The Rifleman (1960) Season 3
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.
01 Lucas is out for vengeance when Mark is used as a pawn in a bank robbery scheme.
9/27/1960
02 Lucas shoots a horse thief who turns out to be a member of the Boyle clan, and now Ma Boyle is after him.
10/4/1960
03 Seven condemned murderers escape and take over the town of North Fork.
10/11/1960
04 When Mark finds gold on their property, a fast-talking salesman who tried to sell Lucas a new lightning rod offers instead to buy the ranch's mineral rights.
9/18/1960
05 Lucas tracks an escaped prisoner to a town that turns out to be run by the gunman's brother, notorious for shooting people in the back.
10/25/1960
06 When an outlaw leader lures Marshal Torrance out of town, Lucas is the only one who can stop him from lynching a local man who killed one of the members of his gang.
11/1/1960
07 A former army captain comes to North Fork to kill the man who shot down his son in a gunfight - Lucas McCain.
11/8/1960
08 A new store owner upsets the town by demanding that all credit accounts be paid off.
11/15/1960
09 The widow of a bandit killed by Lucas plots a grotesque revenge.
11/22/1960
10 Mark and his friend become trapped in an old mine.
11/29/1960
11 A con man and his fast-gun friend come to North Fork. Lucas enters a target shooting contest.
12/6/1960
12 Lucas encourages a drunken artist charged with murder to use his talents to identify the true killer.
12/13/1960
13 Lucas and Mark try to persuade a persecuted young mute to return stolen money.
12/20/1960
14 A lively old lady arrives in town hot on the trail of a notorious bandit—and the reward money for capturing him.
12/27/1960
15 A doctor seeks revenge on the man he blames for ruining his practice.
1/30/1961
16 Lucas unmasks a killer posing as a door-to-door seed salesman.
1/10/1961
17 Lucas and Marshal Torrance run in trouble transporting a captured killer back to face trial.
1/17/1961
18 A deathbed request from an old friend sends Lucas to a neighboring town in search of the man's long-lost sweetheart.
1/24/1961
19 Lucas thinks he has seen a ghost when a young man, eerily similar to a man he killed in the Civil War, challenges him to a gunfight.
1/31/1961
20 Lucas agrees to take a job as a federal undercover agent and goes to Wyoming to investigate rumors of sales of arms to renegade indians. His life is endagered by the town drunk who stumbles onto his true identity and purpose. (Part 1 of 2)
2/7/1961
21 Mark heads for Wyoming to search for Lucas, who's on the trail of a gang illegally selling weapons to the Indians. (Part 2 of 2)
2/14/1961
22 Lucas looks for answers when recovering alcoholic Micah Torrence returns to the bottle—and turns in his badge.
2/21/1961
The Lost Treasure of Canyon Town 23 In a ghost town, Lucas, Mark and Micah tangle with the Newman family and learn the secret of the town's 20-year-old mystery of a lost gold mine.
2/28/1961
24 Blinded in an explosion, Lucas fights despair as he prepares for a meeting with a gun-toting enemy.
3/7/1961
25 Two ex-Confederate officers seek revenge on Lucas, who served as prison guard during their internment.
3/14/1961
26 A salesman can't talk his way out of an assault charge.
3/21/1961
Short Rope for a Tall Man 27 Lucas, accused of horse theft, struggles to clear himself before a lynch mob catches up.
3/28/1961
28 A janitor-turned-gunfighter whose reputation hangs on one lucky shot—and a lot of gall.
4/4/1961
29 Lucas tries to get help when he is shot after witnessing a murder.
4/11/1961
30 Lucas is marked for death: he was foreman of a jury that convicted an Apache.
4/18/1961
31 Trouble brews at Lucas's when a whisky salesman and a gunfighter fall for the same woman.
4/25/1961
32 Two pranksters write away for a mail-order bride, using Lucas's name.
5/2/1961
33 Lucas recognizes Dr. Simon Battle as an ex-gunslinger with whom he once traded shots.
5/9/1961
34 A Chinese man and his son fight prejudice as they try to open a laundry in North Fork.
5/16/1961
