The BEST episodes of The Rifleman season 2
Every episode of The Rifleman season 2, ranked from best to worst by thousands of votes from fans of the show. The best episodes of The Rifleman season 2!
Widower Lucas McCain can fire a round with his specially modified Winchester in three-tenths of a second. Added to his high moral code and resolve enable him to help Marshal Micah Torrance maintain order in town while raising his son, Mark, on a ranch near North Fork, New Mexico.
#1 - Ordeal
Season 2 - Episode 8 - Aired 11/17/1959
When their wagon breaks down, Mark and an injured Lucas are stranded in the desert.
#2 - The Vision
Season 2 - Episode 26 - Aired 3/22/1960
After Mark contracts typhoid fever and has a vision of his dead mother, he no longer seems interested in getting well.
#3 - The Jailbird
Season 2 - Episode 33 - Aired 5/10/1960
When Lucas hires an ex-con as a ranch hand, the man is the first one under suspicion when a robbery and murder occur in the area.
#4 - The Coward
Season 2 - Episode 13 - Aired 12/22/1959
Lucas becomes involved in a battle between an aspiring writer and a cocky, bragging trail boss.
#5 - The Fourflusher
Season 2 - Episode 32 - Aired 5/3/1960
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.
#6 - The Prodigal
Season 2 - Episode 31 - Aired 4/26/1960
To keep his invalid mother happy, an outlaw forces Lucas and Mark to go along with a masquerade that he is the owner of Lucas's ranch.
#7 - The Horse Traders
Season 2 - Episode 20 - Aired 2/9/1960
When a horse dealer transporting a prize stallion stops in North Fork, two saddle tramps try to use trickery to obtain it.
#8 - Hero
Season 2 - Episode 19 - Aired 2/2/1960
After a young stablehand kills a notorious gunslinger, he is baffled by the hostility of the townspeople about giving him the reward.
#9 - Nora
Season 2 - Episode 35 - Aired 5/24/1960
Lucas finds himself involved in murder when he gallantly steps to the aid of a beautiful woman.
#10 - The Blowout
Season 2 - Episode 3 - Aired 10/13/1959
Newly arrived gunslinger Al Walker throws a mammoth party at the saloon, keeping acting Marshal Ben Waller busy until Lucas is forced to intervene.
#11 - A Case of Identity
Season 2 - Episode 17 - Aired 1/19/1960
Mark finds himself in grave danger when two unscrupulous detectives searching for a man's long-lost son claim that it is Mark.
#12 - The Hangman
Season 2 - Episode 36 - Aired 5/31/1960
An ex-convict is blamed for a brutal crime despite his claims of rehabilitation.
#13 - Meeting at Midnight
Season 2 - Episode 34 - Aired 5/17/1960
Lucas helps his former Army captain, now an undercover federal agent, infiltrate a gang of bank robbers.
#14 - Panic
Season 2 - Episode 7 - Aired 11/10/1959
Town character Brett Conway blackmails Lucas with the knowledge that a young couple Lucas rescued are suffering from yellow fever.
#15 - Heller
Season 2 - Episode 22 - Aired 2/23/1960
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.
#16 - The Spoiler
Season 2 - Episode 21 - Aired 2/16/1960
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.
#17 - The Grasshopper
Season 2 - Episode 23 - Aired 3/1/1960
A condemned killer being transported by train murders a marshal and takes Mark hostage.
#18 - Shotgun Man
Season 2 - Episode 29 - Aired 4/12/1960
Shotgun man John Beaumont, who Lucas sent to prison, returns with vengeance on his mind.
#19 - The Surveyors
Season 2 - Episode 14 - Aired 12/29/1959
Mark runs away from home after his father questions his story about overhearing a plot to rob the bank.
#20 - The Baby Sitter
Season 2 - Episode 12 - Aired 12/15/1959
A dance hall singer asks Lucas to care for her daughter in an effort to hide the baby from her self-righteous, bigoted father.
#21 - Obituary
Season 2 - Episode 4 - Aired 10/20/1959
Newspaperman Byron Claremont specializes in profiles of famous gunmen. One of his stories was responsible for an old-time marshal's death; and his next subject is Lucas.
#22 - The Patsy
Season 2 - Episode 1 - Aired 9/29/1959
A group of outlaws devise a plan to get rid of Lucas so that they can take over the town of North Fork.
#23 - Legacy
Season 2 - Episode 11 - Aired 12/8/1959
Lucas tries to do a good deed for the old town drunk but it backfires when the drunk's son believes he inherited Lucas' ranch.
#24 - The Deserter
Season 2 - Episode 25 - Aired 3/15/1960
Lucas and Marshal Torrance get into trouble with the Army when they try to help a wounded young soldier who deserted.
#25 - Sins of the Father
Season 2 - Episode 30 - Aired 4/19/1960
After shooting a man in self-defense, Andy Moon turns to Lucas for protection from his vengeful brothers.