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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
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  • The Voice of Silence
    8.3/10(167)
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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

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  • The Fourth Headstone
    8.1/10(190)
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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

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  • Railroaded
    8.1/10(151)
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    #3 - 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

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  • The Empty Cell
    8.1/10(144)
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    #4 - 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

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  • Prison Trail
    8.1/10(130)
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    #5 - 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

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  • The Twain Shall Meet
    8.1/10(142)
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    #6 - 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

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  • Sheriff of Red Rock
    8.0/10(159)
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    #7 - 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

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  • Die by the Gun
    8.0/10(166)
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    #8 - 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

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  • Six-Up to Bannach
    8.0/10(152)
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    #9 - 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

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  • Call Your Shot
    8.0/10(140)
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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

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  • The Hostage
    8.0/10(151)
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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

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  • Bad Gun
    8.0/10(127)
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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

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  • The Tyrant
    8.0/10(125)
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    #13 - 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

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  • Three for One
    8.0/10(120)
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    #14 - 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

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  • Bounty on Josh
    8.0/10(125)
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    #15 - 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

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  • The Bounty
    7.9/10(180)
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    #16 - 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

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  • The Favor
    7.9/10(158)
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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

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  • Rope Law
    7.9/10(142)
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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

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  • The Legend
    7.9/10(153)
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    #19 - 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

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  • The Kovack Affair
    7.9/10(140)
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    #20 - 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

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  • Man on Horseback
    7.9/10(124)
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    #21 - 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

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  • Jason
    7.9/10(138)
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    #22 - 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

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  • Vendetta
    7.9/10(122)
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    #23 - 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

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  • Journey for Josh
    7.9/10(139)
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    #24 - Journey for Josh

    Season 3 Episode 3

    Aired 10/5/1960

    Josh is delivering a female prisoner and becomes smitten with her, unknown to him is her accomplice, who is following them to break her loose.

    Director: Harry Harris

    Writer: Ed Adamson

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  • The Choice
    7.9/10(122)
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    #25 - The Choice

    Season 3 Episode 12

    Aired 12/14/1960

    Jane Koster asks Josh's help with her husband, Frank who is also a bounty hunter. He is out looking for Stacy Lenz with a score to settle and Jane fears for his life.

    Director: Harry Harris

    Writer: N/A

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Best Episodes Summary

"The Voice of Silence" is the best rated episode of "Wanted: Dead or Alive". It scored 8.3/10 based on 167 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".