The Rifleman

While Lucas and Mark are traveling across the Mexican desert they encounter a trio of Mexican bandits who demand payment to cross "their" desert. When Lucas refuses, the three slam him in the throat with his rifle, kidnap Mark, strip him of all his possessions, tie him to a tree and leave him to die of thirst and exposure.

Mark takes a job as a stable boy against his father's wishes.

Mark and Milly are held hostage in her general store when two gunmen attempt a daring robbery.

Two prison wagon drivers stop at the McCain ranch looking for whiskey. Lucas turns them down because they are escorting Rudy Croft, a murderer, to be hanged in Yuma. When Croft escapes, the drivers return to the ranch and take Lucas in Croft's place.

Mark goes to work for Will Temple, a badly scarred, very mysterious rancher.

Corey Hazlett insists he's innocent of murder, despite Lucas's eyewitness testimony.

Lucas tries to dissuade a latter-day knight from rushing into battle.

Abe Lincoln's claim that he's the Great Emancipator amuses everyone except Matt Yordy.

Stubborn Grandpa Fogarty is Lucas's main roadblock as he tries to get young Woody Fogarty to attend school.

Mark Twain visits North Fork and quickly alienates the townspeople.

Lucas tries to stop embittered John Holliver from venting his wrath on the people who expelled him from town years before.

Lucas becomes the target of a vengeful mountaineer after he is responsible for a young mountain boy's death.

When Mark is kidnapped and held for ransom, he finds himself an unwilling companion of gunman Carl Avery.

Lucas seeks an escape when he's captured by outlaws while seeking help for an injured Mark.

The young Queen-to-be of France hides out in North Fork with her ill brother.

Notorious killer Charlie Gordo is being held in the North Fork jail. When word gets around that Gordo's gang is on its way to free him, the whole town becomes frightened and leaves Lucas, Marshal Torrance and Nils to stand up to the gang alone.

Lucas's old Army pal settles in North Fork with his deaf daughter.

An Englishman arrives with a custom-made rifle and a plan to kill Lucas.

Mark falls head-over-heels in puppy love.

Banker Hamilton is closing up for the day when Rudy Gray persuades him to stay open for one more transaction...a withdrawal at gunpoint.

Tip Corey, the son of a man allegedly murdered in North Fork, has a killer's reputation and comes to town to kill Micah.

Len Richards and his brother, Ab, confront a Lucas McCain look-alike, Earl Bantry and his sidekick K.C. Peters, for slaughtering one of Richards' steers. When Bantry kills Ab, Lucas is accused of cold-blooded murder by a man who claims to have been an eyewitness.

Lucas and Mark stop on the way to the county fair to deliver a message to Micah, who is on the trail escorting a prisoner scheduled to be hanged. Mark and Lucas recognize the prisoner, Mr. Renolds, as someone who saved Mark's life from a snake bite a few years back and Mark feels he owes Mr. Renolds a debt.

Mark and Milly are shocked when Lucas begins gambling. They don't know that Lucas is "undercover" trying to catch a man cheating.