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The Rifleman: Season 1

40 episodes Premiered Sep 30, 1958 Updated Jul 18, 2026
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Episodes

S1·E1

The Sharpshooter

Sep 30, 1958 · 30 min

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 Shoo

S1·E2

Home Ranch

Oct 7, 1958 · 30 min

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 r

S1·E3

End of a Young Gun

Oct 14, 1958 · 30 min

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 t

S1·E4

The Marshal

Oct 21, 1958 · 30 min

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

S1·E5

The Brother-in-Law

Oct 28, 1958 · 30 min

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 Robbe

S1·E6

Eight Hours to Die

Nov 4, 1958 · 30 min

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.

S1·E7

Duel of Honor

Nov 11, 1958 · 30 min

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

S1·E8

The Safe Guard

Oct 18, 1958 · 30 min

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 o

S1·E9

The Sister

Nov 25, 1958 · 30 min

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. U

S1·E10

New Orleans Menace

Dec 26, 1958 · 30 min

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

S1·E11

The Apprentice Sheriff

Dec 9, 1958 · 30 min

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

S1·E12

Young Englishman

Dec 16, 1958 · 30 min

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

S1·E13

The Angry Gun

Dec 23, 1958 · 30 min

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 whil

S1·E14

The Gaucho

Dec 30, 1958 · 30 min

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

S1·E15

The Pet

Jan 6, 1959 · 30 min

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

S1·E16

The Sheridan Story

Jan 13, 1959 · 30 min

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.

S1·E17

The Retired Gun

Jan 20, 1959 · 30 min

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 fo

S1·E18

The Photographer

Jan 27, 1959 · 30 min

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

S1·E19

Shivaree

Feb 3, 1959 · 30 min

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

S1·E20

The Deadeye Kid

Feb 10, 1959 · 30 min

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 a

S1·E21

The Indian

Feb 17, 1959 · 30 min

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 o

S1·E22

The Boarding House

Feb 24, 1959 · 30 min

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 establis

S1·E23

The Second Witness

Mar 30, 1959 · 30 min

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.

S1·E24

The Trade

Mar 10, 1959 · 30 min

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.

S1·E25

One Went to Denver

Mar 17, 1959 · 30 min

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.

S1·E26

The Deadly Wait

Mar 24, 1959 · 30 min

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

S1·E27

The Wrong Man

Mar 31, 1959 · 30 min

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.

S1·E28

The Challenge

Apr 7, 1959 · 30 min

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

S1·E29

The Hawk

Apr 14, 1959 · 30 min

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 i

S1·E30

Three-Legged Terror

Apr 21, 1959 · 30 min

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.

S1·E31

The Angry Man

Apr 28, 1959 · 30 min

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

S1·E32

The Woman

May 5, 1959 · 30 min

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

S1·E33

The Money Gun

May 12, 1959 · 30 min

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

S1·E34

A Matter of Faith

May 19, 1959 · 30 min

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

S1·E35

Blood Brothers

May 26, 1959 · 30 min

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

S1·E36

Stranger at Night

Jun 20, 1959 · 30 min

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

S1·E37

The Raid

Jun 9, 1959 · 30 min

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

S1·E38

Outlaw's Inheritance

Jun 16, 1959 · 30 min

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

S1·E39

Boomerang

Jun 23, 1959 · 30 min

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

S1·E40

The Mind Reader

Jun 30, 1959 · 30 min

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