The WORST episodes of The Rifleman
Every episode of The Rifleman ever, ranked from worst to best by thousands of votes from fans of the show. The worst episodes of The Rifleman!
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 - 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.
#2 - 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.
#3 - Assault
Season 3 - Episode 26 - Aired 3/21/1961
A salesman can't talk his way out of an assault charge.
#4 - 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.
#5 - 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.
#6 - 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.
#7 - 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.
#8 - Flowers by the Door
Season 3 - Episode 16 - Aired 1/10/1961
Lucas unmasks a killer posing as a door-to-door seed salesman.
#9 - 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.
#10 - 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.
#11 - 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.
#12 - The Promoter
Season 3 - Episode 11 - Aired 12/6/1960
Lucas and Mark attempt to reform a con-man.
#13 - The Schoolmaster
Season 3 - Episode 10 - Aired 11/29/1960
Mark and his friend become trapped in an old mine.
#14 - Dead Cold Cash
Season 3 - Episode 9 - Aired 11/22/1960
The widow of a bandit killed by Lucas plots a grotesque revenge.
#15 - 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.
#16 - 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.
#18 - Seven
Season 3 - Episode 3 - Aired 10/11/1960
Seven condemned murderers escape and take over the town of North Fork.
#19 - 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.
#20 - 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.
#21 - 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.
#22 - Old Tony
Season 5 - Episode 26 - Aired 4/8/1963
Mark and his girlfriend Laurie discover that an old hermit is very lonely.
#23 - Which Way'd They Go?
Season 5 - Episode 25 - Aired 4/1/1963
The notoriously lazy Jackman brothers discover their mortgage has been foreclosed.
#24 - Old Man Running (aka The Wanted Man)
Season 5 - Episode 24 - Aired 3/18/1963
Lucas, who blames his wife's death on his father-in-law, refuses to help the old man elude gunmen.
#25 - The Guest
Season 5 - Episode 23 - Aired 3/11/1963
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.