The Rifleman

This is fan fiction. I'm a big fan of suspense, thriller, and detective fiction. I have my favorite popular authors like Elmore Leonard who started writing in the Western genre. He did many books. His best known Western was"Hombre," which he wrote in 1961 and turned into a movie in 1967 starring Paul Newman. It wasn't later that he switched to his suspense drama, such as his novel "Get Shorty" written in 1990 and later a movie in 1995 starring John Travolta and Gene Hackman.

My favorite Western is "Rifleman." Now I've never read it, I'll have to confess. But I've watched a lot of the episodes. It is amazing how well it stands up today after running from 1958-1963 on TV. It's different, but it's not corny. It reflects the culture of the time when westerns ran wild on TV.

By the way this is totally PG. That's the way early TV was. I don't recall seeing an episode that used stereotypes of minorities, which is somewhat remarkable. And the acting and directing was just pretty darn good. So I like it. And now I am going to do my first fan fiction.