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The Best Episodes of Wanted: Dead or Alive

Wanted: Dead or Alive is an American Western television series starring Steve McQueen as the bounty hunter Josh Randall. It aired on CBS for three...

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  1. Background image for The Fourth Headstone
    8.1/10(200 votes)

    #1 - The Fourth Headstone

    S1:E9

    Josh is hired on the help transport a female prisoner who has murdered three men to another jail.

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    Director:Unknown
  2. Background image for The Empty Cell
    8.1/10(152 votes)

    #2 - The Empty Cell

    S2:E7

    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.

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    Director:Thomas Carr
    Writer:Unknown
  3. Background image for Prison Trail
    8.1/10(136 votes)

    #3 - Prison Trail

    S2:E31

    Josh and Jason are delivering four criminals unaware that a stranger is following them to seek revenge on those criminals.

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    Director:Thomas Carr
    Writer:Unknown
  4. Background image for Die by the Gun
    8.0/10(176 votes)

    #4 - Die by the Gun

    S1:E14

    Aboard a stagecoach with prisoner in hand, Josh and the Coach driver are attacked by escapees heading for the Mexican border.

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    Director:Don McDougall
    Writer:Unknown
  5. Background image for Railroaded
    8.0/10(157 votes)

    #5 - Railroaded

    S1:E28

    Josh comes to the defense of a boy accused of murdering an Undercover Pinkerton detective aboard the train.

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    Director:Thomas Carr
    Writer:Unknown
  6. Background image for The Hostage
    8.0/10(159 votes)

    #6 - The Hostage

    S2:E6

    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.

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    Director:Unknown
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  8. Background image for Bad Gun
    8.0/10(131 votes)

    #7 - Bad Gun

    S2:E8

    After selling a customer a defective gun, Josh is hired to retrieve the dangerous weapon.

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    Director:Thomas Carr
    Writer:Unknown
  9. Background image for The Tyrant
    8.0/10(133 votes)

    #8 - The Tyrant

    S2:E9

    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.

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    Director:Unknown
    Writer:Tom Gries
  10. Background image for The Bounty
    7.9/10(188 votes)

    #9 - The Bounty

    S1:E3

    A vicious Bounty Hunter named Daimler is sought by Josh after Daimler gunned down an elderly fugitive.

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  11. Background image for The Favor
    7.9/10(166 votes)

    #10 - The Favor

    S1:E11

    Josh searches for a robbery suspect in a town called VanHorne run by outlaws.

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    Director:Thomas Carr
    Writer:Unknown
  12. Background image for Sheriff of Red Rock
    7.9/10(165 votes)

    #11 - Sheriff of Red Rock

    S1:E13

    The Sheriff of Red Rock allows his prisoners to escape, so two bounty hunters can collect the reward and split it three ways.

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    Director:Thomas Carr
    Writer:Unknown
  13. Background image for Rope Law
    7.9/10(149 votes)

    #12 - Rope Law

    S1:E18

    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.

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    Director:Thomas Carr
    Writer:Unknown
  14. Background image for Six-Up to Bannach
    7.9/10(160 votes)

    #13 - Six-Up to Bannach

    S1:E19

    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.

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    Director:Thomas Carr
    Writer:Unknown
  15. Background image for Call Your Shot
    7.9/10(148 votes)

    #14 - Call Your Shot

    S1:E23

    Josh is hired by Gabe Henshaw to find his son Will.

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    Director:Unknown
  16. Background image for The Legend
    7.9/10(160 votes)

    #15 - The Legend

    S1:E27

    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.

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    Director:Thomas Carr
    Writer:Unknown
  17. Background image for The Kovack Affair
    7.9/10(151 votes)

    #16 - The Kovack Affair

    S1:E30

    Josh is called by his old friend Jesse to help Meaghan keep her hotel from the hands of corrupt Kovack.

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    Director:Thomas Carr
    Writer:Unknown
  18. Background image for Man on Horseback
    7.9/10(127 votes)

    #17 - Man on Horseback

    S2:E14

    Charley Red Cloud is blamed for the murder of Will Bascomb. Bascomb's brother, Merv places a high bounty on Red Cloud.

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    Director:Unknown
    Writer:Unknown
  19. Background image for Jason
    7.9/10(145 votes)

    #18 - Jason

    S2:E21

    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.

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    Director:George Blair
    Writer:Unknown
  20. Background image for The Giveaway Gun
    7.8/10(173 votes)

    #19 - The Giveaway Gun

    S1:E6

    Josh is looking for an unknown gunman which can only be identified by the peculiar way he draws his gun.

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  21. Background image for Montana Kid
    7.8/10(153 votes)

    #20 - Montana Kid

    S2:E1

    A kid is the key for Josh to find Johnny Deuce who cheated during a poker game and took a lot of money off Josh. Now Josh goes after Deuce in order to get his money back.

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    Director:Thomas Carr
    Writer:Unknown
  22. Background image for Breakout
    7.8/10(143 votes)

    #21 - Breakout

    S2:E4

    Prison officials allow Randall to help Tom Dunn escape in order to retrieve the missing fifty thousand dollars Dunn had stolen.

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    Director:Thomas Carr
    Writer:Unknown
  23. Background image for Desert Seed
    7.8/10(123 votes)

    #22 - Desert Seed

    S2:E11

    Josh manages to track down Juan Gomez in the desert near the Mexican border where he's living now with his family. His nephew Pachito rides in to protect his uncle. (Afterall he is the future Pancho Villa).

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    Director:Unknown
    Writer:Unknown
  24. Background image for Vanishing Act
    7.8/10(137 votes)

    #23 - Vanishing Act

    S2:E16

    On the trail of bank robber Bart McCready, Josh discovers that he is posing as an escape artist named ""The Great Bartolo"".

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    Director:Unknown
    Writer:Unknown
  25. Background image for Vendetta
    7.8/10(129 votes)

    #24 - Vendetta

    S2:E28

    Josh captures and returns a wanted recruit to an Army Camp. The commanding officer re-instates the wanted man and refuses to pay Randall his bounty money.

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    Director:George Blair
    Writer:Unknown
  26. Background image for Miracle at Pot Hole
    7.7/10(168 votes)

    #25 - Miracle at Pot Hole

    S1:E8

    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.

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    Director:Thomas Carr
    Writer:Unknown

Best Episodes Summary

"The Fourth Headstone" is the best rated episode of "Wanted: Dead or Alive". It scored 8.1/10 based on 200 votes. Directed by Unknown and written by Frank D. Gilroy, it aired on 11/1/1958. This episode scored 0.0 points higher than the second highest rated, "The Empty Cell".