The Rifleman: Season 1
Episodes
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
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
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
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
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
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.
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
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
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
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
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
Young Englishman
Dec 16, 1958 · 30 min
Lucas accuses the young foreman of a neighboring ranch of rustling one of his calves.
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
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
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
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.
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
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
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
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
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
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
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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
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.
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
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.
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.
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
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
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.
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.
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
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.
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.