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mahatmakanejeeves

(70,724 posts) Tue Dec 28, 2021, 04:35 PM Dec 2021

This afternoon on "The Rifleman"

Doc Burrage is frustrated. He has a cure, but the local populace won't listen to him.

The Pet
Episode aired Jan 6, 1959
30m

Storyline
After Ward Haskins shoots down an old saddle tramp, Joe Flecker, Lucas McCain takes Joe to Doc Burrage but he can't be saved. Soon after, Haskins visits Lucas saying he must have something Joe had on him. Lucas doesn't know what he's talking about and throws him off the property. In town the next day, Lucas tries to find out what Haskins was looking for but the Doc tells him two children died the previous day of anthrax and the town is on the verge of an epidemic. When Mark contracts anthrax from Flecker's pony, his life is put in danger.—garykmcd

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This afternoon on "The Rifleman" (Original Post) mahatmakanejeeves Dec 2021 OP

Then there is this: LakeArenal Dec 2021 #1

Don't worry. Kindly old Uncle Joe (Doc Burrage played by Edgar Buchanan) rsdsharp Dec 2021 #2

LakeArenal

(29,949 posts)

1. Then there is this:

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Tue Dec 28, 2021, 04:54 PM

Dec 2021

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rsdsharp

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2. Don't worry. Kindly old Uncle Joe (Doc Burrage played by Edgar Buchanan)

Reply to mahatmakanejeeves (Original post)

Tue Dec 28, 2021, 09:55 PM

Dec 2021

cured Mark with a new serum, injecting him with what looked like a horse needle and then saying, “Didn’t hurt a bit, did it?”

Mark’s response: “HUH?”

Gentle laughter followed.

I’ve seen every Rifleman episode at least 10 times in the last 2 years. PLEASE MeTV, switch out the show for something else. Running two shows a day, of a program that only lasted five years is too much, IMO.

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