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The Rifleman/Quiet Night, Deadly Night

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Quiet Night, Deadly Night
Season 5, Episode 4
Airdate October 22, 1962
Production Number 5220
Written by Arthur Browne, Jr.
Directed by Arnold Laven
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The RiflemanSeason Five
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Quiet Night, Deadly Night is the fourth episode of the fifth season of The Rifleman, and the one hundred forty-sixth episode overall.

Starring: Chuck Connors (Lucas McCain), Johnny Crawford (Mark McCain), Paul Fix (Marshal Micah Torrance), Patricia Blair (Lou Mallory)

Additional Cast: Ralph Moody (Doc Burrage), Maurine Dawson (Molly Carpenter), Carol Leigh (Betty Lind), Charles Harrison (Stage Driver)

and Ed Ames (Lee Coyle)

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Plot Overview

When the stagecoach arrives in North Fork with two young women aboard destined to work in Lou Mallory's hotel, one of them is gravely ill. Doc Burrage suspects that she may have smallpox and quarantines himself, Lou, Lucas and the two girls to the confines of the hotel. Also quarantined is a man who was riding on the stage, Lee Coyle. Marshal Torrance recognizes Coyle as a wanted man and someone who is quite dangerous. As they await word as to whether smallpox serum might be available from a nearby town, tensions rise leading to a confrontation between Lucas and Coyle.

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