The Rifleman
The Rifleman Episode Ratings Heatmap
| Avg | E1 | E2 | E3 | E4 | E5 | E6 | E7 | E8 | E9 | E10 | E11 | E12 | E13 | E14 | E15 | E16 | E17 | E18 | E19 | E20 | E21 | E22 | E23 | E24 | E25 | E26 | E27 | E28 | E29 | E30 | E31 | E32 | E33 | E34 | E35 | E36 | E37 | E38 | E39 | E40 | ||
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| S1 | 8.2 | 8.6 | 8.1 | 8.3 | 8.5 | 7.8 | 8.0 | 8.3 | 8.4 | 8.4 | 8.0 | 7.9 | 8.4 | 8.2 | 8.1 | 8.2 | 8.7 | 8.1 | 8.2 | 7.7 | 7.8 | 8.4 | 8.0 | 8.3 | 8.1 | 8.2 | 8.5 | 8.2 | 7.9 | 8.3 | 8.2 | 8.3 | 8.0 | 8.4 | 8.0 | 8.1 | 7.8 | 8.2 | 7.7 | 8.1 | 7.8 | |
| S2 | 8.0 | 8.0 | 8.1 | 8.3 | 8.3 | 8.0 | 7.7 | 8.2 | 8.1 | 8.1 | 8.2 | 7.7 | 7.3 | 8.2 | 8.1 | 7.4 | 7.7 | 8.3 | 8.4 | 7.9 | 7.7 | 8.1 | 8.4 | 8.1 | 7.6 | 8.4 | 8.4 | 7.9 | 7.8 | 8.0 | 7.9 | 8.3 | 8.3 | 7.9 | 8.1 | 7.9 | 8.1 | |||||
| S3 | 8.1 | 8.2 | 8.5 | 8.0 | 7.7 | 7.8 | 8.2 | 7.6 | 8.0 | 8.4 | 7.7 | 8.0 | 7.5 | 8.1 | 8.0 | 7.8 | 8.2 | 8.0 | 7.7 | 8.5 | 8.4 | 8.5 | 8.4 | 7.7 | 8.0 | 7.9 | 7.3 | 8.0 | 8.3 | 7.9 | 8.0 | 8.5 | 7.8 | 8.7 | 8.2 | |||||||
| S4 | 8.0 | 8.3 | 8.3 | 8.3 | 7.9 | 8.2 | 8.2 | 7.6 | 7.9 | 8.1 | 7.7 | 8.1 | 8.1 | 7.8 | 8.0 | 7.7 | 8.4 | 8.4 | 7.5 | 8.3 | 8.3 | 8.8 | 7.7 | 8.0 | 7.8 | 7.7 | 7.7 | 8.0 | 8.1 | 8.0 | 7.5 | 7.8 | 7.5 | |||||||||
| S5 | 7.9 | 8.0 | 8.1 | 8.1 | 8.1 | 8.7 | 7.5 | 8.2 | 8.3 | 8.4 | 8.1 | 7.9 | 7.7 | 7.3 | 8.1 | 7.6 | 8.2 | 7.5 | 7.5 | 7.9 | 7.9 | 8.3 | 7.9 | 7.6 | 8.4 | 6.2 | 8.0 |
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"A tender father-son bond wrapped in frontier grit"
The Rifleman follows Lucas McCain, a widowed rancher in 1880s New Mexico who raises his young son Mark while defending their homestead with his signature quick-firing rifle. Each episode blends frontier justice with quiet lessons about honesty, courage, and responsibility, filtered through the closeness between father and son. The tone is earnest and unhurried, more concerned with character than spectacle, though a gunfight punctuates nearly every episode. It rewards viewers who enjoy classic black-and-white Westerns for their moral clarity and steady rhythms rather than complex plotting.
the warm, grounded father-son relationship anchoring every frontier showdown.
you want morally complex plots rather than simple, episodic frontier lessons.
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