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The Best Episodes of Wanted: Dead or Alive

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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. 8.3/10(169 votes)

    #1 - The Voice of Silence

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    S3:E20

    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.

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    Writer:Ed Adamson
  2. 8.1/10(192 votes)

    #2 - The Fourth Headstone

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    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:N/A
  3. 8.1/10(132 votes)

    #3 - Prison Trail

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    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:N/A
  4. 8.0/10(159 votes)

    #4 - Sheriff of Red Rock

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    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:N/A
  5. 8.0/10(166 votes)

    #5 - Die by the Gun

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    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:N/A
  6. 8.0/10(154 votes)

    #6 - Six-Up to Bannach

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    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:N/A
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  8. 8.0/10(142 votes)

    #7 - Call Your Shot

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    S1:E23

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

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    Director:N/A
  9. 8.0/10(152 votes)

    #8 - Railroaded

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    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:N/A
  10. 8.0/10(152 votes)

    #9 - The Hostage

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    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:N/A
  11. 8.0/10(144 votes)

    #10 - The Empty Cell

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    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:N/A
  12. 8.0/10(127 votes)

    #11 - Bad Gun

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    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:N/A
  13. 8.0/10(125 votes)

    #12 - The Tyrant

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    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:N/A
    Writer:Tom Gries
  14. 8.0/10(146 votes)

    #13 - The Twain Shall Meet

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    S3:E5

    Josh allows an Eastern newspaper reporter to go with him on a manhunt for a story.

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    Writer:N/A
  15. 8.0/10(122 votes)

    #14 - Three for One

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    S3:E13

    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.

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    Director:N/A
    Writer:N/A
  16. 8.0/10(129 votes)

    #15 - Bounty on Josh

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    S3:E17

    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.

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    Writer:Ed Adamson
  17. 7.9/10(184 votes)

    #16 - The Bounty

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    S1:E3

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

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  18. 7.9/10(158 votes)

    #17 - The Favor

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    S1:E11

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

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    Director:Thomas Carr
    Writer:N/A
  19. 7.9/10(142 votes)

    #18 - Rope Law

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    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:N/A
  20. 7.9/10(155 votes)

    #19 - The Legend

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    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:N/A
  21. 7.9/10(145 votes)

    #20 - The Kovack Affair

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    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:N/A
  22. 7.9/10(124 votes)

    #21 - Man on Horseback

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    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:N/A
    Writer:N/A
  23. 7.9/10(139 votes)

    #22 - Jason

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    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:N/A
  24. 7.9/10(98 votes)

    #23 - Dead Reckoning

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    S3:E25

    Paul Decker is wanted for murder. His wife asks Josh to find her husband and bring him back alive before the Taggert brothers catch up with him for murdering their brother.

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    Director:N/A
    Writer:Ed Adamson
  25. 7.8/10(166 votes)

    #24 - The Giveaway Gun

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    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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  26. 7.8/10(150 votes)

    #25 - Montana Kid

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    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:N/A

Best Episodes Summary

"The Voice of Silence" is the best rated episode of "Wanted: Dead or Alive". It scored 8.3/10 based on 169 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".