<P> 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 fictional town of North Fork , New Mexico Territory . The show was filmed in black and white , in 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 . </P>
<P> 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 fictional town of North Fork , New Mexico Territory . The show was filmed in black and white , in 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 . </P>
where was the rifleman supposed to take place
where was the rifleman supposed to take place
in the fictional town of North Fork , New Mexico Territory
in the fictional town of North Fork , New Mexico Territory