![]() Sets up a meeting in town for the next day. Lives but in also refusing to back Micah up after Bain pays him a visit and Tough love by not only riding to the next town and telling Bain where Micah Than providing a sympathetic ear to his old friend, Lucas gives him a dose of The one to bail him out, and descends back into a bout of drunkenness. Micah becomesĬranky and then turns his badge over to Lucas, whom he acknowledges is always Spotted in a nearby town and is apparently headed to North Fork. Near-sighted gunman Ansel Bain, who made him flee in fear years ago, has been That aired in 1961, this origin story is replayed in "Closer Than aīrother" (February 21, 1961) when Micah learns that an old nemesis, More often than not has to back him up to make the law stick. Supports North Fork Marshal Micah Torrance, whom he rescued from a debilitatingĪlcoholism and persuaded the town to install as chief lawman, it is Lucas who ![]() Sharrett points out that although Lucas McCain staunchly Isn't afraid to use it to defeat evil threats to a barely tamed frontier. Who happens to have a distinctive weapon, like Josh Randall of Wanted: Dead or Alive or Wyatt Earp, who He is a rancher and a citizen of North Fork, New Mexico Law and order like Matt Dillon or an adventurer seeking to administer justiceĪs he sees fit, as are Paladin, Cheyenne, Sugarfoot, Bronco, Bill Longley of The Texan, or any of a number of other Chuck Connors as Lucas McCain is not a marshal upholding Parent with a son and a trademark weapon running a ranch on the outskirts of anĮstablished community. With unusual authenticity for its era the trials and triumphs of a single Sharrett finds that The Rifleman is unique in fusing those two constructs, depicting Groups-the gunfighter motif, exemplified by programs such as Gunsmoke, Have Gun - Will Travel, and Wanted:Dead or Alive, and the frontier settler motif, exemplified by Bonanza and Wagon Train. Sharrett categorizes adult TV westerns into two That the series is "the most compelling of the TV westerns that appearedĪt the end of the 1950s," superior to both the longer-running Gunsmoke and Bonanza. ![]() Rifleman, Seton Hall University professor Christopher Sharrett maintains ![]()
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