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The Best Episodes of Wanted: Dead or Alive Season 3

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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 seasons from 1958–61. The black-and-white program was a spin-off of

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  1. #1 Fan Favorite
    Wanted: Dead or Alive Season 3 Episode 1 - The Trial
    7.7/10(145 votes)

    #1 - The Trial

    S3:E1

    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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  2. Wanted: Dead or Alive Season 3 Episode 2 - The Cure
    7.0/10(119 votes)

    #2 - The Cure

    S3:E2

    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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  3. Wanted: Dead or Alive Season 3 Episode 3 - Journey for Josh
    7.9/10(146 votes)

    #3 - Journey for Josh

    S3:E3

    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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  4. Wanted: Dead or Alive Season 3 Episode 4 - The Looters
    7.7/10(131 votes)

    #4 - The Looters

    S3:E4

    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:Unknown

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  5. Wanted: Dead or Alive Season 3 Episode 5 - The Twain Shall Meet
    8.0/10(151 votes)

    #5 - The Twain Shall Meet

    S3:E5

    Josh allows an Eastern newspaper reporter to go with him on a manhunt for a story.

    Director:Richard Donner
    Writer:Unknown

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  6. Wanted: Dead or Alive Season 3 Episode 6 - The Showdown
    7.4/10(114 votes)

    #6 - The Showdown

    S3:E6

    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:Unknown
    Writer:Ed Adamson

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  7. Wanted: Dead or Alive Season 3 Episode 7 - Surprise Witness
    7.5/10(114 votes)

    #7 - Surprise Witness

    S3:E7

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

    Director:Unknown
    Writer:Ed Adamson

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  8. Wanted: Dead or Alive Season 3 Episode 8 - To the Victor
    6.7/10(120 votes)

    #8 - To the Victor

    S3:E8

    Josh is hired by the men of the town to try and persuade the ladies to return to their homes after rebelling against their husbands gunplay.

    Director:Unknown
    Writer:Ed Adamson

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  9. Wanted: Dead or Alive Season 3 Episode 9 - Criss-Cross
    7.6/10(107 votes)

    #9 - Criss-Cross

    S3:E9

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

    Director:Unknown
    Writer:Unknown

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  10. Wanted: Dead or Alive Season 3 Episode 10 - The Medicine Man
    7.4/10(123 votes)

    #10 - The Medicine Man

    S3:E10

    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:Unknown

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  11. Wanted: Dead or Alive Season 3 Episode 11 - One Mother Too Many
    7.4/10(135 votes)

    #11 - One Mother Too Many

    S3:E11

    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:Unknown

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  12. Wanted: Dead or Alive Season 3 Episode 12 - The Choice
    7.8/10(130 votes)

    #12 - The Choice

    S3:E12

    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:Unknown

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  13. Wanted: Dead or Alive Season 3 Episode 13 - Three for One
    7.9/10(129 votes)

    #13 - Three for One

    S3:E13

    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:Unknown
    Writer:Unknown

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  14. Wanted: Dead or Alive Season 3 Episode 14 - Witch Woman
    7.2/10(126 votes)

    #14 - Witch Woman

    S3:E14

    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:Unknown

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  15. Wanted: Dead or Alive Season 3 Episode 15 - Baa-Baa
    7.2/10(128 votes)

    #15 - Baa-Baa

    S3:E15

    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:Unknown

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  16. Wanted: Dead or Alive Season 3 Episode 16 - The Last Retreat
    7.6/10(139 votes)

    #16 - The Last Retreat

    S3:E16

    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:Unknown

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  17. Wanted: Dead or Alive Season 3 Episode 17 - Bounty on Josh
    8.0/10(134 votes)

    #17 - Bounty on Josh

    S3:E17

    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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  18. Wanted: Dead or Alive Season 3 Episode 18 - Hero in the Dust
    7.7/10(122 votes)

    #18 - Hero in the Dust

    S3:E18

    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:Unknown

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  19. Wanted: Dead or Alive Season 3 Episode 19 - Epitaph
    7.8/10(125 votes)

    #19 - Epitaph

    S3:E19

    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:Unknown

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  20. Wanted: Dead or Alive Season 3 Episode 20 - The Voice of Silence
    8.3/10(177 votes)

    #20 - The Voice of Silence

    S3:E20

    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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  21. Wanted: Dead or Alive Season 3 Episode 21 - El Gato
    7.9/10(113 votes)

    #21 - El Gato

    S3:E21

    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:Unknown
    Writer:Ed Adamson

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  22. Wanted: Dead or Alive Season 3 Episode 22 - Detour
    7.4/10(128 votes)

    #22 - Detour

    S3:E22

    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:Unknown
    Writer:Unknown

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  23. Wanted: Dead or Alive Season 3 Episode 23 - Monday Morning
    7.8/10(106 votes)

    #23 - Monday Morning

    S3:E23

    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:Unknown
    Writer:Ed Adamson

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  24. Wanted: Dead or Alive Season 3 Episode 24 - The Long Search
    6.9/10(127 votes)

    #24 - The Long Search

    S3:E24

    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:Unknown
    Writer:Unknown

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  25. Wanted: Dead or Alive Season 3 Episode 25 - Dead Reckoning
    7.9/10(102 votes)

    #25 - Dead Reckoning

    S3:E25

    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:Unknown
    Writer:Ed Adamson

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Season 3 Ratings Summary

"The Trial" is the best rated episode of "Wanted: Dead or Alive" season 3. It scored 7.7/10 based on 145 votes. Directed by Harry Harris and written by Ed Adamson, it aired on 9/21/1960. This episode is rated 0.7 points higher than the second-best, "The Cure".