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** Royal Dano as a wounded Confederate veteran in "The Sheridan Story," who holds Lucas and Mark hostage in a revenge plot against Union General Philip Sheridan.
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** Royal Dano Creator/RoyalDano as a wounded Confederate veteran in "The Sheridan Story," who holds Lucas and Mark hostage in a revenge plot against Union General Philip Sheridan.
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* AbsenteeActor: Johnny Crawford is credited as usual in "The Bullet", but Mark doesn't appear.
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%%* ActionDad: Lucas.
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* UnorthodoxReload: The "flip-cock method" became the show's gimmick.
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* UnorthodoxReload: The "flip-cock method" "[[https://64.media.tumblr.com/868865696f28aa67784b0c67c8cd939d/tumblr_oe72ow3zV81sfm1uco1_500.gif flip-cock method]]" became the show's gimmick.
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* FoodAsBribe: In one episode, the bank manager tries to hire Lucas to serve as a guard when the one he'd hired turns out to be late. Lucas turns down the money. Thus, the bank manager switches tactics -- dinner for him and Mark at the hotel, as well as a room for the night, and that if nothing happened before noon, Lucas was free to leave. Mark convinces Lucas to accept the offer, and gets himself a slice of pie.
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* NoHoldsBarredBeatdown: Lucas has found himself in a number of situations where he and his foe get involved in a fistfight to the death, or something close to one. Lucas tends to come out on top, often beating the other man senseless.
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* TechnicalPacifist: In one episode, a Chinese laundryman and his son move into town. Despite issues with a bigot, and said bigot's son, the Chinese folks try to avoid trouble. Then the Bigot's son attacks the young Chinese boy. Mark, who has befriended the lad, jumps in to protect him. When the Bigot's son gets the upper hand, the Chinese lad jumps back in, and thus bests the Bigot's son. Then, the Bigot tries to attack the Chinese family at their camp site. Lucas shows up, and jumps in to help the Chinese. The Bigot pulls a knife, and cuts off the Chinese man's queue - cue the Chinese man giving the Bigot quite the slapping.
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* TechnicalPacifist: In one episode, a Chinese laundryman and his son move into town. Despite issues with a bigot, and said bigot's son, the Chinese folks try to avoid trouble. Then the Bigot's son attacks the young Chinese boy. Mark, who has befriended the lad, jumps in to protect him. When the Bigot's son gets the upper hand, the Chinese lad jumps back in, and thus bests the Bigot's son. Then, the Bigot tries to attack the Chinese family at their camp site. Lucas shows up, and jumps in to help the Chinese. The Bigot pulls a knife, and cuts off the Chinese man's queue - -- cue the Chinese man giving the Bigot quite the slapping.slapping.
* TraumaticHaircut: In one episode, a Chinese laundryman, and his son, show up in town. Both of them have queues. A Bigot and his son make threats involving cutting the pair's hair. Lucas himself mentions to the father that cutting the long hair off would make things easier. The father says to do so would be seen as a sign of dishonor, and would prevent them from going back to China. Lucas is understanding. The Bigot, however, attacks the pair, and cuts of the father's queue. The father unleashes a NoHoldsBarredBeatdown upon him. A much lighter case is right at the end of the episode, where the son has also had his queue cut off, proudly saying that he and his father are Americans.
* TraumaticHaircut: In one episode, a Chinese laundryman, and his son, show up in town. Both of them have queues. A Bigot and his son make threats involving cutting the pair's hair. Lucas himself mentions to the father that cutting the long hair off would make things easier. The father says to do so would be seen as a sign of dishonor, and would prevent them from going back to China. Lucas is understanding. The Bigot, however, attacks the pair, and cuts of the father's queue. The father unleashes a NoHoldsBarredBeatdown upon him. A much lighter case is right at the end of the episode, where the son has also had his queue cut off, proudly saying that he and his father are Americans.
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** Early in one episode, a retired outlaw is gunned down in a MutualKill with a bounty hunter. His dying words to Lucas and Mark were to not tell his wife and son. While Lucas tells the Marshal the truth, he's informed to go with the lie, at least until the man's wife and son have left the area. As a result, the bounty hunter's father and angry brother are convinced that Lucas is the outlaw that they were after
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** Early in one episode, a retired outlaw is gunned down in a MutualKill with a bounty hunter. His dying words to Lucas and Mark were to not tell his wife and son. While Lucas tells the Marshal the truth, he's informed to go with the lie, at least until the man's wife and son have left the area. As a result, the bounty hunter's father and angry brother are convinced that Lucas is the outlaw that they were afterafter. This leads to Lucas and Mark being captured, and Lucas accidently killing the angry bounty hunter.
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* DontTellMama: Happens, in one form or another.
** In one episode, an outlaw, whom most think to be an honest man, decides to take Lucas and Mark hostage when his mother comes to the area. Lucas and Mark decide to play along upon learning that the man's mother is an innocent old woman, who is dying of medical issues -- this includes Mark pretending to be her grandson, and when the outlaw's former partners show up for revenge over a prior incident, Lucas claims that he's the one that the gang are after.
** Early in one episode, a retired outlaw is gunned down in a MutualKill with a bounty hunter. His dying words to Lucas and Mark were to not tell his wife and son. While Lucas tells the Marshal the truth, he's informed to go with the lie, at least until the man's wife and son have left the area. As a result, the bounty hunter's father and angry brother are convinced that Lucas is the outlaw that they were after
** In one episode, an outlaw, whom most think to be an honest man, decides to take Lucas and Mark hostage when his mother comes to the area. Lucas and Mark decide to play along upon learning that the man's mother is an innocent old woman, who is dying of medical issues -- this includes Mark pretending to be her grandson, and when the outlaw's former partners show up for revenge over a prior incident, Lucas claims that he's the one that the gang are after.
** Early in one episode, a retired outlaw is gunned down in a MutualKill with a bounty hunter. His dying words to Lucas and Mark were to not tell his wife and son. While Lucas tells the Marshal the truth, he's informed to go with the lie, at least until the man's wife and son have left the area. As a result, the bounty hunter's father and angry brother are convinced that Lucas is the outlaw that they were after
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* HiredGuns: Despite being good with a gun, Lucas refuses to sell his gun skills for any amount of money. So, in one episode, when a bank guard he'd hired had yet to turn up, the bank manager comes to Lucas, asking for help. When Lucas turns down the offer of money, the bank manager switches tactics, and offers to buy Lucas, and Mark, supper and a night at the hotel, stating that if nothing happened by a certain time, Lucas was free to leave. Lucas accepted this offer.
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* {{Posse}}: As typical of a Western series, these come up from time to time. On a number of occasions, Lucas is asked to join in the hunt for the criminal.
** On one occasion, he turned the offer down, citing that he needed to spend some time with Mark due to an earlier incident. The Marshal understood his reasons. Turned out to be a good thing too.
** On one occasion, he turned the offer down, citing that he needed to spend some time with Mark due to an earlier incident. The Marshal understood his reasons. Turned out to be a good thing too.
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* BullyingADragon: Both of these occur frequently, sometimes in the same scene.
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* BullyingADragon: Both This tends to happen frequently. Sometimes occurs alongside of these occur frequently, sometimes in the same scene.MuggingTheMonster on occasion.
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* ChildrenAreTenderHearted: This was a trait of Mark [=McCain=], who was often quick to bond with troubled characters and often tried to help them, even if the audience knew the character in question couldn't be trusted. One good example was when a trick shooter came to town to kill the Northfork's marshal as revenge for when a former, more corrupt town marshal had murdered the shooter's father and the town had done nothing. Mark had spent time with the gunman, and while he didn't condone the man's desires, he understood the gunman's resentment based on how he would have felt in the same situation.
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* AbsenteeActor: Johnny Crawford is credited as usual in "The Bullet", but Mark doesn't appear.
* AbusiveParents: The adoptive father of a boy, whose [[IdenticalGrandson similar-looking father]] Lucas killed in the Civil War, hates him bitterly and takes every opportunity to try to get him killed in a shootout.
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* AbusiveParents: The adoptive father of a boy, whose [[IdenticalGrandson similar-looking father]] Lucas killed in the Civil War, hates him bitterly and takes every opportunity to try to get him killed in a shootout.
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* AnachronismStew: The rifle itself; The show takes place roughly from the late 1870's to about the 1880's. However the rifle is a modified 1893 Winchester. May be justified since Lucas made the rifle and it was perhaps an earlier Winchester such as an 1873 one and it simply resembled a later model.
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* AnachronismStew: The rifle itself; The show takes place roughly from the late 1870's 1870s to about the 1880's. However 1880s. However, the rifle is a modified 1893 Winchester. May be justified since Lucas made the rifle and it was perhaps an earlier Winchester such as an 1873 one and it simply resembled a later model.
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** Claude Akins in "The Safe Guard" as a retired gunfighter who works as a bank guard, then is manipulated into helping with a bank robbery. Though his plight's depicted sympathetically, he crosses the line when [[spoiler:he kills a bystander during the robbery, and Lucas guns down him soon afterwards]].
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** Claude Akins in "The Safe Guard" as a retired gunfighter who works as a bank guard, then is manipulated into helping with a bank robbery. Though his plight's depicted sympathetically, he crosses the line when [[spoiler:he kills a bystander during the robbery, and Lucas guns down him soon afterwards]].afterward]].
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* BlastingItOutOfTheirHands: Lucas [=McCain=] frequently performs this trick when he doesn't want to kill the person or even persons he is facing off against. Typically, it is a fast hip shot blasting a pistol out of a person's hand leaving them clutching a seemingly unwounded hand in pain.
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* BlastingItOutOfTheirHands: Lucas [=McCain=] frequently performs this trick when he doesn't want to kill the person or even persons he is facing off against. Typically, it is a fast hip shot hipshot blasting a pistol out of a person's hand leaving them clutching a seemingly unwounded hand in pain.
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* BullyingADragon: Both of theses occur frequently, sometimes in the same scene.
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** Some racists mess with a Chinese laundryman, and his son. Turns out, AllChinesePeopleKnowKungFu.
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** Some racists mess with a Chinese laundryman, laundryman and his son. Turns out, AllChinesePeopleKnowKungFu.
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** One episode involved a blind man who could tell who someone was by their footsteps. He even (unknowingly) attacked and got the upper-hand in a fight with Lucas.
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* ImprobableAimingSkills: Lucas [=McCain=] frequently displays uncanny shooting ability with his rifle. He almost never misses and is as fast or faster than gunfighters with a pistol. He does most of his shooting from the hip with pin point accuracy. Other feats include shooting weapons out of opponents' hands, not missing despite being blinded, and landing a shot with a improvised rifle made out of a bit of junk lumber for a stock and pistol.
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* ImprobableAimingSkills: Lucas [=McCain=] frequently displays uncanny shooting ability with his rifle. He almost never misses and is as fast or faster than gunfighters with a pistol. He does most of his shooting from the hip with pin point pinpoint accuracy. Other feats include shooting weapons out of opponents' hands, not missing despite being blinded, blind, and landing a shot with a an improvised rifle made out of a bit of junk lumber for a stock and pistol.
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* MissingMom: Margaret, Mark's mother and Lucas' wife died due to disease when Mark was only six, leaving Lucas to care for his son alone. It comes up frequently in the various episodes whether from Lucas reminiscing, Mark asking a question, or another character bringing it up in someway. [[TheReveal She actually does appear.]] The spirit of Margaret [=McCain=] returns to help Mark through a bad case of typhoid fever in "The Vision" (Season 2, Episode 26). She's wearing a bridal gown with a veil and her wedding ring. Upon revealing her face, Mark doesn't want to leave her side, so she gently tells him that he must go back bestows Mark a flower to give to her husband.
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* MissingMom: Margaret, Mark's mother and Lucas' wife died due to disease when Mark was only six, leaving Lucas to care for his son alone. It comes up frequently in the various episodes whether from Lucas reminiscing, Mark asking a question, or another character bringing it up in someway.some way. [[TheReveal She actually does appear.]] The spirit of Margaret [=McCain=] returns to help Mark through a bad case of typhoid fever in "The Vision" (Season 2, Episode 26). She's wearing a bridal gown with a veil and her wedding ring. Upon revealing her face, Mark doesn't want to leave her side, so she gently tells him that he must go back bestows Mark a flower to give to her husband.
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* SuicideByCop: In "Day of the Hunter", a HunterTrapper tries to goad Lucas into killing him a duel.
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* SuicideByCop: In "Day of the Hunter", a HunterTrapper tries to goad Lucas into killing him in a duel.
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* ItWillNeverCatchOn: One episode has Mark come up with the idea of a dishwasher, but with the current technology (he proposes a leakproof box that's then attached to a horse) it's not practical.
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* ItWillNeverCatchOn: ItWillNeverCatchOn:
** One episode has Mark come up with the idea of a dishwasher, but with the current technology (he proposes a leakproof box that's then attached to a horse) it's notpractical.practical.
** The episode "The Bullet" involves a town Marshal trying to use ballistics to solve a case. Both Lucas and the Marshal's Deputy are skeptical before the ballistics start showing results. [[spoiler: The evidence is eventually brought before a judge, who dismisses the science and allows drops the case.]] The episode ends with the Marshal suggesting they use fingerprints, which Lucas is dismissive of.
** One episode has Mark come up with the idea of a dishwasher, but with the current technology (he proposes a leakproof box that's then attached to a horse) it's not
** The episode "The Bullet" involves a town Marshal trying to use ballistics to solve a case. Both Lucas and the Marshal's Deputy are skeptical before the ballistics start showing results. [[spoiler: The evidence is eventually brought before a judge, who dismisses the science and allows drops the case.]] The episode ends with the Marshal suggesting they use fingerprints, which Lucas is dismissive of.
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''The Rifleman'' is available completely and legally on Creator/{{Hulu}}. If the "widower and son take over the running of a frontier settlement" premise sounds familiar but you could have sworn it took place in the Alpha Quadrant, it may be because ''Series/StarTrekDeepSpaceNine'' was originally pitched as "''The Rifleman'' [[RecycledInSpace IN SPACE]]!"
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''The Rifleman'' is available completely and legally on Creator/{{Hulu}}. If the "widower and son take over the running of a frontier settlement" premise sounds familiar but you could have sworn it took place in the Alpha Quadrant, it may be because ''Series/StarTrekDeepSpaceNine'' was originally pitched as "''The Rifleman'' [[RecycledInSpace IN SPACE]]!"
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''The Rifleman'' is available completely and legally on Creator/{{Hulu}}. Oh, and if the "widower and son take over the running of a frontier settlement" premise sounds familiar but you could have sworn it took place in the Alpha Quadrant, it may be because ''Series/StarTrekDeepSpaceNine'' was originally pitched as "''The Rifleman'' [[RecycledInSpace IN SPACE]]!"
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''The Rifleman'' is available completely and legally on Creator/{{Hulu}}. Oh, and if If the "widower and son take over the running of a frontier settlement" premise sounds familiar but you could have sworn it took place in the Alpha Quadrant, it may be because ''Series/StarTrekDeepSpaceNine'' was originally pitched as "''The Rifleman'' [[RecycledInSpace IN SPACE]]!"
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* AlliterativeName: Mark [=McCain=] and Lucas' late wife Margaret.
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* AnachronismStew: The rifle itself; The show takes place roughly from the late 1870's to about the 1880's. However the rifle is a modified 1893 Winchester. Maybe justified since Lucas made the rifle and it was perhaps an earlier Winchester such as an 1873 one and it simply resembled a later model.
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* AnachronismStew: The rifle itself; The show takes place roughly from the late 1870's to about the 1880's. However the rifle is a modified 1893 Winchester. Maybe May be justified since Lucas made the rifle and it was perhaps an earlier Winchester such as an 1873 one and it simply resembled a later model.
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** Claude Akins in "The Safe Guard" as a retired gunfighter who works as a bank guard, then is manipulated into helping with a bank robbery. Though his plight's depicted sympathetically, he crosses the MoralEventHorizon when [[spoiler:he kills a bystander during the robbery, and Lucas guns down him soon afterwards]].
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** Claude Akins in "The Safe Guard" as a retired gunfighter who works as a bank guard, then is manipulated into helping with a bank robbery. Though his plight's depicted sympathetically, he crosses the MoralEventHorizon line when [[spoiler:he kills a bystander during the robbery, and Lucas guns down him soon afterwards]].
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* BerserkButton: Lucas is fairly even-tempered, but that goes right out the window if Mark is in danger.
** On the flip side, Mark will fight anyone who insults his father’s character.
** On the flip side, Mark will fight anyone who insults his father’s character.
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* BullyingADragon / MuggingTheMonster: Both of theses occur frequently, sometimes in the same scene.
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* HandicappedBadass: One episode involved a blind man who could tell who someone was by their footsteps. He even (unknowingly) attacked and got the upper-hand in a fight with Lucas.
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* HookerWithAHeartOfGold: Lil.
* HunterTrapper: In the episode "Day of the Hunter", one of these tries to goad Lucas [=McCain=] into killing him in a showdown.
* HunterTrapper: In the episode "Day of the Hunter", one of these tries to goad Lucas [=McCain=] into killing him in a showdown.
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* HunterTrapper: In the episode "Day of the Hunter", one of these tries to goad Lucas [=McCain=] into killing him in a showdown.
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* InstrumentalThemeTune: In the TitleSequence, it's preceded by a rapid firing of 12 shots and the announcer calling out, [[TitleScream "The Rifleman!"]]
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* TheLoad: Mark [=McCain=]. Somewhat justified since he's just a kid, but ''still''. A good 80% of the conflicts are directly caused or made worse by him. And he's useless.
* ManlyTears: With Mark unconscious and suffering from typhoid fever, Lucas breaks down completely as he begs his ailing son not to die.
* MaybeMagicMaybeMundane: In "The Vision" (Season 2, Episode 26), Mark contracts a bad case of typhoid fever. On the edge of death, he dreams - or sees - himself in a heavenly valley with a woman who appears to be his mother. See MissingMom below. Is it merely a fevered dream? Or is the valley the edge of [[AfterlifeAntechamber heaven]], and is his late mother's spirit comforting him through his illness?
* MissingMom: Margaret, Mark's mother and Lucas' wife died due to disease when Mark was only six, leaving Lucas to care for his son alone. It comes up frequently in the various episodes whether from Lucas reminiscing, Mark asking a question, or another character bringing it up in someway.
** [[TheReveal She actually does appear.]] The spirit of Margaret [=McCain=] returns to help Mark through a bad case of typhoid fever in "The Vision" (Season 2, Episode 26). She's wearing a bridal gown with a veil and her wedding ring. Upon revealing her face, Mark doesn't want to leave her side, so she gently tells him that he must go back bestows Mark a flower to give to her husband.
* ManlyTears: With Mark unconscious and suffering from typhoid fever, Lucas breaks down completely as he begs his ailing son not to die.
* MaybeMagicMaybeMundane: In "The Vision" (Season 2, Episode 26), Mark contracts a bad case of typhoid fever. On the edge of death, he dreams - or sees - himself in a heavenly valley with a woman who appears to be his mother. See MissingMom below. Is it merely a fevered dream? Or is the valley the edge of [[AfterlifeAntechamber heaven]], and is his late mother's spirit comforting him through his illness?
* MissingMom: Margaret, Mark's mother and Lucas' wife died due to disease when Mark was only six, leaving Lucas to care for his son alone. It comes up frequently in the various episodes whether from Lucas reminiscing, Mark asking a question, or another character bringing it up in someway.
** [[TheReveal She actually does appear.]] The spirit of Margaret [=McCain=] returns to help Mark through a bad case of typhoid fever in "The Vision" (Season 2, Episode 26). She's wearing a bridal gown with a veil and her wedding ring. Upon revealing her face, Mark doesn't want to leave her side, so she gently tells him that he must go back bestows Mark a flower to give to her husband.
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* TheLoad: Mark [=McCain=]. Somewhat justified since he's just a kid, but ''still''. A a good 80% of the conflicts are directly caused or made worse by him. And When Mark isn't directly getting into trouble himself (and forcing poor Luke to rescue him), or getting his father into trouble that he has to bail himself out of, he's useless.
probably having problems at school.
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die.
* MaybeMagicMaybeMundane: In "The Vision" (Season 2, Episode 26), Mark contracts a bad case of typhoid fever. On the edge of death, he dreams - or sees - himself in a heavenly valley with a woman who appears to be his mother. See MissingMom below. Is it merely a fevered dream? Or is the valley the edge of [[AfterlifeAntechamber heaven]], and is his late mother's spirit comforting him through his illness?
* MissingMom: Margaret, Mark's mother and Lucas' wife died due to disease when Mark was only six, leaving Lucas to care for his son alone. It comes up frequently in the various episodes whether from Lucas reminiscing, Mark asking a question, or another character bringing it up insomeway.
**someway. [[TheReveal She actually does appear.]] The spirit of Margaret [=McCain=] returns to help Mark through a bad case of typhoid fever in "The Vision" (Season 2, Episode 26). She's wearing a bridal gown with a veil and her wedding ring. Upon revealing her face, Mark doesn't want to leave her side, so she gently tells him that he must go back bestows Mark a flower to give to her husband.
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* UnwittingInstigatorOfDoom: Mark is sometimes guilty of this, particularly when chatting with strangers about his father.
** In one episode, a son of a barber gets fed up with Mark's boasting about his father, and a couple of mean-spirited buffalo hunters get into it, hoping to gun down the barber for pure malice.
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* AbusiveParents: The adoptive father of a boy whose twin brother Lucas killed in the Civil War, hates him bitterly and takes every opportunity to try to get him killed in a shootout.
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* AbusiveParents: The adoptive father of a boy boy, whose twin brother [[IdenticalGrandson similer-looking father]] Lucas killed in the Civil War, hates him bitterly and takes every opportunity to try to get him killed in a shootout.
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* ShellShockedVeteran: Lucas' first kill in the Civil War was a very young man; when Lucas thinks he sees the same man alive, he gets a severe HeroicBSoD.
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* AffectionateGestureToTheHead: Lucas often ruffles Mark’s hair.
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* TheSevenWesternPlots: A ranch story chronicling Lucas McCain's trials in raising his son Mark on his own and running a ranch in North Fork, New Mexico.
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* TheSevenWesternPlots: A ranch story chronicling Lucas McCain's [=McCain=]'s trials in raising his son Mark on his own and running a ranch in North Fork, New Mexico.
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* PapaWolf: Lucas [=McCain=] is this in '''''spades'''''.
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* PapaWolf: Lucas [=McCain=] is this in '''''spades'''''. Some of the other fathers also get in on this, such as the Chinese laundryman, who shows a group of racists what he can really do when they put him and his son in danger.
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* ManlyTears: With Mark unconscious and suffering from typhoid fever, Lucas breaks down completely as he begs his ailing son not to die.
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* BullyingADragon / MuggingTheMonster: Both of theses occur frequently, sometimes in the same scene.
** Many folks like to challenge Lucas. Sometimes they know of his reputation, and just want to prove who is better, and other times, they see him as some dumb sodbuster who doesn't know who he's messing with.
** One GentleGiant gets on the wrong end of two sore brothers. The big guy has no issues tossing them around, but that doesn't stop them for very long -- fools learned the hard way.
** Some bullies messed with one Japanese noble's servant. Turns out that the noble is a {{Samurai}}, and his servant is a BattleButler.
** Some racists mess with a Chinese laundryman, and his son. Turns out, AllChinesePeopleKnowKungFu.
** Some folks also messed with an Italian Count, who turned out to be a crack shot with a revolver.
** Many folks like to challenge Lucas. Sometimes they know of his reputation, and just want to prove who is better, and other times, they see him as some dumb sodbuster who doesn't know who he's messing with.
** One GentleGiant gets on the wrong end of two sore brothers. The big guy has no issues tossing them around, but that doesn't stop them for very long -- fools learned the hard way.
** Some bullies messed with one Japanese noble's servant. Turns out that the noble is a {{Samurai}}, and his servant is a BattleButler.
** Some racists mess with a Chinese laundryman, and his son. Turns out, AllChinesePeopleKnowKungFu.
** Some folks also messed with an Italian Count, who turned out to be a crack shot with a revolver.
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* TheSevenWesternPlots: A ranch story chronicling Lucas McCain's trials in raising his son Mark on his own and running a ranch in North Fork, New Mexico.
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* ActionDad: Lucas.
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* TheAlcoholic: Micah Torrance, who gets a second chance from Lucas.
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** In one episode, a son of a barber gets fed up with Mark's boasting about his father, and a couple of mean-spirited buffalo hunters get into it, hoping to gun down the barber for pure malice.
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* PapaWolf: Lucas [=McCain=] is this in '''''spades'''''.
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A reprisal is a retaliatory attack; this is now Role Reprise. It's also Trivia.
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* SharedUniverse: With of all things the TV movie series ''The Gambler''... more specifically ''The Gambler Returns'', where an elderly Lucas [=McCain=] and an adult Mark [=McCain=] appear, still played by [[RoleReprisal the original actors]], and yes, they are identified by name.
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* SharedUniverse: With of all things the TV movie series ''The Gambler''... more specifically ''The Gambler Returns'', where an elderly Lucas [=McCain=] and an adult Mark [=McCain=] appear, still played by [[RoleReprisal the original actors]], actors, and yes, they are identified by name.
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* ItWillNeverCatchOn: One episode has Mark come up with the idea of a dishwasher, but with the current technology (he proposes a leakproof box that's then attached to a horse) it's not practical.
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The story is about Lucas [=McCain=] (Chuck Connors) and his son, Mark [=McCain=] (Johnny Crawford). Mark's mother and Lucas' wife died of an illness when the medicine failed to reach her in time. Lucas enters a turkey shooting contest to buy a plot in North Fork, New Mexico, but throws the contest to a younger gunman (Creator/DennisHopper) when the man who runs the town threatens Mark's life. Lucas confronts the man who runs/owns most of the town, who killed the younger gunman's relative/guardian. In the saloon Lucas, with a bit of help from Hopper, kills the man and his henchmen. The judge in the town invites Lucas to stay, which he does and buys the ranch.
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The story is about Lucas [=McCain=] (Chuck Connors) (Creator/ChuckConnors) and his son, Mark [=McCain=] (Johnny Crawford). Mark's mother and Lucas' wife died of an illness when the medicine failed to reach her in time. Lucas enters a turkey shooting contest to buy a plot in North Fork, New Mexico, but throws the contest to a younger gunman (Creator/DennisHopper) when the man who runs the town threatens Mark's life. Lucas confronts the man who runs/owns most of the town, who killed the younger gunman's relative/guardian. In the saloon Lucas, with a bit of help from Hopper, kills the man and his henchmen. The judge in the town invites Lucas to stay, which he does and buys the ranch.
