The Rifleman
1958, Series, 30 min, Family, Western, English, United States, MoviePedia score 71
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.
Directed by Joseph H. Lewis, Arnold Laven, Arthur H. Nadel, Gene Nelson, Don Medford, Richard Donner, Lewis Allen, Lawrence Dobkin, Arthur Hiller, Jerry Hopper, Sam Peckinpah, Paul Landres, Don Taylor, Ted Post, William F. Claxton, Lamont Johnson, James Neilson, James Clavell, Dick Moder, John Rich, Paul Wendkos, Montgomery Pittman, David Swift, William Conrad, John English, Bernard L. Kowalski, Murray Golden, Don McDougall, John Peyser, Budd Boetticher, David Friedkin, Jesse Hibbs, Otto Lang, Ida Lupino, Robert Butler
Cast
- Chuck Connors as Earl Bantry
- Johnny Crawford as Mark McCain
- Paul Fix as Doctor
- Joe Benson as Barfly
- Bill Quinn as Frank Sweeney
- Patricia Blair as Lou Mallory
- Joe Higgins as Henry Schneider
- Joan Taylor as Millie Scott
- Harlan Warde as John Hamilton
- Hope Summers as Hattie Denton
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