The BEST episodes of The Rifleman season 4
Every episode of The Rifleman season 4, ranked from best to worst by thousands of votes from fans of the show. The best episodes of The Rifleman season 4!
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 - Knight Errant
Season 4 - Episode 7 - Aired 11/13/1961
Lucas tries to dissuade a latter-day knight from rushing into battle.
#2 - The Journey Back
Season 4 - Episode 5 - Aired 10/30/1961
Mark goes to work for Will Temple, a badly scarred and very mysterious rancher.
#3 - The Shattered Idol
Season 4 - Episode 10 - Aired 12/4/1961
Mark Twain visits Southfork, and quickly alienates the townspeople.
#4 - Honest Abe
Season 4 - Episode 8 - Aired 11/20/1961
Able Lincoln's claim that he's the Great Emancipator himself amuses everyone except Matt Yorty.
#5 - Long Gun From Tucson
Season 4 - Episode 11 - Aired 12/11/1961
Lucas tries to stop embittered John Holliver from venting his wrath on the people who expelled him from town years before.
#6 - Day of Reckoning
Season 4 - Episode 28 - Aired 4/9/1962
Lucas is torn by conflicting emotions when he meets the town's new preacher a former outlaw whom the Rifleman vowed to kill.
#7 - Outlaw's Shoes
Season 4 - Episode 31 - Aired 4/30/1962
A head wound wipes out Lucas's memory, leaving him with only one clue: he's wearing an outlaw's gun.
#8 - The Princess
Season 4 - Episode 15 - Aired 1/8/1962
The Queen-to-be of France hides out in Northfork.
#9 - Guilty Conscience
Season 4 - Episode 27 - Aired 4/2/1962
No one's more surprised than Micah when newcomer Leota Carraway claims he's her long-lost husband and the father of her child.
#10 - Two Ounces of Tin
Season 4 - Episode 21 - Aired 2/19/1962
Sammy Davis Jr. stars as Tip Corey, son of a man allegedly murdered in North Fork.
#11 - The Quiet Fear
Season 4 - Episode 17 - Aired 1/22/1962
Lucas's old Army pal settles in North Fork with his deaf daughter.
#12 - The Stand-In
Season 4 - Episode 4 - Aired 10/23/1961
Lucas is taken hostage by two prison wagon drivers angered that he won't give them more whiskey.
#13 - Sheer Terror
Season 4 - Episode 3 - Aired 9/16/1961
Mark and Milly are held prisoner in her general store when two gunmen attempt a daring robbery.
#14 - The Jealous Man
Season 4 - Episode 26 - Aired 3/26/1962
A retired lawman's irrational jealousy threatens not only to destroy his marriage, but also to make him an easy target for someone who wants him dead.
#15 - The Long Goodbye
Season 4 - Episode 9 - Aired 11/27/1961
Stubborn Grandpa Fogarty is Lucas's main roadblock as he tries to get young Woody Fogarty to attend school.
#16 - A Friend in Need
Season 4 - Episode 13 - Aired 12/25/1961
Mark finds himself the unwilling companion of gunman Carl Avery.
#17 - Deadly Image
Season 4 - Episode 22 - Aired 2/26/1962
Lucas has double trouble: his lookalike is tearing up the town.
#18 - First Wages
Season 4 - Episode 2 - Aired 10/9/1961
Lucas tries to find out why Mark has taken a job as a stableboy.
#19 - Sporting Chance
Season 4 - Episode 18 - Aired 1/29/1962
An Englishman arrives with a custom-made rifle and a plan to kill Lucas.
#20 - The Decision
Season 4 - Episode 6 - Aired 11/6/1961
Corey Hazlett insists he's innocent of murder, despite Lucas's eyewitness testimony.
#21 - The Vaqueros
Season 4 - Episode 1 - Aired 10/2/1961
A bandit imprisons Lucas and Mark.
#22 - The High Country
Season 4 - Episode 12 - Aired 12/18/1961
Lucas becomes the target of a vengeful mountaineer.
#23 - Gunfire
Season 4 - Episode 16 - Aired 1/15/1962
When an expected lawman doesn't arrive from Denver, several gunfighters arrive in North Fork and cause trouble.
#24 - Man from Salinas
Season 4 - Episode 20 - Aired 2/12/1962
Banker Hamilton is closing up for the day when Rudy Gray persuades him to stay open for one more transaction a withdrawal at gunpoint.
#25 - Skull
Season 4 - Episode 14 - Aired 1/1/1962
Lucas seeks an escape when he's captured by outlaws while seeking help for an injured Mark.