The BEST episodes of Wanted: Dead or Alive season 1
Every episode of Wanted: Dead or Alive season 1, ranked from best to worst by thousands of votes from fans of the show. The best episodes of Wanted: Dead or Alive season 1!
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 - Call Your Shot
Season 1 - Episode 23 - Aired 2/7/1959
Josh is hired by Gabe Henshaw to find his son Will.
#2 - 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.
#3 - 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.
#4 - 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.
#5 - 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.
#6 - The Corner
Season 1 - Episode 25 - Aired 2/21/1959
Accused of killing a friend, bounty hunter Josh Randall tries to prove himself innocent.
#7 - 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.
#8 - Dead End
Season 1 - Episode 4 - Aired 9/27/1958
After being hired to apprehend a ranch worker who stole money and disappeared, Josh undercovers more than he bargained for.
#9 - Miracle at Pot Hole
Season 1 - Episode 8 - Aired 10/25/1958
Josh hands over a criminal to Sheriff Wilson and finds out the sheriff is a crook. He begins to doubt the guilt of his so-called criminal.
#10 - Passing of Shawnee Bill
Season 1 - Episode 5 - Aired 10/4/1958
After a crooked poker game, Josh is led to believe that his opponent is Shawnee Bill.
#11 - The Favor
Season 1 - Episode 11 - Aired 11/15/1958
Josh searches for a robbery suspect in a town called Bent Horn run by outlaws.
#12 - Til Death Do Us Part
Season 1 - Episode 10 - Aired 11/8/1958
Beautiful Stacy Torrance is wanted for the murder of her husband, but when Josh finds her husband still alive he tries to have the charges cleared.
#13 - Sheriff of Red Rock
Season 1 - Episode 13 - Aired 11/29/1958
The Sheriff of Red Rock allows his prisoners to escape, so two bounty hunters can collect the reward and split it three ways.
#14 - The Bounty
Season 1 - Episode 3 - Aired 9/20/1958
A vicious Bounty Hunter named Daimler is sought by Josh after Daimler gunned down an elderly fugitive.
#15 - Ricochet
Season 1 - Episode 12 - Aired 11/22/1958
Josh is hired to look for a missing husband and ends up in a murder conspiracy.
#16 - Crossroads
Season 1 - Episode 32 - Aired 4/11/1959
Josh is on the track of a suspected murderer, when the father tries to avert his sons capture.
#17 - Eight Cent Reward
Season 1 - Episode 16 - Aired 12/20/1958
A poor family with not much and hopes destroyed by storms and rustlers who want their land. Josh tries to help and right at Christmas a small miracle does occur.
#18 - Double Fee
Season 1 - Episode 29 - Aired 3/21/1959
An Opera Singer hires Josh to find her sister who has been kidnapped and is being held ransom.
#19 - Die by the Gun
Season 1 - Episode 14 - Aired 12/6/1958
Aboard a stagecoach with prisoner in hand, Josh and the Coach driver are attacked by escapees heading for the Mexican border.
#20 - Eager Man
Season 1 - Episode 26 - Aired 2/28/1959
Fugitive Ted Nelson will surrender to his friend Josh Randall, if his wife shares the reward. Gar Foley also a bounty hunter has other ideas.
#21 - The Martin Poster
Season 1 - Episode 1 - Aired 9/6/1958
Josh takes matters into his own hands after Marshall Jeff Wilcox is killed by the Martin brothers.
#22 - Angels of Vengeance
Season 1 - Episode 33 - Aired 4/18/1959
Josh kills a young man in self-defense, the victim's father, the head of a religious cult, then orders Josh's death.
#23 - The Kovack Affair
Season 1 - Episode 30 - Aired 3/28/1959
Josh is called by his old friend Jesse to help Meaghan keep her hotel from the hands of corrupt Kovack.
#24 - The Conquerers
Season 1 - Episode 35 - Aired 5/2/1959
A Banker hires Josh to find his runaway son. The boy has joined a mercenary army that preys on small Mexican villages.
#25 - Rawhide Breed
Season 1 - Episode 15 - Aired 12/13/1958
The Kreager brothers are on the trail of Josh and his prisoner, when a sudden attack by Apaches leaves his prisoner dead.