The Rifleman

The Rifleman

1958
★★★★☆ 7.1/10
📺 5 Seasons
🎬 168 Episodes
📅 Ended
🌐 EN
⏱️ 30 min/episode
Action & AdventureWesternFamily
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 set in the 1880s in the town of North Fork, New Mexico Territory. The show was filmed in black-and-white, half-hour episodes. "The Rifleman" aired on ABC from September 30, 1958 to April 8, 1963 as a production of Four Star Television. It was one of the first prime time series to have a widowed parent raise a child.

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Seasons

Season 1
1958 • 40 Episodes
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.
Season 2
1959 • 36 Episodes
A group of outlaws devise a plan to get rid of Lucas so that they can take over the town of North Fork.
Season 3
1960 • 34 Episodes
Lucas is out for vengeance when Mark is used as a pawn in a bank robbery scheme.
Season 4
1961 • 32 Episodes
A bandit imprisons Lucas and Mark.
Season 5
1962 • 26 Episodes
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)

Crew

Producer
Arthur H. Nadel

Network

ABC

Production

Four Stars Productions

Keywords

widower