The BEST episodes of Wanted: Dead or Alive
Every episode of Wanted: Dead or Alive ever, ranked from best to worst by thousands of votes from fans of the show. The best episodes of Wanted: Dead or Alive!
A Civil War veteran with a sawed-off rifle as a holstered weapon makes a living as a bounty hunter in the Wild West of the 1870s. Wanted: Dead or Alive originally aired in Black and white on CBS. The pilot aired on the series "Trackdown" in March 1958. Bounty hunter Josh Randall was unlike any bounty hunter, he usually gave half or all of his reward money to good causes. He was a gentlemen and very respectful of the elderly. He was a man of few words and seemed to lack emotion but he was adept at using his gun, not an ordinary gun but a .44-.40 sawed-off 1892 Winchester carbine which he had on his "Mare's Leig", BUT the cartridges in his belt were .45-.70! His catch phrase in almost every episode was "Let's Go" which he spoke softly and sounded more like les goo. A treasure one not to be missed, especially to see Mr. Cool himself, Steve McQueen.
#1 - The Twain Shall Meet
Season 3 - Episode 5 - Aired 10/19/1960
Josh allows an Eastern newspaper reporter to go with him on a manhunt for a story.
#2 - Journey for Josh
Season 3 - Episode 3 - Aired 10/5/1960
Josh is delivering a female prisoner and becomes smitten with her, unknown to him is her accomplice, who is following them to break her loose.
#3 - The Showdown
Season 3 - Episode 6 - Aired 10/26/1960
Johnny Haywood, a childhood friend of Josh's claims to be innocent of the crime he is accused of. When he escapes, Josh is ordered to bring him back - dead or alive.
#4 - Ransom for a Nun
Season 1 - Episode 7 - Aired 10/18/1958
Mother Superior asks Josh to find Sister Grace who is being held by outlaws.
#5 - The Empty Cell
Season 2 - Episode 7 - Aired 10/17/1959
Josh delivers a prisoner to the sheriff, in the morning Josh realizes that there was an impostor and that the prisoner has successfully escaped with his cohort.
#6 - Competition
Season 1 - Episode 22 - Aired 1/31/1959
Josh is confronted by two bounty hunters who think he is onto a big paying job.
#7 - Call Your Shot
Season 1 - Episode 23 - Aired 2/7/1959
Josh is hired by Gabe Henshaw to find his son Will.
#8 - Barney's Bounty
Season 3 - Episode 26 - Aired 3/29/1961
Josh stops at his friend Barney's to get horses for his two prisoners, they manage to escape, leaving Josh and Barney to get them back for the reward.
#9 - Vanishing Act
Season 2 - Episode 16 - Aired 12/26/1959
On the trail of bank robber Bart McCready, Josh discovers that he is posing as an escape artist named ""The Great Bartolo"".
#10 - Rope Law
Season 1 - Episode 18 - Aired 1/3/1959
Josh returns with his prisoner Brace Logan and a lynch mob overtakes him. A little too late the townspeople realize that Logan was innocent and that the guilty party is some well respected.
#11 - Jason
Season 2 - Episode 21 - Aired 1/30/1960
Josh caught 'Doc' Phillips, the partner of Clell Fennon, and now wants to use him as a bait to get Fennon - worth $5.000 - himself.
#12 - The Medicine Man
Season 3 - Episode 10 - Aired 11/23/1960
Josh and a phony medicine man help out a man who was framed and falsely accused of the theft of a huge sum of money.
#13 - The Cure
Season 3 - Episode 2 - Aired 9/28/1960
Emily Kendrick hires Josh to keep her beloved Harry from drinking himself to death, she has matrimony on her mind and with the arrival of Harry's brother for the wedding, she wants to make sure that all goes as planned.
#14 - The Trial
Season 3 - Episode 1 - Aired 9/21/1960
Daniel Trenner is wanted for court martial because of his cowardice several men is his platoon lost their lives. Josh is after Trenner for other reasons and wants to stop the trial.
#15 - Tolliver Bender
Season 2 - Episode 23 - Aired 2/13/1960
Josh needs Tolliver's testimony in a nearby town unfortunately Amos McKenna wants to hang Tolliver and will only allow him to go if one of the two Josh or Jason stays in his place.
#16 - The Partners
Season 2 - Episode 22 - Aired 2/6/1960
Josh gets arrested - for horse theft. Then he finds out it was Jason who wants him behind bars because Jason wants to go after Billy Joe Henry alone.
#17 - The Most Beautiful Woman
Season 2 - Episode 20 - Aired 1/23/1960
John Garth comes to town looking for his darling Lil, he feels something terrible has happened. There was a fire in the saloon and he thinks she died.
#18 - Man on Horseback
Season 2 - Episode 14 - Aired 12/5/1959
Charley Red Cloud is blamed for the murder of Will Bascomb. Bascomb's brother, Merv places a high bounty on Red Cloud.
#19 - Bad Gun
Season 2 - Episode 8 - Aired 10/24/1959
After selling a customer a defective gun, Josh is hired to retrieve the dangerous weapon.
#20 - The Hostage
Season 2 - Episode 6 - Aired 10/10/1959
Josh delivers Jumbo Kane, a highly dangerous and already sentenced to death man. Soon after he has handed him over to the sheriff, Kane takes the sheriff by surprise and kills him.
#21 - Reunion for Revenge
Season 1 - Episode 21 - Aired 1/24/1959
Intent on revenge several escaped convicts confront Josh's prisoner who is responsible for them going to jail.
#22 - The Corner
Season 1 - Episode 25 - Aired 2/21/1959
Accused of killing a friend, bounty hunter Josh Randall tries to prove himself innocent.
#23 - The Tyrant
Season 2 - Episode 9 - Aired 10/31/1959
Recruited by the army, Josh seeks the horses and the deserter who stole them. And he finds both the horses and the man - in custody of the town's marshal. But the marshal, who's ruling the town with an iron fist, isn't willing to give them back.
#24 - The Fourth Headstone
Season 1 - Episode 9 - Aired 11/1/1958
Josh is hired on the help transport a female prisoner who has murdered three men to another jail.
#25 - The Monster
Season 2 - Episode 19 - Aired 1/16/1960
Josh goes after an elephant trainer who is using the animal to scare away the whole town so he can rob the town blind.
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