The Rifleman (1958)

Genre

Westerns on television

Country

United States

Length

5 seasons, 168 episodes

Rated

TV-PG

Rating

7.1 of 10 from 51 voters

Elsewhere

IMDb

How it feels

A widowed rancher raises his young son in a small New Mexico town in the 1880s. He uses a specially modified Winchester rifle to protect his family and community.

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What happens

The Rifleman is an American Western television series starring Chuck Connors as rancher Lucas McCain and Johnny Crawford as his son Mark McCain. It was set in the 1880s in the fictional town of North Fork, New Mexico Territory. The show was filmed in black and white, in 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 primetime series on American television to show a single parent raising a child. The program was titled to reflect McCain's use of a Winchester Model 1892 rifle (an anachronism, as the show was set in the 1880s) which had been customized to allow repeated firing by cycling its lever action. He demonstrated this technique in the opening credits, as well as a second modification that allowed him to cycle the action with one hand using a technique known as "spin-cocking". (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

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