The Rifleman - Season 3

A con man and his son want Lucas' mineral rights.

Lucas trails an escaped prisoner to a mining town in the mountains.

A Mexican bandit and his gang ride into North Fork.

Lucas helps a young minister who has problems with his father.

A store owner hires con men as collection agents.

When he sees the face of a young man who is calling him out, Lucas experiences a shocking flashback to his civil war days.

After his herd is wiped out by hoof-and-mouth disease, McCain agrees to serve as an undercover detective for the U.S. government in order to raise enough cash to buy more cattle. He travels to Wyoming to learn the source of the repeating rifles that have fallen into the hands of rebellious Cheyenne Indians.

Lucas continues his undercover assignment - searching for the source of repeating rifles that have fallen into the hands of renegade Indians. Meanwhile McCain's absence is keenly felt back in North Fork.

Micah is terrorized by an old enemy and resigns from his job. When Micah's recurring nightmares drives him back to drunkenness, Lucas decides that the marshal must confront the source of those nightmares - a gunslinger he failed to face down sixteen years before.

The Newmans are still living in the town where Micah grew up. Their plan to strike it rich are smothered by a long forgotten family secret - which Mark is about to uncover.

Lucas is temporarily blinded in an explosion. Unfortunately, not long after that incident an old enemy of his rides into town, looking to settle an old score.

Major Aaron King and Corporal Troc arrive in North Fork on horseback. When they see Lucas, they remember that he was a Lt. in the Union Army fifteen years ago. They see this chance meeting as a lucky break.

Cade Conway and Vashti Croxton are arguing about where to get married. This leads to a fight and Vashti being knocked unconscious, and a traveling salesman being falsely blamed for it.

On his way through a strange little town, Lucas is arrested and accused of being a horse thief.

A slow-witted handyman gets into trouble when he accidentally kills a skilled gunfighter.

Guest Stars:Joan Taylor, Buddy Hackett, Denver Pyle, Lee Van Cleef, John Milford and X. Brands

Lucas and Mark stumble across a robbery in progress.

Guest Stars:Adam Williams, Kelly Thordsen, and Joe Benson

After Lucas receives a curse while attending then hanging of a murdering Indian, he goes on a hunt to find out who or what is behind the so-called curse.

Guest Stars:Ralph Moody, Charles Watts, Larry Chance, Jackie Searl, Joe Brown, Jr., and Michael Pate

Trouble brews at Lucas' when a whisky salesman and a gunfighter (Adam West) fall for the same woman.

Lucas allows troublesome snowed-in stagecoach passengers to stay with him until the roads are passable.

Guest Stars:Adam West, Gordon Jones, Joe Higgins, and Bethel Leslie

Lucas almost finds himself at the altar when two drunken cowboys play a joke on him.

Guest Stars:Joan Taylor, Kay E. Kuter, Lincoln Demyan, Bill Quinn and Joan Shawlee

An ex-gunfighter from Lucas' past, now a doctor, comes to his aid when a dying man is brought in, but Lucas and the new doctor have unresolved anger toward each other.

Guest Stars:Philip Carey, Gigi Perreau, Hank Stohl, John Pickard, Larry Perron, William Kendis, Steve Pendleton, and James Drury

Lucas helps a Chinese man settle into town after townspeople try to force him out because of his race.

Guest Stars:Joan Taylor, Victor Sen Yung, Dick Kay Hong, Pat Close and Paul Wexler, and Peter Whitney