The BEST episodes directed by Joseph H. Lewis
#1 - The Fourflusher
The Rifleman - Season 2 - Episode 32
A sharecropper enters his colt in a horse race, hoping to win enough money to buy his farm from the owner, who has bet on Mark McCain's entry.
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The Big Valley - Season 1 - Episode 12
When Nick is bitten by a rabid wolf, he makes Heath swear not to say a word and leaves town so his family will not have to witness what will happen to him.
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#3 - Hero
The Rifleman - Season 2 - Episode 19
After a young stablehand kills a notorious gunslinger, he is baffled by the hostility of the townspeople about giving him the reward.
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#4 - The Pet
The Rifleman - Season 1 - Episode 15
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. Stirred up by Haskins behavior, Lucas goes through Flecker's things, finding a wanted poster for Haskins in the sole of Flecker's boot. He also finds Doc Burrage drinking. Doc is discouraged because three children have died of an anthrax epidemic that he has the new serum for, but nobody is willing to allow him to administer it in time. Haskins rides out to the ranch and is bitten by Flecker's horse, which is now believed to have anthrax. Mark overhears about how anthrax always causes death and is worried because he had bitten by Flecker's horse, also.
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#5 - The Deadly Wait
The Rifleman - Season 1 - Episode 26
Dan Nowry, released from Yuma prison, arrives in North Fork intent on getting even with Marshal Torrance,who helped send him to jail.
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#6 - The Hangman
The Rifleman - Season 2 - Episode 36
An ex-convict is blamed for a brutal crime despite his claims of rehabilitation.
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#7 - The Safe Guard
The Rifleman - Season 1 - Episode 8
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 that must have money to put into it. At the grand opening celebration of the bank, the three men discover the new bank guard is their old pal, Floyd. The three men try to convince Floyd to join them in robbing the bank, after all with a man working inside it should be easy.
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#9 - Boomerang
The Rifleman - Season 1 - Episode 39
When a rancher dies after the bank forecloses the mortgage on his property, his son blames the banker for his father's death.
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#10 - Panic
The Rifleman - Season 2 - Episode 7
Town character Brett Conway blackmails Lucas with the knowledge that a young couple Lucas rescued are suffering from yellow fever.
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#11 - Heller
The Rifleman - Season 2 - Episode 22
After foiling a girl's attempt to rob the general store, Lucas finds that she and her brother are plotting the murder of their abusive stepfather.
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#12 - Duel of Honor
The Rifleman - Season 1 - Episode 7
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 to be his Second. They meet at dawn and the Count, the offended party, brings his single shot dueling pistols, something Groder is unaccustomed to. Lucas as second must see that all rules of the duel are adhered to.
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#13 - The Spoiler
The Rifleman - Season 2 - Episode 21
An elderly couple moves to North Fork under an assumed name to hide the fact that they are the parents of a vicious killer. The plan backfires when the son shows up at their home.
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#14 - Shotgun Man
The Rifleman - Season 2 - Episode 29
Shotgun man John Beaumont, who Lucas sent to prison, returns with vengeance on his mind.
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#15 - The Surveyors
The Rifleman - Season 2 - Episode 14
Mark runs away from home after his father questions his story about overhearing a plot to rob the bank.
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#16 - The Journey Back
The Rifleman - Season 4 - Episode 5
Mark goes to work for Will Temple, a badly scarred and very mysterious rancher.
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#17 - The Actress
The Rifleman - Season 3 - Episode 18
A deathbed request from an old friend sends Lucas to a neighboring town in search of the man's long-lost sweetheart.
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#18 - The Patsy
The Rifleman - Season 2 - Episode 1
A group of outlaws devise a plan to get rid of Lucas so that they can take over the town of North Fork.
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#19 - The Deserter
The Rifleman - Season 2 - Episode 25
Lucas and Marshal Torrance get into trouble with the Army when they try to help a wounded young soldier who deserted.
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#20 - Strange Town
The Rifleman - Season 3 - Episode 5
Lucas tracks an escaped prisoner to a town that turns out to be run by the gunman's brother, notorious for shooting people in the back.
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#21 - The Wyoming Story (2)
The Rifleman - Season 3 - Episode 21
Mark heads for Wyoming to search for Lucas, who's on the trail of a gang illegally selling weapons to the Indians. (Part 2 of 2)
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The Big Valley - Season 1 - Episode 3
While Stockton honors the memory of Tom Barkley, Victoria searches for answers about Tom and Heath's mother.
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#23 - The Trade
The Rifleman - Season 1 - Episode 24
Outlaw Sam Morley falls in love with a young woman who has a serious illness, and asks Lucas to turn him in for the reward and then use the money to pay for her medical care.
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#24 - Trail of Hate
The Rifleman - Season 3 - Episode 1
Lucas is out for vengeance when Mark is used as a pawn in a bank robbery scheme.
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#25 - Baranca
The Rifleman - Season 3 - Episode 6
When an outlaw leader lures Marshal Torrance out of town, Lucas is the only one who can stop him from lynching a local man who killed one of the members of his gang.
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#26 - Face of Yesterday
The Rifleman - Season 3 - Episode 19
Lucas thinks he has seen a ghost when a young man, eerily similar to a man he killed in the Civil War, challenges him to a gunfight.
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#27 - Shivaree
The Rifleman - Season 1 - Episode 19
Aaron Pelser's wagon train came across a pair of young boys on a buck board heading west and invited them to join the train. When he found 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 Fork. The wagon train folks want to throw a shivaree, which may have been innocent enough except for two reasons. The first reason being that the couple does not count it as their wedding because they want to be wed by the groom's father in Yuma. The second reason is that Chet Packard keeps pushing things too far, beyond the spirit of a friendly shivaree.
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#28 - The Wyoming Story (1)
The Rifleman - Season 3 - Episode 20
Lucas agrees to take a job as a federal undercover agent and goes to Wyoming to investigate rumors of sales of arms to renegade indians. His life is endagered by the town drunk who stumbles onto his true identity and purpose. (Part 1 of 2)
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#29 - Letter of the Law
The Rifleman - Season 2 - Episode 10
Lucas makes a life-or-death decision when Micah is held hostage and the kidnappers demand the release of a notorious outlaw.
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#30 - Eddie's Daughter
The Rifleman - Season 2 - Episode 6
After the daughter of Lucas's friend the hotel clerk arrives in North Fork, two strangers threaten her life.
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#31 - Closer than a Brother
The Rifleman - Season 3 - Episode 22
Lucas looks for answers when recovering alcoholic Micah Torrence returns to the bottle and turns in his badge.
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#32 - Day of the Hunter
The Rifleman - Season 2 - Episode 15
A famous buffalo hunter tries to goad Lucas into a shooting match.
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#33 - The Shattered Idol
The Rifleman - Season 4 - Episode 10
Mark Twain visits Southfork, and quickly alienates the townspeople.
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#34 - Honest Abe
The Rifleman - Season 4 - Episode 8
Able Lincoln's claim that he's the Great Emancipator himself amuses everyone except Matt Yorty.
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#35 - Miss Milly
The Rifleman - Season 3 - Episode 8
A new store owner upsets the town by demanding that all credit accounts be paid off.
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#36 - Long Gun From Tucson
The Rifleman - Season 4 - Episode 11
Lucas tries to stop embittered John Holliver from venting his wrath on the people who expelled him from town years before.
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#37 - Pompey
Daniel Boone - Season 1 - Episode 10
A bondsman (Peter Whitney) insists on returning a runaway slave (Brock Peters) unshackled by Boone.
#38 - The Visitor
The Rifleman - Season 2 - Episode 18
Lucas is drawn to a young widow passing through town on her way to claim an inheritance, but others who covet it are trying to kill her.
#39 - The Prisoner
The Rifleman - Season 3 - Episode 25
Two ex-Confederate officers seek revenge on Lucas, who served as prison guard during their internment.
#40 - Squeeze Play
The Rifleman - Season 5 - Episode 10
A speculator will stop at nothing to grab Lucas's land.
#41 - The Bullet
The Rifleman - Season 5 - Episode 21
Lucas is baffled when the marshal of a neighboring town refuses to hold a gambler who just attempted murder.
#42 - The Martinet
The Rifleman - Season 3 - Episode 7
A former army captain comes to North Fork to kill the man who shot down his son in a gunfight - Lucas McCain.
#43 - And the Devil Makes Five
The Rifleman - Season 5 - Episode 19
A snake crawls into Lucas's bed, and Mark must lure it away before it strikes.
#44 - One Killer on Ice
Gunsmoke - Season 10 - Episode 18
Anderson, a stylish bounty hunter, rides into Dodge City. He informs Matt that his partner has a wanted criminal at an ice house. The locale is a two-day ride from Dodge; Anderson wants Matt's help to bring the criminal in. The outlaw's brother intends to go gunning for Matt and Anderson. There's also a twist: Matt finds out Anderson didn't tell him the truth about what happened. Both Anderson's partner and the outlaw lie dead at the ice house.
#45 - Old Tony
The Rifleman - Season 5 - Episode 26
Mark and his girlfriend Laurie discover that an old hermit is very lonely.
#46 - Thursday's Child
Gunsmoke - Season 10 - Episode 24
Kitty welcomes her mentor to town, but her friend is burdened by a secret: she's here to deliver the child of her outlaw son, a man willing to take his own mother hostage.
#47 - The Guest
The Rifleman - Season 5 - Episode 23
New arrival Mario Arsatti becomes very friendly with Lucas, but this turns out to be merely pleasure before business: he's been hired to kill Lucas.
#48 - Waste (1)
The Rifleman - Season 5 - Episode 1
Marshal Torrance is heading home from a cattle sale with Lucas and Mark when the old lawman mysteriously disappears. They trace him to a nearby Mexican ghost town. (Part 1 of 2)
#49 - Death Never Rides Alone
The Rifleman - Season 5 - Episode 5
A gunslinger rides into North Fork for a meeting with Lucas.
#50 - The Sidewinder
The Rifleman - Season 5 - Episode 16
Gridley Mau is gunning for Lucas, who killed his father during an attempted robbery.