S2.E21

The Sharpshooter

Episode aired Mar 7, 1958
TV-PG
30m

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This is the pilot for the series "The Rifleman". Lucas and Mark McCain enter the town of North Fork, hoping to buy a small ranch, but they encounter trouble from a shady businessman and a yo... Read allThis is the pilot for the series "The Rifleman". Lucas and Mark McCain enter the town of North Fork, hoping to buy a small ranch, but they encounter trouble from a shady businessman and a young punk gunfighter.This is the pilot for the series "The Rifleman". Lucas and Mark McCain enter the town of North Fork, hoping to buy a small ranch, but they encounter trouble from a shady businessman and a young punk gunfighter.

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Only because Sam Peckinpah wrote it

Yes folks, this episode is worth watching only, I insist - only - because it was written by the future director of THE WILD BUNCH, nothing more. The director Arnold Laven is also a good reason to try it, but for the rest, I guess you can live without it. I hardly watched it till the end, because it brings nothing new, nothing at all. I don't care if this stuff is the pilot of a Tv western show that I have never seen nor I will never see anyway. Chuck Connors is OK, as usual, and I repeat, nothing is worth spending, wasting twenty six minutes of your life; especially if you have never heard of Sam Peckinpah.

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Sam Peckinpah originally proposed this storyline as an episode of the TV series Gunsmoke (1955) but the producers of that series said it wouldn't fit that show's format.