The Rifleman - Drawing FX

by Brian Wallace

Title

The Rifleman - Drawing FX

Artist

Brian Wallace

Medium

Digital Art - Digital Art

Description

I added a drawing effect to a publicity still of the main characters, Chuck Connors and Johnny Crawford who starred in the western TV series, "The Rifleman".

Lucas McCain raises a son while battling dangerous desperadoes in New Mexico after they decide to move when Lucas' wife dies.

Final episode date: April 8, 1963
First episode date: September 30, 1958
Starring: Chuck Connors; Johnny Crawford; Paul Fix
No. of seasons: 5
No. of episodes: 168 (list of episodes)
Network: American Broadcasting Company

The Rifleman is an American Western television program starring Chuck Connors as rancher Lucas McCain and Johnny Crawford as his son Mark McCain. It was set in the 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.

The program was titled to reflect McCain's use of a Winchester Model 1892 rifle, a historical anachronism, as the show was set in the 1880s, and customized to allow repeated firing by cycling its lever action. He demonstrated this technique in the opening credits, as well as a second modification that allowed him to cycle the action with one hand using a technique known as "spin-cocking".

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June 17th, 2022

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