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Bat Masterson: A Time to Die (1960)
Clearly a miss bur Bat saves himself.
At the very end of the teleplay, when the baddie has Bat prone & the baddie is on top of him, Bat fished out his pocketed derringer, but the shot he took was a straight-up in the air miss, albeit amazingly the guy on top of Bat collapsed anyway.
Who cares, Bat is the classiest gunslinger in the Old West by a Tennessee or maybe Kansas mile. (on b/w TV, anyway) I surely appreciate GRIT for adding this classic, yet unique western series.
There's something about Bat's sartorial overkill being balanced by his dead aim and unique (to the western genre) cane fighting that makes this show a little bit different from the usual 50's - 60's western fare.
The Rifleman (1958)
The musical score was a cast member on its own.
This is one of very few shows where it was clear that it had to have custom scoring, so often does the musical accompaniment literally underscore the action. Note by note, it follows along with the teleplay, very much intensifying the show.
Most of the other commentors focused on the excellent writing and acting, but I believe that while other shows seemed to see the score as an addendum, in the Rifleman it was the fourth leading character.
It was also, to my knowledge, just a score, as I do not recall ever hearing words set to the orchestration. That's just as well, as that would make it like so many other shows, but there is just something different about the Rifleman's score as an independent "actor".