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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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#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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#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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#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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#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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#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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#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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#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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#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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#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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#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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#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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#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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#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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#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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#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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#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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#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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#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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#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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#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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#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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#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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#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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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
Episodes
94
Avg. Rating
7.6
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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".