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The Rifleman: Body count
Posted on 12/17/13 at 7:45 am
Posted on 12/17/13 at 7:45 am
I never watched this show as a kid, but I caught 5 episodes last week, and in those episodes, Chuck Connors killed 14 people.
Connors himself once estimated he killed about 2.5 people per show, which, over the five years it ran, would amount to a couple hundred dead. The website riflemanconnors.com has a show-by-show count that adds up to 113—but it's possible this site is run by some pussy who wants to downplay the carnage Connors caused as a peaceful, law abiding cattle rancher.
Question: what series running between the 1950s and 1970s, holds the record for most people killed? I haven't found a definitive answer; I'd appreciate it if someone could provide one.
Connors himself once estimated he killed about 2.5 people per show, which, over the five years it ran, would amount to a couple hundred dead. The website riflemanconnors.com has a show-by-show count that adds up to 113—but it's possible this site is run by some pussy who wants to downplay the carnage Connors caused as a peaceful, law abiding cattle rancher.
Question: what series running between the 1950s and 1970s, holds the record for most people killed? I haven't found a definitive answer; I'd appreciate it if someone could provide one.
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Posted on 12/17/13 at 7:52 am to TigerPanzer
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Question: what series running between the 1950s and 1970s, holds the record for most people killed? I haven't found a definitive answer; I'd appreciate it if someone could provide one.
Star Trek, easily. They had whole worlds full of people killed by the planet killer "The Doomsday Machine" and the giant single cell energy consuming life form "The Immunity Syndrome" - that's just 2 episodes. Dozens of crewmembers killed on missions and in battle. "The Ultimate Computer" took over the NCC-1701 and killed hundreds of friendlies in war games gone awry.
Posted on 12/17/13 at 8:02 am to Ace Midnight
Star Trek is a good answer, but I think what we're talking about here is "body count" as in bodies you see mortally wounded and rolling over dead. Not "statistical" dead.
Even then, Star Trek is pretty good at killing people. But it's hard to beat the Rifleman. It's a running joke in our house how ridiculously violent that show is. I mean, the hero personally killed more than a hundred men on the show. You see him do it. All justified. Does not give a frick. Not one bit sorry. And his kid witnesses most of it.
Even then, Star Trek is pretty good at killing people. But it's hard to beat the Rifleman. It's a running joke in our house how ridiculously violent that show is. I mean, the hero personally killed more than a hundred men on the show. You see him do it. All justified. Does not give a frick. Not one bit sorry. And his kid witnesses most of it.
Posted on 12/17/13 at 8:04 am to SpqrTiger
I don't know about shows, but I remember watching Cobra (Sylvester Stallone flick) when I was younger, and my cousins and I tried to keep up with counting bodies in that one. IIRC there were like 40-something. It was crazy.
Posted on 12/17/13 at 8:33 am to CocomoLSU
Posted on 12/17/13 at 8:34 am to TigerPanzer
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The Rifleman: Body count
Even as a kid I thought it was kind of funny how this peaceful rancher and single father, perhaps North Fork's most solid citizen, dispatched dozens and dozens of dudes to the afterlife.
And WTF was it about little old North Fork that attracted so many assholes that needed killing?
Posted on 12/17/13 at 8:38 am to VOR
quote:North Fork is located on top of a hell gate obviously.
And WTF was it about little old North Fork that attracted so many assholes that needed killing?
Posted on 12/17/13 at 8:44 am to TigerPanzer
Pussy shite, Jack Bauer has 268 confirmed on screen kills in 7 season of 24.
Posted on 12/17/13 at 8:53 am to SpqrTiger
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Star Trek is a good answer, but I think what we're talking about here is "body count" as in bodies you see mortally wounded and rolling over dead. Not "statistical" dead.
Yes, I tried to confine my inquiry to shows that ran in an era of "one shot, one death"—like Westerns for example. I assume naturally that as time went on, the body counts on shows–such as space adventure shows, where hundreds or thousands of anonymous space creatures could be easily vaporized–would grow beyond computation.
Posted on 12/17/13 at 8:57 am to Tactical1
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Jack Bauer has 268
I think we have a winner here in the "one shot, one death" category. Compared to Bauer, Lucas McCain is just an ant pile stomper.
Posted on 12/17/13 at 9:04 am to TigerPanzer
I always questioned why that town had a sheriff.
Posted on 12/17/13 at 9:05 am to TigerPanzer
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Yes, I tried to confine my inquiry to shows that ran in an era of "one shot, one death"—like Westerns for example.
Well, even Star Trek had between 55 and 65 crewmember deaths, just on the Enterprise, through 77 episodes - which isn't bad.
However, it is not Rifleman numbers, where multiple deaths happened every week. Bonanza was pretty lethal to the bad guys, too - Little Joe must have killed dozens by himself.
Posted on 12/17/13 at 9:14 am to Ace Midnight
quote:If you count the wives, fiancees, girlfriends, and possibles that showed up at the Ponderosa over the years and died of fatal diseases or being an innocent bystander in a gunfight, the count increases astronomically. As my female cousin once said, "Them Cartwrights are sure hell on women!"
Bonanza was pretty lethal to the bad guys, too - Little Joe must have killed dozens by himself
Posted on 12/17/13 at 9:16 am to OlGrandad
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I always questioned why that town had a sheriff.
Well, old Micah needed something to do.
Posted on 12/17/13 at 9:19 am to TigerPanzer
quote:I've been watching Steve McQueen's Wanted Dead or Alive lately, and I think he could easily match that.
Connors himself once estimated he killed about 2.5 people per show
quote:Oh I'd bet McQueen passed that -- and his show only ran three years
The website riflemanconnors.com has a show-by-show count that adds up to 113
BTW are we counting Indians? That would affect some show totals
Posted on 12/17/13 at 9:23 am to Kafka
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BTW are we counting Indians?
3/5 each.
Posted on 12/17/13 at 9:38 am to TigerPanzer
Reminiscing about the homicidal, criminally insane TV heroes of my youth really puts this old NRA'er in the holiday spirit. I'll be spending my Christmas and New Years holidays in front of the TV set, watching Rifleman, Bonanza, Star Trek and Wanted Dead or Alive marathons, with a pencil and notepad in hand to mark the body counts.
Posted on 12/17/13 at 10:21 am to TigerPanzer
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