The Worst Episodes of The Rifleman

The notoriously lazy Jackman brothers discover their mortgage has been foreclosed.

Director: Arthur H. Nadel

Writer: N/A

Lucas's self-confidence begins to slip away when he misses an easy shot.

Director: Arthur H. Nadel

Writer: Ed Adamson

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

A salesman can't talk his way out of an assault charge.

Director: Ida Lupino

Writer: N/A

A famous buffalo hunter tries to goad Lucas into a shooting match.

Director: Joseph H. Lewis

Writer: N/A

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

Director: Gene Nelson

Writer: N/A

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Director: Lawrence Dobkin

Writer: N/A

Lucas encourages a drunken artist charged with murder to use his talents to identify the true killer.

Director: Don Medford

Writer: N/A

Lou looks for a way out when the man her dying father promised her to arrives.

Director: Joseph H. Lewis

Writer: N/A

A Japanese nobleman seeks revenge when his servant is insulted.

Director: Arthur H. Nadel

Writer: N/A

New arrival Mario Arsatti becomes very friendly with Lucas, but this turns out to be merely pleasure before business: he's been hired to kill Lucas.

Director: Joseph H. Lewis

Writer: Ed Adamson

Mark discovers that the new preacher and his wife are impostors planning a robbery.

Director: John Rich

Writer: N/A

When Mark finds gold on their property, a fast-talking salesman who tried to sell Lucas a new lightning rod offers instead to buy the ranch's mineral rights.

Director: John Rich

Writer: N/A

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

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

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

Director: Richard Donner

Writer: N/A

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

At Halloween, rustlers take advantage of the seasonal disguises to raid a cattle ranch.

Director: Arthur H. Nadel

Writer: N/A

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. Stacy has a bronco named Lucifer, that nobody's been able to ride for 15 seconds. Alvah, wanting to humble the almighty Mr. Stacy, asks Johnny if he'd ride Lucifer, so that he and the townsfolk could bet that Johnny would ride Lucifer for 30 seconds. Johnny agrees and then makes a deal with Stacy to throw the ride for $500.00. After spending time with Mark, Johnny decides to give the ride his best and then turn himself in to Marshal Torrance.

Director: N/A

Writer: N/A

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

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

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

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

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

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