The Rifleman
ABC (ended 1963)
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Season 5
- Ep 26Old Tony4/8/63
Mark and his girlfriend Laurie discover that an old hermit is very lonely. - Ep 25Which Way'd They Go?4/1/63
The notoriously lazy Jackman brothers discover their mortgage has been foreclosed. - Ep 24Old Man Running (aka The Wanted Man)3/18/63
Lucas, who blames his wife's death on his father-in-law, refuses to help the old man elude gunmen. - Ep 23The Guest3/11/63
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. - Ep 22Requiem at Mission Springs3/4/63
Lucas begins a trek to find a cure for Mark, who is paralyzed after a bad fall. - Ep 21The Bullet2/25/63
Lucas is baffled when the marshal of a neighboring town refuses to hold a gambler who just attempted murder. - Ep 20End of the Hunt2/18/63
Lucas is thrown into jail to stop him from murdering an old enemy. - Ep 19And the Devil Makes Five2/11/63
A snake crawls into Lucas's bed, and Mark must lure it away before it strikes. - Ep 18Hostages to Fortune2/4/63
At Halloween, rustlers take advantage of the seasonal disguises to raid a cattle ranch. - Ep 17The Sixteenth Cousin1/28/62
A Japanese nobleman seeks revenge when his servant is insulted. - Ep 16The Sidewinder1/21/63
Gridley Mau is gunning for Lucas, who killed his father during an attempted robbery. This leads to an extensive display of marksmanship. - Ep 15Suspicion1/14/63
On the road Lucas and Mark come upon Winslow Quince, a peddler whose wagon has broken down, and help him get his wagon into North Fork for repair. While in North Fork Quince barters several items that implicate him in a series of murders. - Ep 14Incident at Line Shack Six1/7/63
John Gangling, a railroad gang boss, gives out wages to the workmen. Charlie Breen, a man known to save his money, gets his wages and goes off to add them to his money belt. Gangling follows Breen because he wants Breen's savings. Gangling kills him, and then puts the blame on Johnny Wing, one of the Apache workers, ''moreless - Ep 13Conflict12/24/62
Lucas's self-confidence begins to slip away when he misses an easy shot. - Ep 12The Anvil Chorus12/17/62
Nils Swenson, North Fork's blacksmith, volunteers to take the marshal's place for a few days while Micah attends a wedding in another town. To help maintain peace, Nils institutes a policy that anyone coming into town must turn in their weapons, getting them back when they leave. This plan backfires on Nils when some dishonest men are in town.moreless - Ep 11Gun Shy12/10/62
Mark blames himself for a friend's accidental death. - Ep 10Squeeze Play12/3/62
A speculator will stop at nothing to grab Lucas's land. - Ep 9The Most Amazing Man11/26/62
Fast-draw artist Wade Randall is less than anxious to display his prowess. - Ep 8Mark's Rifle11/19/62
Sharpshooter Marty Blair tries to persuade Lucas to buy Mark a rifle. - Ep 7The Assailants11/12/62
An assassination plot unfolds as four gunmen disguised as cavalrymen enter North Fork. Their target: Sen. Jim Borden. Their weapon: a Gatling gun. - Ep 6I Take This Woman11/5/62
Lou looks for a way out when the man her dying father promised her to arrives. - Ep 5Death Never Rides Alone10/29/62
A gunslinger rides into North Fork for a meeting with Lucas. - Ep 4Quiet Night, Deadly Night10/22/62
Townspeople brace for the worst when a new girl arrives—with symptoms of smallpox. - Ep 3Lou Mallory10/15/62
Businesswoman Lou Mallory has arrived in North Fork and quickly purchases land, which includes the hotel and Milly Scott's store. She pays higher prices than the sellers feel their properties are worth. Everyone is happy until they find out that Lou really is an astute businesswoman. - Ep 2Waste (2)10/8/62
Conclusion. After Alphonso's wife gives birth, the bandits holding Marshal Torrance relax their guard, enabling Lucas and Mark to rescue the old man. - Ep 1Waste (1)10/1/62
Marshal Torrance is heading home from a cattle sale with Lucas and Mark when the old lawman mysteriously disappears. They trace him to a nearby Mexican ghost town. (Part 1 of 2)
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Season 4
- Ep 32The Executioner5/7/62
A man is back to find hidden money after doing time in prison for a robbery. - Ep 31Outlaw's Shoes4/30/62
A head wound wipes out Lucas's memory, leaving him with only one clue: he's wearing an outlaw's gun. - Ep 30Milly's Brother4/23/62
A veteran returns with tales of heroism and the fate of Milly's brother in the Civil War. - Ep 29The Day the Town Slept4/16/62
The town of North Fork becomes a haven for outlaws when suave Ben Judson smooth-talks his way into the marshal's job. - Ep 28Day of Reckoning4/9/62
Lucas is torn by conflicting emotions when he meets the town's new preacher—a former outlaw whom the Rifleman vowed to kill. - Ep 27Guilty Conscience4/2/62
No one's more surprised than Micah when newcomer Leota Carraway claims he's her long-lost husband and the father of her child. - Ep 26Jealous Man3/26/62
Jake and Fay Owens, old friends of Micah, are the McCain's new neighbors. Jake quickly develops an unreasoning jealousy of Lucas with Fay. - Ep 25None So Blind3/19/62
Mark befriends singer-banjoist Lafayette Bly, a blind man with an acute sense of hearing—and a very strong grip. - Ep 24The Tinhorn3/12/62
A professional card player, John Keeler, has set up business in North Fork, but local Jesse Phillips claims that this tinhorn is a cheat. Lucas starts playing poker with Keeler to draw him out. - Ep 23The Debt3/5/62
Lucas and Mark stop on the way to the county fair to deliver a message to Micah, who is on the trail escorting a prisoner scheduled to be hanged. Mark and Lucas recognize the prisoner, Mr. Renolds, as someone who saved Mark's life from a snake bite a few years back. Mark feels that he owes Mr. Renolds a debt.moreless - Ep 22Deadly Image2/26/62
On the trail Len Richards and his brother, Ab, confront a Lucas McCain look-alike, Earl Bantry and his sidekick K.C. Peters, for slaughtering one of Richards' steers. Bantry kills Ab Richards, and Len wants Micah to arrest Lucas for the murder. More problems ensue because of this "evil twin." - Ep 21Two Ounces of Tin2/19/62
Sammy Davis Jr. stars as Tip Corey, son of a man allegedly murdered in North Fork. - Ep 20The Man from Salinas2/12/62
Banker Hamilton is closing up for the day when Rudy Gray persuades him to stay open for one more transaction—a withdrawal at gunpoint. - Ep 19A Young Man's Fancy2/5/62
The pangs of first love are painful for Mark: the object of his affections has eyes for another. - Ep 18Sporting Chance1/29/62
An Englishman arrives with a custom-made rifle—and a plan to kill Lucas. - Ep 17The Quiet Fear1/22/62
Lucas's old Army pal settles in North Fork with his deaf daughter. - Ep 16Gunfire1/15/62
Micah has an infamous outlaw, Charlie Gordo, in his jail waiting for the U.S. marshal from Denver to take Gordo to the Yuma prison for hanging. With the arrival of the stage, Micah finds that the lawman has been killed, and he has to look to his friends to defend the jail from Gordo's gang.moreless - Ep 15The Princess1/8/62
The Queen-to-be of France hides out in Northfork. - Ep 14Skull1/1/62
Lucas seeks an escape when he's captured by outlaws while seeking help for an injured Mark. - Ep 13A Friend in Need12/25/61
Mark finds himself the unwilling companion of gunman Carl Avery. - Ep 12The High Country12/18/61
Lucas becomes the target of a vengeful mountaineer. - Ep 11Long Gun From Tucson12/11/61
Lucas tries to stop embittered John Holliver from venting his wrath on the people who expelled him from town years before. - Ep 10The Shattered Idol12/4/61
Mark Twain visits Northfork and quickly alienates the townspeople. - Ep 9The Long Goodbye11/27/61
Stubborn Grandpa Fogarty is Lucas's main roadblock as he tries to get young Woody Fogarty to attend school. - Ep 8Honest Abe11/20/61
Able Lincoln's claim that he's the Great Emancipator himself amuses everyone except Matt Yorty. - Ep 7Knight Errant11/13/61
Lucas tries to dissuade a latter-day knight from rushing into battle. - Ep 6The Decision11/6/61
Corey Hazlett insists he's innocent of murder, despite Lucas's eyewitness testimony. - Ep 5The Journey Back10/30/61
Mark goes to work for Will Temple, a badly scarred and very mysterious rancher. - Ep 4The Stand-In10/23/61
Two prison wagon drivers stop at the McCain ranch looking for whiskey. Lucas turns them down because they are escorting Rudy Croft, a murderer, to be hanged in Yuma. That evening Croft escapes, and the drivers know they need a substitute for the escaped prisoner. They return to the ranch and take Lucas in Croft's place.moreless - Ep 3Sheer Terror10/16/61
Mark and Milly are held prisoner in her general store when two gunmen attempt a daring robbery. - Ep 2First Wages10/9/61
Lucas tries to find out why Mark has taken a job as a stableboy. - Ep 1The Vaqueros10/2/61
While Lucas and Mark are traveling across the Mexican desert they encounter a trio of Mexican bandits. They demand payment from Lucas for crossing "their" desert. Lucas refuses. In retaliation, the three slam Lucas in the throat with his rifle, strip him of all his possessions (including Mark), tie him to a tree, and leave him to die of thirst and exposure.moreless
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Season 3
- Ep 34The Queue5/16/61
A Chinese man and his son fight prejudice as they try to open a laundry in North Fork. - Ep 33Death Trap5/9/61
Lucas recognizes Dr. Simon Battle as an ex-gunslinger with whom he once traded shots. - Ep 32The Lonesome Bride5/2/61
Two pranksters write away for a mail-order bride, using Lucas's ''name. - Ep 31Stopover4/25/61
Trouble brews at Lucas's when a whisky salesman and a gunfighter fall for the same woman. - Ep 30The Mescalaro Curse4/18/61
Lucas is marked for death: he was foreman of a jury that convicted an Apache. - Ep 29The Score is Even4/11/61
Lucas tries to get help when he is shot after witnessing a murder. - Ep 28The Clarence Bibs Story4/4/61
A janitor-turned-gunfighter whose reputation hangs on one lucky shot—and a lot of gall. - Ep 27Short Rope for a Tall Man3/28/61
Lucas and Mark are in another town to sell a bull to Joe Lovering. Mark wants to buy two horses from Mr. Schneider for $25 each. Schneider, wanting to leave town in a hurry, sells the horses to Mark. Neither Mark nor his father knows that the horses have been illegally bought and now resold to them. When the posse encounters them on the road, Lucas has a hard time explaining the two horses that Mark bought in spite of the bill of sale.''moreless - Ep 26Assault3/21/61
A salesman can't talk his way out of an assault charge. - Ep 25The Prisoner3/14/61
Two ex-Confederate officers seek revenge on Lucas. McCain was a lieutenant in the 8th Indiana which defeated the 12th Cavalry 15 years earlier at the Battle of Fort Donaldson. The Confederate officers were in the 12th Cavalry, and their defeated regiment was sent to a prisoner-of-war camp for two years. They were the only two of their regiment who survived the internment. They blame Lucas for the imprisonment and the death of their fellow soldiers.moreless - Ep 24Dark Day at North Fork3/7/61
Blinded in an explosion, Lucas fights despair as he prepares for a meeting with a gun-toting enemy. - Ep 23The Lost Treasure of Canyon Town2/28/61
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. - Ep 22Closer than a Brother2/21/61
Lucas looks for answers when recovering alcoholic Micah Torrence returns to the bottle—and turns in his badge. - Ep 21The Wyoming Story (2)2/14/61
Mark stays with Miss Milly, while Lucas is in Wyoming on the trail of a gang illegally selling weapons to the Indians. Mark suffers from loneliness and doubt while his father is gone for 2 months. (Part 2 of 2) - Ep 20The Wyoming Story (1)2/7/61
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) - Ep 19Face of Yesterday1/31/61
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. - Ep 18The Actress1/24/61
A deathbed request from an old friend sends Lucas to a neighboring town in search of the man's long-lost sweetheart. - Ep 17Long Trek1/17/61
Lucas and Marshal Torrance run in trouble transporting a captured killer back to face trial. - Ep 16Flowers by the Door1/10/61
Lucas unmasks a killer posing as a door-to-door seed salesman. - Ep 15Six Years and a Day1/30/61
A doctor seeks revenge on the man he blames for ruining his practice. - Ep 14Miss Bertie12/27/60
A lively old lady arrives in town hot on the trail of a notorious bandit—and the reward money for capturing him. - Ep 13The Silent Knife12/20/60
Lucas and Mark try to persuade a persecuted young mute to return stolen money. - Ep 12The Illustrator12/13/60
Lucas encourages a drunken artist charged with murder to use his talents to identify the true killer. - Ep 11The Promoter12/6/60
Lucas and Mark attempt to reform a con-man. - Ep 10The Schoolmaster11/29/60
Mark and his friend become trapped in an old mine. - Ep 9Dead Cold Cash11/22/60
The widow of a bandit killed by Lucas plots a grotesque revenge. - Ep 8Miss Milly11/15/60
A new store owner upsets the town by demanding that all credit accounts be paid off. - Ep 7The Martinet11/8/60
A former army captain comes to North Fork to kill the man who shot down his son in a gunfight - Lucas McCain. - Ep 6Baranca11/1/60
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. - Ep 5Strange Town10/25/60
Lucas tracks an escaped prisoner to a town that turns out to be run by the gunman's brother, notorious for shooting people in the back. - Ep 4The Pitchman9/18/60
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. - Ep 3Seven10/11/60
Seven condemned murderers escape and take over the town of North Fork. - Ep 2Woman From Hog Ridge10/4/60
Lucas shoots a horse thief who turns out to be a member of the Boyle clan, and now Ma Boyle is after him. - Ep 1Trail of Hate9/27/60
Lucas is out for vengeance when Mark is used as a pawn in a bank robbery scheme.
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Season 2
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Season 1
