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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
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  • The Empty Cell
    8.1/10(144)
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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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  • Prison Trail
    8.1/10(130)
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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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  • The Hostage
    8.0/10(151)
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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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  • Bad Gun
    8.0/10(127)
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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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  • The Tyrant
    8.0/10(125)
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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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  • Man on Horseback
    7.9/10(124)
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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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  • Jason
    7.9/10(138)
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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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  • Vendetta
    7.9/10(122)
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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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  • Montana Kid
    7.8/10(148)
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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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  • Breakout
    7.8/10(140)
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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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  • Desert Seed
    7.8/10(121)
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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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  • Vanishing Act
    7.8/10(131)
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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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  • Estralita
    7.7/10(134)
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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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  • Chain Gang
    7.7/10(134)
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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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  • Angela
    7.7/10(136)
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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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  • Twelve Hours to Crazy Horse
    7.6/10(120)
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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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  • Mental Lapse
    7.6/10(111)
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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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  • The Partners
    7.6/10(114)
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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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  • Tolliver Bender
    7.6/10(140)
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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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  • The Inheritance
    7.6/10(112)
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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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  • The Matchmaker
    7.5/10(137)
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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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  • The Most Beautiful Woman
    7.5/10(123)
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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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  • Death Divided by Three
    7.5/10(122)
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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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  • The Healing Woman
    7.4/10(131)
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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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  • No Trail Back
    7.4/10(123)
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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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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".