Tonight at a glance
- Runtime
- ~30 min/episode
- Length
- 5 seasons · 168 episodes
- Status
- Ended · complete
- Age rating
- TV-PG
- Language
- English
- Country
- United States
The story
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.
- widower
The bill
- Paul Mantee
- Tommy Cook
- George Macready
- Les Tremayne
- Ross Elliott
- Ed Ames
- Lonny Chapman
- Sean McClory
- George Lindsey
- Arthur Malet
- Cheryl Holdridge
- Directed
- Gene Nelson, David Friedkin, David Swift, Jerry Hopper, Jesse Hibbs, Joseph H. Lewis & 22 more
- Created
- Sam Peckinpah
- Written
- Samuel A. Peeples, Herman Groves, Ken Kolb, Robert Lewin, Albert Alay, Clair Huffaker & 23 more
Production
- Network & studio
- ABC, Four Stars Productions
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