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#1 - 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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#2 - 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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#3 - 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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#4 - 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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#5 - 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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#6 - 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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#7 - 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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#8 - 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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#9 - Montana Kid
Season 2 Episode 1
Aired 9/5/1959
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.
Director: Thomas Carr
Writer: N/A
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#10 - Breakout
Season 2 Episode 4
Aired 9/26/1959
Prison officials allow Randall to help Tom Dunn escape in order to retrieve the missing fifty thousand dollars Dunn had stolen.
Director: Thomas Carr
Writer: N/A
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#11 - 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
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#12 - Vanishing Act
Season 2 Episode 16
Aired 12/26/1959
On the trail of bank robber Bart McCready, Josh discovers that he is posing as an escape artist named ""The Great Bartolo"".
Director: N/A
Writer: N/A
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#13 - Estralita
Season 2 Episode 5
Aired 10/3/1959
While hot on the trail of a murderer, Josh comes across a man about to be lynched by a group of vigilanties. The victim happens to be the same man that Randall has been chasing.
Director: N/A
Writer: N/A
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#14 - Chain Gang
Season 2 Episode 15
Aired 12/12/1959
After being arrested for a minor offence, Josh is put on the chain gang and put to work on the local mine.
Director: Thomas Carr
Writer: Robert Leslie Bellem
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#15 - Angela
Season 2 Episode 18
Aired 1/9/1960
Angela Pryor is seeking revenge against the man who murderer her father during a burglary. Josh is also after the same man for other crimes.
Director: George Blair
Writer: Tom Gries
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#16 - Twelve Hours to Crazy Horse
Season 2 Episode 12
Aired 11/21/1959
Josh delivers Dan Murdock, wanted for multiple murders, in Mesa City. Josh learns that the local sheriff is the brother of Crazy Horse's deputy, one of the victims, and it's unlikely that Murdock will arrive safely. Josh goes along to make sure that he does.
Director: Thomas Carr
Writer: N/A
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#17 - Mental Lapse
Season 2 Episode 17
Aired 1/2/1960
An amnesia victim has posters up asking for help finding information about himself.
Director: Thomas Carr
Writer: N/A
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#18 - The Partners
Season 2 Episode 22
Aired 2/6/1960
Josh gets arrested - for horse theft. Then he finds out it was Jason who wants him behind bars because Jason wants to go after Billy Joe Henry alone.
Director: George Blair
Writer: N/A
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#19 - Tolliver Bender
Season 2 Episode 23
Aired 2/13/1960
Josh needs Tolliver's testimony in a nearby town unfortunately Amos McKenna wants to hang Tolliver and will only allow him to go if one of the two Josh or Jason stays in his place.
Director: George Blair
Writer: N/A
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#20 - The Inheritance
Season 2 Episode 30
Aired 4/30/1960
Clint Davis a blind and dying rancher hires Josh to find his renegade son.
Director: Arthur Hilton
Writer: George W. George
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#21 - The Matchmaker
Season 2 Episode 3
Aired 9/19/1959
Josh reluctantly plays matchmaker and enlists the aid of Amy Williams to teach Charlie the proper way to behave and act so that he can confidently find his own bride.
Director: Frank McDonald
Writer: Fred Freiberger
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#22 - The Most Beautiful Woman
Season 2 Episode 20
Aired 1/23/1960
John Garth comes to town looking for his darling Lil, he feels something terrible has happened. There was a fire in the saloon and he thinks she died.
Director: Arthur Hilton
Writer: N/A
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#23 - Death Divided by Three
Season 2 Episode 29
Aired 4/23/1960
Josh and Jason are on the trail of an outlaw wanted for murder in Arizona. The outlaw's wife is also seeking her husband.
Director: George Blair
Writer: Don Brinkley
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#24 - The Healing Woman
Season 2 Episode 2
Aired 9/12/1959
Tom takes his very ill son away from medical help and takes him to a witch a so called healer jeopardizing his sons full recovery.
Director: N/A
Writer: Charles Beaumont
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#25 - No Trail Back
Season 2 Episode 13
Aired 11/28/1959
Joe Hooker, after raiding a bank on behalf of his brother Ben, is bitten by a dog with rabies. Upon learning this, the sheriff ends his pursuit. Josh, however, decides to go after Hooker anyway.
Director: N/A
Writer: N/A
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The Best Episodes of Wanted: Dead or Alive Season 2
Every episode of Wanted: Dead or Alive Season 2 ranked from best to worst. Discover the Best Episodes of Wanted: Dead or Alive Season 2!
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
32
Avg. Rating
7.6
S1
S2
S3
S4
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E3
7.8
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Season 2 Ratings Summary
"The Empty Cell" is the best rated episode of "Wanted: Dead or Alive" season 2. It scored 8.1/10 based on 144 votes. Directed by Thomas Carr and written by N/A, it aired on 10/17/1959. This episode is rated 0.0 points higher than the second-best, "Prison Trail".