The Rifleman

The Rifleman was a classic Western television program starring Chuck Connors as rancher Lucas McCain and Johnny Crawford as his son Mark McCain. 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 US television to show a single parent raising a child. Here is the official Rifleman novel