“End of a Young Gun”: Season 1, Episode 3, of the Classic TV Western, The Rifleman, Written by Frank Gilroy, Directed by Jerry Hopper, and Co-Starring Michael Landon (Complete Video, Presented Without Commercial Interruption)

Re-posted by Nicholas Stix
 



Published on Dec 23, 2014 by The Rifleman.

The Rifleman is an American Western television program starring Chuck Connors as rancher Lucas McCain and Johnny Crawford as his son, Mark McCain. It was set in the 1870s and 1880s in the town of North Fork, New Mexico Territory. The show was filmed in black-and-white, half-hour episodes. The Rifleman aired on ABC from September 30, 1958, to April 8, 1963, as a production of Four Star Television. It was one of the first prime-time series on American television to show a widowed parent raising a child.
 

Previously, at WEJB/NSU:

“The First Episode Ever of the Classic Western Series, The Rifleman, Starring Chuck Connors and Johnny Crawford: ‘The Sharpshooter’ (1958)”;

“Classic TV: The Rifleman: ‘Home Ranch’; Season One, Episode 2”;

“Unforgettable TV Music: Two Themes from The Rifleman, Composed by Herschel Burke Gilbert”; and

“Classic TV Western Themes from Bonanza, Rawhide, Wagon Train and The Rifleman, with Pics of Young Clint Eastwood, Michael Landon, Lorne Greene, Pernell Roberts, Dan Blocker, Chuck Connors, John McIntire and the Great Ward Bond!”