The Rifleman

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.

Director

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

Writers

Cyril Hume,Ed Adamson,Sam Peckinpah,George W. George