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The Best Episodes of Wanted: Dead or Alive Season 3

Every episode of Wanted: Dead or Alive Season 3 ranked from best to worst. Discover the Best Episodes of Wanted: Dead or Alive Season 3!

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
26
Avg. Rating
7.6
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  • The Voice of Silence
    8.3/10(167)
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    #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

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  • The Twain Shall Meet
    8.1/10(142)
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    #2 - 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

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  • Three for One
    8.0/10(120)
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    #3 - 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

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  • Bounty on Josh
    8.0/10(125)
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    #4 - 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

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  • Journey for Josh
    7.9/10(139)
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    #5 - Journey for Josh

    Season 3 Episode 3

    Aired 10/5/1960

    Josh is delivering a female prisoner and becomes smitten with her, unknown to him is her accomplice, who is following them to break her loose.

    Director: Harry Harris

    Writer: Ed Adamson

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  • The Choice
    7.9/10(122)
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    #6 - The Choice

    Season 3 Episode 12

    Aired 12/14/1960

    Jane Koster asks Josh's help with her husband, Frank who is also a bounty hunter. He is out looking for Stacy Lenz with a score to settle and Jane fears for his life.

    Director: Harry Harris

    Writer: N/A

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  • Dead Reckoning
    7.9/10(95)
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    #7 - Dead Reckoning

    Season 3 Episode 25

    Aired 3/22/1961

    Paul Decker is wanted for murder. His wife asks Josh to find her husband and bring him back alive before the Taggert brothers catch up with him for murdering their brother.

    Director: N/A

    Writer: Ed Adamson

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  • Hero in the Dust
    7.8/10(114)
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    #8 - Hero in the Dust

    Season 3 Episode 18

    Aired 2/1/1961

    Josh is hired by Harry Weaver to find his twin brother Pete. Pete is using his resemblence to his brother to get away with murder.

    Director: Harry Harris

    Writer: N/A

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  • Epitaph
    7.8/10(117)
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    #9 - Epitaph

    Season 3 Episode 19

    Aired 2/8/1961

    Josh has to find his friend a Sheriff guilty of robbing a bank for a woman. Several other bounty hunters are out looking for the sheriff as well, Josh has to get there first.

    Director: Harry Harris

    Writer: N/A

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  • El Gato
    7.8/10(104)
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    #10 - El Gato

    Season 3 Episode 21

    Aired 2/22/1961

    A timid photographer named Archie Warner comes west with hopes of being the first to shoot a photo of a famous Mexican bandit. Josh happens to be a friend of 'El Gato', and is hired by Archie to met him.

    Director: N/A

    Writer: Ed Adamson

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  • Monday Morning
    7.8/10(100)
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    #11 - Monday Morning

    Season 3 Episode 23

    Aired 3/8/1961

    Overridden with guilt Charlie Glover hires Josh to help him return the money he stole from his employer. Complications arise when the head head of operations, Sam Vickers finds out.

    Director: N/A

    Writer: Ed Adamson

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  • The Trial
    7.7/10(137)
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    #12 - The Trial

    Season 3 Episode 1

    Aired 9/21/1960

    Daniel Trenner is wanted for court martial because of his cowardice several men is his platoon lost their lives. Josh is after Trenner for other reasons and wants to stop the trial.

    Director: Harry Harris

    Writer: Ed Adamson

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  • The Looters
    7.7/10(125)
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    #13 - The Looters

    Season 3 Episode 4

    Aired 10/12/1960

    Josh is on his way to River City to pick up three prisoners, when an unexpected tornado destroys the jail, killing the sheriff. Josh is on the hunt to recapture the escapees.

    Director: Harry Harris

    Writer: N/A

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  • Barney's Bounty
    7.7/10(106)
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    #14 - Barney's Bounty

    Season 3 Episode 26

    Aired 3/29/1961

    Josh stops at his friend Barney's to get horses for his two prisoners, they manager to escape, leaving Josh and Barney to get them back for the reward.

    Director: Richard Donner

    Writer: Ed Adamson

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  • Criss-Cross
    7.6/10(100)
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    #15 - Criss-Cross

    Season 3 Episode 9

    Aired 11/16/1960

    When Josh brings in the wrong man mistakenly and after his release he finds the real criminal notifying Josh of the mans whereabouts.

    Director: N/A

    Writer: N/A

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  • The Last Retreat
    7.6/10(131)
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    #16 - The Last Retreat

    Season 3 Episode 16

    Aired 1/11/1961

    Sarah Lawton's identification led to killer Clem Robinson's conviction. Now Clem has escaped from prison, and Josh is hired for protection by Mrs. Lawton because her lawyer husband is a coward.

    Director: Richard Donner

    Writer: N/A

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  • The Showdown
    7.4/10(105)
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    #17 - The Showdown

    Season 3 Episode 6

    Aired 10/26/1960

    Johnny Haywood, a childhood friend of Josh's claims to be innocent of the crime he is accused of. When he escapes, Josh is ordered to bring him back - dead or alive.

    Director: N/A

    Writer: Ed Adamson

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  • Surprise Witness
    7.4/10(106)
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    #18 - Surprise Witness

    Season 3 Episode 7

    Aired 11/2/1960

    Josh captures a notorious killer but no one wants to testify against him, until a surprise witness come forward, his mother.

    Director: N/A

    Writer: Ed Adamson

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  • The Medicine Man
    7.4/10(116)
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    #19 - The Medicine Man

    Season 3 Episode 10

    Aired 11/23/1960

    Josh and a phony medicine man help out a man who was framed and falsely accused of the theft of a huge sum of money.

    Director: Richard Donner

    Writer: N/A

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  • One Mother Too Many
    7.4/10(127)
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    #20 - One Mother Too Many

    Season 3 Episode 11

    Aired 12/7/1960

    Josh is hired by Beth a widow, to find her runaway son, who is currently in the care of her vindictive mother-in-law.

    Director: Harry Harris

    Writer: N/A

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  • Detour
    7.4/10(120)
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    #21 - Detour

    Season 3 Episode 22

    Aired 3/1/1961

    Martin Fairweather has two lovely daughters which are the objects of a young man's affection. Papa doesn't want to lose his best cook and best cleaner so he proceeds to chase any possible suitors away. Josh's job is to distract Papa long enough for the girls to elope!

    Director: N/A

    Writer: N/A

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  • Witch Woman
    7.2/10(116)
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    #22 - Witch Woman

    Season 3 Episode 14

    Aired 12/28/1960

    Esperanza is not in love with the notorious Guerra and loves another but is too frightened to tell him because he kills any man who looks at her twice. Josh tries to reason with Guerra.

    Director: Harry Harris

    Writer: N/A

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  • Baa-Baa
    7.2/10(122)
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    #23 - Baa-Baa

    Season 3 Episode 15

    Aired 1/4/1961

    Josh is hired to find Baa-Baa a beloved pet of Mrs. Goode's. Her husband is desperate to find Baa-Baa as he is in the dog house with her until Baa-Baa returns. Josh reluctantly goes and looks for the lost sheep admist much ridicule from other ranchers and cowboys alike.

    Director: Harry Harris

    Writer: N/A

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  • The Cure
    7.0/10(114)
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    #24 - The Cure

    Season 3 Episode 2

    Aired 9/28/1960

    Emily Kendrick hires Josh to keep her beloved Harry from drinking himself to death, she has matrimony on her mind and with the arrival of Harry's brother for the wedding, she wants to make sure that all goes as planned.

    Director: Gene Reynolds

    Writer: Ed Adamson

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  • The Long Search
    6.9/10(118)
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    #25 - The Long Search

    Season 3 Episode 24

    Aired 3/15/1961

    Yoshika Nakamura comes west to find a man named Bill Timmons who promised to marry her when he visited Japan. Yoshika hires Josh to help her locate Timmons, and during his venture learns about Japanese culture.

    Director: N/A

    Writer: N/A

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Season 3 Ratings Summary

"The Voice of Silence" is the best rated episode of "Wanted: Dead or Alive" season 3. It scored 8.3/10 based on 167 votes. Directed by Richard Donner and written by Ed Adamson, it aired on 2/15/1961. This episode is rated 0.2 points higher than the second-best, "The Twain Shall Meet".