The Rifleman

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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 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 US television to show a single parent raising a child.

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The Rifleman
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DVD case for The Rifleman, 1958
GenreWestern
Created bySam Peckinpah (uncredited), Arnold Laven
Starring
ComposerHerschel Burke Gilbert
Country of originUnited States
Original languageEnglish
No. of seasons5
No. of episodes168 (list of episodes)
Production
Producers
Running time25 minutes
Production companyFour Star Productions
Release
Original networkABC
Original releaseSeptember 30, 1958 (1958-09-30) 
April 8, 1963 (1963-04-08)
Related
Law of the Plainsman
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The program was titled to reflect McCain's use of a Winchester Model 1892 rifle, a historical anachronism, as the show was set in the 1880s, and 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".[2]