The Rifleman (1958)

Family · Western

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.

IMDb rating: 8.3 (5,871 votes)
Seasons: 5
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Language: EN
Type: TV series

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Cast

Seasons

Season 1 (1958)

8.15 avg 40 episodes 8.6 → 7.8 30 min avg

Season 1 episodes — IMDb ratings
#	Title	Rating	Votes
1	The Sharpshooter	8.6	525
2	Home Ranch	8.1	361
3	End of a Young Gun	8.3	348
4	The Marshal	8.5	354
5	The Brother-in-Law	7.8	248
6	Eight Hours to Die	8.0	253
7	Duel of Honor	8.3	256
8	The Safe Guard	8.3	251
9	The Sister	8.4	264
10	New Orleans Menace	8.0	227
11	The Apprentice Sheriff	7.9	222
12	The Angry Gun	8.4	238
13	The Young Englishman	8.1	217
14	The Gaucho	8.1	222
15	The Pet	8.2	190
16	The Sheridan Story	8.7	312
17	The Retired Gun	8.0	210
18	The Photographer	8.2	210
19	Shivaree	7.7	219
20	The Deadeye Kid	7.8	196
21	The Indian	8.4	224
22	The Boarding House	7.9	220
23	The Second Witness	8.3	201
24	The Trade	8.1	186
25	One Went to Denver	8.2	180
26	The Deadly Wait	8.5	200
27	The Wrong Man	8.2	167
28	The Challenge	7.8	208
29	The Hawk	8.3	184
30	Three Legged Terror	8.2	194
31	The Angry Man	8.3	205
32	The Woman	8.0	182
33	The Money Gun	8.5	205
34	A Matter of Faith	8.0	176
35	Blood Brother	8.1	171
36	Stranger at Night	7.8	165
37	The Raid	8.2	192
38	Outlaw's Inheritance	7.7	188
39	Boomerang	8.1	190
40	The Mind Reader	7.8	198

Season 2 (1959)

8.01 avg 36 episodes 8.0 → 8.1 30 min avg

Season 2 episodes — IMDb ratings
#	Title	Rating	Votes
1	The Patsy	8.0	180
2	Bloodlines	8.0	201
3	The Blowout	8.3	180
4	Obituary	8.3	183
5	Tension	8.0	190
6	Eddie's Daughter	7.7	173
7	Panic	8.2	186
8	Ordeal	8.1	181
9	The Spiked Rifle	8.1	164
10	Letter of the Law	8.2	169
11	The Legacy	7.7	164
12	The Baby Sitter	7.2	204
13	The Coward	8.2	178
14	Surveyors	8.0	154
15	Day of the Hunter	7.4	196
16	Mail Order Groom	7.8	214
17	A Case of Identity	8.3	195
18	The Visitor	8.4	198
19	Hero	7.9	163
20	The Horse Traders	7.7	150
21	The Spoiler	8.1	164
22	Heller	8.4	197
23	The Grasshopper	8.1	171
24	A Time for Singing	7.6	157
25	The Deserter	8.4	174
26	The Vision	8.4	230
27	The Lariat	7.9	162
28	Smoke Screen	7.8	148
29	Shotgun Man	8.0	173
30	Sins of the Father	7.9	151
31	The Prodigal	8.3	168
32	The Fourflusher	8.2	134
33	The Jailbird	7.9	140
34	Meeting at Midnight	8.0	159
35	Nora	7.9	168
36	The Hangman	8.1	158

Season 3 (1960)

8.04 avg 34 episodes 8.1 → 8.2 30 min avg

Season 3 episodes — IMDb ratings
#	Title	Rating	Votes
1	Trail of Hate	8.1	171
2	Woman from Hog Ridge	8.4	184
3	Seven	7.9	150
4	The Pitchman	7.7	165
5	Strange Town	7.8	172
6	Baranca	8.2	183
7	The Martinet	7.6	154
8	Miss Milly	8.0	182
9	Dead Cold Cash	8.4	166
10	The Schoolmaster	7.8	166
11	The Promoter	8.0	169
12	The Illustrator	7.5	150
13	The Silent Knife	8.1	171
14	Miss Bertie	8.0	195
15	Six Years and a Day	7.8	157
16	Flowers by the Door	8.2	177
17	Long Trek	8.0	159
18	The Actress	7.8	176
19	Face of Yesterday	8.5	201
20	The Wyoming Story: Part 1	8.4	175
21	The Wyoming Story: Part 2	8.5	174
22	Closer Than a Brother	8.4	178
23	The Lost Treasure of Canyon Town	7.7	157
24	Dark Day at North Fork	8.0	153
25	The Prisoner	7.9	148
26	Assault	7.3	158
27	Short Rope for a Tall Man	8.0	138
28	The Clarence Bibs Story	8.3	170
29	The Score Is Even	7.9	146
30	The Mescalero Curse	8.0	152
31	Stopover	8.5	220
32	The Lonesome Bride	7.9	181
33	Death Trap	8.7	192
34	The Queue	8.2	171

Season 4 (1961)

7.99 avg 32 episodes 8.4 → 7.5 30 min avg

Season 4 episodes — IMDb ratings
#	Title	Rating	Votes
1	The Vaqueros	8.4	185
2	First Wages	8.3	153
3	Sheer Terror	8.3	166
4	The Stand-In	7.9	150
5	The Journey Back	8.2	145
6	The Decision	8.2	166
7	Knight Errant	7.6	162
8	Honest Abe	7.8	170
9	The Long Goodbye	8.1	137
10	The Shattered Idol	7.7	180
11	Long Gun from Tucson	8.1	168
12	The High Country	8.1	166
13	A Friend in Need	7.8	140
14	Skull	8.1	160
15	The Princess	7.7	167
16	Gunfire	8.4	161
17	The Quiet Fear	8.4	165
18	Sporting Chance	7.4	141
19	A Young Man's Fancy	8.3	185
20	The Man from Salinas	8.3	152
21	Two Ounces of Tin	8.8	243
22	Deadly Image	7.7	163
23	The Debt	7.9	142
24	Tinhorn	7.8	162
25	None So Blind	7.7	158
26	Jealous Man	7.7	139
27	Guilty Conscience	8.0	171
28	Day of Reckoning	8.2	137
29	The Day a Town Slept	8.0	156
30	Milly's Brother	7.5	133
31	Outlaw's Shoes	7.8	142
32	The Executioner	7.5	147

Season 5 (1962)

7.91 avg 26 episodes 8.0 → 8.0 30 min avg

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Season 5 episodes — IMDb ratings
#	Title	Rating	Votes
1	Waste: Part 1	8.0	185
2	Waste: Part 2	8.1	168
3	Lou Mallory	8.1	164
4	Quiet Night, Deadly Night	8.1	155
5	Death Never Rides Alone	8.7	208
6	I Take This Woman	7.5	154
7	The Assailants	8.3	161
8	Mark's Rifle	8.3	157
9	The Most Amazing Man	8.5	204
10	Squeeze Play	8.1	141
11	Gun Shy	7.9	162
12	The Anvil Chorus	7.7	150
13	Conflict	7.3	142
14	Incident at Line Shack Six	8.1	144
15	Suspicion	7.6	139
16	The Sidewinder	8.2	211
17	The Sixteenth Cousin	7.4	168
18	Hostages to Fortune	7.5	131
19	And the Devil Makes Five	7.9	142
20	End of the Hunt	7.9	136
21	The Bullet	8.3	164
22	Requiem at Mission Springs	7.9	146
23	The Guest	7.6	149
24	Old Man Running	8.4	171
25	Which Way'd They Go?	6.2	195
26	Old Tony	8.0	216

The Rifleman (1958)

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