7.8/10148 votes#1 - 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
7.4/10130 votes#2 - 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
7.5/10137 votes#3 - 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
- 7.8/10140 votes
#4 - 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
7.7/10134 votes#5 - 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
8.0/10149 votes#6 - 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
8.1/10143 votes#7 - 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
8.0/10127 votes#8 - 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
8.0/10124 votes#9 - 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
7.2/10119 votes#10 - Reckless
Season 2 Episode 10 - Aired 11/7/1959
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.
Director: R.G. Springsteen
Writer: Robert Leslie Bellem
7.9/10118 votes#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
7.5/10117 votes#12 - 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
7.5/10120 votes#13 - 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
7.9/10121 votes#14 - 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
7.8/10131 votes#15 - 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
7.8/10126 votes#16 - 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
7.6/10107 votes#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
7.7/10130 votes#18 - 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
7.3/10138 votes#19 - The Monster
Season 2 Episode 19 - Aired 1/16/1960
Josh goes after an elephant trainer who is using the animal to scare away the whole town so he can rob the town blind.
Director: Thomas Carr
Writer: Don Brinkley
7.6/10120 votes#20 - 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
7.9/10136 votes#21 - 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
7.6/10112 votes#22 - 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
7.6/10138 votes#23 - 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
7.4/10116 votes#24 - A House Divided
Season 2 Episode 24 - Aired 2/20/1960
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.
Director: George Blair
Writer: N/A
7.2/10109 votes#25 - Triple Vice
Season 2 Episode 25 - Aired 2/27/1960
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.
Director: George Blair
Writer: Fred Freiberger
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...
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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 148 votes. Directed by Thomas Carr and written by N/A, it aired on 9/5/1959. This episode is rated 0.4 points higher than the second-best, "The Healing Woman".