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 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.
#2 - 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.
#3 - 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)
#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 - 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.
#6 - 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.
#7 - 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.
#8 - 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.
#9 - 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.
#10 - 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.
#11 - Flowers by the Door
Season 3 - Episode 16 - Aired 1/10/1961
Lucas unmasks a killer posing as a door-to-door seed salesman.
#12 - The Schoolmaster
Season 3 - Episode 10 - Aired 11/29/1960
Mark and his friend become trapped in an old mine.
#13 - Long Trek
Season 3 - Episode 17 - Aired 1/17/1961
Lucas and Marshal Torrance run in trouble transporting a captured killer back to face trial.
#14 - 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.
#15 - 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.
#16 - The Lost Treasure of Canyon Town
Season 3 - Episode 23 - Aired 2/28/1961
In a ghost town, Lucas, Mark and Micah tangle with the Newman family and learn the secret of the town's 20-year-old mystery of a lost gold mine.
#17 - 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.
#18 - Assault
Season 3 - Episode 26 - Aired 3/21/1961
A salesman can't talk his way out of an assault charge.
#19 - The Score is Even
Season 3 - Episode 29 - Aired 4/11/1961
Lucas tries to get help when he is shot after witnessing a murder.
#20 - 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.
#21 - The Lonesome Bride
Season 3 - Episode 32 - Aired 5/2/1961
Two pranksters write away for a mail-order bride, using Lucas's name.
#22 - 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.
#23 - Six Years and a Day
Season 3 - Episode 15 - Aired 1/30/1961
A doctor seeks revenge on the man he blames for ruining his practice.
#24 - 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.
#25 - The Illustrator
Season 3 - Episode 12 - Aired 12/13/1960
Lucas encourages a drunken artist charged with murder to use his talents to identify the true killer.