The Rifleman

The adventures of a Wild West rancher, wielding a customized rapid-fire Winchester rifle, and his son.

Cast:Chuck Connors , Johnny Crawford , Paul Fix , Joe Benson , Bill Quinn , Patricia Blair , Joe Higgins , Joan Taylor , Harlan Warde , Hope Summers , Ralph Moody , John Harmon , Fritz Ford , John Milford , John Anderson , Chris Alcaide , Peter Whitney , Dabbs Greer

1Season 1

S1.E1 ∙ The Sharpshooter

Tue, Sep 30, 1958

Lucas is ordered by a murderous town owner to lose a public shooting match, or he will kill his sharpshooting opponent and possibly harm his son Mark.

2Season 1

S1.E2 ∙ Home Ranch

Tue, Oct 7, 1958

Lucas McCain and his son Mark make their way to the ranch they've just bought but get quite a rude reception. Two cowhands working for big-time rancher Oat Jackford, Billy Lehi and Sam Montgomery, tell Lucas that he's not welcome. Jackford has been using the land to graze some of his cattle and has every intention of continuing to do so. When Lucas doesn't show much enthusiasm for their proposal, he's beaten and the house is burned to the ground. Lucas needs to show them and Jackford that he's not going to get pushed around.

3Season 1

S1.E3 ∙ End of a Young Gun

Tue, Oct 14, 1958

After Will Fulton breaks his leg while rescuing Mark McCain who has slipped off the edge of a cliff, he recuperates at the McCain ranch. Will and his brother Hank are outlaws with a posse looking for them. Will is an angry young man but his stay with the McCains softens him, especially after he meets the pretty Ann Bard. He begins to reassess his choices and realizes that he must choose which path he will take in life.

4Season 1

S1.E4 ∙ The Marshal

Tue, Oct 21, 1958

In North Fork, Lucas McCain meets Micah Torrence, now a drunk but at one time considered one of the ablest lawmen in the territory. He admits he lost his nerve and it led him to a life of drink. Lucas offers him a job as a ranch hand and uses a tough-love approach to get him to sober up. The Shelton brother ride into town looking to get even with Micah who jailed them 10 years before. Lucas is lured into a trap but it's Micah who comes to his rescued.

5Season 1

S1.E5 ∙ The Brother-in-Law

Tue, Oct 28, 1958

Johnny Gibbs, Lucas' brother-in-law, arrives for a visit at the McCain ranch. A rodeo rider, Gibbs is also on the run from the law, and soon begins to cause trouble in town.

6Season 1

S1.E6 ∙ Eight Hours to Die

Tue, Nov 4, 1958

A vengeful judge is convinced that Lucas is responsible for the death of his son, an outlaw who was executed for murder. He captures Lucas and plans to force him to watch Mark hang in retribution for his son's death.

7Season 1

S1.E7 ∙ Duel of Honor

Tue, Nov 11, 1958

When the stagecoach breaks down in North Fork an Italian Count, Alfredo di Montova, has to spend the night at the hotel. His fancy dress and accented English makes him a target for town bully Sim Groder and his little crowd. The Count is a calm and collected type but when Groder pushes him too far, he challenges him to a duel. With Lucas acting as his second, di Montova teaches the bully a lesson.

8Season 1

S1.E8 ∙ The Safe Guard

Tue, Nov 18, 1958

A Texas gunslinger is hired to protect the bank of North Fork. When he appears at the McCain Ranch, he doesn't leave a very good impression with Lucas, and for good reason - he has a secret. Mark is proud when he sells his first pig.

9Season 1

S1.E9 ∙ The Sister

Tue, Nov 25, 1958

Mark introduces the pretty Rebecca Snipe to his father, and her two burly brothers are convinced that Lucas would be a fine husband for their sister. Meanwhile three gunmen plot to kill the rancher.

10Season 1

S1.E10 ∙ New Orleans Menace

Tue, Dec 2, 1958

A gambler, fleeing New Orleans with his henchmen, takes a liking to Lucas' ranch. When McCain refuses to sell, his life is threatened.

11Season 1

S1.E11 ∙ The Apprentice Sheriff

Tue, Dec 9, 1958

Lucas tries to help a young bespeckled substitute marshall who is hellbent to prove himself tough,, regardless of the consequences.

12Season 1

S1.E12 ∙ The Angry Gun

Tue, Dec 16, 1958

While traveling back to North Fork on the stage after selling their herd, Lucas and Mark are sharing the stage with a Marshal and his prisoner Johnny Cotton. When they stop to water the horses, some of Cotton's friends are lying in wait. Cotton steals the money Lucas got for the cattle and his rifle. He sends Mark on with the stage but tracks the robbers as best he can given that he doesn't have a horse or a weapon.

13Season 1

S1.E13 ∙ The Young Englishman

Tue, Dec 23, 1958

Lucas loses a calf and suspects a neighbor's foreman. As it's already been branded, he's threatened with rustling if he uses a rope. McCain has another way of cutting the newborn out of the herd, and he doesn't need a rope or his rifle.

14Season 1

S1.E14 ∙ The Gaucho

Tue, Dec 30, 1958

A hot-tempered Argentinian cowboy along with father and lovely sister, buy a ranch in North Fork. Their foreign ways do not sit well with the local community, especially neighboring rancher Curge Palmer.

15Season 1

S1.E15 ∙ The Pet

Tue, Jan 6, 1959

Lucas helps a man after he's shot in a shootout by a man who wants to keep a secret about his past. When he allows Mark to take in a pet, he doesn't know that his decision will endanger his son's life.

16Season 1

S1.E16 ∙ The Sheridan Story

Tue, Jan 13, 1959

Lucas McCain hires an bitter ex-Confederate to help him around the ranch. When General Philip Sheridan and his staff stop at McCain's ranch to camp, Lucas is afraid there will be trouble.

17Season 1

S1.E17 ∙ The Retired Gun

Tue, Jan 20, 1959

A notorious gunfighter gets married and promises his new wife that he will take off his guns and begin a new life. However, a gang of outlaws who hear that he is in the area try to persuade him to break that promise and throw in with them.

18Season 1

S1.E18 ∙ The Photographer

Tue, Jan 27, 1959

When a photographer, an old friend of the McCains, is accused of murder, Mark and Lucas find themselves on opposite sides against each other.

19Season 1

S1.E19 ∙ Shivaree

Tue, Feb 3, 1959

A wagon train master forces a young couple to marry after they hide the fact that one is a girl, and Lucas takes them in to help them; but trouble soon arises when a drunken crowd calls for a Shivaree.

20Season 1

S1.E20 ∙ The Deadeye Kid

Tue, Feb 10, 1959

When a young boy from Brooklyn is accused of murder, Mark, believing the boy's claim of innocence, hides him until he can find the real killer.

21Season 1

S1.E21 ∙ The Indian

Tue, Feb 17, 1959

Lucas McCain and his son Mark come across U.S. Deputy Marshal Sam Buckhart who is escorting an Indian prisoner. To Lucas' surprise he finds that Buckhart himself is an Indian, educated at Harvard College. In North Fork, Buckhart goes about his business until some of the townsfolk realize he is an Indian and decide to take matters into their own hands. It's left to Lucas to show them the error of their ways.

22Season 1

S1.E22 ∙ The Boarding House

Tue, Feb 24, 1959

Sid Fallon tries to blackmail former gambler Julia Andueza into allowing him to use her boarding house as a gambling hall and saloon.

23Season 1

S1.E23 ∙ The Second Witness

Tue, Mar 3, 1959

As the second witness of a murder, Lucas is asked to travel to another town to testify at the accused man's trial. The catch is, the only other witness has been murdered and his killer has not been identified.

24Season 1

S1.E24 ∙ The Trade

Tue, Mar 10, 1959

Lucas McCain is surprised when someone he once worked with, Sam Morley, shows up at the ranch. Lucas thought Morley had died but it turns out he's a wanted man and wants Lucas to do him a favor: turn him in for the $500 reward money that's available. Morley desperately needs the money so his girlfriend, Beth Landis, can get treatment for a serious disease. Lucas thinks he's on the level and decides to go along. Unfortunately another cowpoke who once worked with them, Hamp Ferris, rides into town and is looking to collect the bounty on Morley himself.

25Season 1

S1.E25 ∙ One Went to Denver

Tue, Mar 17, 1959

Bank robber Tom Birch and his outlaw gang arrive in North Fork, where Birch has some unfinished business--he wants to visit his old friend, Lucas McCain.

26Season 1

S1.E26 ∙ The Deadly Wait

Tue, Mar 24, 1959

Dan Maury, a criminal arrested by Micah Torrance, returns from five years in prison determined to avenge himself upon the town marshal.

27Season 1

S1.E27 ∙ The Wrong Man

Tue, Mar 31, 1959

A corrupt marshal from outside North Fork goes after an outlaw with a price on his head. However, he sees an opportunity to make some extra money, so he murders an innocent man to pass off as the outlaw so he can collect the bounty, and then proceeds to blackmail the real outlaw.

28Season 1

S1.E28 ∙ The Challenge

Tue, Apr 7, 1959

An escaped killer is out to prove that his time in prison hasn't slowed down his speed with a gun.

29Season 1

S1.E29 ∙ The Hawk

Tue, Apr 14, 1959

Mark finally captures a hawk he's been after, but when his life is endangered by a rattlesnake, a stranger suddenly appears out of nowhere who knows about Mark and the hawk and says he will help him.

30Season 1

S1.E30 ∙ Three Legged Terror

Tue, Apr 21, 1959

Troublemaker Johnny Clover, a student at the North Fork school, wrecks the classroom one day. Lucas, a member of the town's school board, goes to Johnny's uncle to get him to pay for the damage, which turns out to be a task easier said than done.

31Season 1

S1.E31 ∙ The Angry Man

Tue, Apr 28, 1959

Although his son has been seriously hurt in an accident, one of Lucas' neighboring ranchers refuses to let him have medical assistance, and because of that the boy may well die.

32Season 1

S1.E32 ∙ The Woman

Tue, May 5, 1959

When North Fork's lovely schoolteacher attempts to organize a women's suffrage movement, the town's less progressive element decides to run her out of town.

33Season 1

S1.E33 ∙ The Money Gun

Tue, May 12, 1959

A hired killer Lucas Cain is acquainted with to his disdain comes into town with a local and loathed bully being his target

34Season 1

S1.E34 ∙ A Matter of Faith

Tue, May 19, 1959

Because of a terrible drought the railroad has sent two men into North Fork to recruit workers. But when a water-witch gives the people hope, the railroad takes a different approach.

35Season 1

S1.E35 ∙ Blood Brother

Tue, May 26, 1959

When Lucas brings a dying man to North Fork, he notices that Micah has a strange reaction when he first sees the man. He sets out to discover why Micah seems so troubled.

36Season 1

S1.E36 ∙ Stranger at Night

Tue, Jun 2, 1959

Mark comes across the dead body of a stranger. Although the man has no identification on him, he does have a belt with the initials "RM" on it that may provide a clue to his identity.

37Season 1

S1.E37 ∙ The Raid

Tue, Jun 9, 1959

Mark is kidnapped by a band of renegade Indians, who then escape into the hills of New Mexico. A frantic Lucas takes out after them, determined to get his son back.

38Season 1

S1.E38 ∙ Outlaw's Inheritance

Tue, Jun 16, 1959

The townspeople of North Fork begin to get suspicious when Lucas is named as the beneficiary in the will of an infamous outlaw.

39Season 1

S1.E39 ∙ Boomerang

Tue, Jun 23, 1959

Lucas takes in an orphaned young boy, and one of the things he teaches the boy is how to use a gun. What Lucas doesn't know, however, is that the boy wants to learn how to use a gun so he can kill the banker he holds responsible for his father's death.

40Season 1

S1.E40 ∙ The Mind Reader

Tue, Jun 30, 1959

While walking down the main street in North Fork, John Hallager is shot from someone hiding in the shadows. Marshal Micah Torrance arrests Billy Mathis who had been seeing Hallager's daughter Lucy despite being told to stay away. Not long afterward, John Barrow McBride comes to town. He has a mind-reading act that the townsfolk find entertaining but he also seems to have information about Hallager's shooting. How he got that information tells Lucas how McBride gets the information for his act but also leads him to the real shooter.

1Season 2

S2.E1 ∙ The Patsy

Tue, Sep 29, 1959

An outlaw gang plans to take over and loot the town of North Fork by getting rid of the one man who could stand in their way: Lucas McCain.

2Season 2

S2.E2 ∙ Bloodlines

Tue, Oct 6, 1959

The three Malakie boys comes to town and bust up the saloon. Lucas McCain and Marshal Micah Torrance stop them, but in the course of doing so, one of the boys shoots and kills his own brother. That doesn't stop them from blaming Lucas however and when their father Daniel Malakie arrives, he breaks his two surviving sons out of jail intent on getting even. They ambush someone they think is Lucas but get it wrong and Lucas and Micah hunt them down.

3Season 2

S2.E3 ∙ The Blowout

Tue, Oct 13, 1959

Al Walker, a notorious gunfighter, has come to North Fork to die. He has an incurable illness and, since he had once been a wealthy and prominent lawyer, believes he owes it to his family to have his death certificate read "natural causes" instead of "killed in gunfight". However, the Porter brothers--a gang of vicious killers and bank robbers--have followed him to town and plan to take their revenge on Walker for killing their brother, and they'll stop at nothing and no one in order to do it.

4Season 2

S2.E4 ∙ Obituary

Tue, Oct 20, 1959

A newspaper article extolling Lucas' skills with a gun brings him trouble when a gunfighter shows up in town aiming to prove that he's faster than Lucas.

5Season 2

S2.E5 ∙ Tension

Tue, Oct 27, 1959

A recently widowed woman in North Fork doesn't know about her deceased husband's criminal past, and Lucas is determined to see that she doesn't find out.

6Season 2

S2.E6 ∙ Eddie's Daughter

Tue, Nov 3, 1959

When two outlaws threaten the life of Lil Halstead, daughter of the town's hotel clerk, Lucas sets out to determine the reason behind the threats.

7Season 2

S2.E7 ∙ Panic

Tue, Nov 10, 1959

Town ne'er-do-well Brett Conway finds out that a couple who moved near North Fork and soon fell sick are actually ill with highly contagious and potentially fatal yellow fever. Knowing that Lucas was the person who initially discovered the couple, Conway threatens to spread the news of their condition to the entire town, thereby causing a panic, unless Lucas buys his silence.

8Season 2

S2.E8 ∙ Ordeal

Tue, Nov 17, 1959

Lucas and Mark find themselves in deep trouble when their wagon breaks down while they're crossing the desert.

9Season 2

S2.E9 ∙ The Spiked Rifle

Tue, Nov 24, 1959

In order to rob the stage which is carrying $20,000.00 in cash, an unarmed outlaw informs Lucas, who is riding shotgun, that his son's life is in mortal danger if he doesn't hand over the money.

10Season 2

S2.E10 ∙ Letter of the Law

Tue, Dec 1, 1959

An outlaw gang kidnaps Micah and threatens to kill him unless their leader is released from jail. Lucas must decide whether to turn loose the notorious killer or face the possibility of the murder of his friend Micah.

11Season 2

S2.E11 ∙ The Legacy

Tue, Dec 8, 1959

Lucas tries to do a good turn for the town drunk, but things go awry when the man's son mistakenly believes that he is now the owner of Lucas' ranch.

12Season 2

S2.E12 ∙ The Baby Sitter

Tue, Dec 15, 1959

A singer in a dance hall asks Lucas to take care of her daughter in order to hide the child from the woman's ex-husband, who has come to North Fork to take her away.

13Season 2

S2.E13 ∙ The Coward

Tue, Dec 22, 1959

A young man who is hounded by fear of other people moves to the West, hoping the experience will toughen him up.

14Season 2

S2.E14 ∙ Surveyors

Tue, Dec 29, 1959

Mark tells Lucas that he overheard a plot to rob North Fork's bank. When Lucas questions him more closely about it, Mark, thinking that his father doesn't believe him, runs away from home.

15Season 2

S2.E15 ∙ Day of the Hunter

Tue, Jan 5, 1960

A famous old frontiersman, with a reputation as the best rifleman around, challenges Luke to see who's really the best with a rifle.

16Season 2

S2.E16 ∙ Mail Order Groom

Tue, Jan 12, 1960

A "mail-order husband" arrives in North Fork, and finds not only a bride, but also harassment from two local trouble-makers.

17Season 2

S2.E17 ∙ A Case of Identity

Tue, Jan 19, 1960

In their search for a wealthy man's long-lost son, private detectives arrive in North Fork. Upon seeing Mark, they decide that since they can't find the real boy and their client has never actually seen his son, Mark will suffice.

18Season 2

S2.E18 ∙ The Visitor

Tue, Jan 26, 1960

Lucas finds himself attracted to a young widow who stops in North Fork on her way to claim an inheritance.

19Season 2

S2.E19 ∙ Hero

Tue, Feb 2, 1960

Stablehand Colly Vane, while out hunting, gets the drop on notorious wanted gunfighter The Domino Kid, and is forced to shoot him. When Colly brings the Kid's body into town to claim the reward, it's noticed that the Kid had been shot in the back. Instead of being hailed as a hero, Colly becomes the object of the townspeoples' derision for having shot the Kid in the back, is fired from his job and evicted from his house. To make matters worse, three gunfighters who were the Kid's friends come to town looking for him, and when they find out he's dead, set out to find and kill the man who did it.

20Season 2

S2.E20 ∙ The Horse Traders

Tue, Feb 9, 1960

Lucas and Mark try to help out a man who has been swindled in a horse-trading transaction.

21Season 2

S2.E21 ∙ The Spoiler

Tue, Feb 16, 1960

An older couple settles down in North Fork, but they have a secret--they're not using their real names because they don't want anyone to know that their son is a notorious gunfighter and killer.

22Season 2

S2.E22 ∙ Heller

Tue, Feb 23, 1960

A young boy and his sister, victims of an abusive father, come to the conclusion that the only way to protect themselves from further abuse is to kill him.

23Season 2

S2.E23 ∙ The Grasshopper

Tue, Mar 1, 1960

While on a train trip, Lucas and Mark are threatened by an escaped murderer. As if that weren't bad enough, the train is suddenly caught in a huge cloud of grasshoppers, forcing it to stop.

24Season 2

S2.E24 ∙ A Time for Singing

Tue, Mar 8, 1960

While North Fork excitedly awaits the arrival of a new preacher, Mark uncovers evidence that suggests the new parson is not only not a preacher, but may in face be planning to use the occasion to rob the town bank.

25Season 2

S2.E25 ∙ The Deserter

Tue, Mar 15, 1960

Lucas sets out to save the life of a young soldier who has deserted from the army and is now scheduled to be executed.

26Season 2

S2.E26 ∙ The Vision

Tue, Mar 22, 1960

Lucas is worried when Mark comes down with typhoid, but he gets even more worried when he notices that Mark doesn't appear to want to get better.

27Season 2

S2.E27 ∙ The Lariat

Tue, Mar 29, 1960

Lariat Jones, an old friend of Lucas', comes to North Fork to open up a casino. However, after several cheaters are caught in his casino, Lucas has to save his friend from almost certain death.

28Season 2

S2.E28 ∙ Smoke Screen

Tue, Apr 5, 1960

When a young headstrong woman is found murdered, a bit of Mark's mischief leads to the investigation down an apparent wrong path.

29Season 2

S2.E29 ∙ Shotgun Man

Tue, Apr 12, 1960

An ex-convict with a grudge against Lucas comes to town determined to kill him.

30Season 2

S2.E30 ∙ Sins of the Father

Tue, Apr 19, 1960

A man and his young son fleeing danger are taken in by Lucas. What Lucas doesn't know is that the man hasn't told him the real reason they're on the run.

31Season 2

S2.E31 ∙ The Prodigal

Tue, Apr 26, 1960

A fleeing bank robber decides that the McCain ranch is a good place to hide out, so he holds Lucas and Mark prisoner in their own home until the heat dies down.

32Season 2

S2.E32 ∙ The Fourflusher

Tue, May 3, 1960

Gabe Fenway, a sharecropper for local landlord Preston, plans to run his quarterhorse Sapphire in a local horse race. Mark also plans to race his horse, Blueboy, in the race. Preston, who wants to keep all of Fenway's crops, believes Mark's horse can beat Fenway's and tricks Fenway into betting his crop against Preston's $1000 that Mark will win. And to make sure that Mark wins, Preston has a plan to make sure that Fenway doesn't make it to the race.

33Season 2

S2.E33 ∙ The Jailbird

Tue, May 10, 1960

Lucas hires a new ranch hand, then learns that the man had just been released from prison for manslaughter. He believes the man has turned over a new leaf and wants to start a new life, but his--and the townspeoples'--suspicions are aroused when a local rancher is murdered during a robbery.

34Season 2

S2.E34 ∙ Meeting at Midnight

Tue, May 17, 1960

While in town one day, Lucas runs into Tom Benton, an old friend from his days in the army. Benton seems to have fallen on hard times, though, as he's drinking heavily and winds up shooting up the saloon and getting arrested by Micah. Lucas bails him out, against Benton's protests, but it turns out that Benton has his own reasons for wanting to stay in jail.

35Season 2

S2.E35 ∙ Nora

Tue, May 24, 1960

Nora Sanford, an old flame of Lucas' who came from a wealthy family, arrives in town, ill and penniless. When Lucas hears of her condition, he goes to see her and help nurse her back to health. It turns out that her recently deceased husband had spent all her money, and she had heard that Lucas had also been recently widowed, and in desperation decided to come to North Fork to see him. What Lucas doesn't know, however, is that she didn't come to town alone, and her plans for Lucas aren't quite what he thinks they are.

36Season 2

S2.E36 ∙ The Hangman

Tue, May 31, 1960

A friend of Lucas is found murdered and robbed. Suspicion falls on an ex-con, and a lynching seems inevitable.

1Season 3

S3.E1 ∙ Trail of Hate

Tue, Sep 27, 1960

Outlaws take Mark hostage in order to force Lucas to help them rob the bank in North Fork.

2Season 3

S3.E2 ∙ Woman from Hog Ridge

Tue, Oct 4, 1960

Lucas and Mark interrupt two young men stealing horses. Lucas is forced to defend himself and shoots and kills one of the men. He is one of Ma Boyle's sons. The Boyles are a mountain family who live by their own laws and Micah foresees trouble. When the clan arrives in town they are set on hanging the man responsible for the killing.

3Season 3

S3.E3 ∙ Seven

Tue, Oct 11, 1960

Seven escaped prisoners terrorize the town of North Fork. The leader has a personal grudge against Lucas McCain that he must settle before leaving the town.

4Season 3

S3.E4 ∙ The Pitchman

Tue, Oct 18, 1960

A quick-talking salesman discovers gold on Lucas' property and tries to fleece McCain of the mineral rights on his ranch.

5Season 3

S3.E5 ∙ Strange Town

Tue, Oct 25, 1960

When Micah is badly injured by an escaping prisoner, Lucas tracks the prisoner back to his home town where they do not give up their own.

6Season 3

S3.E6 ∙ Baranca

Tue, Nov 1, 1960

In Micah's absence, Lucas is forced into a duel to determine to which system of justice the blatant murder of a rural Hispanic resident applies: the old justice of traditional New Mexico Hispanics, administered by "Baranca", or the US law.

7Season 3

S3.E7 ∙ The Martinet

Tue, Nov 8, 1960

A Cavalry captain discovers that a son has been an outlaw who was killed by Lucas. He is determined to punish Lucas for the tragedy.

8Season 3

S3.E8 ∙ Miss Milly

Tue, Nov 15, 1960

Milly Scott buys Hattie's general store. Her background as a schoolteacher does little to prepare her for what she bought into when she hires a stranger in town to collect all the debts owed to the store.

9Season 3

S3.E9 ∙ Dead Cold Cash

Tue, Nov 22, 1960

According to the stipulations in a bizarre will, the citizens of North Fork will divide $100,000 if Lucas McCain dies within seven days of Sarah Caruthers. The vicious old woman has hated Lucas ever since he killed her husband during a robbery.

10Season 3

S3.E10 ∙ The Schoolmaster

Tue, Nov 29, 1960

A strict new schoolmaster comes to teach - and, he discovers, to learn: from Mark and Lucas.

11Season 3

S3.E11 ∙ The Promoter

Tue, Dec 6, 1960

A con man and his fast-gun friend come to North Fork. Lucas enters a target shooting contest.

12Season 3

S3.E12 ∙ The Illustrator

Tue, Dec 13, 1960

When a famous New York artist is sent to paint a portrait of Hannah Shaw, they find the artist is not longer the person they were requesting. Lucas will try to help the down-on-his-luck artist.

13Season 3

S3.E13 ∙ The Silent Knife

Tue, Dec 20, 1960

Mark and Lucas help a young man muted by a traumatic past.

14Season 3

S3.E14 ∙ Miss Bertie

Tue, Dec 27, 1960

Heading home on a stagecoach, Mark and Lucas are entertained by a little old lady's stories of gunslingers and her scrapbook of wanted posters. Little do they know she's a bounty hunter with her sights set on Duke Jennings, who's headed to Northfork.

15Season 3

S3.E15 ∙ Six Years and a Day

Tue, Jan 3, 1961

Mark comes riding into North Fork in a hurry. He has been sent by Lucas to get Dr. Burrage. He knocks, but does not find the doctor in his office. Two strangers who are planning to kill Dr. Burrage are standing nearby.

16Season 3

S3.E16 ∙ Flowers by the Door

Tue, Jan 10, 1961

A book salesman gives flower seeds to a woman whose husband is away from home. He then covers her mouth with one of his hands as she tries to scream for help.

17Season 3

S3.E17 ∙ Long Trek

Tue, Jan 17, 1961

Micah and Lucas are escorting Stanley, a prisoner, across a vast area with no towns anywhere nearby. After Stanley scares away the three horses, Micah, Lucas, and Stanley start walking, and walking, and walking.

18Season 3

S3.E18 ∙ The Actress

Tue, Jan 24, 1961

Lucas fulfills the dying wish for an old friend.

19Season 3

S3.E19 ∙ Face of Yesterday

Tue, Jan 31, 1961

When he sees the face of a young man who is calling him out, Lucas experiences a shocking flashback to his civil war days.

20Season 3

S3.E20 ∙ The Wyoming Story: Part 1

Tue, Feb 7, 1961

After his herd is wiped out by hoof-and-mouth disease, McCain agrees to serve as an undercover detective for the U.S. government in order to raise enough cash to buy more cattle. He travels to Wyoming to learn the source of the repeating rifles that have fallen into the hands of rebellious Cheyenne Indians.

21Season 3

S3.E21 ∙ The Wyoming Story: Part 2

Tue, Feb 14, 1961

Lucas continues his undercover assignment - searching for the source of repeating rifles that have fallen into the hands of renegade Indians. Meanwhile McCain's absence is keenly felt back in North Fork.

22Season 3

S3.E22 ∙ Closer Than a Brother

Tue, Feb 21, 1961

When Micah's recurring nightmares drives him back to drunkenness, Lucas decides that the marshal must confront the source of those nightmares - a gunslinger he failed to face down sixteen years before.

23Season 3

S3.E23 ∙ The Lost Treasure of Canyon Town

Tue, Feb 28, 1961

The Newmans are still living in the town where Micah grew up. Their plan to strike it rich are smothered by a long forgotten family secret - which Mark is about to uncover.

24Season 3

S3.E24 ∙ Dark Day at North Fork

Tue, Mar 7, 1961

Lucas is temporarily blinded in an explosion. Unfortunately, not long after that incident an old enemy of his rides into town, looking to settle an old score.

25Season 3

S3.E25 ∙ The Prisoner

Tue, Mar 14, 1961

Major Aaron King and Corporal Troc arrive in North Fork on horseback. When they see Lucas, they remember that he was a Lt. in the Union Army fifteen years ago. They see this chance meeting as a lucky break.

26Season 3

S3.E26 ∙ Assault

Tue, Mar 21, 1961

Cade Conway and Vashti Croxton are arguing about where to get married. This leads to a fight and Vashti being knocked unconscious, and a traveling salesman being falsely blamed for it.

27Season 3

S3.E27 ∙ Short Rope for a Tall Man

Tue, Mar 28, 1961

On his way through a strange little town, Lucas is arrested and accused of being a horse thief.

28Season 3

S3.E28 ∙ The Clarence Bibs Story

Tue, Apr 4, 1961

Clarence, Millie's mop boy, is wearing a gun he just cleaned for a customer. When he accidentally kills a famous outlaw, some locals play up their new friend's reputation hoping for more fun as they expect his partner to come to town.

29Season 3

S3.E29 ∙ The Score Is Even

Tue, Apr 11, 1961

Even though badly wounded Lucas is set on bringing two murderers to justice. The trip will be dangerous for both Mark and Lucas.

30Season 3

S3.E30 ∙ The Mescalero Curse

Tue, Apr 18, 1961

Lucas serves as the foreman of a jury that finds a Mescalero Indian guilty of murder. The man's father, a renegade witch doctor, places a curse on the Rifleman predicting his death before the next new moon.

31Season 3

S3.E31 ∙ Stopover

Tue, Apr 25, 1961

Lucas and Mark are in the barn. Outside a snowstorm is raging and the wind is howling. After they reach the house, they hear Scotty, the driver on a stagecoach. He asks to spend the night. The stagecoach passengers are also invited into the McCain home.

32Season 3

S3.E32 ∙ The Lonesome Bride

Tue, May 2, 1961

A stagecoach arrives in North Fork, the door opens, and out steps a woman. In talking with her, Micah finds out that she has come to marry Lucas.

33Season 3

S3.E33 ∙ Death Trap

Tue, May 9, 1961

A gunfight with an unwilling participant brings a need for a doctor, but Doc Burrage is out of town. A doctor passing through North Fork volunteers to help. However, he and Lucas have a past, and not a good one.

34Season 3

S3.E34 ∙ The Queue

Tue, May 16, 1961

The efforts of a Chinese man and his son to establish a laundry are hindered by two louts who resent foreigners in North Fork.

1Season 4

S4.E1 ∙ The Vaqueros

Mon, Oct 2, 1961

In Mexico to buy a seed-bull, Lucas and Mark McCain fall prey to bandits. These bandits strip Lucas of his shirt, hat, and boots. Then they tie him to a tree and leave him to die while they ride off with his kidnapped son.

2Season 4

S4.E2 ∙ First Wages

Mon, Oct 9, 1961

Mark gets a job at the livery stable in North Fork. Lucas is concerned that Mark will not get his home chores done on time.

3Season 4

S4.E3 ∙ Sheer Terror

Mon, Oct 16, 1961

Lucas is asked to stand guard when $50,000 is transferred from a specially designed stagecoach strongbox to the North Fork Bank's vault. Sloan, a former bank clerk plans to rob the shipment with a couple of henchman and uses the general store as a base to launch their attack. Meanwhile, Milly and Mark are held captive in a back room, helpless to prevent the heist.

4Season 4

S4.E4 ∙ The Stand-In

Mon, Oct 23, 1961

A prison wagon stops at the McCain ranch. One of the guards asks Lucas for a bottle of alcohol. He refuses. Later the guards return and take Lucas prisoner.

5Season 4

S4.E5 ∙ The Journey Back

Mon, Oct 30, 1961

Mark gets a job from a neighbor who he initialed shied away from because of his facial scars. When his military past is revealed, Mark has to decide if his new friend has been lying or is the man on his trail seeking vengeance justified.

6Season 4

S4.E6 ∙ The Decision

Mon, Nov 6, 1961

Lucas witnesses a shooting while repairing fencing on his property. When the man who did it is arrested, he is prepared to testify at the trial. Bribery and threats to his family and self are tried but may just backfire on the accused.

7Season 4

S4.E7 ∙ Knight Errant

Mon, Nov 13, 1961

An ex-army officer and the other an eccentric cavalier, two of Lucas' oldest friends, ask him to observe a chess match to prevent any cheating.

8Season 4

S4.E8 ∙ Honest Abe

Mon, Nov 20, 1961

An eccentric man who pretends he's Abe Lincoln spends a weekend with Lucas and Mark. He finds himself in trouble when he gets in a fight with a man in the saloon and breaks the man's arm.

9Season 4

S4.E9 ∙ The Long Goodbye

Mon, Nov 27, 1961

Grandpa Fogarty lives in a rundown old farmhouse with his young grandson Woody. The McCains are neighbors and Lucas repeatedly tries to get the old man to send the boy to the local school. He refuses, leading some of the ladies in North Fork to think he's not fit to be raising a child and that Woody should be taken from him. Grandpa is dead set against it until he learns that someone from his past may be gunning for him. As much as it hurts him, he decides to give up the boy without any explanation.

10Season 4

S4.E10 ∙ The Shattered Idol

Mon, Dec 4, 1961

Lucas and Mark meet Mark Twain. Later they find out that he has a sad secret.

11Season 4

S4.E11 ∙ Long Gun from Tucson

Mon, Dec 11, 1961

North Fork has a problem. A man named John Holliver wants revenge for something that happened five years ago.

12Season 4

S4.E12 ∙ The High Country

Mon, Dec 18, 1961

Two mountain men ride by the McCain ranch and one, Ambrose, is enamored with Lucas' rifle. He tries to trade for it but Lucas won't trade. He is set on getting the gun and later that night they return to ranch and try to steal it. In the scuffle Gorwin is accidentally killed. Lucas returns his horse to his people in the high country but Ambrose has lied about what happened to Gorwin and the hill people hold Lucas accountable. A trial is called and Lucas is found guilty of murder and sentenced to five years labor to pay for Mrs. Morgan's loss.

13Season 4

S4.E13 ∙ A Friend in Need

Mon, Dec 25, 1961

A man is sitting at a table in a corner of the saloon in North Fork. He is watching the time and waiting. Later, he waits on a trail until Mark rides up. He tricks Mark into coming with him.

14Season 4

S4.E14 ∙ Skull

Mon, Jan 1, 1962

When Mark goes missing during a hunting trip, Lucas tries to get help to look for his missing son. Before he gets very far, both Lucas and Mark are taken hostage by Skull Ranch - a haven for outlaws.

15Season 4

S4.E15 ∙ The Princess

Mon, Jan 8, 1962

Lucas and Mark take in a young woman and her brother after the brother comes down with measles. But rumors are flying around that the young woman is a princess - not merely a woman who's yearning to be a farmer.

16Season 4

S4.E16 ∙ Gunfire

Mon, Jan 15, 1962

At night Micah stops by the North Fork jail to check on a prisoner named Charlie Gordo. Charlie does not want to go to Yuma prison to be hanged. He threatens Micah by telling him that if he tries to make him go, he will kill him.

17Season 4

S4.E17 ∙ The Quiet Fear

Mon, Jan 22, 1962

A friend from Lucas' Army days buys a farm near North Fork. His daughter attracts a lot of curiosity since she's very beautiful and very deaf.

18Season 4

S4.E18 ∙ Sporting Chance

Mon, Jan 29, 1962

A gun fighter wanna-be travels all the way from England to meet Lucas, believing that killing Lucas will give him the reputation and respect he needs.

19Season 4

S4.E19 ∙ A Young Man's Fancy

Mon, Feb 5, 1962

The stage arrives in North Fork, and a young lady gets off. She is Sally Walker, a niece of Milly. When Mark sees Sally, he is instantly smitten and stopped in his tracks by her good looks.

20Season 4

S4.E20 ∙ The Man from Salinas

Mon, Feb 12, 1962

Lucas is acting deputy in Northfork while Micah is away on business. When the bank is robbed Lucas shoots and seriously wounds the robber during his getaway. The robber is Rudy Gray from Salinas and when Lucas wires the sheriff of Salinas the telegraph is intercepted by an unscrupulous clerk and his friend Dave Foley. Foley decides to travel to Northfork impersonating Rudy's brother and bring his body back to Salinas before Lucas can find out there is a $2,000 reward on his head.

21Season 4

S4.E21 ∙ Two Ounces of Tin

Mon, Feb 19, 1962

A super fast, black gunman who killed the 5 men the law allowed to murder his father years ago, demands that deputy McCain symbolically throw his badge in the dirt.

22Season 4

S4.E22 ∙ Deadly Image

Mon, Feb 26, 1962

A reliable eye-witness rides into North Fork and accuses Lucas McCain of cattle rustling and cold blooded murder.

23Season 4

S4.E23 ∙ The Debt

Mon, Mar 5, 1962

When Mark and Lucas meet Micah on the trail while transporting a prisoner for execution, Mark discovers the prisoner is a man who saved his life three years earlier. Lucas gets angry when Mark helps the condemned prisoner escape.

24Season 4

S4.E24 ∙ Tinhorn

Mon, Mar 12, 1962

Mark and Milly are shocked when Lucas begins gambling. They don't know that Lucas is "undercover" trying to catch a man at cheating. Lucas must do this in order to save his friend's farm.

25Season 4

S4.E25 ∙ None So Blind

Mon, Mar 19, 1962

While riding out on the range, Mark befriends a blind man with a grudge against another man. When the man in question forces Lucas to kill his cattle because of disease, Mark seeks revenge and is shocked at the results.

26Season 4

S4.E26 ∙ Jealous Man

Mon, Mar 26, 1962

A retired lawman's irrational jealousy threatens not only to destroy his marriage, but also to make him an easy target for someone who wants him dead. And as usual, Lucas finds himself right in the middle of all this drama.

27Season 4

S4.E27 ∙ Guilty Conscience

Mon, Apr 2, 1962

It's an interesting day in North Fork when a woman and her son arrive on a stagecoach. Before too long she sees Micah and thinks that he is her long lost husband.

28Season 4

S4.E28 ∙ Day of Reckoning

Mon, Apr 9, 1962

The town has a new minister - a mortal enemy of Lucas McCain, whom he vowed to kill if he ever saw him again. Now Lucas must face the conflicts inside himself and comes to terms with the past.

29Season 4

S4.E29 ∙ The Day a Town Slept

Mon, Apr 16, 1962

Lucas and Mark ride into North Fork after a two week hunting trip to discover that Micah is no longer Marshal. Worse then that, they have a new Marshal who is crooked and allows outlaws to deputy.

30Season 4

S4.E30 ∙ Milly's Brother

Mon, Apr 23, 1962

A man rides into North Fork. When he sees Lucas, he reminds him that they met in training camp during the Civil War. Upon hearing them talking, Milly asks the man whether he knew her brother, who died in the Battle of Bull Run.

31Season 4

S4.E31 ∙ Outlaw's Shoes

Mon, Apr 30, 1962

While Lucas is riding to Red Creek, two men who are in hiding see him. One of the men shoots Lucas in the head, knocking him off of his horse, and almost killing him.

32Season 4

S4.E32 ∙ The Executioner

Mon, May 7, 1962

A former neighbor of the McCain's is released from jail after serving his sentence for stage coach robbery, but the money was never found. Lucas agrees to let the man work for him, but the new work hand holds a secret.

1Season 5

S5.E1 ∙ Waste: Part 1

Mon, Oct 1, 1962

When Lucas, Mark, and Micah get lost in Old Mexico, they are held hostage by a bunch of bandits who intend to kill the men and make Mark a slave. Micah is seriously hurt and buried alive - so it is all up to Lucas to save them.

2Season 5

S5.E2 ∙ Waste: Part 2

Mon, Oct 8, 1962

While trapped in a ghost town saloon, Lucas tries to come up with a plan of escape in order to save his son and Micah after Mark refuses to leave without him.

3Season 5

S5.E3 ∙ Lou Mallory

Mon, Oct 15, 1962

Lucas arrives in North Fork to learn that a new arrival, Lou Mallory, has been been buying up land and some of the town's businesses. Mallory is a no-nonsense businesswoman, a self-starter who seems quite determined in looking after her own interests. Lucas even manages to get a very good price for Milly Scott's store, now that she's moved away. When the townsfolk learn that the railroad will be coming to town, several think they've been had, including Neb Jackman and his sons who sold her what they thought was a worthless piece of land. Neb's solution is to kidnap her and arrange a marriage to one of his boys.

4Season 5

S5.E4 ∙ Quiet Night, Deadly Night

Mon, Oct 22, 1962

After a woman on the stage comes down sick, the hotel occupants - including Lucas and Lou - are quarantined because of suspected small pox. They soon discover there is a wanted man among them.

5Season 5

S5.E5 ∙ Death Never Rides Alone

Mon, Oct 29, 1962

A famous fast gunslinger comes looking for his old friend Lucas to help him retire in North Fork, but 3 gunman followed him and want his help to dominate the town.

6Season 5

S5.E6 ∙ I Take This Woman

Mon, Nov 5, 1962

Dennis O'Flarrety arrives in North Fork. Upon seeing an opportunity to help, he single-handedly lifts part of a wagon. But, his real reason for being in town is that he intends to marry Lou Mallory, the owner of the hotel.

7Season 5

S5.E7 ∙ The Assailants

Mon, Nov 12, 1962

North Fork is eagerly awaiting a visit from a U.S. Senator who is promoting Statehood for the territory. Micah has received a telegram saying there might be an attempt on the Senator's life but isn't too worried since a troop of soldiers are in town and have just checked in at the hotel. Oddly, the soldiers arrived with a large coffin-like box which they've taken up to their room. Lucas finds one of the soldier's behavior to be quite odd and with good reason: they are the assassins out to kill the Senator and the mysterious box contains a Gatling gun.

8Season 5

S5.E8 ∙ Mark's Rifle

Mon, Nov 19, 1962

Mark and Lucas disagree on the character of a man claiming to work for the circus. Lucas shoots the man during a robbery at the hotel, but Mark believes the man's story. This puts father and son at odds.

9Season 5

S5.E9 ∙ The Most Amazing Man

Mon, Nov 26, 1962

A famous gun fighter, whom Mark idolizes, is in town telling more of his stories. But this time, he tells one story too many and is challenged. Lucas begins thinking that maybe he's not "the most amazing man" after all.

10Season 5

S5.E10 ∙ Squeeze Play

Mon, Dec 3, 1962

When Lucas refuses to sell his land to Mr. Prescott, he hires men to try to change his mind But no matter what challenges are thrown at him, he refuses. Even Lou and Mark don't understand his refusal.

11Season 5

S5.E11 ∙ Gun Shy

Mon, Dec 10, 1962

When Mark's careless actions cause the death of a friend, he blames the rifle. Not being able to accept the truth, he runs away from home. But he is faced with a tough decision that could be a matter of life and death.

12Season 5

S5.E12 ∙ The Anvil Chorus

Mon, Dec 17, 1962

Micah goes out of town, leaving Nils Swenson in charge. Lucas warns Nils against posting a "no gun" notice, and then angrily leaves town. He quickly returns, though, when he discovers Mark is in trouble because Nils didn't take Lucas's advice.

13Season 5

S5.E13 ∙ Conflict

Mon, Dec 24, 1962

After Lucas barely misses killing a cougar threatening Mark, he goes into conflict with himself. The fact that his missing the cougar could have cost Mark his life terrifies him. Lucas must come to terms with this reality.

14Season 5

S5.E14 ∙ Incident at Line Shack Six

Mon, Jan 7, 1963

A murder occurs in the railroad camp near North Fork. The accused is found in the McCain barn where Mark and Lou hid him. As a result, when Lucas goes to the trial he finds himself being tried with the accused.

15Season 5

S5.E15 ∙ Suspicion

Mon, Jan 14, 1963

Mark and Lucas help a stranded stranger back to town. When he starts giving away items stolen in murderous robberies, he is accused of the murders. But Lucas isn't so sure he's guilty.

16Season 5

S5.E16 ∙ The Sidewinder

Mon, Jan 21, 1963

Lucas shot and killed a man years ago. Now, his son - who is Mark's age - is in North Fork for revenge. After he threatens a gunfight with Mark, Lucas demands him arrested and charged, but Lou Mallory has other plans.

17Season 5

S5.E17 ∙ The Sixteenth Cousin

Mon, Jan 28, 1963

It's a big day for North Fork - the first railroad train is coming to their new station. Riding as passengers are the McCains and a Japanese nobleman and his servant who are visiting the West to learn more about the United States. When the foreigners are insulted by a pair of local hooligans, they demand satisfaction, and soon the four men face off in North Fork's dusty main street.

18Season 5

S5.E18 ∙ Hostages to Fortune

Mon, Feb 4, 1963

On Halloween night Mark and his friends, wearing masks, ride from ranch to ranch playing pranks. A couple of rustlers hit on the idea of wearing similar masks while stealing cattle, knowing the boys will be blamed. They hide the animals in a gullible Englishman's barn, waiting for a chance to drive the herd across the Mexican border.

19Season 5

S5.E19 ∙ And the Devil Makes Five

Mon, Feb 11, 1963

After running into Micah on the trail, Mark and Lucas stay to help him when the prisoner he is transporting injures Micah's arm. But the morning yields a serious problem. Lucas's life is in mortal danger and only the prisoner can save him.

20Season 5

S5.E20 ∙ End of the Hunt

Mon, Feb 18, 1963

While Mark goes hunting for Old Spike, Lucas goes hunting for a mortal enemy who showed up in North Fork - the enemy used to be a good friend until he shot him in the back. But that's not all he did.

21Season 5

S5.E21 ∙ The Bullet

Mon, Feb 25, 1963

Lucas travels to a town and gets mixed up in a murder mystery when he tries to find a missing friend. The Sheriff introduces a strange concept: ballistics. Lucas is leery, but plays along with him.

22Season 5

S5.E22 ∙ Requiem at Mission Springs

Mon, Mar 4, 1963

Mark falls off his horse and becomes paralyzed. Doc Burrage confirms to Lucas that a visit to a hot spring may help. The only one near is a few days ride in the mountains and Lou offers to help. When they arrive they have to deal with the cold as well as three escaped convicts. To avoid discovery they have to hide which keeps them from lighting a fire. As it is getting cold, Lucas is forced to deal with the situation and confronts the convicts to save the day and his son.

23Season 5

S5.E23 ∙ The Guest

Mon, Mar 11, 1963

A stranger arrives in North Fork claiming to be an old acquaintance of a good friend from Lucas's past. In reality, he has been hired to kill Lucas, but his plans go sour when Mark befriends him.

24Season 5

S5.E24 ∙ Old Man Running

Mon, Mar 25, 1963

Mark's grandfather visits, running from present troubles while seeking to resolve troubles from the past.

25Season 5

S5.E25 ∙ Which Way'd They Go?

Mon, Apr 1, 1963

It seems to be the end of the line for the Jackman clan after their farm is put up for sale to pay back taxes. It's clear they weren't cut out for farming and go off to Paradise, a nearby town. They arrive to find that the position of town Marshal is vacant and family patriarch Nebeneezert takes the job and deputizes his three sons. They soon realize just what they've got themselves into when they see that all of the badges have bullet holes in them. When bank robbers come to town, Lucas helps them keep the peace.

26Season 5

S5.E26 ∙ Old Tony

Mon, Apr 8, 1963

Mark and his girlfriend, Lorrie, become entangled in a feud between two old codgers. The teenagers soon learn that the "Hermit" has a bark that's worse than his bite when the old man invites them to lunch and allows them to look for arrowheads on a remote part of his land. The youngsters face dire peril when they become trapped in a pool of quicksand.