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The Best Episodes of Wanted: Dead or Alive

Every episode of Wanted: Dead or Alive ranked from best to worst. Let's dive into 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...
Genres:WesternAction & AdventureDrama
Network:CBS

Best Episodes Summary

"The Voice of Silence" is the best rated episode of "Wanted: Dead or Alive". It scored 8.3/10 based on 165 votes. Directed by Richard Donner and written by Ed Adamson, it aired on 2/15/1961. This episode scored 0.2 points higher than the second highest rated, "The Fourth Headstone".

  • The Voice of Silence
    8.3/10165 votes
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    #1 - The Voice of Silence

    Season 3 Episode 20 - Aired 2/15/1961

    Josh is hired by Frank Hagen to protect his deaf-mute daughter Carol Hagen while he's away on business. During Josh's stay at the Hagen Farm, he encounters a strange drifter and former bank robber named Harry Brice accompanied by his criminal partners.

    Director: Richard Donner

    Writer: Ed Adamson

  • The Fourth Headstone
    8.1/10183 votes
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    #2 - 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.

    Director: N/A

    Writer: Frank D. Gilroy

  • Die by the Gun
    8.1/10161 votes
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    #3 - 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.

    Director: Don McDougall

    Writer: N/A

  • Railroaded
    8.1/10148 votes
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    #4 - 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.

    Director: Thomas Carr

    Writer: N/A

  • The Empty Cell
    8.1/10140 votes
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    #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.

    Director: Thomas Carr

    Writer: N/A

  • The Tyrant
    8.1/10124 votes
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    #6 - 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.

    Director: N/A

    Writer: Tom Gries

  • Prison Trail
    8.1/10127 votes
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    #7 - Prison Trail

    Season 2 Episode 31 - Aired 5/14/1960

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

    Director: Thomas Carr

    Writer: N/A

  • The Twain Shall Meet
    8.1/10140 votes
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    #8 - 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.

    Director: Richard Donner

    Writer: N/A

  • Sheriff of Red Rock
    8.0/10150 votes
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    #9 - 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.

    Director: Thomas Carr

    Writer: N/A

  • Call Your Shot
    8.0/10138 votes
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    #10 - Call Your Shot

    Season 1 Episode 23 - Aired 2/7/1959

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

    Director: N/A

    Writer: Fred Freiberger

  • The Hostage
    8.0/10148 votes
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    #11 - 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.

    Director: N/A

    Writer: Don Brinkley

  • Bad Gun
    8.0/10125 votes
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    #12 - 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.

    Director: Thomas Carr

    Writer: N/A

  • Three for One
    8.0/10120 votes
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    #13 - Three for One

    Season 3 Episode 13 - Aired 12/21/1960

    Josh with prisoner Tom Fellows in tow, stops in the town of Center City overnight, unaware that one of Tom's cohorts is devising a plan to free him.

    Director: N/A

    Writer: N/A

  • Bounty on Josh
    8.0/10124 votes
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    #14 - Bounty on Josh

    Season 3 Episode 17 - Aired 1/25/1961

    Josh is asked to meet a client at the hotel, at his arrival he is shot. Josh tries to figure out who is behind the shooting.

    Director: Richard Donner

    Writer: Ed Adamson

  • The Bounty
    7.9/10179 votes
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    #15 - 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.

    Director: Thomas Carr

    Writer: Samuel A. Peeples

  • The Giveaway Gun
    7.9/10163 votes
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    #16 - The Giveaway Gun

    Season 1 Episode 6 - Aired 10/11/1958

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

    Director: N/A

    Writer: Frank D. Gilroy

  • The Favor
    7.9/10154 votes
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    #17 - The Favor

    Season 1 Episode 11 - Aired 11/15/1958

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

    Director: Thomas Carr

    Writer: N/A

  • Rope Law
    7.9/10138 votes
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    #18 - 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.

    Director: Thomas Carr

    Writer: N/A

  • Six-Up to Bannach
    7.9/10151 votes
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    #19 - 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.

    Director: Thomas Carr

    Writer: N/A

  • The Legend
    7.9/10151 votes
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    #20 - 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.

    Director: Thomas Carr

    Writer: N/A

  • The Kovack Affair
    7.9/10138 votes
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    #21 - 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.

    Director: Thomas Carr

    Writer: N/A

  • Desert Seed
    7.9/10118 votes
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    #22 - Desert Seed

    Season 2 Episode 11 - Aired 11/14/1959

    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).

    Director: N/A

    Writer: N/A

  • Man on Horseback
    7.9/10121 votes
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    #23 - 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.

    Director: N/A

    Writer: N/A

  • Jason
    7.9/10136 votes
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    #24 - 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.

    Director: George Blair

    Writer: N/A

  • Vendetta
    7.9/10119 votes
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    #25 - Vendetta

    Season 2 Episode 28 - Aired 4/9/1960

    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.

    Director: George Blair

    Writer: N/A