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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 Voice of Silence
    8.3/10(173 votes)

    #1 - The Voice of Silence

    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. Background image for The Empty Cell
    8.1/10(149 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(135 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 The Fourth Headstone
    8.0/10(199 votes)

    #4 - 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
  5. Background image for Sheriff of Red Rock
    8.0/10(164 votes)

    #5 - 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
  6. Background image for Die by the Gun
    8.0/10(174 votes)

    #6 - 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
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  8. Background image for Six-Up to Bannach
    8.0/10(159 votes)

    #7 - 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
  9. Background image for Railroaded
    8.0/10(156 votes)

    #8 - 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
  10. Background image for The Hostage
    8.0/10(157 votes)

    #9 - 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
  11. Background image for Bad Gun
    8.0/10(131 votes)

    #10 - 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
  12. Background image for The Tyrant
    8.0/10(128 votes)

    #11 - 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
  13. Background image for The Twain Shall Meet
    8.0/10(148 votes)

    #12 - The Twain Shall Meet

    S3:E5

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

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    Writer:Unknown
  14. Background image for Three for One
    8.0/10(124 votes)

    #13 - Three for One

    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:Unknown
    Writer:Unknown
  15. Background image for Bounty on Josh
    8.0/10(131 votes)

    #14 - Bounty on Josh

    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
  16. Background image for The Bounty
    7.9/10(187 votes)

    #15 - 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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  17. Background image for The Favor
    7.9/10(165 votes)

    #16 - 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
  18. Background image for Rope Law
    7.9/10(149 votes)

    #17 - 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
  19. Background image for Call Your Shot
    7.9/10(148 votes)

    #18 - Call Your Shot

    S1:E23

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

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    Director:Unknown
  20. Background image for The Legend
    7.9/10(159 votes)

    #19 - 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
  21. Background image for The Kovack Affair
    7.9/10(151 votes)

    #20 - 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
  22. Background image for Man on Horseback
    7.9/10(127 votes)

    #21 - 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
  23. Background image for Jason
    7.9/10(143 votes)

    #22 - 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
  24. Background image for El Gato
    7.9/10(112 votes)

    #23 - El Gato

    S3:E21

    A timid photographer named Archie Warner comes west with hopes of being the first to shoot a photo of a famous Mexican bandit. Josh happens to be a friend of 'El Gato', and is hired by Archie to met him.

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    Director:Unknown
    Writer:Ed Adamson
  25. Background image for Dead Reckoning
    7.9/10(100 votes)

    #24 - Dead Reckoning

    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:Unknown
    Writer:Ed Adamson
  26. Background image for The Giveaway Gun
    7.8/10(171 votes)

    #25 - 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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Best Episodes Summary

"The Voice of Silence" is the best rated episode of "Wanted: Dead or Alive". It scored 8.3/10 based on 173 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 Empty Cell".