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Season 1

  • S01E01 Prairie Incident

    • October 1, 1959
    • NBC

    Patrolling the plains, Marshal Sam Buckhart discovers a wagon containing a murdered man and his eight-year-old daughter. The girl is able to give Buckhart a description of the killer.

  • S01E02 Full Circle

    • October 8, 1959
    • NBC

    For years Sam Buckhart has been looking for a bank robber. He is stunned to discover that the thief is Sheriff Max Chafee, who Sam believed to be honest and straightforward.

  • S01E03 A Matter Of Life And Death

    • October 15, 1959
    • NBC

    Marshal Sam Buckhart, who has been searching for outlaw Charlie Slade for many years, finally locates his hideout. Before Buckhart can take the outlaw prisoner, Slade's henchmen overpower him.

  • S01E04 The Hostiles

    • October 22, 1959
    • NBC

    A man who lives in the mountains kills a young girl; Sam Buckhart is assigned to find the murderer.

  • S01E05 Passenger To Mescalero

    • October 29, 1959
    • NBC

    Deputy Marshal Sam Buckhart is assigned to bring a dangerous outlaw to the prison at Mescalero. During the journey a band of outlaws ambush the stagecoach.

  • S01E06 Blood Trails

    • November 5, 1959
    • NBC

    An Apache named Charlie Wolf kills a Marshal and Deputy in a ghost town when they try to arrest him after breaking jail. It turns out he and Sam grew up together. Sam goes after him alone, saying it's the only way he would ever be caught.

  • S01E07 Desperate Decision

    • November 12, 1959
    • NBC

    After rustlers steal two of Cameron's prized horses and kill the foreman, Sam Buckhart and his deputy, Walt Timmins, go looking for a Comanchero party.

  • S01E08 Appointment In Santa Fe

    • November 19, 1959
    • NBC

    Sam finds himself in the middle of a mess when a bounty hunting lawman comes to Santa Fe. Marshal Morrison had vowed to kill Santee when he served as a guard at Andersonville prison camp during the Civil War.

  • S01E09 The Gibbet

    • November 26, 1959
    • NBC

    Sam Buckhart must work as a Marshal for a town after the People's Committee hangs one of Zeb Derkson's men. Zeb Derkson is the leader of a gang who's making the town a haven for outlaws. Buckhart becomes suspicious of Derkson after one of the People's Committee members is murdered.

  • S01E10 The Dude

    • December 3, 1959
    • NBC

    Sam Buckhart comes upon a gentleman roaming the desert after three masked men jump him and steal his horses and gear. The gentleman isn't so gentle with Tree Strelling, who runs the town, and finds himself in a lot of trouble.

  • S01E11 The Innocents

    • December 10, 1959
    • NBC

    Sam is asked to help a man who's been accused of cold-blooded murder. When a lynching mob gets out of control, Sam decides to transport the prisoner to Albuquerque to stand trial and his wife goes along.

  • S01E12 Clear Title

    • December 17, 1959
    • NBC

    Sam goes to Shannonville to investigate the murder of a man, but is met with cold reception. He is determined to get to the truth and arrest the man who committed the murder, but Walter Shannon runs the town and everyone in it, and he will do everything in his power to protect the murderer.

  • S01E13 Toll Road

    • December 24, 1959
    • NBC

    Benson and his boy, Healey, kill Mr. and Mrs. Dawson and take over the toll road and home they own.

  • S01E14 Calculated Risk

    • December 31, 1959
    • NBC

    While chasing after two bank robbers, Sam kills one in self-defense. The bank robber's son, Clint, threatens to kill Sam.

  • S01E15 Fear

    • January 7, 1960
    • NBC

    While traveling back to Santa Fe, Sam and Tess come upon an old farm that was attacked by renegade Indians.

  • S01E16 Endurance

    • January 14, 1960
    • NBC

    Sam sets after a couple men who dressed up like Indians and stole the diamonds from a Mary statue in the church and killed the priest.

  • S01E17 The Comet

    • January 21, 1960
    • NBC

    While traveling back to Santa Fe, Sam and Deputy Forbes stop at Libertyville so Sam can visit an old ninety year old friend, but Sam decides to stay and investigate the reason behind a seemingly fake preacher and a man carrying a bag full of peppermint candy.

  • S01E18 The Rawhiders

    • January 28, 1960
    • NBC

    A gypsy who is hated by the locals is accused of a rancher's murder. Sam believes the man is innocent and works to clear him and find the real killer.

  • S01E19 The Imposter

    • February 4, 1960
    • NBC

    People in Santa Fe are about to take the law into their own hands, fearful the prisoner being held will attract his murderous compatriots. Sam, temporarily the lone lawman in town, refuses to turn the prisoner over to another marshal; he's not convinced the lawman is who who he claims.

  • S01E20 Common Ground

    • February 11, 1960
    • NBC

    After Gentleman Frank Deegan is shot while robbing a stage, he take refuge in Martha's barn. Sam arrives back in town and goes looking for him.

  • S01E21 The Matriarch

    • February 18, 1960
    • NBC

    A man is mysteriously gunned down on the ranch he worked on. Upon further investigation, Sam begins to believe things did not happen the way she says. Sam is more convinced than ever when the dead man's father, Hodie, comes up murdered.

  • S01E22 A Question Of Courage

    • February 25, 1960
    • NBC

    Sam must investigate a series of unexplained shootings that have occurred after receiving an unsigned letter stating the Sheriff is incompetent.

  • S01E23 Dangerous Barriers

    • March 10, 1960
    • NBC

    A rancher murders a local teenage boy's father in order to get his land. Sam tries to help the boy keep his land and bring his father's killer to justice, but that's complicated by the fact that the boy hates Indians.

  • S01E24 The Show-Off

    • March 17, 1960
    • NBC

    A young man rides into town and allows everyone to believe he is Billy the Kid.

  • S01E25 Rabbit's Fang

    • March 24, 1960
    • NBC

    Sam becomes involved in a conflict between a slow-witted gunfighter and the greedy husband of a woman the gunfighter is in love with.

  • S01E26 Stella

    • March 31, 1960
    • NBC

    Sam strikes up a friendship with a wanted female bank robber--who doesn't know that Sam is a deputy marshal.

  • S01E27 Amnesty

    • April 7, 1960
    • NBC

    After Governor Lew Wallace grants amnesty to every gunfighter in New Mexico Territory, Sam is forced to release a man who just killed a rancher.

  • S01E28 Jeb's Daughter

    • April 14, 1960
    • NBC

    Sam tries to help a young woman who lives in the backwoods with her father - who has decided to sell her into slavery.

  • S01E29 Cavern Of The Wind

    • April 21, 1960
    • NBC

    Sam is captured by a gang of greedy gold prospectors, who force him to lead them to a treasure site - where a group of Apaches seeking vengeance are waiting for them.

  • S01E30 Trojan Horse

    • May 5, 1960
    • NBC

    Sam Buckhart uses a two man circus and their wagon to go capture an outlaw.

Additional Specials

  • SPECIAL 0x1 The Rifleman 1x21 - The Indian

    • February 17, 1959
    • NBC

    US 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.

  • SPECIAL 0x2 The Rifleman 1x37 - The Raid

    • June 9, 1959
    • NBC

    When renegade Apaches wound Lucas McCain and kidnap his son Mark, Marshal Torrance joins with US Marshal Sam Buckhart to form a rescue posse.