The BEST episodes of The Rifleman season 3
Every episode of The Rifleman season 3, ranked from best to worst by thousands of votes from fans of the show. The best episodes of The Rifleman season 3!
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 - The Actress
Season 3 - Episode 18 - Aired 1/24/1961
A deathbed request from an old friend sends Lucas to a neighboring town in search of the man's long-lost sweetheart.
#2 - Miss Bertie
Season 3 - Episode 14 - Aired 12/27/1960
A lively old lady arrives in town hot on the trail of a notorious bandit and the reward money for capturing him.
#3 - Strange Town
Season 3 - Episode 5 - Aired 10/25/1960
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.
#4 - The Wyoming Story (2)
Season 3 - Episode 21 - Aired 2/14/1961
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)
#5 - Trail of Hate
Season 3 - Episode 1 - Aired 9/27/1960
Lucas is out for vengeance when Mark is used as a pawn in a bank robbery scheme.
#6 - Baranca
Season 3 - Episode 6 - Aired 11/1/1960
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.
#7 - Face of Yesterday
Season 3 - Episode 19 - Aired 1/31/1961
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.
#8 - The Wyoming Story (1)
Season 3 - Episode 20 - Aired 2/7/1961
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)
#9 - Dark Day at North Fork
Season 3 - Episode 24 - Aired 3/7/1961
Blinded in an explosion, Lucas fights despair as he prepares for a meeting with a gun-toting enemy.
#10 - The Queue
Season 3 - Episode 34 - Aired 5/16/1961
A Chinese man and his son fight prejudice as they try to open a laundry in North Fork.
#11 - Stopover
Season 3 - Episode 31 - Aired 4/25/1961
Trouble brews at Lucas's when a whisky salesman and a gunfighter fall for the same woman.
#12 - The Promoter
Season 3 - Episode 11 - Aired 12/6/1960
Lucas and Mark attempt to reform a con-man.
#13 - Closer than a Brother
Season 3 - Episode 22 - Aired 2/21/1961
Lucas looks for answers when recovering alcoholic Micah Torrence returns to the bottle and turns in his badge.
#14 - The Mescalaro Curse
Season 3 - Episode 30 - Aired 4/18/1961
Lucas is marked for death: he was foreman of a jury that convicted an Apache.
#15 - The Clarence Bibs Story
Season 3 - Episode 28 - Aired 4/4/1961
A janitor-turned-gunfighter whose reputation hangs on one lucky shot and a lot of gall.
#17 - Dead Cold Cash
Season 3 - Episode 9 - Aired 11/22/1960
The widow of a bandit killed by Lucas plots a grotesque revenge.
#18 - Miss Milly
Season 3 - Episode 8 - Aired 11/15/1960
A new store owner upsets the town by demanding that all credit accounts be paid off.
#19 - The Lonesome Bride
Season 3 - Episode 32 - Aired 5/2/1961
Two pranksters write away for a mail-order bride, using Lucas's name.
#20 - Woman From Hog Ridge
Season 3 - Episode 2 - Aired 10/4/1960
Lucas shoots a horse thief who turns out to be a member of the Boyle clan, and now Ma Boyle is after him.
#21 - The Prisoner
Season 3 - Episode 25 - Aired 3/14/1961
Two ex-Confederate officers seek revenge on Lucas, who served as prison guard during their internment.
#22 - Short Rope for a Tall Man
Season 3 - Episode 27 - Aired 3/28/1961
Lucas, accused of horse theft, struggles to clear himself before a lynch mob catches up.
#23 - Death Trap
Season 3 - Episode 33 - Aired 5/9/1961
Lucas recognizes Dr. Simon Battle as an ex-gunslinger with whom he once traded shots.
#24 - The Martinet
Season 3 - Episode 7 - Aired 11/8/1960
A former army captain comes to North Fork to kill the man who shot down his son in a gunfight - Lucas McCain.
#25 - The Silent Knife
Season 3 - Episode 13 - Aired 12/20/1960
Lucas and Mark try to persuade a persecuted young mute to return stolen money.