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There were also some theories surrounding Crawford getting too old and the father and son relationship growing a bit stale to some audiences. It might have been a tad forced, but all it takes is one brilliant writer. As told by Crawford, he remembers everyone being ready to move onto the next thing. More acting for Connors and perhaps a career in professional baseball for growing Johnny? Why not? It is a well-established fact that when a show is rather epic and has really made its mark, there is a mad dash to produce spin-offs once the show is off the air.
The Rifleman did just that. Michael Ansara was a guest star in a few episodes, as The Plainsman. But the most successful was Frasier, after Cheers. Ansara was so well received in his role as The Plainsman, that eventually he was cast in his very own show of the same name. Based on the character he played on the Rifleman, the show was called Law of the Plainsman. The series was made by the same production company, Four Star Television, but unfortunately only stayed on the air for one season.
He went on to become a very talented singer and teen heart-throb. Did he ever go to school though?
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He might not know his multiplication tables, but who cares when you can act, sing and dance? Crawford had four hit singles during his time in the music biz, that were on the Billboard Top 40 chart. But Crawford was no stranger to fame, joining the original cast of the Mickey Mouse club in Crawford blazed a trail so many others could follow in his footsteps, such as Justin Timberlake, Ryan Gosling, Britney Spears.
Chuck Connors was so popular and loved in his role as Lucas McCain on The Rifleman, that it ended up having a bit of a negative effect for a while after the show ended. He was consistently cast as a gun-slinging cowboy and was relegated to the Western genre, finding it difficult to find other roles. He was the Jason Alexander of his time maybe. After the five years run on The Rifleman, Connors appeared in a number of short-lived shows, including Arrest and Trial, Branded, and Cowboy in Africa.
Wherever he went, he was constantly being cast as a cowpoke. Later on, cowboys started expanding their reach into other genres outside the ilk of Westerns, such as Drugstore Cowboy and Midnight Cowboy. Great films too. In reality, it was Kevin Joseph Connors. He was born in in Brooklyn, New York. Never having liked the name Kevin, he decided to change his first name while attending Seton Hall University.
He was also a talented basketball player, making him a triple threat: baseball, basketball and acting. In the s, it was considered very glamorous and cool to smoke cigarettes, and smoke a lot. The characters rarely if ever smoked while in front of the camera, but off camera, Connors was a chimney. He was constantly smoking, to the point it was hard to fathom how he managed his on-camera time with his smoking time. You have to have your priorities straight.
The second you get off camera, light up. The second before you go on camera, take a big puff.
This is not that hard. Chuck Connors, The Rifleman, was such a prevalent smoker, he smoked up to three packs a day! That is 60 cigarettes, for those keeping track. It finally all caught up to The Rifleman when he suffered from smoking-related afflictions later in his life. He died in from complications regarding lung cancer. What a tragedy. Although he lived a full life, there must have been so much left to do on his list. In addition to having a great acting career, Chuck Connors was a very successful athlete as well, as he played many different sports. This would be darn near impossible now, considering the two regular seasons overlap quite a bit and no team from either sport would want their player risking injury doing other things.
Baseball and American football have been done by some, but even that is pretty hard. He did accept an offer to play for the New York Yankees, but was only able to play one season before joining the US Army. Wow, is there anything this guy cannot do? Three-sport athlete and actor? Is he also a dynamite cook? On November 5, , he became the first basketball player to break a backboard. Shaq has got nothing on Chuck Connors. It still counts, though, the first backboard ever broken.
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Although he loved acting, it was baseball that played a huge part in Chuck's life. In fact, he credited baseball for his successful career in all areas. He learned valuable lessons and teamwork from the game known as America's favorite pastime. It is a pretty inspiring game. Was Chuck Connors ever in a baseball movie? That role would have seemed great for him. Baseball made my entrance to the film industry immeasurably easier than I could have done it alone.
The greatest game in the world, I shall be eternally in debt. There was a remake of the original series, The Rifleman, announced by CBS in late , but alas, nothing ever came to fruition. In an interview, Johnny Crawford, who played the role of Mark McCain, said he was interested in the project and possibly even becoming involved. He could play a wise old grandpa or an old-timer who can still handle an Winchester. The remake was going to feature the producing and directing talents of Chris Columbus with Robert Levy, Steven Gardner and Arthur Gardner as executive producers.
Unfortunately, the reboot was canceled only a few short months later. No pilot episode was ever filmed for the series and there was no reason ever given by the producers as to why the show never happened. The reason why the original was so successful is that it showed a widower taking care of his son in the hostile world of the wild west, for the very first time.
A reboot would have to match that level of intrigue to be successful, which in this day and age, would be pretty hard coming from the Western genre. Westworld is a Western in a sense, but Chuck Connors would spin in his grave if he found out they made The Rifleman remake similar to that show.
The rifle, in fact, had belonged to none other than John Wayne in the movie Stagecoach.
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Wow, the Winchester is like the Forrest Gump of movie props. The rifle was also the exact same model as the one once used by the infamous outlaw Billy the Kid, but his was an model. That rifle really should have had its own trailer and agent, it was almost as famous as Chuck Connors. There were once again rumors eddying around a potential reboot of The Rifleman, when an article was released on April 1, As it turns out, not many people realized what that date meant and instead got super excited about a new The Rifleman series.
With who playing The Rifleman? That would be hilarious. According to the article, Lucas was going to be played by Willie Nelson and fans were torn. Many said that Nelson was simply too old to play The Rifleman. Every successful series has its fair share of others trying to hitch a ride on its coattails by following its exact formula.
The Rifleman was one of the first shows to have a single parent watching over a child, and that part of the plot would set the world of television on fire. Hell, by the s, rich white people were adopting less fortunate black kids on pretty much every other show. The show starred Diahann Carroll as a widowed single mother. The first season of Julia was a smash hit, not unlike The Rifleman, ranking in at number seven, and stayed on the air for three seasons in total.
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The Rifleman really was great American television, and will probably never be duplicated, no matter how many tries, or April fools pranks, there are in the future. More than ten years before Dennis Hopper became an icon of the hippie movement of the 60s, as the rebel motorcycle rider, Billy, on the cult classic, Easy Rider, he made an appearance on The Rifleman. After a year as a Mouseketeer, he was forced to leave because the club lowered the age limit to 12 years of age. The Rifleman was created by Arnold Laven and the famous Sam Peckinpah, who helped develop the original story.
A lot of the characters and story lines were based on real life situations from his childhood, growing up on a ranch. Stuntmen are usually known for being fearless, but the Hollywood stuntmen in the s were especially known for being careless and taking crazy risks. Particularly in cowboy movies and TV shows, since horse stunts were some of the most dangerous to do.
In The Rifleman, stuntman Archie Butler appeared in more episodes than any other actor, except for the main cast. We mentioned earlier that Chuck Connors was a professional athlete, and this prompted a lot of famous athletes to appear on the show. Throughout the show, Lucas McCain dated a lot of different women, being the handsome widower that he was.
Furthermore, the women that played his dates were some of the most actresses at the time, such as Amanda Ames, Ellen Corby, Julie Adams, Sherry Jackson, and more.