L'Homme à la carabine

Épisode 1 - The Sharpshooter

30 septembre 1958 - 5/5

Lucas McCain and his son Mark arrive in North Fork, New Mexico. Looking to start a new life, they come across a ranch to their liking, which is for sale. Lucas enters a Turkey Shoot in hopes of winning the down payment for the ranch. Jim Lewis, the man who runs North Fork, has bet on Vernon, a young gun he brought in, to win. When talk of Lucas' reputation back in the Nations circulates around town, Mr. Lewis gets nervous and he makes trouble for Lucas by threatening Mark's life.

Épisode 2 - Home Ranch

7 octobre 1958

Two hired hands of a wealthy cattleman, who has been using the ranch for grazing his cattle, demand that Lucas move out. When Lucas refuses, he is beaten and dragged and then the ranch house is burned down. They left Lucas and Mark with the burning house and rode off with Lucas' rifle. Leaving Mark to tend to the animals, Lucas tracks them down and confronts their boss, Mr. Jackford.

Épisode 3 - End of a Young Gun

14 octobre 1958

Lucas is forced to give refuge to Will Fulton, a young bank robber, who was injured while saving Mark's life. While staying at the McCain ranch Will gets a taste of a life better than the one he's been leading. He's met a girl and grows tired of a life on the run. Will this young man have a change of heart before his brother returns for him and the stolen money?

Épisode 4 - The Marshal

21 octobre 1958

Micah Torrance, a once famous lawman, is introduced as a drunken derelict, who stumbles into North Fork. Micah, nursing an arm crippled in a gunfight, is hired by Lucas to help out at the ranch. Three outlaws ride into town looking for revenge against Micah. When they kill the sheriff, it's up to Lucas and Micah to protect North Fork. Micah becomes North Fork's full-time Marshal.

Épisode 5 - The Brother-in-Law

28 octobre 1958

Mark's uncle, Johnny Gibb, a big time rodeo rider, comes to visit. While Mark idolizes his uncle, Lucas discovers that Johnny is on the run from the law for an Express Office Robbery. Stacy has a bronco named Lucifer, that nobody's been able to ride for 15 seconds. Alvah, wanting to humble the almighty Mr. Stacy, asks Johnny if he'd ride Lucifer, so that he and the townsfolk could bet that Johnny would ride Lucifer for 30 seconds. Johnny agrees and then makes a deal with Stacy to throw the ride for $500.00. After spending time with Mark, Johnny decides to give the ride his best and then turn himself in to Marshal Torrance.

Épisode 6 - Eight Hours to Die

4 novembre 1958

Judge Burton seeks ""Justice"" against the Hangman, who hanged his son; the Judge, who sentenced his son; and Lucas, the man who caught his son. When Judge Burton discovers that Lucas has a son, he decides that the best way to serve justice is an eye for an eye, a tooth for a tooth, a son for a son. Judge Burton tied Lucas to a wagon and went to hang Mark, feeling that Lucas should feel the same agony that he had felt waiting for is son to be hanged.

Épisode 7 - Duel of Honor

11 novembre 1958

When an Italian Count arrives in North Fork, his strange attire attracts the attention of Groder, a town bully. Groder trying to have fun with this stranger, destroys some of the Counts currency, mocks him, and tries to humiliate him. Eventually the Count challenges Groder to a duel and asks Lucas to be his Second. They meet at dawn and the Count, the offended party, brings his single shot dueling pistols, something Groder is unaccustomed to. Lucas as second must see that all rules of the duel are adhered to.

Épisode 8 - The Safe Guard

18 octobre 1958

Floyd Doniger comes to North Fork, looking to start a new life. He's got a steady job as the guard at the new bank and he's entertaining ideas of settling down on a spread of his own. Also arriving in North Fork are three men who followed the bank's new safe, figuring any town needing a safe like that must have money to put into it. At the grand opening celebration of the bank, the three men discover the new bank guard is their old pal, Floyd. The three men try to convince Floyd to join them in robbing the bank, after all with a man working inside it should be easy.

Épisode 9 - The Sister

25 novembre 1958

Rebecca Snipe is returning to North Fork after a long visit away. Before her stage left, she over hears a man saying he's going to North Fork to kill a big man with a big mouth. Upon Rebecca's arrival in North Fork, Mark is smitten with her and gets it in his head to play matchmaker between her and his pa. Thinking Lucas has intentions on their sister, the Snipe brothers come looking for Lucas to see if he measures up to their standard of being good enough for her.

Épisode 10 - New Orleans Menace

26 décembre 1958

Tiffauges, a wealthy and sadistic Frenchman, who is used to getting whatever he wants, decides he wishes to purchase the McCain Ranch. Tiffauges' lead man, Xavier, proclaims Lucas to be muy macho, and does not believe Lucas will give in so easily. Xavier and the other men are tiring of being subjected to Tiffauges' whippings and cruel treatment. Lucas plays on the men's longing for freedom to keep his ranch.

Épisode 11 - The Apprentice Sheriff

9 décembre 1958

Dan Willard is filling in as temporary marshal while Micah is away. Some Texas cowhands are in North Fork looking for some fun and relaxation, but Dan keeps coming down hard on them. Dan's father tells Lucas that he feels Dan is trying to prove himself as a man to compensate from being dropped from West Point Academy because of his poor eyesight. The Texas cowhands have had enough of being pushed around when Marshal Dan posts an ordinance that all visitors must check their guns at the Marshal's office. Now, they're out to cause some real trouble for Dan.

Épisode 12 - The Angry Gun

16 décembre 1958

Lucas and Mark, returning from selling their herd, share the stagecoach trip with a Marshal and his prisoner, Johnny Cotton. Johnny's gang arrives to free their partner and steal the contents of the stage's strongbox, as well as Lucas' money and rifle. Along with the wounded Marshal, Lucas puts Mark back on the stage. Asking the driver to leave Mark with Mrs. Peterson, Lucas, unarmed and on foot, proceeds to track down Cotton and his boys. Lucas eventually fashions a makeshift rifle from a pistol and an old board, to increase the pistol's range of accuracy.

Épisode 13 - Young Englishman

23 décembre 1958

Lucas gets in trouble when he accuses the foreman of a neighboring ranch of rustling some of his cattle.

Épisode 14 - The Gaucho

30 décembre 1958 - 5/5

Rumson, without even saying to whom he had sold his property, left the bill of sale with the bank and moved away from North Fork. Curge, who's highest offer was upped by $1,000.00 is upset because Rumson sold out to a ""peppergut"". The Argentez family who bought the place are from Argentina. Lucas arranges for Mark to hang out with Manolo, who teaches Mark to use the Bolas. Manolo is angered at anyone who shows interest in his sister, he believes she is only for a ""Caballero"". Her latest suitor, Ned Dunnell, has been found murdered and the townsfolk are quick to believe it was Manolo.

Épisode 15 - The Pet

6 janvier 1959

Ward Haskins guns down Joe Flecker, who has evidence that could be used to blackmail him. Haskins thinks the information was given to Lucas, since he brought Flecker to the doctor before he died. Stirred up by Haskins behavior, Lucas goes through Flecker's things, finding a wanted poster for Haskins in the sole of Flecker's boot. He also finds Doc Burrage drinking. Doc is discouraged because three children have died of an anthrax epidemic that he has the new serum for, but nobody is willing to allow him to administer it in time. Haskins rides out to the ranch and is bitten by Flecker's horse, which is now believed to have anthrax. Mark overhears about how anthrax always causes death and is worried because he had bitten by Flecker's horse, also.

Épisode 16 - The Sheridan Story

13 janvier 1959

Frank Blandon, a man with only one good arm, wanders on to the ranch. Lucas gave Blandon a job to ""hire him and Mark a clear conscience"". General Sheridan and his patrol wandered by and Lucas offered to let them stay the night at the ranch. Blandon pulled a gun on General Sheridan, as it turned out Blandon was a confederate soldier, who once had General Sheridan in his gun sight during the war. Blandon hung fire, but Sheridan did not hesitate and blew out Blandon's shoulder. General Sheridan shamed Blandon out of exacting his revenge, then lifted Blandon's spirit by praising Johnny Rebs' fighting spirit. Sheridan ordered that Blandon be taken to a hospital to have his shoulder properly mended, carrying out his Commander in Chief's last order to ""Bind up the Nation's wounds.""

Épisode 17 - The Retired Gun

20 janvier 1959

Wes Carney and his wife Clair want to settle down and they figure North Fork might do fine. Wes is a well known gunfighter, who has promised Clair that he would hang up his guns for good. The Carney's want to live a simple, honest life and the Feed and Grain Store, which is up for sale, seems like it might work for them. Carney's reputation and the news that he's settling down brings troublemakers to North Fork. Lucas is the only man willing to stand as deputy with Micah. After Lucas tells the Carney's a story, Clair releases Wes of his promise and the three men take on the troublemakers. After the showdown, Clair announces that Wes will be taking the Sheriff's position he was offered in another town, if it's still available.

Épisode 18 - The Photographer

27 janvier 1959

Abel Goss, the photographer who took Lucas' wedding photograph, is in North Fork doing a portrait of Mark standing in the street. When Goss sees Col. Whiteside and his sidekick Jamison, he recognizes them as the butchers who tortured him and others while he was captive in their prisoners of war camp. When Lucas stops him from killing them, Goss swears to kill those men. Whiteside planned to call Goss out, but he had Jamison shooting from the upstairs hotel window, as his insurance. When the shots are fired, Whiteside is dead, shot in the back, and his gun hadn't been fired. Goss is arrested and at the trial Lucas and Mark have different testimonies. Mark reenacts the scene in the street, and Lucas backs Mark's theory , using the photographic negative Goss had shot of Mark.

Épisode 19 - Shivaree

3 février 1959

Aaron Pelser's wagon train came across a pair of young boys on a buck board heading west and invited them to join the train. When he found out that one of the boys was actually a girl and the two claimed to be headed to Yuma to get married, Pelser and his crowd force them to be married in North Fork. The wagon train folks want to throw a shivaree, which may have been innocent enough except for two reasons. The first reason being that the couple does not count it as their wedding because they want to be wed by the groom's father in Yuma. The second reason is that Chet Packard keeps pushing things too far, beyond the spirit of a friendly shivaree.

Épisode 20 - The Deadeye Kid

10 février 1959

McCain befriends Donnel O'Mahoney, a tough kid from Brooklyn, and arranges with two men for the young man to continue his travels on their wagon, but then one of them is murdered and the other accuses the boy of having done it.

Épisode 21 - The Indian

17 février 1959

U.S. Marshal Sam Buckhart arrives in North Fork in search of renegade Indians suspected of the brutal killing of a Texas Ranger and his family, but the townspeople are suspicious of him when they discover that he too is an Indian.

Épisode 22 - The Boarding House

24 février 1959

Reformed card sharp Julia Massini now runs a respectable boarding house in North Fork, but Sid Fallon is threatening to reveal her sordid past unless she lets him turn the establishment into a saloon and gambling hall.

Épisode 23 - The Second Witness

30 mars 1959

Lucas puts his life in jeopardy when he agrees to testify in a murder case where the first witness was killed before he could testify, and the killer is still at large.

Épisode 24 - The Trade

10 mars 1959

Outlaw Sam Morley falls in love with a young woman who has a serious illness, and asks Lucas to turn him in for the reward and then use the money to pay for her medical care.

Épisode 25 - One Went to Denver

17 mars 1959

Lucas welcomes his old friend Tom Birch, who once saved his life, unaware that the man is now a bank robber who is on the run with his gang.

Épisode 26 - The Deadly Wait

24 mars 1959

Dan Nowry, released from Yuma prison, arrives in North Fork intent on getting even with Marshal Torrance,who helped send him to jail.

Épisode 27 - The Wrong Man

31 mars 1959

Young Mark McCain is eager to help lawman Jay Jefferson, who has arrived in North Fork intent on killing an outlaw for the reward, whether he is the right man or not.

Épisode 28 - The Challenge

7 avril 1959

When escaped convicts hold up the general store in North Fork and take Marshal Torrance hostage, Lucas comes to the rescue.

Épisode 29 - The Hawk

14 avril 1959

Young Mark manages to capture a hawk, but then falls into danger from a rattlesnake. When a stranger comes to his rescue, the grateful Mark invites the man home, unaware that he is on the run from the law.

Épisode 30 - Three-Legged Terror

21 avril 1959

When a rambunctious teenager wrecks a schoolroom, Lucas McCain, as a member of the North Fork school board, asks the boy's reluctant uncle to pay for the damages.

Épisode 31 - The Angry Man

28 avril 1959

The McCains try to be tolerant of their embittered neighbor Abel MacDonald, who tels Lucas to keep off his land and won't allow his son to become friends with Mark, but they decide he's gone too far when he won't allow his injured boy to get medical treatment.

Épisode 32 - The Woman

5 mai 1959

An unfounded rumor causes North Fork's outspoken feminist schoolteacher to be attacked by a mob of angry townspeople.

Épisode 33 - The Money Gun

12 mai 1959

When his employer begins to suspect him of embezzlement, bookkeeper Asa Manning decides to hire a professional gunman to take care of the problem.

Épisode 34 - A Matter of Faith

19 mai 1959

Although a drought has forced local cowhands to seek work on a railroad construction project, railraod executives are afraid that their workers will desert them if they believe an old man's claim to have found a way to make rain.

Épisode 35 - Blood Brothers

26 mai 1959

Lucas McCain gives blood to save a dying man and is surprised by Marshal Torrance's odd behavior toward the man. Then three men arrive from a nearby town and demand custody of the stranger.

Épisode 36 - Stranger at Night

20 juin 1959

Mark's finding of the body of a murder victim starts Lucas, his friend Artemus, and Marshal Torrance on a search for the killer.

Épisode 37 - The Raid

9 juin 1959

When renegade Apaches wound Lucas and kidnap Mark, Marshal Torrance joins with U.S. Marshal Sam Buckhart to form a rescue posse.

Épisode 38 - Outlaw's Inheritance

16 juin 1959

Lucas is the town's representative to the railroad commission until an infamous train robber dies and leaves his ill-gotten wealth to Lucas. Lucas must clear his name and stop the reckless ambition of his replacement.

Épisode 39 - Boomerang

23 juin 1959

When a rancher dies after the bank forecloses the mortgage on his property, his son blames the banker for his father's death.

Épisode 40 - The Mind Reader

30 juin 1959 - 4/5

When a wealthy rancher is killed, Mark suggests that they seek the aid of a mind reader to identify the murderer.

Épisode 1 - The Patsy

29 septembre 1959

A group of outlaws devise a plan to get rid of Lucas so that they can take over the town of North Fork.

Épisode 2 - Bloodlines

6 octobre 1959

After Lucas kills a mountain man in a barrom brawl, his father arrives in North Fork determined to take revenge on Lucas and Marshal Torrance, once he breaks his other two boys out of jail.

Épisode 3 - The Blowout

13 octobre 1959

Newly arrived gunslinger Al Walker throws a mammoth party at the saloon, keeping acting Marshal Ben Waller busy until Lucas is forced to intervene.

Épisode 4 - Obituary

20 octobre 1959

Newspaperman Byron Claremont specializes in profiles of famous gunmen. One of his stories was responsible for an old-time marshal's death; and his next subject is Lucas.

Épisode 5 - Tension

27 octobre 1959

Gavin and Ezra Martin think that Lucas killed their son Clemmie while taking part in a train robbery, and Lucas refuses to tell them what really happened.

Épisode 6 - Eddie's Daughter

3 novembre 1959

After the daughter of Lucas's friend the hotel clerk arrives in North Fork, two strangers threaten her life.

Épisode 7 - Panic

10 novembre 1959

Town character Brett Conway blackmails Lucas with the knowledge that a young couple Lucas rescued are suffering from yellow fever.

Épisode 8 - Ordeal

17 novembre 1959

When their wagon breaks down, Mark and an injured Lucas are stranded in the desert.

Épisode 9 - The Spiked Rifle

24 novembre 1959

Mark is kidnapped as he and his father try to protect Banker Hamilton's gold.

Épisode 10 - Letter of the Law

1 décembre 1959

Lucas makes a life-or-death decision when Micah is held hostage and the kidnappers demand the release of a notorious outlaw.

Épisode 11 - Legacy

8 décembre 1959

Lucas tries to do a good deed for the old town drunk but it backfires when the drunk's son believes he inherited Lucas' ranch.

Épisode 12 - The Baby Sitter

15 décembre 1959 - 4/5

A dance hall singer asks Lucas to care for her daughter in an effort to hide the baby from her self-righteous, bigoted father.

Épisode 13 - The Coward

22 décembre 1959

Lucas becomes involved in a battle between an aspiring writer and a cocky, bragging trail boss.

Épisode 14 - The Surveyors

29 décembre 1959

Mark runs away from home after his father questions his story about overhearing a plot to rob the bank.

Épisode 15 - Day of the Hunter

5 janvier 1960

A famous buffalo hunter tries to goad Lucas into a shooting match.

Épisode 16 - Mail Order Groom

12 janvier 1960

When a stranger arrives to marry the town spinster, two brothers who want her land try to discourage him with threats and a beating.

Épisode 17 - A Case of Identity

19 janvier 1960

Mark finds himself in grave danger when two unscrupulous detectives searching for a man's long-lost son claim that it is Mark.

Épisode 18 - The Visitor

26 janvier 1960

Lucas is drawn to a young widow passing through town on her way to claim an inheritance, but others who covet it are trying to kill her.

Épisode 19 - Hero

2 février 1960

After a young stablehand kills a notorious gunslinger, he is baffled by the hostility of the townspeople about giving him the reward.

Épisode 20 - The Horse Traders

9 février 1960

When a horse dealer transporting a prize stallion stops in North Fork, two saddle tramps try to use trickery to obtain it.

Épisode 21 - The Spoiler

16 février 1960

An elderly couple moves to North Fork under an assumed name to hide the fact that they are the parents of a vicious killer. The plan backfires when the son shows up at their home.

Épisode 22 - Heller

23 février 1960

After foiling a girl's attempt to rob the general store, Lucas finds that she and her brother are plotting the murder of their abusive stepfather.

Épisode 23 - The Grasshopper

1 mars 1960

A condemned killer being transported by train murders a marshal and takes Mark hostage.

Épisode 24 - A Time for Singing

8 mars 1960

Mark discovers that the new preacher and his wife are impostors planning a robbery.

Épisode 25 - The Deserter

15 mars 1960

Lucas and Marshal Torrance get into trouble with the Army when they try to help a wounded young soldier who deserted.

Épisode 26 - The Vision

22 mars 1960

After Mark contracts typhoid fever and has a vision of his dead mother, he no longer seems interested in getting well.

Épisode 27 - Lariat

29 mars 1960

An old friend of Lucas's returns to town in the company of a shady gambler and is accused of cheating at cards.

Épisode 28 - Smoke Screen

5 avril 1960

Several men are vying for a rancher's daughter's affections. When she is found dead, one of them becomes the prime suspect in her murder.

Épisode 29 - Shotgun Man

12 avril 1960

Shotgun man John Beaumont, who Lucas sent to prison, returns with vengeance on his mind.

Épisode 30 - Sins of the Father

19 avril 1960

After shooting a man in self-defense, Andy Moon turns to Lucas for protection from his vengeful brothers.

Épisode 31 - The Prodigal

26 avril 1960

To keep his invalid mother happy, an outlaw forces Lucas and Mark to go along with a masquerade that he is the owner of Lucas's ranch.

Épisode 32 - The Fourflusher

3 mai 1960

A sharecropper enters his colt in a horse race, hoping to win enough money to buy his farm from the owner, who has bet on Mark McCain's entry.

Épisode 33 - The Jailbird

10 mai 1960

When Lucas hires an ex-con as a ranch hand, the man is the first one under suspicion when a robbery and murder occur in the area.

Épisode 34 - Meeting at Midnight

17 mai 1960

Lucas helps his former Army captain, now an undercover federal agent, infiltrate a gang of bank robbers.

Épisode 35 - Nora

24 mai 1960

Lucas finds himself involved in murder when he gallantly steps to the aid of a beautiful woman.

Épisode 36 - The Hangman

31 mai 1960

An ex-convict is blamed for a brutal crime despite his claims of rehabilitation.

Épisode 1 - Trail of Hate

27 septembre 1960

Lucas is out for vengeance when Mark is used as a pawn in a bank robbery scheme.

Épisode 2 - Woman From Hog Ridge

4 octobre 1960

Lucas shoots a horse thief who turns out to be a member of the Boyle clan, and now Ma Boyle is after him.

Épisode 3 - Seven

11 octobre 1960

Seven condemned murderers escape and take over the town of North Fork.

Épisode 4 - The Pitchman

18 septembre 1960

When Mark finds gold on their property, a fast-talking salesman who tried to sell Lucas a new lightning rod offers instead to buy the ranch's mineral rights.

Épisode 5 - Strange Town

25 octobre 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.

Épisode 6 - Baranca

1 novembre 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.

Épisode 7 - The Martinet

8 novembre 1960

A former army captain comes to North Fork to kill the man who shot down his son in a gunfight - Lucas McCain.

Épisode 8 - Miss Milly

15 novembre 1960

A new store owner upsets the town by demanding that all credit accounts be paid off.

Épisode 9 - Dead Cold Cash

22 novembre 1960

The widow of a bandit killed by Lucas plots a grotesque revenge.

Épisode 10 - The Schoolmaster

29 novembre 1960

Mark and his friend become trapped in an old mine.

Épisode 11 - The Promoter

6 décembre 1960

Lucas and Mark attempt to reform a con-man.

Épisode 12 - The Illustrator

13 décembre 1960

Lucas encourages a drunken artist charged with murder to use his talents to identify the true killer.

Épisode 13 - The Silent Knife

20 décembre 1960

Lucas and Mark try to persuade a persecuted young mute to return stolen money.

Épisode 14 - Miss Bertie

27 décembre 1960 - 3/5

A lively old lady arrives in town hot on the trail of a notorious bandit—and the reward money for capturing him.

Épisode 15 - Six Years and a Day

30 janvier 1961

A doctor seeks revenge on the man he blames for ruining his practice.

Épisode 16 - Flowers by the Door

10 janvier 1961

Lucas unmasks a killer posing as a door-to-door seed salesman.

Épisode 17 - Long Trek

17 janvier 1961

Lucas and Marshal Torrance run in trouble transporting a captured killer back to face trial.

Épisode 18 - The Actress

24 janvier 1961

A deathbed request from an old friend sends Lucas to a neighboring town in search of the man's long-lost sweetheart.

Épisode 19 - Face of Yesterday

31 janvier 1961 - 4.8/5

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.

Épisode 20 - The Wyoming Story (1)

7 février 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)

Épisode 21 - The Wyoming Story (2)

14 février 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)

Épisode 22 - Closer than a Brother

21 février 1961

Lucas looks for answers when recovering alcoholic Micah Torrence returns to the bottle—and turns in his badge.

Épisode 23 - The Lost Treasure of Canyon Town

28 février 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.

Épisode 24 - Dark Day at North Fork

7 mars 1961

Blinded in an explosion, Lucas fights despair as he prepares for a meeting with a gun-toting enemy.

Épisode 25 - The Prisoner

14 mars 1961

Two ex-Confederate officers seek revenge on Lucas, who served as prison guard during their internment.

Épisode 26 - Assault

21 mars 1961

A salesman can't talk his way out of an assault charge.

Épisode 27 - Short Rope for a Tall Man

28 mars 1961

Lucas, accused of horse theft, struggles to clear himself before a lynch mob catches up.

Épisode 28 - The Clarence Bibs Story

4 avril 1961

A janitor-turned-gunfighter whose reputation hangs on one lucky shot—and a lot of gall.

Épisode 29 - The Score is Even

11 avril 1961

Lucas tries to get help when he is shot after witnessing a murder.

Épisode 30 - The Mescalaro Curse

18 avril 1961

Lucas is marked for death: he was foreman of a jury that convicted an Apache.

Épisode 31 - Stopover

25 avril 1961

Trouble brews at Lucas's when a whisky salesman and a gunfighter fall for the same woman.

Épisode 32 - The Lonesome Bride

2 mai 1961 - 3/5

Two pranksters write away for a mail-order bride, using Lucas's name.

Épisode 33 - Death Trap

9 mai 1961

Lucas recognizes Dr. Simon Battle as an ex-gunslinger with whom he once traded shots.

Épisode 34 - The Queue

16 mai 1961

A Chinese man and his son fight prejudice as they try to open a laundry in North Fork.

Épisode 1 - The Vaqueros

2 octobre 1961

A bandit imprisons Lucas and Mark.

Épisode 2 - First Wages

9 octobre 1961

Lucas tries to find out why Mark has taken a job as a stableboy.

Épisode 3 - Sheer Terror

16 septembre 1961

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

Épisode 4 - The Stand-In

23 octobre 1961 - 4/5

Lucas is taken hostage by two prison wagon drivers angered that he won't give them more whiskey.

Épisode 5 - The Journey Back

30 octobre 1961

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

Épisode 6 - The Decision

6 novembre 1961

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

Épisode 7 - Knight Errant

13 novembre 1961

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

Épisode 8 - Honest Abe

20 novembre 1961

Able Lincoln's claim that he's the Great Emancipator himself amuses everyone except Matt Yorty.

Épisode 9 - The Long Goodbye

27 novembre 1961

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

Épisode 10 - The Shattered Idol

4 décembre 1961

Mark Twain visits Southfork, and quickly alienates the townspeople.

Épisode 11 - Long Gun From Tucson

11 décembre 1961

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

Épisode 12 - The High Country

18 décembre 1961

Lucas becomes the target of a vengeful mountaineer.

Épisode 13 - A Friend in Need

25 décembre 1961 - 4.5/5

Mark finds himself the unwilling companion of gunman Carl Avery.

Épisode 14 - Skull

1 janvier 1962

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

Épisode 15 - The Princess

8 janvier 1962

The Queen-to-be of France hides out in Northfork.

Épisode 16 - Gunfire

15 janvier 1962

When an expected lawman doesn't arrive from Denver, several gunfighters arrive in North Fork and cause trouble.

Épisode 17 - The Quiet Fear

22 janvier 1962

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

Épisode 18 - Sporting Chance

29 janvier 1962

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

Épisode 19 - A Young Man's Fancy

5 février 1962

The pangs of first love are painful for Mark: the object of his affections has eyes for another.

Épisode 20 - Man from Salinas

12 février 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.

Épisode 21 - Two Ounces of Tin

19 février 1962

Sammy Davis Jr. stars as Tip Corey, son of a man allegedly murdered in North Fork.

Épisode 22 - Deadly Image

26 février 1962

Lucas has double trouble: his lookalike is tearing up the town.

Épisode 23 - The Debt

5 mars 1962

Mark learns that the prisoner Micah is escorting to the gallows is the man that saved his life three years previously.

Épisode 24 - Tinhorn

12 mars 1962

Mark is shocked when he discovers that his father is a poker player.

Épisode 25 - None So Blind

19 mars 1962

Mark befriends singer-banjoist Lafayette Bly, a blind man with an acute sense of hearing—and a very strong grip.

Épisode 26 - Jealous Man

26 mars 1962

Épisode 27 - Guilty Conscience

2 avril 1962 - 4/5

No one's more surprised than Micah when newcomer Leota Carraway claims he's her long-lost husband and the father of her child.

Épisode 28 - Day of Reckoning

9 avril 1962

Lucas is torn by conflicting emotions when he meets the town's new preacher—a former outlaw whom the Rifleman vowed to kill.

Épisode 29 - The Day the Town Slept

16 avril 1962

The town of North Fork becomes a haven for outlaws when suave Ben Judson smooth-talks his way into the marshal's job.

Épisode 30 - Milly's Brother

23 avril 1962

A veteran returns with tales of heroism and the fate of Milly's brother in the Civil War.

Épisode 31 - Outlaw's Shoes

30 avril 1962

A head wound wipes out Lucas's memory, leaving him with only one clue: he's wearing an outlaw's gun.

Épisode 32 - The Executioner

7 mai 1962

A former friend of Lucas' is released from prison and asks him for a job.

Épisode 1 - Waste (1)

1 octobre 1962 - 4/5

Marshal Torrance is heading home from a cattle sale with Lucas and Mark when the old lawman mysteriously disappears. They trace him to a nearby Mexican ghost town. (Part 1 of 2)

Épisode 2 - Waste (2)

8 octobre 1962

Conclusion. After Alphonso's wife gives birth, the bandits holding Marshal Torrance relax their guard, enabling Lucas and Mark to rescue the old man.

Épisode 3 - Lou Mallory

15 octobre 1962

Red-headed Lou Mallory arrives in North Fork and soon arouses the townpeople's suspicions.

Épisode 4 - Quiet Night, Deadly Night

22 octobre 1962

Townspeople brace for the worst when a new girl arrives—with symptoms of smallpox.

Épisode 5 - Death Never Rides Alone

29 octobre 1962

A gunslinger rides into North Fork for a meeting with Lucas.

Épisode 6 - I Take This Woman

5 novembre 1962

Lou looks for a way out when the man her dying father promised her to arrives.

Épisode 7 - The Assailants

12 novembre 1962

An assassination plot unfolds as four gunmen disguised as cavalrymen enter North Fork. Their target: Sen. Jim Borden. Their weapon: a Gatling gun.

Épisode 8 - Mark's Rifle

19 novembre 1962

Sharpshooter Marty Blair tries to persuade Lucas to buy Mark a rifle.

Épisode 9 - The Most Amazing Man

26 novembre 1962

Fast-draw artist Wade Randall is less than anxious to display his prowess.

Épisode 10 - Squeeze Play

3 décembre 1962

A speculator will stop at nothing to grab Lucas's land.

Épisode 11 - Gun Shy

10 décembre 1962

Mark blames himself for a friend's accidental death.

Épisode 12 - The Anvil Chorus

17 décembre 1962

A blacksmith-turned-deputy sets the stage for trouble when he demands that all townspeople turn in their weapons.

Épisode 13 - The Conflict

24 décembre 1962

Lucas's self-confidence begins to slip away when he misses an easy shot.

Épisode 14 - Incident at Line Shack Six

7 janvier 1963

A railroad gang boss frames an Apache.

Épisode 15 - Suspicion

14 janvier 1963

A peddler is implicated in a series of murders.

Épisode 16 - Sidewinder

21 janvier 1963

Gridley Mau is gunning for Lucas, who killed his father during an attempted robbery.

Épisode 17 - The Sixteenth Cousin

28 janvier 1962

A Japanese nobleman seeks revenge when his servant is insulted.

Épisode 18 - Hostages to Fortune

4 février 1963

At Halloween, rustlers take advantage of the seasonal disguises to raid a cattle ranch.

Épisode 19 - And the Devil Makes Five

11 février 1963

A snake crawls into Lucas's bed, and Mark must lure it away before it strikes.

Épisode 20 - End of the Hunt

18 février 1963

Lucas is thrown into jail to stop him from murdering an old enemy.

Épisode 21 - The Bullet

25 février 1963

Lucas is baffled when the marshal of a neighboring town refuses to hold a gambler who just attempted murder.

Épisode 22 - Requiem at Mission Springs

4 mars 1963

Lucas begins a trek to find a cure for Mark, who is paralyzed after a bad fall.

Épisode 23 - The Guest

11 mars 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.

Épisode 24 - Old Man Running (aka The Wanted Man)

18 mars 1963

Lucas, who blames his wife's death on his father-in-law, refuses to help the old man elude gunmen.

Épisode 25 - Which Way'd They Go?

1 avril 1963 - 4.7/5

The notoriously lazy Jackman brothers discover their mortgage has been foreclosed.

Épisode 26 - Old Tony

8 avril 1963

Mark and his girlfriend Laurie discover that an old hermit is very lonely.