The Rifleman

wvfarrier · Post by **wvfarrier** » Mon Mar 10, 2014 7:50 pm

I've been watching the show and I noticed something. He is one helluva self righteous busy body. He is constantly sticking his nose in other people's business.

CowboyTutt · Post by **CowboyTutt** » Mon Mar 10, 2014 7:51 pm

Sounds like fun!!!!!

-Tutt

Rifleman · Post by **Rifleman** » Mon Mar 10, 2014 7:54 pm

I had a good reason each and every time... and what were you doing watching TV at that hour?

airedaleman · Post by **airedaleman** » Mon Mar 10, 2014 8:52 pm

wvfarrier wrote:I've been watching the show and I noticed something. He is one helluva self righteous busy body. He is constantly sticking his nose in other people's business.

Absolutely awful show, any way you look at it.

jkbrea · Post by **jkbrea** » Mon Mar 10, 2014 11:25 pm

I always liked it.

Watched it a lot as a kid. I thought someone posted a while back that they were making a new version.

RIHMFIRE · Post by **RIHMFIRE** » Tue Mar 11, 2014 8:44 pm

i dont think so....

i love that show....

Hagler · Post by **Hagler** » Tue Mar 11, 2014 8:54 pm

Gents,

The new version of The Rifleman has been in the works for many years, now. Tom Selleck read a script for one incarnation, and commented on how "Lucas McCain" was an indiscriminate shooter of menn, right from the very first scene. Selleck thought that this new version of the character just wanted to shhot people. I believe that ABC was working on yet another TV series, just a few years ago, but I have read no more of it.

Shawn

mikld · Post by **mikld** » Wed Mar 12, 2014 10:22 am

I watch a lot of old western as I have a satellite channel dedicated solely to old westerns; TV shows and movies. I have noticed the general differences in what was acceptable in the '50s and '60s and today. No PC, no Miranda rights, often the heroes were just bullies that beat the bad guy in the end. Matt Dillon will drag off a feller and jail him sometimes on just a whim. Don't matter really, just noticed how an old western good guy would be a villain today...

Canuck Bob · Post by **Canuck Bob** » Wed Mar 12, 2014 2:54 pm

I find the show fun to watch occasionally but it really is an entertainment product from a different era.

Bronco · Post by **Bronco** » Wed Mar 12, 2014 3:10 pm

But if he didn't there would not be the show

Mescalero · Post by **Mescalero** » Wed Mar 12, 2014 3:22 pm

I can't even force myself to watch that stuff anymore.

Blaine · Post by **Blaine** » Wed Mar 12, 2014 3:22 pm

If we had more Rifleman, and less Jersey Shores, this would be a better world. Good v. Evil, and Good always won....

Mescalero · Post by **Mescalero** » Wed Mar 12, 2014 3:36 pm

Yeah, well;
assuming Jersey Shores is a television program, I don't watch that either.
When did it become un fashionable to read a book in this country?

BrentD · Post by **BrentD** » Wed Mar 12, 2014 3:39 pm

Mescalero wrote:Yeah, well;
assuming Jersey Shores is a television program, I don't watch that either.
When did it become un fashionable to read a book in this country?

When they invented e-readers.

But that aside, while I've was never a fan of The Rifleman, I'm pretty sure it was better than Jersey Shore, though I'm happy to say I have never seen it.

Mescalero · Post by **Mescalero** » Wed Mar 12, 2014 3:43 pm

I am 61 and while not living in fear, I am starting to fear I am not going to get to read all the books I want to read.

Blaine · Post by **Blaine** » Wed Mar 12, 2014 3:53 pm

Mescalero wrote:I am 61 and while not living in fear, I am starting to fear I am not going to get to read all the books I want to read.

I turned in my TV cable box a couple years ago....

I've been outliving my favorite authors....

fordwannabe · Post by **fordwannabe** » Wed Mar 12, 2014 8:27 pm

Mr Clancey and Mr Parker maybe??

Griff · Post by **Griff** » Wed Mar 19, 2014 6:36 pm

fordwannabe wrote:Mr Clancey and Mr Parker maybe??

Among others... Like Heinlein, Asimov, Clark, Huxley, etc... But, I'm still finding books of theirs that I haven't read... (Clancey, Parker, and a bunch of others...) I find it almost embarrassing that I have over 700 titles in my "library"!

octagon · Post by **octagon** » Wed Mar 19, 2014 6:44 pm

Blaine have you read Rourk's "Something of Value?"

Blaine · Post by **Blaine** » Wed Mar 19, 2014 7:05 pm

octagon wrote:Blaine have you read Rourk's "Something of Value?"

Oh, yes......I've read just about everything he wrote..The Honey Badger is brutal...I've heard tell that there is a compilation of his magazine articles, and some newspaper reporting, as well.

octagon · Post by **octagon** » Wed Mar 19, 2014 7:13 pm

I frequent a used book shop and found it last year. Very good I thought, and recalled you like Rourk.
.Like Mescalero, I find myself short on time, and have been trying to read more classic literature, which I find to be more "worthwhile." I do enjoy occasional westerns and history books.

Mescalero · Post by **Mescalero** » Wed Mar 19, 2014 7:18 pm

octagon,
Have you read John W. McBride's
" A Rifleman Went to War "?

Rusty · Post by **Rusty** » Wed Mar 19, 2014 7:53 pm

Mescalero wrote:octagon,
Have you read John W. McBride's
" A Rifleman Went to War "?

And his other book, "The Emma Gees."

octagon · Post by **octagon** » Wed Mar 19, 2014 9:06 pm

No Mescalero, I have not, but I appreciate the suggestion and will try to find it. I have just finished one of my all time favorites, Tennyson's "Idylls of the King," which I read every other year or so.

Mescalero · Post by **Mescalero** » Thu Mar 20, 2014 8:26 am

I think it is H.W. McBride.

airedaleman · Post by **airedaleman** » Thu Mar 20, 2014 8:44 am

BlaineG wrote:
octagon wrote:Blaine have you read Rourk's "Something of Value?"
Oh, yes......I've read just about everything he wrote..The Honey Badger is brutal...I've heard tell that there is a compilation of his magazine articles, and some newspaper reporting, as well.

The Honey Badger is semi-autobiographical...

Steelbanger · Post by **Steelbanger** » Thu Mar 20, 2014 9:10 am

I just read Ruark's "The Old Man and the Boy" I bought it on line and I believe it is the compilation of his column in Field & Stream. Reading that makes me wish for the old days as I never knew my grandparents, only as visiting their graves.

I passed that book along to my son who is quite the busy man. I hope he finds time to read it soon as I am anxious for some feedback.

Blaine · Post by **Blaine** » Thu Mar 20, 2014 9:22 am

Steelbanger wrote:I just read Ruark's "The Old Man and the Boy" I bought it on line and I believe it is the compilation of his column in Field & Stream. Reading that makes me wish for the old days as I never knew my grandparents, only as visiting their graves.

I passed that book along to my son who is quite the busy man. I hope he finds time to read it soon as I am anxious for some feedback.

There is a companion book, The Old Man's Boy Grows Older. You should have both

Griff · Post by **Griff** » Thu Mar 20, 2014 3:40 pm

octagon wrote:No Mescalero, I have not, but I appreciate the suggestion and will try to find it. I have just finished one of my all time favorites, Tennyson's "Idylls of the King," which I read every other year or so.

I may not have any firearms that have been passed down, but I do have two 1st editions... (of a sort). A small pocket sized David Copperfield, undated, but all original and matches online descriptions of the edition... The other is a rebound copy from 1879 of the Complete Works of Robert Burns, including correspondence , along with selected works of Tennyson. It's inscribed to my G-Grandfather from his father-in-law. My grandfather bound the two together so Mom wouldn't have any issues taking out of NZ or bringin' then to the US.

Neither book is valuable, one due to condition, the other because of being rebound. But, it's hightime I re-read the Bobby Burns.. maybe slog my way thru the Tennyson.

Booger Bill · Post by **Booger Bill** » Thu Mar 20, 2014 4:45 pm

I always thought my dad could have doubled for chuck conners. Dads name was charles and most of his friends also called him chuck. What cha think? Dad was also 6ft 5"s with blond hair.

octagon · Post by **octagon** » Thu Mar 20, 2014 6:00 pm

Bill I think you are right. Your Dad has hands like a dang gorilla, did he play some ball?

Booger Bill · Post by **Booger Bill** » Thu Mar 20, 2014 6:18 pm

Dad was a natural athlete but he only got as far as third grade. He was just a factory worker but told me a story that many years ago some coach wanted to take him under his wing but he didnt want to or could afford to quit his job. Dad was a farm boy in a huge family. He said he got in a fight with the school teacher in third grade, walked home and his dad, a german immigrant was happy to keep him home to help farm. Dad was born in 1913 and died a couple months short of his 90th birthday. Dad had 7 older half brothers and sisters. Both his dad and mother were widowers and married. He was the oldest of ten more! 17 kids!

Post by **Hobie** » Thu Mar 20, 2014 7:44 pm

Rusty wrote:
Mescalero wrote:octagon,
Have you read John W. McBride's
" A Rifleman Went to War "?

And his other book, "The Emma Gees."

Two good if slightly repetitive books.

2571 · Post by **2571** » Sat Mar 22, 2014 7:22 pm

Why didn't Micah ever shoot anybody? He was a bad butt sheriff/gunslinger who became a drunk whom Lucas rehabilitated. But, every time it would have been appropriate in an episode for Michah to waste some bad guy, it was McCaine who did the shooting.

HTH did Lucas sleep at night after shooting that many people? Maybe he just got used to nightmares.

hfcable · Post by **hfcable** » Sat Mar 22, 2014 8:24 pm

Mescalero wrote:I am 61 and while not living in fear, I am starting to fear I am not going to get to read all the books I want to read.

i have several books going at all times

no tv in over 40 years- can play a DVD and kids and guests do so once every month or two
even then i usually dont join in to watch it

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