The Rifleman and his introduction to chess in "Knight Errant"
Have you ever wanted to interest a kid in chess? Have that kid watch The Rifleman episode, "Knight Errant." It's a good chess episode. It has the always, dirty, nasty criminal, Jack Elam, discussing five moves ahead chess strategy, while figuratively speaking, "drooling on himself." The finish is funny rather than violent. This makes it a rare episode. In this one, Lucas McCain isn't forced to chop some psycho in half with his primitive rifle/machine gun." Without knowing anything about chess,... Sign in to see full entry.