The Rifleman(1958)

series - first aired/released 1958-09-30 - audience 7.1

Action & Adventure, Western, Family

Directed by Arnold Laven, Arthur Hiller, Arthur H. Nadel, Bernard L. Kowalski, Budd Boetticher, David Friedkin, David Swift, Don Medford, Don Taylor, Gene Nelson, Ida Lupino, James Clavell, Jerry Hopper, Jesse Hibbs, John English, John Rich, Joseph H. Lewis, Lamont Johnson, Lawrence Dobkin, Lewis Allen, Montgomery Pittman, Otto Lang, Richard Donner, Robert Butler, Sam Peckinpah, Ted Post, William Conrad, William F. Claxton

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.