
A salesman can't talk his way out of an assault charge.
Director: Ida Lupino
Writer: N/A
- 7.4/10157 votesLoading...
#4 - Day of the Hunter
Season 2 Episode 15 - Aired 1/5/1960
A famous buffalo hunter tries to goad Lucas into a shooting match.
Director: Joseph H. Lewis
Writer: N/A
- 7.4/10116 votesLoading...
#5 - The Executioner
Season 4 Episode 32 - Aired 5/7/1962
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Director: Lawrence Dobkin
Writer: N/A
- 7.4/10112 votesLoading...
#6 - Conflict
Season 5 Episode 13 - Aired 12/24/1962
Lucas's self-confidence begins to slip away when he misses an easy shot.
Director: Arthur H. Nadel
Writer: Ed Adamson
- 7.5/10120 votesLoading...
#7 - I Take This Woman
Season 5 Episode 6 - Aired 11/5/1962
Lou looks for a way out when the man her dying father promised her to arrives.
Director: Joseph H. Lewis
Writer: N/A
- 7.5/10138 votesLoading...
#8 - The Sixteenth Cousin
Season 5 Episode 17 - Aired 1/28/1962
A Japanese nobleman seeks revenge when his servant is insulted.
Director: Arthur H. Nadel
Writer: N/A
- 7.6/10136 votesLoading...
#9 - Eddie's Daughter
Season 2 Episode 6 - Aired 11/3/1959
After the daughter of Lucas's friend the hotel clerk arrives in North Fork, two strangers threaten her life.
Director: Joseph H. Lewis
Writer: N/A
- 7.6/10124 votesLoading...
#12 - The Martinet
Season 3 Episode 7 - Aired 11/8/1960
A former army captain comes to North Fork to kill the man who shot down his son in a gunfight - Lucas McCain.
Director: Joseph H. Lewis
Writer: N/A
- 7.6/10114 votesLoading...
#13 - The Illustrator
Season 3 Episode 12 - Aired 12/13/1960
Lucas encourages a drunken artist charged with murder to use his talents to identify the true killer.
Director: Don Medford
Writer: N/A
- 7.6/10122 votesLoading...
#14 - The Lost Treasure of Canyon Town
Season 3 Episode 23 - Aired 2/28/1961
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.
Director: Don Taylor
Writer: N/A
- 7.6/10108 votesLoading...
#15 - Sporting Chance
Season 4 Episode 18 - Aired 1/29/1962
An Englishman arrives with a custom-made rifle—and a plan to kill Lucas.
Director: Gene Nelson
Writer: N/A
- 7.6/10112 votesLoading...
#16 - Hostages to Fortune
Season 5 Episode 18 - Aired 2/4/1963
At Halloween, rustlers take advantage of the seasonal disguises to raid a cattle ranch.
Director: Arthur H. Nadel
Writer: N/A
- 7.7/10173 votesLoading...
#17 - Shivaree
Season 1 Episode 19 - Aired 2/3/1959
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 and the two claimed to be headed to Yuma to get married, Pelser and his crowd force them to be married in North Fork. The wagon train folks want to throw a shivaree, which may have been innocent enough except for two reasons. The first reason being that the couple does not count it as their wedding because they want to be wed by the groom's father in Yuma. The second reason is that Chet Packard keeps pushing things too far, beyond the spirit of a friendly shivaree.
Director: Joseph H. Lewis
Writer: N/A
- 7.7/10152 votesLoading...
#18 - Outlaw'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
- 7.7/10136 votesLoading...
#19 - The Legacy
Season 2 Episode 11 - Aired 12/8/1959
Lucas tries to do a good deed for the old town drunk but it backfires when the drunk's son believes he inherited Lucas' ranch.
Director: Bernard L. Kowalski
Writer: N/A
- 7.7/10171 votesLoading...
#20 - Mail Order Groom
Season 2 Episode 16 - Aired 1/12/1960
When a stranger arrives to marry the town spinster, two brothers who want her land try to discourage him with threats and a beating.
Director: Arthur Hiller
Writer: N/A
- 7.7/10123 votesLoading...
#21 - Smoke Screen
Season 2 Episode 28 - Aired 4/5/1960
Several men are vying for a rancher's daughter's affections. When she is found dead, one of them becomes the prime suspect in her murder.
Director: N/A
Writer: N/A
- 7.7/10129 votesLoading...
#22 - Six Years and a Day
Season 3 Episode 15 - Aired 1/30/1961
A doctor seeks revenge on the man he blames for ruining his practice.
Director: N/A
Writer: N/A
- 7.7/10124 votesLoading...
#23 - Knight Errant
Season 4 Episode 7 - Aired 11/13/1961
Lucas tries to dissuade a latter-day knight from rushing into battle.
Director: Gene Nelson
Writer: Ed Adamson
- 7.7/10140 votesLoading...
#24 - The Shattered Idol
Season 4 Episode 10 - Aired 12/4/1961
Mark Twain visits Southfork, and quickly alienates the townspeople.
Director: Joseph H. Lewis
Writer: N/A
- 7.7/10127 votesLoading...
#25 - The Princess
Season 4 Episode 15 - Aired 1/8/1962
The Queen-to-be of France hides out in Northfork.
Director: Robert Butler
Writer: N/A
The Worst Episodes of The Rifleman
Every episode of The Rifleman ranked from worst to best. Explore the Worst 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...
Genres:Action & AdventureWesternFamily
Network:ABC
Worst Episodes Summary
"Which Way'd They Go?" is the worst rated episode of "The Rifleman". It scored 6.3/10 based on 157 votes. Directed by Arthur H. Nadel and written by N/A, it aired on 4/1/1963. This episode scored 1.0 points lower than the second lowest rated, "The Baby Sitter".