As of July 2026, The Rifleman Season 1 aired in 1958 with 40 episodes — streaming now on Amazon Prime Video. Full episode guide and where to watch below.

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The Rifleman Season 1

1958 40 Episodes Action & Adventure · Western ⭐ 7/10

Right now you can watch The Rifleman Season 1 on and — and the writing holds up regardless of the format's reputation. A single, tightly-focused season means there is plenty to get through without ever feeling padded. With 51 viewer ratings on TMDB, this is not a title flying under the radar. A harder one to justify skipping than to start. Put it on tonight and see for yourself.

There is a reason The Rifleman Season 1 keeps coming up in conversation. The look of The Rifleman Season 1 gets people in the door, but the writing is what keeps them there. Season 1 of The Rifleman includes 40 episodes. It aired from September 1958 to June 1959. This season stars Chuck Connors, Johnny Crawford and Paul Fix. Chuck Connors and Johnny Crawford lead a cast that brings real weight to the material. It was aired in 1958. The Rifleman Season 1 uses the freedom of animation to tell stories live-action could not attempt. It knows exactly what it is, and does not try to be anything else.

The Rifleman Season 1 belongs on any best-of list regardless of format. It does not lean on comparisons to make its case. It is a manageable watch, easy to fit into a single week. Chuck Connors brings more to the role than the format usually demands. A harder one to justify skipping than to start.

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🇨🇦 Canada

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🎬 The Rifleman Season 1 — Episode Guide

The Sharpshooter

Lucas McCain and his son Mark arrive in North Fork, New Mexico. Looking to start a new life, they come across a ranch to their liking, which is for sale. Lucas enters a Turkey Shoot in hopes of winning the down payment for the ranch. Jim Lewis, the man who runs North Fork, has bet on Vernon, a young...

Two hired hands of a wealthy cattleman, who has been using the ranch for grazing his cattle, demand that Lucas move out. When Lucas refuses, he is beaten and dragged and then the ranch house is burned down. They left Lucas and Mark with the burning house and rode off with Lucas' rifle. Leaving Mark ...

End of a Young Gun

Lucas is forced to give refuge to Will Fulton, a young bank robber, who was injured while saving Mark's life. While staying at the McCain ranch Will gets a taste of a life better than the one he's been leading. He's met a girl and grows tired of a life on the run.

Micah Torrance, a once famous lawman, is introduced as a drunken derelict, who stumbles into North Fork. Micah, nursing an arm crippled in a gunfight, is hired by Lucas to help out at the ranch. Three outlaws ride into town looking for revenge against Micah. When they kill the sheriff, it's up to Lu...

The Brother-in-Law

Mark's uncle, Johnny Gibb, a big time rodeo rider, comes to visit. While Mark idolizes his uncle, Lucas discovers that Johnny is on the run from the law for an Express Office Robbery.

Eight Hours to Die

Judge Burton seeks justice against the hangman who hanged his son; the Judge, who sentenced his son; and Lucas, the man who caught his son.

When an Italian Count arrives in North Fork, his strange attire attracts the attention of Groder, a town bully. Groder, trying to have fun with this stranger, destroys some of the Counts currency, mocks him, and tries to humiliate him. Eventually, the Count challenges Groder to a duel and asks Lucas...

Floyd Doniger comes to North Fork, looking to start a new life. He's got a steady job as the guard at the new bank and he's entertaining ideas of settling down on a spread of his own. Also arriving in North Fork are three men who followed the bank's new safe, figuring any town needing a safe like th...

Rebecca Snipe is returning to North Fork after a long visit away. Before her stage leaves, she overhears a man saying he's going to North Fork to kill a big man with a big mouth. Upon Rebecca's arrival in North Fork, Mark becomes smitten with her and gets it in his head to play matchmaker between he...

New Orleans Menace

Tiffauges, a wealthy and sadistic Frenchman, who is used to getting whatever he wants, decides he wishes to purchase the McCain Ranch. Tiffauges' lead man, Xavier, proclaims Lucas to be muy macho, and does not believe Lucas will give in so easily. Xavier and the other men are tiring of being subject...

The Apprentice Sheriff

Dan Willard is filling in as temporary marshal while Micah is away. Meanwhile, some Texas cowhands are in North Fork looking for fun and relaxation, but Dan keeps coming down hard on them, which leads to blowback.

Young Englishman

Lucas accuses the young foreman of a neighboring ranch of rustling one of his calves.

Lucas and Mark return from a cattle sale when their stagecoach is robbed by three outlaws led by sharpshooter Johnny Cotton (Vic Morrow). Lucas sends Mark on in the stagecoach while he goes after the outlaws on foot without his rifle.

There’s prejudice all around, when Rumson moves away from North Fork, having sold his property to the Argentez family, who are originally from Argentina. Curge, who was outbid for the property, is upset because Rumson sold out to a "peppergut". Meanwhile, Manolo, the son of the Argentinian, has a pr...

Ward Haskins guns down Joe Flecker, who has evidence that could be used to blackmail him. Haskins thinks the information was given to Lucas, since he brought Flecker to the doctor before he died. Later, Haskins rides out to the ranch and is bitten by Flecker's horse, which is now believed to have an...

The Sheridan Story

When Frank Blandon, a man with only one good arm, wanders onto the ranch, Lucas gives him a job. This leads to major complications later.

The Retired Gun

Wes Carney and his wife Clair want to settle down and they figure North Fork might do fine. Wes is a well known gunfighter, who has promised Clair that he would hang up his guns for good. The Carney's want to live a simple, honest life and the Feed and Grain Store, which is up for sale, seems like i...

The Photographer

Abel Goss, the photographer who took Lucas' wedding photograph, is in North Fork doing a portrait of Mark standing in the street. When Goss sees Colonel Whiteside and his sidekick, Jamison, he recognizes them as the butchers who tortured him, and others, while he was captive in their POW camp.

Aaron Pelser's wagon train comes across a pair of young boys on a buck board heading west and he invites them to join the train. When he finds out that one of the boys was actually a girl and the two claimed to be headed to Yuma to get married, Pelser and his crowd force them to be married in North ...

The Deadeye Kid

McCain befriends Donnel O'Mahoney, a tough kid from Brooklyn, and arranges with two men for the young man to continue his travels on their wagon, but then one of them is murdered and the other accuses the boy of having done it.

🎭 Cast of The Rifleman Season 1

Chuck Connors

Johnny Crawford

Johnny Crawford

Paul Fix

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