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.
| Title | Air Date | Duration | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Season 1 | Episode 1 | The Sharpshooter | 1958-09-30 | 30 min |
| Season 1 | Episode 2 | Home Ranch | 1958-10-07 | 30 min |
| Season 1 | Episode 3 | End of a Young Gun | 1958-10-14 | 30 min |
| Season 1 | Episode 4 | The Marshal | 1958-10-21 | 30 min |
| Season 1 | Episode 5 | The Brother-in-Law | 1958-10-28 | 30 min |
| Season 1 | Episode 6 | Eight Hours to Die | 1958-11-04 | 30 min |
| Season 1 | Episode 7 | Duel of Honor | 1958-11-11 | 30 min |
| Season 1 | Episode 8 | The Safe Guard | 1958-10-18 | 30 min |
| Season 1 | Episode 9 | The Sister | 1958-11-25 | 30 min |
| Season 1 | Episode 10 | New Orleans Menace | 1958-12-26 | 30 min |
| Season 1 | Episode 11 | The Apprentice Sheriff | 1958-12-09 | 30 min |
| Season 1 | Episode 12 | The Angry Gun | 1958-12-16 | 30 min |
| Season 1 | Episode 13 | Young Englishman | 1958-12-23 | 30 min |
| Season 1 | Episode 14 | The Gaucho | 1958-12-30 | 30 min |
| Season 1 | Episode 15 | The Pet | 1959-01-06 | 30 min |
| Season 1 | Episode 16 | The Sheridan Story | 1959-01-13 | 30 min |
| Season 1 | Episode 17 | The Retired Gun | 1959-01-20 | 30 min |
| Season 1 | Episode 18 | The Photographer | 1959-01-27 | 30 min |
| Season 1 | Episode 19 | Shivaree | 1959-02-03 | 30 min |
| Season 1 | Episode 20 | The Deadeye Kid | 1959-02-10 | 30 min |
| Season 1 | Episode 21 | The Indian | 1959-02-17 | 30 min |
| Season 1 | Episode 22 | The Boarding House | 1959-02-24 | 30 min |
| Season 1 | Episode 23 | The Second Witness | 1959-03-30 | 30 min |
| Season 1 | Episode 24 | The Trade | 1959-03-10 | 30 min |
| Season 1 | Episode 25 | One Went to Denver | 1959-03-17 | 30 min |
| Season 1 | Episode 26 | The Deadly Wait | 1959-03-24 | 30 min |
| Season 1 | Episode 27 | The Wrong Man | 1959-03-31 | 30 min |
| Season 1 | Episode 28 | The Challenge | 1959-04-07 | 30 min |
| Season 1 | Episode 29 | The Hawk | 1959-04-14 | 30 min |
| Season 1 | Episode 30 | Three-Legged Terror | 1959-04-21 | 30 min |
| Season 1 | Episode 31 | The Angry Man | 1959-04-28 | 30 min |
| Season 1 | Episode 32 | The Woman | 1959-05-05 | 30 min |
| Season 1 | Episode 33 | The Money Gun | 1959-05-12 | 30 min |
| Season 1 | Episode 34 | A Matter of Faith | 1959-05-19 | 30 min |
| Season 1 | Episode 35 | Blood Brothers | 1959-05-26 | 30 min |
| Season 1 | Episode 36 | Stranger at Night | 1959-06-20 | 30 min |
| Season 1 | Episode 37 | The Raid | 1959-06-09 | 30 min |
| Season 1 | Episode 38 | Outlaw's Inheritance | 1959-06-16 | 30 min |
| Season 1 | Episode 39 | Boomerang | 1959-06-23 | 30 min |
| Season 1 | Episode 40 | The Mind Reader | 1959-06-30 | 30 min |
| Season 2 | Episode 1 | The Patsy | 1959-09-29 | 30 min |
| Season 2 | Episode 2 | Bloodlines | 1959-10-06 | 30 min |
| Season 2 | Episode 3 | The Blowout | 1959-10-13 | 30 min |
| Season 2 | Episode 4 | Obituary | 1959-10-20 | 30 min |
| Season 2 | Episode 5 | Tension | 1959-10-27 | 30 min |
| Season 2 | Episode 6 | Eddie's Daughter | 1959-11-03 | 30 min |
| Season 2 | Episode 7 | Panic | 1959-11-10 | 30 min |
| Season 2 | Episode 8 | Ordeal | 1959-11-17 | 30 min |
| Season 2 | Episode 9 | The Spiked Rifle | 1959-11-24 | 30 min |
| Season 2 | Episode 10 | Letter of the Law | 1959-12-01 | 30 min |
| Season 2 | Episode 11 | The Legacy | 1959-12-08 | 30 min |
| Season 2 | Episode 12 | The Baby Sitter | 1959-12-15 | 30 min |
| Season 2 | Episode 13 | The Coward | 1959-12-22 | 30 min |
| Season 2 | Episode 14 | Surveyors | 1959-12-29 | 30 min |
| Season 2 | Episode 15 | Day of the Hunter | 1960-01-05 | 30 min |
| Season 2 | Episode 16 | Mail Order Groom | 1960-01-12 | 30 min |
| Season 2 | Episode 17 | A Case of Identity | 1960-01-19 | 30 min |
| Season 2 | Episode 18 | The Visitors | 1960-01-26 | 30 min |
| Season 2 | Episode 19 | The Hero | 1960-02-02 | 30 min |
| Season 2 | Episode 20 | The Horse Traders | 1960-02-09 | 30 min |
| Season 2 | Episode 21 | The Spoiler | 1960-02-16 | 30 min |
| Season 2 | Episode 22 | Heller | 1960-02-23 | 30 min |
| Season 2 | Episode 23 | The Grasshopper | 1960-03-01 | 30 min |
| Season 2 | Episode 24 | A Time for Singing | 1960-03-08 | 30 min |
| Season 2 | Episode 25 | The Deserter | 1960-03-15 | 30 min |
| Season 2 | Episode 26 | The Vision | 1960-03-22 | 30 min |
| Season 2 | Episode 27 | The Lariat | 1960-03-29 | 30 min |
| Season 2 | Episode 28 | Smoke Screen | 1960-04-05 | 30 min |
| Season 2 | Episode 29 | Shotgun Man | 1960-04-12 | 30 min |
| Season 2 | Episode 30 | Sins of the Father | 1960-04-19 | 30 min |
| Season 2 | Episode 31 | The Prodigal | 1960-04-26 | 30 min |
| Season 2 | Episode 32 | The Fourflusher | 1960-05-03 | 30 min |
| Season 2 | Episode 33 | The Jailbird | 1960-05-10 | 30 min |
| Season 2 | Episode 34 | Meeting at Midnight | 1960-05-17 | 30 min |
| Season 2 | Episode 35 | Nora | 1960-05-24 | 30 min |
| Season 2 | Episode 36 | The Hangman | 1960-05-31 | 30 min |
| Season 3 | Episode 1 | Trail of Hate | 1960-09-27 | 30 min |
| Season 3 | Episode 2 | Woman from Hog Ridge | 1960-10-04 | 30 min |
| Season 3 | Episode 3 | Seven | 1960-10-11 | 30 min |
| Season 3 | Episode 4 | The Pitchman | 1960-10-18 | 30 min |
| Season 3 | Episode 5 | Strange Town | 1960-10-25 | 30 min |
| Season 3 | Episode 6 | Baranca | 1960-11-01 | 30 min |
| Season 3 | Episode 7 | The Martinet | 1960-11-08 | 30 min |
| Season 3 | Episode 8 | Miss Milly | 1960-11-15 | 30 min |
| Season 3 | Episode 9 | Dead Cold Cash | 1960-11-22 | 30 min |
| Season 3 | Episode 10 | The Schoolmaster | 1960-11-29 | 30 min |
| Season 3 | Episode 11 | The Promoter | 1960-12-06 | 30 min |
| Season 3 | Episode 12 | The Illustrator | 1960-12-13 | 30 min |
| Season 3 | Episode 13 | The Silent Knife | 1960-12-20 | 30 min |
| Season 3 | Episode 14 | Miss Bertie | 1960-12-27 | 30 min |
| Season 3 | Episode 15 | Six Years and a Day | 1961-01-30 | 30 min |
| Season 3 | Episode 16 | Flowers by the Door | 1961-01-10 | 30 min |
| Season 3 | Episode 17 | Long Trek | 1961-01-17 | 30 min |
| Season 3 | Episode 18 | The Actress | 1961-01-24 | 30 min |
| Season 3 | Episode 19 | Face of Yesterday | 1961-01-31 | 30 min |
| Season 3 | Episode 20 | The Wyoming Story (1) | 1961-02-07 | 30 min |
| Season 3 | Episode 21 | The Wyoming Story (2) | 1961-02-14 | 30 min |
| Season 3 | Episode 22 | Closer Than a Brother | 1961-02-21 | 30 min |
| Season 3 | Episode 23 | The Lost Treasure of Canyon Town | 1961-02-28 | 30 min |
| Season 3 | Episode 24 | Dark Day at North Fork | 1961-03-07 | 30 min |
| Season 3 | Episode 25 | The Prisoner | 1961-03-14 | 30 min |
| Season 3 | Episode 26 | Assault | 1961-03-21 | 30 min |
| Season 3 | Episode 27 | Short Rope for a Tall Man | 1961-03-28 | 30 min |
| Season 3 | Episode 28 | The Clarence Bibs Story | 1961-04-04 | 30 min |
| Season 3 | Episode 29 | The Score is Even | 1961-04-11 | 30 min |
| Season 3 | Episode 30 | The Mescalaro Curse | 1961-04-18 | 30 min |
| Season 3 | Episode 31 | Stopover | 1961-04-25 | 30 min |
| Season 3 | Episode 32 | The Lonesome Bride | 1961-05-02 | 30 min |
| Season 3 | Episode 33 | Death Trap | 1961-05-09 | 30 min |
| Season 3 | Episode 34 | The Queue | 1961-05-16 | 30 min |
| Season 4 | Episode 1 | The Vaqueros | 1961-10-02 | 30 min |
| Season 4 | Episode 2 | First Wages | 1961-10-09 | 30 min |
| Season 4 | Episode 3 | Sheer Terror | 1961-10-16 | 30 min |
| Season 4 | Episode 4 | The Stand-In | 1961-10-23 | 30 min |
| Season 4 | Episode 5 | The Journey Back | 1961-10-30 | 30 min |
| Season 4 | Episode 6 | The Decision | 1961-11-06 | 30 min |
| Season 4 | Episode 7 | Knight Errant | 1961-11-13 | 30 min |
| Season 4 | Episode 8 | Honest Abe | 1961-11-20 | 30 min |
| Season 4 | Episode 9 | The Long Goodbye | 1961-11-27 | 30 min |
| Season 4 | Episode 10 | The Shattered Idol | 1961-12-04 | 30 min |
| Season 4 | Episode 11 | Long Gun from Tucson | 1961-12-11 | 30 min |
| Season 4 | Episode 12 | The High Country | 1961-12-18 | 30 min |
| Season 4 | Episode 13 | A Friend in Need | 1961-12-25 | 30 min |
| Season 4 | Episode 14 | Skull | 1962-01-01 | 30 min |
| Season 4 | Episode 15 | The Princess | 1962-01-08 | 30 min |
| Season 4 | Episode 16 | Gunfire | 1962-01-15 | 30 min |
| Season 4 | Episode 17 | The Quiet Fear | 1962-01-22 | 30 min |
| Season 4 | Episode 18 | Sporting Chance | 1962-01-29 | 30 min |
| Season 4 | Episode 19 | A Young Man's Fancy | 1962-02-05 | 30 min |
| Season 4 | Episode 20 | The Man from Salinas | 1962-02-12 | 30 min |
| Season 4 | Episode 21 | Two Ounces of Tin | 1962-02-19 | 30 min |
| Season 4 | Episode 22 | Deadly Image | 1962-02-26 | 30 min |
| Season 4 | Episode 23 | The Debt | 1962-03-05 | 30 min |
| Season 4 | Episode 24 | The Tinhorn | 1962-03-12 | 30 min |
| Season 4 | Episode 25 | None So Blind | 1962-03-19 | 30 min |
| Season 4 | Episode 26 | Jealous Man | 1962-03-26 | 30 min |
| Season 4 | Episode 27 | Guilty Conscience | 1962-04-02 | 30 min |
| Season 4 | Episode 28 | Day of Reckoning | 1962-04-09 | 30 min |
| Season 4 | Episode 29 | The Day the Town Slept | 1962-04-16 | 30 min |
| Season 4 | Episode 30 | Milly's Brother | 1962-04-23 | 30 min |
| Season 4 | Episode 31 | Outlaw's Shoes | 1962-04-30 | 30 min |
| Season 4 | Episode 32 | The Executioner | 1962-05-07 | 30 min |
| Season 5 | Episode 1 | Waste (1) | 1962-10-01 | 30 min |
| Season 5 | Episode 2 | Waste (2) | 1962-10-08 | 30 min |
| Season 5 | Episode 3 | Lou Mallory | 1962-10-15 | 30 min |
| Season 5 | Episode 4 | Quiet Night, Deadly Night | 1962-10-22 | 30 min |
| Season 5 | Episode 5 | Death Never Rides Alone | 1962-10-29 | 30 min |
| Season 5 | Episode 6 | I Take This Woman | 1962-11-05 | 30 min |
| Season 5 | Episode 7 | The Assailants | 1962-11-12 | 30 min |
| Season 5 | Episode 8 | Mark's Rifle | 1962-11-19 | 30 min |
| Season 5 | Episode 9 | The Most Amazing Man | 1962-11-26 | 30 min |
| Season 5 | Episode 10 | Squeeze Play | 1962-12-03 | 30 min |
| Season 5 | Episode 11 | Gun Shy | 1962-12-10 | 30 min |
| Season 5 | Episode 12 | The Anvil Chorus | 1962-12-17 | 30 min |
| Season 5 | Episode 13 | Conflict | 1962-12-24 | 30 min |
| Season 5 | Episode 14 | Incident at Line Shack Six | 1963-01-07 | 30 min |
| Season 5 | Episode 15 | Suspicion | 1963-01-14 | 30 min |
| Season 5 | Episode 16 | The Sidewinder | 1963-01-21 | 30 min |
| Season 5 | Episode 17 | The Sixteenth Cousin | 1963-01-28 | 30 min |
| Season 5 | Episode 18 | Hostages to Fortune | 1963-02-04 | 30 min |
| Season 5 | Episode 19 | And the Devil Makes Five | 1963-02-11 | 30 min |
| Season 5 | Episode 20 | End of the Hunt | 1963-02-18 | 30 min |
| Season 5 | Episode 21 | The Bullet | 1963-02-25 | 30 min |
| Season 5 | Episode 22 | Requiem at Mission Springs | 1963-03-04 | 30 min |
| Season 5 | Episode 23 | The Guest | 1963-03-11 | 30 min |
| Season 5 | Episode 24 | Old Man Running (aka The Wanted Man) | 1963-03-18 | 30 min |
| Season 5 | Episode 25 | Which Way'd They Go? | 1963-04-01 | 30 min |
| Season 5 | Episode 26 | Old Tony | 1963-04-08 | 30 min |
| Production | Arthur H. Nadel | Producer |
| Sound | Herschel Burke Gilbert | Music |
