8.3/10166 votesLoading...#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
8.1/10189 votesLoading...#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
8.1/10149 votesLoading...#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
8.1/10143 votesLoading...#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
8.1/10127 votesLoading...#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
8.1/10141 votesLoading...#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
8.0/10152 votesLoading...#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
8.0/10165 votesLoading...#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
8.0/10138 votesLoading...#9 - 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
8.0/10149 votesLoading...#10 - 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
8.0/10127 votesLoading...#11 - 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
8.0/10125 votesLoading...#12 - 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
8.0/10120 votesLoading...#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
8.0/10125 votesLoading...#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
7.9/10180 votesLoading...#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
7.9/10164 votesLoading...#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
7.9/10157 votesLoading...#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
7.9/10138 votesLoading...#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
7.9/10151 votesLoading...#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
7.9/10152 votesLoading...#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
7.9/10138 votesLoading...#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
7.9/10118 votesLoading...#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
7.9/10121 votesLoading...#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
7.9/10136 votesLoading...#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
7.9/10119 votesLoading...#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
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 166 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".