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 - Fatal Memory
Season 1 - Episode 2 - Aired 9/13/1958
While on the trail of an Army deserter, Josh is surprised to find fake wanted posters for Colonel Sykes; the Army Commander that he served under.
#2 - Amos Carter
Season 1 - Episode 36 - Aired 5/9/1959
Josh tries to reconcil two families whose feud has reached dangerous proportions.
#3 - 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.
#4 - Littlest Client
Season 1 - Episode 34 - Aired 4/25/1959
Josh is hired by a 10 year old girl to find her father, she refuses to believe that he is dead.
#5 - 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.
#6 - 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.
#7 - Bounty for a Bride
Season 1 - Episode 31 - Aired 4/4/1959
A man hires Josh Randall to persuade his daughter to come back home. The girl, who was kidnapped by Indians years before, refuses to return because she feels that the Indians are now her people.
#8 - 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.
#9 - 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.
#10 - Railroaded
Season 1 - Episode 28 - Aired 3/14/1959
Josh comes to the defense of a boy accused of murdering an Undercover Pinkerton detective aboard the train.
#11 - The Legend
Season 1 - Episode 27 - Aired 3/7/1959
Josh is hired by Sam McGarrett to lead him with his son and daughter into the Mesa desert to find a hundred year old treasure.
#12 - 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.
#13 - Secret Ballot
Season 1 - Episode 24 - Aired 2/14/1959
Randall's old war buddy Ned Easter is running for mayor in a town governed by corrupt mayor Barney Pax and his brother Steve, whom he has made sheriff. The Pax brothers avoid honest competition by shooting up Ned's rallies and such. Ned's wife Carole has summoned Randall to stand by Ned in case of trouble, but doesn't want Ned to know she did so. It so happens that Randall has a wanted poster on Steve, for ""shooting up half of Colorado.""
#14 - The Spur
Season 1 - Episode 20 - Aired 1/17/1959
Josh is hunting for wanted murderer Vic Warsaw when he finds out that his bounty was gunned down.
#15 - Six-Up to Bannach
Season 1 - Episode 19 - Aired 1/10/1959
Josh is on his way to Bannach to prevent the execution of an innocent man and he must travel by stagecoach one that is carrying boxes of dynamite.
#16 - 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.
#17 - 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.
#18 - 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.
#19 - 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.
#20 - 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.
#21 - 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.
#22 - 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.
#23 - 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.
#24 - 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.
#25 - 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.