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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!

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...

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  1. 8.3/10(169 votes)

    #1 - The Voice of Silence

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    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.

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    Writer:Ed Adamson
  2. 8.0/10(145 votes)

    #2 - The Twain Shall Meet

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    S3:E5

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

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  3. 8.0/10(122 votes)

    #3 - Three for One

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    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.

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  4. 8.0/10(129 votes)

    #4 - Bounty on Josh

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    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.

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    Writer:Ed Adamson
  5. 7.9/10(124 votes)

    #5 - The Choice

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    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.

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    Director:Harry Harris
    Writer:N/A
  6. 7.9/10(98 votes)

    #6 - Dead Reckoning

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    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.

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    Director:N/A
    Writer:Ed Adamson
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  8. 7.8/10(142 votes)

    #7 - Journey for Josh

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    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.

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    Director:Harry Harris
    Writer:Ed Adamson
  9. 7.8/10(116 votes)

    #8 - Hero in the Dust

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    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.

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    Director:Harry Harris
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  10. 7.8/10(119 votes)

    #9 - Epitaph

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    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.

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    Director:Harry Harris
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  11. 7.8/10(106 votes)

    #10 - El Gato

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    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.

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    Director:N/A
    Writer:Ed Adamson
  12. 7.8/10(102 votes)

    #11 - Monday Morning

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    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.

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    Director:N/A
    Writer:Ed Adamson
  13. 7.7/10(141 votes)

    #12 - The Trial

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    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.

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    Director:Harry Harris
    Writer:Ed Adamson
  14. 7.7/10(127 votes)

    #13 - The Looters

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    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.

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    Director:Harry Harris
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  15. 7.7/10(110 votes)

    #14 - Barney's Bounty

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    S3:E26

    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.

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    Writer:Ed Adamson
  16. 7.6/10(132 votes)

    #15 - The Last Retreat

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    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.

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  17. 7.5/10(102 votes)

    #16 - Criss-Cross

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    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.

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  18. 7.4/10(111 votes)

    #17 - Surprise Witness

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    S3:E7

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

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    Director:N/A
    Writer:Ed Adamson
  19. 7.4/10(118 votes)

    #18 - The Medicine Man

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    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.

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  20. 7.4/10(129 votes)

    #19 - One Mother Too Many

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    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.

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    Director:Harry Harris
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  21. 7.4/10(121 votes)

    #20 - Detour

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    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!

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  22. 7.3/10(110 votes)

    #21 - The Showdown

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    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.

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    Director:N/A
    Writer:Ed Adamson
  23. 7.2/10(118 votes)

    #22 - Witch Woman

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    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.

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    Director:Harry Harris
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  24. 7.2/10(123 votes)

    #23 - Baa-Baa

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    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.

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    Director:Harry Harris
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  25. 7.0/10(115 votes)

    #24 - The Cure

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    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.

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    Director:Gene Reynolds
    Writer:Ed Adamson
  26. 6.9/10(121 votes)

    #25 - The Long Search

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    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.

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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 169 votes. Directed by Richard Donner and written by Ed Adamson, it aired on 2/15/1961. This episode is rated 0.3 points higher than the second-best, "The Twain Shall Meet".