Talk:The Rifleman

message: I feel that this may be inaccurate. I distinctly recall McCain shooting Mark's cruel teacher 9 times in the face. I think there needs to be some fact checking if we are ever going to see this page reach "Bestest Article Ever" status.Drunkboxer 19:40, 4 May 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  "did not lend themselves to violent solutions"? Huh?

message: How many episodes did the 'Rifleman' play each year?Kmacintyre 18:26, 12 April 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  The Rifleman 

message: 1871 seems to be a significant year for this show.  Everytime a year is mentioned, it's 1871.  One episode shows it as the current year, one as a year that is 7 years prior, and another this is 10 years prior.
Could it be that it's the year that the Nation Rifle Association was granted its charter? :)
I don't know about the NRA charter, but actually, the most significant year for events in North Fork was 1881.  This is the year that Lucas and Mark arrived and rebuilt the ranch house after it was burned to the ground by Oat Jackford's cowhands.  The cornerstone on the house reads, "This home rebuilt by Lucas McCain and his son Mark.  Aug, 1881.  God bless our home." (see the two-part episode, "The Wyoming Story" MPI Video of "The Rifleman" vol. 2). That Mark was ten years old at that time ("Home Ranch" MPI, vol. 1) we may presume that 1871 was the year of his birth and thus of significance to McCains.  The math in North Fork often doesn't quite add up as to when one event happened in relation to another. But we still love to travel there in time and imagination! 
 209.211.3.185 (talk) 18:45, 29 November 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  1871? 

message: How many years was it on TV for re-runs in USA and Canada if different?Befuddler (talk) 19:42, 11 February 2008 (UTC)
thread_title:  Re-runs 

message: The Rifleman is currently distributed by PRO- The Peter Rodgerrs Organization, Hollywood Ca. and has sold the series to HUILU and RTN- Retro Television Network.  —Preceding unsigned comment added by 75.10.40.54 (talk) 19:35, 15 July 2010 (UTC)
thread_title: current distributor

message: The lead as it currently stands is awful to put it bluntly. Single parent, sensitive son, kill the bad guys on the ranch?! Please.--Jeanne Boleyn (talk) 17:07, 24 February 2010 (UTC)
replies: text:  You got right. This is fan-boy stuff, non-encyclopaedic. On the other hand, this is Wikipedia. So why has no-one speculated upon Lucas McCain’s sexuality? I am behooved.2001:44B8:3102:BB00:555E:87B1:B512:49D7 (talk) 08:07, 24 May 2020 (UTC)
thread_title: The lead needs to be rewritten

message: The article says "McCain fires twelve shots from this 11-round rifle during the opening credits. [...] The soundtrack contained a dubbed-in thirteenth shot to allow the firing to time out with a section of the theme music."
However, the source referenced for this information ("The Legendary Rifle: A Closer Look") says:
"The program would open with Chuck rapid-firing eleven shots as he walked down the street of North Fork. Actually, he only fired ten shots; the eleventh had to be dubbed in to time out with the music."
So... which is it?  Twelve or ten?  — Preceding unsigned comment added by 74.92.174.105 (talk) 00:23, 26 April 2012 (UTC)
replies: text: We just watched a 1961 episode (opening scene includes a quote, "knight in shining armor" when McCain stands up for the Chinaman) and we counted 12 shots with an echo. Hope this helps! FYI, Charles Edwin Shipp (talk) 22:23, 26 June 2014 (UTC)
thread_title:  How many shots? 

message: Nothing in this section pertains to the TV show "The Rifleman"...This info belongs under Chuck Connors' bio...this should be moved to his bio or deleted...Engr105th (talk) 01:26, 26 June 2012 (UTC)
replies: text: I removed it. It was trivia at best, as it barely mentioned a few teammates of his were series guest stars, and enough of those are already listed. Thanks for the heads-up! — WylieCoyote (talk) 15:24, 10 August 2012 (UTC)
thread_title: Connors, the Athlete section

message: The Rifleman's Rifle [sic] has had a notability tag since 2009. Since I agree that it doesn't merit a stand-alone article, I think it should be merged into this one. Miniapolis (talk) 21:00, 21 September 2012 (UTC)
thread_title:  Merge proposal 

message: I noticed this article refers to Lucas McCain as serving in the 11th Indiana Infantry Regiment and received a battlefield commission during the Battle of Five Forks.  However, when I went to the Wikipedia article on the 11th Indiana I found this regiment didn't serve in that battle or even in the Eastern Theater that late in the war.  Doing some more research I found the Wikipedia article on the 19th Indiana Infantry Regiment that did serve in the Eastern Theater and was at the Siege of Petersburg so could have been at the Battle of Five Forks.  This article also notes that Lucas McCain, the Rifleman character, served in this regiment.  Interestingly, the article on the 19th Indiana also notes that the regiment was consolidated the 20th Indiana before the battle so the 19th didn't even exist at the Battle of Five Forks.  I was able to find this information in more detail under a reference in the Wikipedia 20th Indiana article, which didn't note if the 20th Indiana was at Five Forks (although this could use more research).
In short, I think the article should say McCain served in the 19th Indiana Infantry Regiment (not the 11th) as this seems to match the show's background story, even if it may not be historically accurate. 
I didn't edit the change myself because I've never done that and figured I better do this the most cautious way possible by starting a conversation in talk.Landsturm (talk) 23:21, 31 January 2015 (UTC)
thread_title:  Lucas McCain Civil War Service 

message: One of the rifles makes an appearance in the 1985 TV movie "Steel Collar Man" when Chuck Connor's character is selecting weapons from the trunk of his car. He takes out the rifle, gives it the spin and cocking move he used in "The Rifleman" says "Nahh." and puts it back in the trunk. Bizzybody (talk) 08:55, 6 October 2018 (UTC)
thread_title:  References in other shows.