A widower with a uniquely modified Winchester rifle raises his son on his New Mexico ranch while helping the local sheriff keep the peace.
Show Details:
Start date: Sep 1958
End date: Jul 1963
Status: cancelled/ended
Network(s): ABC (US)
Run time: 30 min
Episodes: 168 eps
Genre(s): Drama
End date: Jul 1963
Status: cancelled/ended
Network(s): ABC (US)
Run time: 30 min
Episodes: 168 eps
Genre(s): Drama
Credits:
- regulars:
- Chuck Connors as Lucas McCain
- Johnny Crawford as Mark McCain
- Paul Fix as Marshal Micah Torrance
- recurring characters:
- Bill Quinn as Sweeney, the bartender
- Hope Summers as Hattie Denton [ 1-2 ]
- Joan Taylor as Miss Milly Scott [ 3-4 ]
- Patricia Blair as Lou Mallory [ 5 ]
- Edgar Buchanan as Doc Burrage [ 1 ]
- Rhys Williams as Doc Burrage [ 2 ]
- Ralph Moody as Doc Burrage [ 3-5 ]
- John Harmon as Eddie Halstead [ 1-4 ]
- Harlan Warde as John Hamilton [ 1-4 ]
- Joe Higgins as Nils Swenson, the blacksmith [ 4-5 ]
- Asa Maynor as Molly
Episode list & details from:
TVmaze •
TV.com
| Episode # | Original Air Date |
Titles | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Season 1 | ||||
| 1. | 1-1 | 30 Sep 58 | The Sharpshooter | |
| 2. | 1-2 | 07 Oct 58 | Home Ranch | |
| 3. | 1-3 | 14 Oct 58 | End of a Young Gun | |
| 4. | 1-4 | 21 Oct 58 | The Marshal | |
| 5. | 1-5 | 28 Oct 58 | The Brother-in-Law | |
| 6. | 1-6 | 04 Nov 58 | Eight Hours to Die | |
| 7. | 1-7 | 11 Nov 58 | Duel of Honor | |
| 8. | 1-8 | 18 Oct 58 | The Safe Guard | |
| 9. | 1-9 | 25 Nov 58 | The Sister | |
| 10. | 1-10 | 26 Dec 58 | New Orleans Menace | |
| 11. | 1-11 | 09 Dec 58 | The Apprentice Sheriff | |
| 12. | 1-12 | 16 Dec 58 | The Angry Gun | |
| 13. | 1-13 | 23 Dec 58 | Young Englishman | |
| 14. | 1-14 | 30 Dec 58 | The Gaucho | |
| 15. | 1-15 | 06 Jan 59 | The Pet | |
| 16. | 1-16 | 13 Jan 59 | The Sheridan Story | |
| 17. | 1-17 | 20 Jan 59 | The Retired Gun | |
| 18. | 1-18 | 27 Jan 59 | The Photographer | |
| 19. | 1-19 | 03 Feb 59 | Shivaree | |
| 20. | 1-20 | 10 Feb 59 | The Deadeye Kid | |
| 21. | 1-21 | 17 Feb 59 | The Indian | |
| 22. | 1-22 | 24 Feb 59 | The Boarding House | |
| 23. | 1-23 | 30 Mar 59 | The Second Witness | |
| 24. | 1-24 | 10 Mar 59 | The Trade | |
| 25. | 1-25 | 17 Mar 59 | One Went to Denver | |
| 26. | 1-26 | 24 Mar 59 | The Deadly Wait | |
| 27. | 1-27 | 31 Mar 59 | The Wrong Man | |
| 28. | 1-28 | 07 Apr 59 | The Challenge | |
| 29. | 1-29 | 14 Apr 59 | The Hawk | |
| 30. | 1-30 | 21 Apr 59 | Three-Legged Terror | |
| 31. | 1-31 | 28 Apr 59 | The Angry Man | |
| 32. | 1-32 | 05 May 59 | The Woman | |
| 33. | 1-33 | 12 May 59 | The Money Gun | |
| 34. | 1-34 | 19 May 59 | A Matter of Faith | |
| 35. | 1-35 | 26 May 59 | Blood Brothers | |
| 36. | 1-36 | 20 Jun 59 | Stranger at Night | |
| 37. | 1-37 | 09 Jun 59 | The Raid | |
| 38. | 1-38 | 16 Jun 59 | Outlaw's Inheritance | |
| 39. | 1-39 | 23 Jun 59 | Boomerang | |
| 40. | 1-40 | 30 Jun 59 | The Mind Reader | |
| Season 2 | ||||
| 41. | 2-1 | 29 Sep 59 | The Patsy | |
| 42. | 2-2 | 06 Oct 59 | Bloodlines | |
| 43. | 2-3 | 13 Oct 59 | The Blowout | |
| 44. | 2-4 | 20 Oct 59 | Obituary | |
| 45. | 2-5 | 27 Oct 59 | Tension | |
| 46. | 2-6 | 03 Nov 59 | Eddie's Daughter | |
| 47. | 2-7 | 10 Nov 59 | Panic | |
| 48. | 2-8 | 17 Nov 59 | Ordeal | |
| 49. | 2-9 | 24 Nov 59 | The Spiked Rifle | |
| 50. | 2-10 | 01 Dec 59 | Letter of the Law | |
| 51. | 2-11 | 08 Dec 59 | The Legacy | |
| 52. | 2-12 | 15 Dec 59 | The Baby Sitter | |
| 53. | 2-13 | 22 Dec 59 | The Coward | |
| 54. | 2-14 | 29 Dec 59 | Surveyors | |
| 55. | 2-15 | 05 Jan 60 | Day of the Hunter | |
| 56. | 2-16 | 12 Jan 60 | Mail Order Groom | |
| 57. | 2-17 | 19 Jan 60 | A Case of Identity | |
| 58. | 2-18 | 26 Jan 60 | The Visitors | |
| 59. | 2-19 | 02 Feb 60 | The Hero | |
| 60. | 2-20 | 09 Feb 60 | The Horse Traders | |
| 61. | 2-21 | 16 Feb 60 | The Spoiler | |
| 62. | 2-22 | 23 Feb 60 | Heller | |
| 63. | 2-23 | 01 Mar 60 | The Grasshopper | |
| 64. | 2-24 | 08 Mar 60 | A Time for Singing | |
| 65. | 2-25 | 15 Mar 60 | The Deserter | |
| 66. | 2-26 | 22 Mar 60 | The Vision | |
| 67. | 2-27 | 29 Mar 60 | The Lariat | |
| 68. | 2-28 | 05 Apr 60 | Smoke Screen | |
| 69. | 2-29 | 12 Apr 60 | Shotgun Man | |
| 70. | 2-30 | 19 Apr 60 | Sins of the Father | |
| 71. | 2-31 | 26 Apr 60 | The Prodigal | |
| 72. | 2-32 | 03 May 60 | The Fourflusher | |
| 73. | 2-33 | 10 May 60 | The Jailbird | |
| 74. | 2-34 | 17 May 60 | Meeting at Midnight | |
| 75. | 2-35 | 24 May 60 | Nora | |
| 76. | 2-36 | 31 May 60 | The Hangman | |
| Season 3 | ||||
| 77. | 3-1 | 27 Sep 60 | Trail of Hate | |
| 78. | 3-2 | 04 Oct 60 | Woman from Hog Ridge | |
| 79. | 3-3 | 11 Oct 60 | Seven | |
| 80. | 3-4 | 18 Oct 60 | The Pitchman | |
| 81. | 3-5 | 25 Oct 60 | Strange Town | |
| 82. | 3-6 | 01 Nov 60 | Baranca | |
| 83. | 3-7 | 08 Nov 60 | The Martinet | |
| 84. | 3-8 | 15 Nov 60 | Miss Milly | |
| 85. | 3-9 | 22 Nov 60 | Dead Cold Cash | |
| 86. | 3-10 | 29 Nov 60 | The Schoolmaster | |
| 87. | 3-11 | 06 Dec 60 | The Promoter | |
| 88. | 3-12 | 13 Dec 60 | The Illustrator | |
| 89. | 3-13 | 20 Dec 60 | The Silent Knife | |
| 90. | 3-14 | 27 Dec 60 | Miss Bertie | |
| 91. | 3-15 | 30 Jan 61 | Six Years and a Day | |
| 92. | 3-16 | 10 Jan 61 | Flowers by the Door | |
| 93. | 3-17 | 17 Jan 61 | Long Trek | |
| 94. | 3-18 | 24 Jan 61 | The Actress | |
| 95. | 3-19 | 31 Jan 61 | Face of Yesterday | |
| 96. | 3-20 | 07 Feb 61 | The Wyoming Story (1) | |
| 97. | 3-21 | 14 Feb 61 | The Wyoming Story (2) | |
| 98. | 3-22 | 21 Feb 61 | Closer Than a Brother | |
| 99. | 3-23 | 28 Feb 61 | The Lost Treasure of Canyon Town | |
| 100. | 3-24 | 07 Mar 61 | Dark Day at North Fork | |
| 101. | 3-25 | 14 Mar 61 | The Prisoner | |
| 102. | 3-26 | 21 Mar 61 | Assault | |
| 103. | 3-27 | 28 Mar 61 | Short Rope for a Tall Man | |
| 104. | 3-28 | 04 Apr 61 | The Clarence Bibs Story | |
| 105. | 3-29 | 11 Apr 61 | The Score is Even | |
| 106. | 3-30 | 18 Apr 61 | The Mescalaro Curse | |
| 107. | 3-31 | 25 Apr 61 | Stopover | |
| 108. | 3-32 | 02 May 61 | The Lonesome Bride | |
| 109. | 3-33 | 09 May 61 | Death Trap | |
| 110. | 3-34 | 16 May 61 | The Queue | |
| Season 4 | ||||
| 111. | 4-1 | 02 Oct 61 | The Vaqueros | |
| 112. | 4-2 | 09 Oct 61 | First Wages | |
| 113. | 4-3 | 16 Oct 61 | Sheer Terror | |
| 114. | 4-4 | 23 Oct 61 | The Stand-In | |
| 115. | 4-5 | 30 Oct 61 | The Journey Back | |
| 116. | 4-6 | 06 Nov 61 | The Decision | |
| 117. | 4-7 | 13 Nov 61 | Knight Errant | |
| 118. | 4-8 | 20 Nov 61 | Honest Abe | |
| 119. | 4-9 | 27 Nov 61 | The Long Goodbye | |
| 120. | 4-10 | 04 Dec 61 | The Shattered Idol | |
| 121. | 4-11 | 11 Dec 61 | Long Gun from Tucson | |
| 122. | 4-12 | 18 Dec 61 | The High Country | |
| 123. | 4-13 | 25 Dec 61 | A Friend in Need | |
| 124. | 4-14 | 01 Jan 62 | Skull | |
| 125. | 4-15 | 08 Jan 62 | The Princess | |
| 126. | 4-16 | 15 Jan 62 | Gunfire | |
| 127. | 4-17 | 22 Jan 62 | The Quiet Fear | |
| 128. | 4-18 | 29 Jan 62 | Sporting Chance | |
| 129. | 4-19 | 05 Feb 62 | A Young Man's Fancy | |
| 130. | 4-20 | 12 Feb 62 | The Man from Salinas | |
| 131. | 4-21 | 19 Feb 62 | Two Ounces of Tin | |
| 132. | 4-22 | 26 Feb 62 | Deadly Image | |
| 133. | 4-23 | 05 Mar 62 | The Debt | |
| 134. | 4-24 | 12 Mar 62 | The Tinhorn | |
| 135. | 4-25 | 19 Mar 62 | None So Blind | |
| 136. | 4-26 | 26 Mar 62 | Jealous Man | |
| 137. | 4-27 | 02 Apr 62 | Guilty Conscience | |
| 138. | 4-28 | 09 Apr 62 | Day of Reckoning | |
| 139. | 4-29 | 16 Apr 62 | The Day the Town Slept | |
| 140. | 4-30 | 23 Apr 62 | Milly's Brother | |
| 141. | 4-31 | 30 Apr 62 | Outlaw's Shoes | |
| 142. | 4-32 | 07 May 62 | The Executioner | |
| Season 5 | ||||
| 143. | 5-1 | 01 Oct 62 | Waste (1) | |
| 144. | 5-2 | 08 Oct 62 | Waste (2) | |
| 145. | 5-3 | 15 Oct 62 | Lou Mallory | |
| 146. | 5-4 | 22 Oct 62 | Quiet Night, Deadly Night | |
| 147. | 5-5 | 29 Oct 62 | Death Never Rides Alone | |
| 148. | 5-6 | 05 Nov 62 | I Take This Woman | |
| 149. | 5-7 | 12 Nov 62 | The Assailants | |
| 150. | 5-8 | 19 Nov 62 | Mark's Rifle | |
| 151. | 5-9 | 26 Nov 62 | The Most Amazing Man | |
| 152. | 5-10 | 03 Dec 62 | Squeeze Play | |
| 153. | 5-11 | 10 Dec 62 | Gun Shy | |
| 154. | 5-12 | 17 Dec 62 | The Anvil Chorus | |
| 155. | 5-13 | 24 Dec 62 | Conflict | |
| 156. | 5-14 | 07 Jan 63 | Incident at Line Shack Six | |
| 157. | 5-15 | 14 Jan 63 | Suspicion | |
| 158. | 5-16 | 21 Jan 63 | The Sidewinder | |
| 159. | 5-17 | 28 Jan 63 | The Sixteenth Cousin | |
| 160. | 5-18 | 04 Feb 63 | Hostages to Fortune | |
| 161. | 5-19 | 11 Feb 63 | And the Devil Makes Five | |
| 162. | 5-20 | 18 Feb 63 | End of the Hunt | |
| 163. | 5-21 | 25 Feb 63 | The Bullet | |
| 164. | 5-22 | 04 Mar 63 | Requiem at Mission Springs | |
| 165. | 5-23 | 11 Mar 63 | The Guest | |
| 166. | 5-24 | 18 Mar 63 | Old Man Running (aka The Wanted Man) | |
| 167. | 5-25 | 01 Apr 63 | Which Way'd They Go? | |
| 168. | 5-26 | 08 Apr 63 | Old Tony | |
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