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Original Air Date—30 September 1958
Lucas and Mark McCain ride into the town of Northfork with the hope of buying a ranch and settling down. A shooting match is being held and the prize money could help pay for the ranch...but Jim Lewis, the man who 'runs' Northfork, doesn't want Lucas to win. |
Season 1, Episode 2: Home RanchOriginal Air Date—7 October 1958
Sam Montgomery and Billy Lehigh ride onto the McCain's new ranch. They work for Oat Jackford and tell Lucas Jackford uses the land and they will have to leave. Things go bad for Lucas when they steal his rifle and burn down his house...Lucas sets out to set Jackford straight. |
Original Air Date—14 October 1958
Two brothers on the run from a posse stop and help Mark who is stuck on a ledge. The younger of the two breaks his leg and a grateful Lucas allows him to recuperate on the ranch. He gets a taste of life without having to run and when his brother returns for him he must decide on which course his life will take. |
Original Air Date—21 October 1958
The Sheltin brothers and Lloyd Carpenter ride into the town of Northfork looking to settle a score with someone named Micah Torrance. Micah is a former marshal now with a bad arm and a fondness for whiskey. He is drying out and working for Lucas when the Sheltin brothers come calling...a confrontation is inevitable. |
Original Air Date—28 October 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. |
Original Air Date—4 November 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. |
Original Air Date—11 November 1958
When the stage traveling through Northfork needs repair the passengers are forced to remain in town overnight. One passenger, an Italian Count named Alfredo Di Montova, is singled out by Sim Groder for his different dress and ways. Groder is a bully who insults the Count one time too many and he is challenged to a duel. Lucas is chosen to act as the Count's Second. |
Original Air Date—18 November 1958
A new bank is opened in North Fork, but the townspeople are reluctant to entrust their money to the enterprise, because they fear their money will be lost in a robbery. The bank's owners decide to hire a well-known gunman as a guard, but a bank of thieves decide to hold up the bank anyway. |
Season 1, Episode 9: The SisterOriginal Air Date—25 November 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. |
Original Air Date—2 December 1958
A gambler, fleeing New Orleans with his henchmen, takes a liking to Lucas' ranch. When McCain refuses to sell, his life is threatened. |
Original Air Date—9 December 1958
An inexperienced lawman overreacts when a rambunctious group of cowhands arrives in town after a trail drive. Violence threatens to escalate after the marshal kills one of the cowhands after trying to disarm the man and Lucas tries to help the young man keep the peace before more blood is shed. |
Original Air Date—16 December 1958
When Lucas accuses the foreman of a neighboring ranch of stealing one of his calves. The foreman's cowhands whip Lucas, which only makes him more determined to prove the rustling charge. |
Original Air Date—23 December 1958
Lucas and Mark are returning to Northfork via stage after selling their herd. Lucas and another passenger, Johhny Cotton, begin debating the 'rifle instead of a pistol' issue when he finds out the man is a prisoner. While watering the horses Cotton escapes and takes Lucas' money and rifle. Lucas sets off in pursuit, on foot, over some of the roughest country for miles. |
Season 1, Episode 14: The GauchoOriginal Air Date—30 December 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. |
Season 1, Episode 15: The PetOriginal Air Date—6 January 1959
Mark and Haskins are bitten by Flecker's horse which is discovered to have anthrax. |
Original Air Date—13 January 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. |
Original Air Date—20 January 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. |
Original Air Date—27 January 1959
A traveling photographer passing through North Fork is accused of murder and jailed. Lucas, however, believes the man's claims of innocence, and comes up with a plan to expose the real killer. |
Season 1, Episode 19: ShivareeOriginal Air Date—3 February 1959
During a wedding ceremony for two young runaways, things get out of control when a drunken crowd begins to start trouble. |
Original Air Date—10 February 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. |
Season 1, Episode 21: The IndianOriginal Air Date—17 February 1959
An Apache graduate of Harvard is a new Federal Marshal looking for the Apache who allegedly burned down a house, killing an elderly couple. He discovers that the real perpetrator is a white man in North Fork, and against the advice of Lucas, he is determined to make the arrest. The men at the saloon despise all Indians, and the arrest attempt produces an angry mob in the street challenging the authority of the Apache marshal and Marshal Micah Torrance. The scene nearly results in gunfire when Lucas jumps on a handy buckboard and delivers a speech shaming most of the mob into submission. The leader of the mob is also arrested by the Apache marshal when it is revealed that he ordered the burning of the house. |
Original Air Date—24 February 1959
Sid Fallon tries to blackmail former gambler Julia Massini into allowing him to use her boarding house as a gambling hall and saloon. |
Original Air Date—3 March 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. |
Season 1, Episode 24: The TradeOriginal Air Date—10 March 1959
An old acquaintance of Lucas, a man wanted by the law, asks the Rifleman who turn him in and give the reward money to a beautiful woman in desperate need of expert medical attention. A vicious bounty hunter is after the reward, too, and isn't above shooting his quarry in the back to earn the blood money. |
Original Air Date—17 March 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. |
Original Air Date—24 March 1959
Dan Maury, a criminal arrested by Micah Torrance, returns from five years in prison determined to avenge himself upon the town marshal. |
Original Air Date—31 March 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. |
Original Air Date—7 April 1959
An escaped killer is out to prove that his time in prison hasn't slowed down his speed with a gun. |
Season 1, Episode 29: The HawkOriginal Air Date—14 April 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. |
Original Air Date—21 April 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. |
Original Air Date—28 April 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. |
Season 1, Episode 32: The WomanOriginal Air Date—5 May 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. |
Original Air Date—12 May 1959
Oat Jackford is a rich rancher in Northfork without many friends. He is forcing Sanderson to auction off his farm because his note is due and he publicly beats his former bookkeeper, Asa Manning, and accuses him of stealing from him. Thus it is no great surprise when Tom King, a former bounty hunter now turned professional killer rides into town looking for Jackford. Lucas hates everything King stands for and although he's no friend of Jackford's tries to stop the killing. |
Original Air Date—19 May 1959
Because of a drought, many local cowhands are forced to take construction jobs building a railroad. However, when an old man claims that he has found a way to make rain, the railroad company--afraid that their workers will leave the job and go back to their ranches if they believe the old man--are determined to stop him. |
Original Air Date—26 May 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. |
Original Air Date—2 June 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. |
Season 1, Episode 37: The RaidOriginal Air Date—9 June 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. |
Original Air Date—16 June 1959
The townspeople of North Fork begin to get suspicious when Lucas is named as the beneficiary in the will of an infamous outlaw. |
Season 1, Episode 39: BoomerangOriginal Air Date—23 June 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. |
Original Air Date—30 June 1959
John Hallager is shot and killed on the street of Northfork. The killer waited in hiding and ambushed him. Billy Mathis, a young man who loves Hallager's daughter Lucy is blamed despite her pleas of his innocence. At the same time a mind reader rides into town, puts on a show and leads Micah and Lucas to believe he might be able to help them solve the crime. |
Season 2, Episode 1: The PatsyOriginal Air Date—29 September 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. |
Season 2, Episode 2: BloodlinesOriginal Air Date—6 October 1959
Lucas gets Henry Trumble out of jail and hires him as a ranch hand. At the same time the Malackie brothers are in Sweeney's bar and wrecking the place. Lucas and Micah stop them and in the fracas Ben Malackie accidentally shoots his own brother Stump. Ben blames Lucas and Micah and warns them that their pa will have revenge. When their father comes into town he seems understanding and apologetic but that is just a ruse and a climactic gunfight in an abandoned salt mine ensues. |
Original Air Date—13 October 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. |
Season 2, Episode 4: ObituaryOriginal Air Date—20 October 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. |
Season 2, Episode 5: TensionOriginal Air Date—27 October 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. |
Original Air Date—3 November 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. |
Season 2, Episode 7: PanicOriginal Air Date—10 November 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. |
Season 2, Episode 8: OrdealOriginal Air Date—17 November 1959
Lucas and Mark find themselves in deep trouble when their wagon breaks down while they're crossing the desert. |
Original Air Date—24 November 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. |
Original Air Date—1 December 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. |
Season 2, Episode 11: The LegacyOriginal Air Date—8 December 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. |
Original Air Date—15 December 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 prejudiced father. |
Season 2, Episode 13: The CowardOriginal Air Date—22 December 1959
A young man who is hounded by fear of other people. He moves to the West hoping the experience will toughen him up. |
Season 2, Episode 14: SurveyorsOriginal Air Date—29 December 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. |
Original Air Date—5 January 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. |
Original Air Date—12 January 1960
A "mail-order husband" arrives in North Fork, and finds not only a bride, but also harassment from two local trouble-makers. |
Original Air Date—19 January 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. |
Original Air Date—26 January 1960
Lucas finds himself attracted to a young widow who stops in North Fork on her way to claim an inheritance. |
Season 2, Episode 19: HeroOriginal Air Date—2 February 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. |
Original Air Date—9 February 1960
Lucas and Mark try to help out a man who has been swindled in a horse-trading transaction. |
Original Air Date—16 February 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. |
Season 2, Episode 22: HellerOriginal Air Date—23 February 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. |
Original Air Date—1 March 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. |
Original Air Date—8 March 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. |
Original Air Date—15 March 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. |
Season 2, Episode 26: The VisionOriginal Air Date—22 March 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. |
Season 2, Episode 27: The LariatOriginal Air Date—29 March 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. |
Original Air Date—5 April 1960
Marge Crandell is a headstrong young girl who doesn't like to be told what to do, not by her father or by Doug Carter, the man who loves her. Doug is hot tempered and ready to fight any man who gets too close to Marge. He has just such a fight with Fred Tate who had been bothering Marge. Instead of being grateful Marge walks off with the drummer Rodney Quentin. Later when Lucas discovers her body both Quentin and Tate emerge as possible suspects. |
Original Air Date—12 April 1960
An ex-convict with a grudge against Lucas comes to town determined to kill him. |
Original Air Date—19 April 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. |
Original Air Date—26 April 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. |
Original Air Date—3 May 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. |
Original Air Date—10 May 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. |
Original Air Date—17 May 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. |
Season 2, Episode 35: NoraOriginal Air Date—24 May 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. |
Original Air Date—31 May 1960
A friend of Lucas is found murdered and robbed. Suspicion falls on an ex-con, and a lynching seems inevitable. |
Original Air Date—27 September 1960
Outlaws take Mark hostage in order to force Lucas to help them rob the bank in North Fork. |
Original Air Date—4 October 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. |
Season 3, Episode 3: SevenOriginal Air Date—11 October 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. |
Original Air Date—18 October 1960
A quick-talking discovers gold on Lucas' property and tries to fleece McCain of the mineral rights on his ranch. |
Original Air Date—25 October 1960
A badly wounded Micah stumbles into Lucas' ranch, shot in the back. He was after a notorious "backshooter" named Bletch Droshek, and it was Droshek who shot him. Micah deputizes Lucas to go after Droshek, and Lucas finds Droshek holed up in a mining settlement called Droshek Town--which is run by Droshek and his brother Ott, who own everything and everybody and who have no intention of letting Lucas leave the town alive. |
Season 3, Episode 6: BarancaOriginal Air Date—1 November 1960
Lucas is challenged by Baranca, a Mexican gunman seeking summary justice for the murder of a Mexican rancher near North Fork. |
Original Air Date—8 November 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. |
Original Air Date—15 November 1960
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Original Air Date—22 November 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. |
Original Air Date—29 November 1960
A strict new schoolmaster comes to teach - and, he discovers, to learn: from Mark and Lucas. |
Original Air Date—6 December 1960
A con man and his fast-gun friend come to North Fork. Lucas enters a target shooting contest. |
Original Air Date—13 December 1960
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Original Air Date—20 December 1960
Mark and Lucas help a young man muted by a traumatic past. |
Original Air Date—27 December 1960
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Original Air Date—3 January 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. |
Original Air Date—10 January 1961
A book salesman gives flower seeds to a woman who's husband is away from home. He then covers her mouth with one of his hands as she tries to scream for help! |
Season 3, Episode 17: Long TrekOriginal Air Date—17 January 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. |
Original Air Date—24 January 1961
Lucas fulfills the dying wish for an old friend. |
Original Air Date—31 January 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. |
Original Air Date—7 February 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. |
Original Air Date—14 February 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. |
Original Air Date—21 February 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. |
Original Air Date—28 February 1961
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Original Air Date—7 March 1961
Lucas is temporarily blinded in an explosion. Unfortunately, not longer after that incident an old enemy of his rides into town, looking to settle an old score. |
Original Air Date—14 March 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. |
Season 3, Episode 26: AssaultOriginal Air Date—21 March 1961
Cade Conway and Vashti Croxton are arguing about where to get married. This leads to a fight and Vashti being knocked unconscious. |
Original Air Date—28 March 1961
On his way through a strange little town, Lucas is arrested and accused of being a horse thief. |
Original Air Date—4 April 1961
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Original Air Date—11 April 1961
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Original Air Date—18 April 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. |
Season 3, Episode 31: StopoverOriginal Air Date—25 April 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. |
Original Air Date—2 May 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. |
Season 3, Episode 33: Death TrapOriginal Air Date—9 May 1961
A gunfight with an unwilling participant brings a need for a doctor, but Doc Burrage is out of town. |
Season 3, Episode 34: The QueueOriginal Air Date—16 May 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. |
Original Air Date—2 October 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. |
Original Air Date—9 October 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. |
Original Air Date—16 October 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. |
Original Air Date—23 October 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. |
Original Air Date—30 October 1961
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Original Air Date—6 November 1961
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Original Air Date—13 November 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. |
Season 4, Episode 8: Honest AbeOriginal Air Date—20 November 1961
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Original Air Date—27 November 1961
Grandpa Fogarty lives in an old shack in desperate need of repairs and cleaning. He lives with his grandson, Woody, and home schools him. Milly and Mrs. Dalrymple think this is wrong and the living conditions are terrible. They want Woody to live in a proper foster home until Grandpa can show he has made the necessary changes in his lifestyle to bring up Woody properly. Grandpa resents this intrusion into his privacy and refuses to give up Woody. Trouble comes when an escaped convict from Grandpa's past comes looking for money he thinks Grandpa has hidden. |
Original Air Date—4 December 1961
Lucas and Mark meet Mark Twain. Later they find out that he has a sad secret. |
Original Air Date—11 December 1961
North Fork has a problem. A man named John Holliver wants revenge for something that happened five years ago. |
Original Air Date—18 November 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. |
Original Air Date—25 December 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. |
Season 4, Episode 14: SkullOriginal Air Date—1 January 1962
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Original Air Date—8 January 1962
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Season 4, Episode 16: GunfireOriginal Air Date—15 January 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 Micah. |
Original Air Date—22 January 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. |
Original Air Date—29 January 1962
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Original Air Date—5 February 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. |
Original Air Date—12 February 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. |
Original Air Date—19 February 1962
A man rides into Northfork whom everyone seems to recognize. His name is Tip Corey and he has a reputation as a ruthless killer. Micah tells him to ride out of town and Corey refuses and delivers Micah an ultimatum...take his badge off and throw it into the dirt by sundown or he'll kill him. Lucas convinces Micah that Corey won't be back by sundown so Micah leaves on business and Lucas pins on the badge. The threat still holds and Corey delivers his ultimatum to Lucas. |
Original Air Date—26 February 1962
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Season 4, Episode 23: The DebtOriginal Air Date—5 March 1962
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Season 4, Episode 24: TinhornOriginal Air Date—12 March 1962
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Original Air Date—19 March 1962
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Original Air Date—26 March 1962
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Original Air Date—2 April 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. |
Original Air Date—9 April 1962
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Original Air Date—16 April 1962
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Original Air Date—23 April 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. |
Original Air Date—30 April 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. |
Original Air Date—7 May 1962
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Original Air Date—1 October 1962
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Original Air Date—8 October 1962
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Original Air Date—15 October 1962
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Original Air Date—22 October 1962
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Original Air Date—29 October 1962
Johnny Drako is looking for Lucas McCain. He makes sure to tell Sweeney the bartender. After Johnny leaves the saloon, Sweeney hurries to tell Lucas, who is in Micah's office. |
Original Air Date—5 November 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. |
Original Air Date—12 November 1962
Four men wearing uniforms ride into North Fork. They have a fifth horse with them. On its back is a long wooden box, that is locked. Upon carrying the box into the hotel and registering, Lou is told that it contains a "present for the Senator". |
Original Air Date—19 November 1962
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Original Air Date—26 November 1962
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Original Air Date—3 December 1962
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Season 5, Episode 11: Gun ShyOriginal Air Date—10 December 1962
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Original Air Date—17 December 1962
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Season 5, Episode 13: ConflictOriginal Air Date—24 December 1962
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Original Air Date—7 January 1963
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Season 5, Episode 15: SuspicionOriginal Air Date—14 January 1963
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Original Air Date—21 January 1963
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Original Air Date—28 January 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. |
Original Air Date—4 February 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. |
Original Air Date—11 February 1963
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Original Air Date—18 February 1963
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Season 5, Episode 21: The BulletOriginal Air Date—25 February 1963
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Original Air Date—4 March 1963
Mark falls off his horse and becomes paralyzed. Doc Burrrage confirms to Lucas that 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. Lucas is forced to deal with the situation and confronts the convicts to save the day. |
Season 5, Episode 23: The GuestOriginal Air Date—11 March 1963
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Original Air Date—25 March 1963
Mark's grandfather visits, running from present troubles while seeking to resolve troubles from the past. |
Original Air Date—1 April 1963
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Season 5, Episode 26: Old TonyOriginal Air Date—8 April 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. |
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