The Rifleman

Season 1

40 episodes · Sep 30, 1958

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  • The Sharpshooter
    S1E1

    The Sharpshooter

    Sep 30, 195830m

    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.

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  • Home Ranch
    S1E2

    Home Ranch

    Oct 7, 195830m

    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.

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  • End of a Young Gun
    S1E3

    End of a Young Gun

    Oct 14, 195830m

    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.

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  • The Marshal
    S1E4

    The Marshal

    Oct 21, 195830m

    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.

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  • The Brother-in-Law
    S1E5

    The Brother-in-Law

    Oct 28, 195830m

    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.

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  • Eight Hours to Die
    S1E6

    Eight Hours to Die

    Nov 4, 195830m

    Judge Burton seeks justice against the hangman who hanged his son; the Judge, who sentenced his son; and Lucas, the man who caught his son.

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  • Duel of Honor
    S1E7

    Duel of Honor

    Nov 11, 195830m

    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.

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  • The Safe Guard
    S1E8

    The Safe Guard

    Oct 18, 195830m

    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.

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  • The Sister
    S1E9

    The Sister

    Nov 25, 195830m

    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.

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  • New Orleans Menace
    S1E10

    New Orleans Menace

    Dec 26, 195830m

    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.

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  • The Apprentice Sheriff
    S1E11

    The Apprentice Sheriff

    Dec 9, 195830m

    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.

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  • Young Englishman
    S1E12

    Young Englishman

    Dec 16, 195830m

    Lucas accuses the young foreman of a neighboring ranch of rustling one of his calves.

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  • The Angry Gun
    S1E13

    The Angry Gun

    Dec 23, 195830m

    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.

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  • The Gaucho
    S1E14

    The Gaucho

    Dec 30, 195830m

    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”.

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  • The Pet
    S1E15

    The Pet

    Jan 6, 195930m

    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.

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  • The Sheridan Story
    S1E16

    The Sheridan Story

    Jan 13, 195930m

    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.

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  • S1E17

    The Retired Gun

    Jan 20, 195930m

    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.

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  • S1E18

    The Photographer

    Jan 27, 195930m

    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.

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  • S1E19

    Shivaree

    Feb 3, 195930m

    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.

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  • S1E20

    The Deadeye Kid

    Feb 10, 195930m

    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.

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  • S1E21

    The Indian

    Feb 17, 195930m

    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.

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  • S1E22

    The Boarding House

    Feb 24, 195930m

    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.

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  • S1E23

    The Second Witness

    Mar 30, 195930m

    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.

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  • S1E24

    The Trade

    Mar 10, 195930m

    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.

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  • S1E25

    One Went to Denver

    Mar 17, 195930m

    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.

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  • S1E26

    The Deadly Wait

    Mar 24, 195930m

    Dan Nowry, released from Yuma prison, arrives in North Fork intent on getting even with Marshal Torrance,who helped send him to jail.

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  • S1E27

    The Wrong Man

    Mar 31, 195930m

    Young Mark McCain is eager to help lawman Jay Jefferson, who has arrived in North Fork intent on killing an outlaw for the reward, whether he is the right man or not.

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  • S1E28

    The Challenge

    Apr 7, 195930m

    When escaped convicts hold up the general store in North Fork and take Marshal Torrance hostage, Lucas comes to the rescue.

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  • S1E29

    The Hawk

    Apr 14, 195930m

    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.

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  • S1E30

    Three-Legged Terror

    Apr 21, 195930m

    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.

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  • S1E31

    The Angry Man

    Apr 28, 195930m

    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.

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  • S1E32

    The Woman

    May 5, 195930m

    An unfounded rumor causes North Fork's outspoken feminist schoolteacher to be attacked by a mob of angry townspeople.

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  • S1E33

    The Money Gun

    May 12, 195930m

    When his employer begins to suspect him of embezzlement, bookkeeper Asa Manning decides to hire a professional gunman to take care of the problem.

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  • S1E34

    A Matter of Faith

    May 19, 195930m

    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.

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  • S1E35

    Blood Brothers

    May 26, 195930m

    Lucas McCain gives blood to save a dying man and is surprised by Marshal Torrance's odd behavior toward the man. Then three men arrive from a nearby town and demand custody of the stranger.

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  • S1E36

    Stranger at Night

    Jun 20, 195930m

    Mark's finding of the body of a murder victim starts Lucas, his friend Artemus, and Marshal Torrance on a search for the killer.

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  • S1E37

    The Raid

    Jun 9, 195930m

    When renegade Apaches wound Lucas and kidnap Mark, Marshal Torrance joins with U.S. Marshal Sam Buckhart to form a rescue posse.

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  • Outlaw's Inheritance
    S1E38

    Outlaw's Inheritance

    Jun 16, 195930m

    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.

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  • Boomerang
    S1E39

    Boomerang

    Jun 23, 195930m

    When a rancher dies after the bank forecloses the mortgage on his property, his son blames the banker for his father's death.

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  • S1E40

    The Mind Reader

    Jun 30, 195930m

    When a wealthy rancher is killed, Mark suggests that they seek the aid of a mind reader to identify the murderer.

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