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''The Rifleman'' is an American live-action western that ran from 1958 to 1963.
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''The Rifleman'' is an American live-action western that ran {{Western}} series created by Arnold Laven which aired on Creator/{{ABC|US}} from 1958 to 1963.
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The show was created by Arnold Laven and ran on Creator/{{ABC}}. Among the show's more notable crew members was Creator/SamPeckinpah, who wrote the Pilot and wrote and directed several other episodes.
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* ImprobableAimingSkills: Lucas [=McCain=] frequently displays uncanny shooting ability with his rifle. He almost never misses and is as fast or faster than gunfighters with a pistol. He does most of his shooting from the hip with pinpoint accuracy. Other feats include shooting weapons out of opponents' hands, not missing despite being blind, and landing a shot with an improvised rifle made out of a bit of junk lumber for a stock and pistol.
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* ImprobableAimingSkills: Lucas [=McCain=] frequently displays uncanny shooting ability with his rifle. He almost never misses and is as fast or faster than gunfighters with a pistol. He does most of his shooting from the hip with pinpoint accuracy. Other feats include shooting weapons out of opponents' hands, not missing despite being blind, and landing a shot with an improvised rifle made out of a bit of junk lumber for a stock and pistol. Although this was also notably averted in Season One's "The Deadly Wait": Lucas is shot in the right shoulder and while testing his rifle-handling abilities with his left hand, is shown to be almost useless. He has to depend on subterfuge and Micah's less than stellar marksmanship to take down the villain of the week.
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* MoreDakka: Lucas' weapon of choice is a modified lever-action rifle that fires every time he works the lever. This allows him to fire several rounds very quickly and he takes full advantage of it.
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* SentencedWithoutTrial: An army deserter, Ben Haskell, ends up on Lucas [=McCain=]'s ranch, wounded and exhausted. Unfortunately, the soldier's command Major, Damler, was not only overly-strict and emotionally abusive to his regiment, but also [[TheNeidermeyer very uncaring]] about the troops under his command, as he not only did not have the regiment doctor tend to Haskell's wound (causing it to get infected), but Damler also [[JudgeJuryAndExecutioner arrests, judges]], and sentences Haskell to a firing squad without reasonable charge. Haskell's only "crime"? He stole some water out of desperation, of which he was denied in the arid climate of New Mexico, and was shot for it, while escaping.
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* WeaknessIsJustAStateOfMind: How the [[TheNeidermeyer strict and insane]] Major Damler from "The Deserter" views military command. For example, he blames a previous regiment for cracking under pressure while on a campaign against rebel cell, when in-actuality, they were shot up, and they rightfully turned and ran from a lost cause. Later in the episode, he calls out one of his soldiers for "resting", when in-actuality, the soldier collapsed from heat exhaustion in blazing weather, from an already-grueling '''''four-hour''''' duty shift.
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* NoSell: When the mountain man in "Day of the Hunter" attempts to provoke a NoOneCallsMeChicken reaction when challenging [=McCain=] to a duel, Lucas doesn't even hesitate in his answer.
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* NoSell: When the mountain man in "Day of the Hunter" attempts to provoke a NoOneCallsMeChicken NobodyCallsMeChicken reaction when challenging [=McCain=] to a duel, Lucas doesn't even hesitate in his answer.
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* NoSell: When the mountain man in "Day of the Hunter" attempts to provoke a NoOneCallsMeChicken reaction when challenging [=McCain=] to a duel, Lucas doesn't even hesitate in his answer.
-->'''Cass:''' You gunna take that challenge? Or be called a coward?\\
'''Lucas:''' Be called a coward.
-->'''Cass:''' You gunna take that challenge? Or be called a coward?\\
'''Lucas:''' Be called a coward.
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* AnachronismStew: The rifle itself; The show takes place roughly from the late 1870s to about the 1880s. However, the rifle is a modified 1893 Winchester. May be justified since Lucas made the rifle and it was perhaps an earlier Winchester such as an 1873 one and it simply resembled a later model.
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* AnachronismStew: The rifle itself; The show takes place roughly from the late 1870s to about the 1880s. However, the rifle is a modified 1893 Winchester.Winchester Model 1892. May be justified since Lucas made the rifle and it was perhaps an earlier Winchester such as an 1873 one and it simply resembled a later model.
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* ReformationAcknowledgment: This shows up a few times, usually preceeded by a bout of ReformedButRejected. One particular standout example occurs when a new preacher and his son come to Northfork. At first Lucas [=McCain=] plans to be welcoming, but recognizes the man as a former gunfighter and troublemaker who'd used brutal tactics to run farmers and ranchers off their land and even burned a records office in order to steal land for resale before disappearing. The priest insists he's no longer that man, having undergone a spiritual change after being confronted by one of his victims, but [=McCain=] accuses him of only using his collar as a shield against his past. Sure enough a pair of bounty hunters arrive in Northfork to stir up trouble, citing the preacher's past to his new parishioners and even embellishing it to provoke the preacher back to violence so they could kill him. Pushed to the brink, the man begs Lucas for some guidance in what to do, as he doesn't want to let his son down, only to be rebuffed. Finally he decides to spare his son the shame of so disreputable a father and confronts the bounty hunters, ready to lose the gunfight and end their cruelty. Lucas intervenes at the last minute, deciding that the callous outlaw the priest had once been would never have been willing to confront death. In the end, [=McCain=] offers to help the priest rebuild his reputation with the town, accepting his reformation as genuine.
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* ReformationAcknowledgment: ReformationAcknowledgement: This shows up a few times, usually preceeded by a bout of ReformedButRejected. One particular standout example occurs when a new preacher and his son come to Northfork. At first Lucas [=McCain=] plans to be welcoming, but recognizes the man as a former gunfighter and troublemaker who'd used brutal tactics to run farmers and ranchers off their land and even burned a records office in order to steal land for resale before disappearing. The priest insists he's no longer that man, having undergone a spiritual change after being confronted by one of his victims, but [=McCain=] accuses him of only using his collar as a shield against his past. Sure enough a pair of bounty hunters arrive in Northfork to stir up trouble, citing the preacher's past to his new parishioners and even embellishing it to provoke the preacher back to violence so they could kill him. Pushed to the brink, the man begs Lucas for some guidance in what to do, as he doesn't want to let his son down, only to be rebuffed. Finally he decides to spare his son the shame of so disreputable a father and confronts the bounty hunters, ready to lose the gunfight and end their cruelty. Lucas intervenes at the last minute, deciding that the callous outlaw the priest had once been would never have been willing to confront death. In the end, [=McCain=] offers to help the priest rebuild his reputation with the town, accepting his reformation as genuine.
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* ReformationAcknowledgment: This shows up a few times, usually preceeded by a bout of ReformedButRejected. One particular standout example occurs when a new preacher and his son come to Northfork. At first Lucas [=McCain=] plans to be welcoming, but recognizes the man as a former gunfighter and troublemaker who'd used brutal tactics to run farmers and ranchers off their land and even burned a records office in order to steal land for resale before disappearing. The priest insists he's no longer that man, having undergone a spiritual change after being confronted by one of his victims, but [=McCain=] accuses him of only using his collar as a shield against his past. Sure enough a pair of bounty hunters arrive in Northfork to stir up trouble, citing the preacher's past to his new parishioners and even embellishing it to provoke the preacher back to violence so they could kill him. Pushed to the brink, the man begs Lucas for some guidance in what to do, as he doesn't want to let his son down, only to be rebuffed. Finally he decides to spare his son the shame of so disreputable a father and confronts the bounty hunters, ready to lose the gunfight and end their cruelty. Lucas intervenes at the last minute, deciding that the callous outlaw the priest had once been would never have been willing to confront death. In the end, [=McCain=] offers to help the priest rebuild his reputation with the town, accepting his reformation as genuine.
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* AdultFear: A number of times Mark's life is threatened. In the first episode, "The Sharpshooter", Lucas deliberately loses a shooting match for fear of Mark being killed by Jim Lewis.
