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The Best Episodes of Wanted: Dead or Alive Season 2

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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...

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  1. Background image for Montana Kid
    7.8/10(152 votes)

    #1 - Montana Kid

    S2:E1

    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.

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    Director:Thomas Carr
    Writer:Unknown
  2. Background image for The Healing Woman
    7.4/10(135 votes)

    #2 - The Healing Woman

    S2:E2

    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.

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    Director:Unknown
  3. Background image for The Matchmaker
    7.5/10(142 votes)

    #3 - The Matchmaker

    S2:E3

    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.

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  4. Background image for Breakout
    7.8/10(141 votes)

    #4 - Breakout

    S2:E4

    Prison officials allow Randall to help Tom Dunn escape in order to retrieve the missing fifty thousand dollars Dunn had stolen.

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    Director:Thomas Carr
    Writer:Unknown
  5. Background image for Estralita
    7.7/10(137 votes)

    #5 - Estralita

    S2:E5

    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.

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    Director:Unknown
    Writer:Unknown
  6. Background image for The Hostage
    8.0/10(157 votes)

    #6 - 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
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  8. Background image for The Empty Cell
    8.1/10(149 votes)

    #7 - 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
  9. Background image for Bad Gun
    8.0/10(131 votes)

    #8 - 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
  10. Background image for The Tyrant
    8.0/10(128 votes)

    #9 - 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
  11. Background image for Reckless
    7.2/10(122 votes)

    #10 - Reckless

    S2:E10

    Well-known businessman Tate Bradley hires Josh and other bounty hunters to find Tony Egan who killed his son, but was ruled an accident. When Randall finds the supposed killer and returns him. Bradley refuses to pay the bounty because Egan is still alive.

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  12. Background image for Desert Seed
    7.8/10(123 votes)

    #11 - Desert Seed

    S2:E11

    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).

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    Director:Unknown
    Writer:Unknown
  13. Background image for Twelve Hours to Crazy Horse
    7.6/10(124 votes)

    #12 - Twelve Hours to Crazy Horse

    S2:E12

    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.

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    Director:Thomas Carr
    Writer:Unknown
  14. Background image for No Trail Back
    7.4/10(125 votes)

    #13 - No Trail Back

    S2:E13

    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.

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    Director:Unknown
    Writer:Unknown
  15. Background image for Man on Horseback
    7.9/10(127 votes)

    #14 - 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
  16. Background image for Chain Gang
    7.7/10(137 votes)

    #15 - Chain Gang

    S2:E15

    After being arrested for a minor offence, Josh is put on the chain gang and put to work on the local mine.

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    7.8/10(135 votes)

    #16 - Vanishing Act

    S2:E16

    On the trail of bank robber Bart McCready, Josh discovers that he is posing as an escape artist named ""The Great Bartolo"".

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    Director:Unknown
    Writer:Unknown
  18. Background image for Mental Lapse
    7.6/10(113 votes)

    #17 - Mental Lapse

    S2:E17

    An amnesia victim has posters up asking for help finding information about himself.

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    Director:Thomas Carr
    Writer:Unknown
  19. Background image for Angela
    7.6/10(139 votes)

    #18 - Angela

    S2:E18

    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.

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    Director:George Blair
    Writer:Tom Gries
  20. Background image for The Monster
    7.2/10(144 votes)

    #19 - The Monster

    S2:E19

    Josh goes after an elephant trainer who is using the animal to scare away the whole town so he can rob the town blind.

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    Director:Thomas Carr
  21. Background image for The Most Beautiful Woman
    7.5/10(125 votes)

    #20 - The Most Beautiful Woman

    S2:E20

    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.

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    Director:Arthur Hilton
    Writer:Unknown
  22. Background image for Jason
    7.9/10(143 votes)

    #21 - 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
  23. Background image for The Partners
    7.6/10(117 votes)

    #22 - The Partners

    S2:E22

    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.

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    Director:George Blair
    Writer:Unknown
  24. Background image for Tolliver Bender
    7.6/10(144 votes)

    #23 - Tolliver Bender

    S2:E23

    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.

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    Director:George Blair
    Writer:Unknown
  25. Background image for A House Divided
    7.4/10(120 votes)

    #24 - A House Divided

    S2:E24

    Josh is hired by an attractive woman to find and clear the name of her father wrongly accused of murder. The real killer hires Jason to find the same man too.

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    Director:George Blair
    Writer:Unknown
  26. Background image for Triple Vice
    7.1/10(114 votes)

    #25 - Triple Vice

    S2:E25

    Josh and Jason go to Mexico Al Hemp's brother Billy. Al took the blame for Billy's crime and ends up waiting for his brother a no show.

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Season 2 Ratings Summary

"Montana Kid" is the best rated episode of "Wanted: Dead or Alive" season 2. It scored 7.8/10 based on 152 votes. Directed by Thomas Carr and written by Unknown, it aired on 9/5/1959. This episode is rated 0.4 points higher than the second-best, "The Healing Woman".