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1. Wanted: Dead or Alive (1958–1961)
Episode: The Martin Poster (1958)

Approved | 25 min | Western

While pursuing Carl Martin, Josh stops at a marshal's office where Carl is being held. However, Josh interrupts a jail break involving Carl's brother Andy. Josh is falsely accused of aiding in the jailbreak and the marshal's murder.

Director: Thomas Carr | Stars: Steve McQueen, Michael Landon, Nick Adams, John Cliff

Votes: 237

2. Wanted: Dead or Alive (1958–1961)
Episode: Fatal Memory (1958)

Approved | 25 min | Western

When phony wanted posters put a price on the head of a retired Confederate officer, Colonel Sykes' daughter summons Josh Randall to help keep the bounty hunters at bay while also uncovering the person behind the bogus posters.

Director: Thomas Carr | Stars: Steve McQueen, Gloria Talbott, Ralph Moody, Vic Perrin

Votes: 183

3. Wanted: Dead or Alive (1958–1961)
Episode: The Bounty (1958)

Approved | 25 min | Western

A reclusive old man with an Apache bodyguard is wanted for a crime committed long ago. Randall tags along with an overeager bounty hunter to ensure the man is brought back alive as a favor to the Sheriff and the old man.

Director: Thomas Carr | Stars: Steve McQueen, Mort Mills, Jean Howell, Francis McDonald

Votes: 171

4. Wanted: Dead or Alive (1958–1961)
Episode: Dead End (1958)

Approved | 25 min | Western

A ranch manager hires Randall to bring back a line rider charged with grand theft. The accused man's father joins Randall on the trek to the remote shack where the thief is thought to be hiding but tries to delay Randall on the way.

Director: Thomas Carr | Stars: Steve McQueen, Joe De Santis, Anna Navarro, Robert Griffin

Votes: 143

5. Wanted: Dead or Alive (1958–1961)
Episode: Passing of Shawnee Bill (1958)

Approved | 30 min | Western

Randall is rooked into advancing half the bounty to a man who promises to lead him to the wanted criminal Shawnee Bill, but Bill may be closer than Randall thinks and he's not even the only bounty hunter on his trail.

Director: Thomas Carr | Stars: Steve McQueen, Alan Hale Jr., Lewis Charles, Phil Phillips

Votes: 149

6. Wanted: Dead or Alive (1958–1961)
Episode: The Giveaway Gun (1958)

Approved | 25 min | Western

A banker with a consuming thirst for vengeance hires Randall to accompany him to track down the man he believes responsible for his son's death and a bank robbery. The man Randall seeks can be identified by his distinctive gun draw.

Director: Don McDougall | Stars: Steve McQueen, Everett Sloane, Frank Faylen, Lurene Tuttle

Votes: 158

7. Wanted: Dead or Alive (1958–1961)
Episode: Ransom for a Nun (1958)

Approved | 25 min | Western

Randall is deputized to transport a ruthless killer to Tucson, but exchanges him for the nun kidnapped by the killer's gang. The nettlesome nun then becomes a thorn in his side as he sets out to recapture his prisoner.

Director: Don McDougall | Stars: Steve McQueen, Lillian Bronson, George Brenlin, Hugh Sanders

Votes: 168

8. Wanted: Dead or Alive (1958–1961)
Episode: Miracle at Pot Hole (1958)

Approved | 25 min | Western

Randall brings a suspected murderer to Pot Hole, but fears the man won't receive a fair trial when he finds the townspeople in the grip of a power-mad bully who serves as the hanging judge over a kangaroo court.

Director: Thomas Carr | Stars: Steve McQueen, Steve Brodie, Anthony Caruso, Claire Carleton

Votes: 152

9. Wanted: Dead or Alive (1958–1961)
Episode: The Fourth Headstone (1958)

Approved | 25 min | Western

When, as a favor to a friend, Josh escorts a beautiful woman to a trial that could see her hang for killing her husband, her lover and a foreman, she uses all her seductive charm on him to convince him she is really innocent.

Director: Don McDougall | Stars: Steve McQueen, Rusty Lane, Russ Conway, Earle Hodgins

Votes: 174

10. Wanted: Dead or Alive (1958–1961)
Episode: Til Death Do Us Part (1958)

Approved | 25 min | Western

Josh is asked for help by Stacy Torrance when she finds a "Wanted" poster under her door -- for her for murder. She believes the posters are being put up by her husband, a riverboat conman she tried to murder after he mistreated her.

Director: Don McDougall | Stars: Steve McQueen, Gerald Mohr, William Schallert, Harry Harvey

Votes: 164

11. Wanted: Dead or Alive (1958–1961)
Episode: The Favor (1958)

Approved | 25 min | Western

Owing a favor to a sheriff, Josh agrees against better judgment to go to the lawless town of Bent Horn to bring back a man wanted for bank robbery and murder based on the word of another man who was involved in the robbery.

Director: Thomas Carr | Stars: Steve McQueen, Skip Homeier, Douglas Kennedy, Sam Buffington

Votes: 148

12. Wanted: Dead or Alive (1958–1961)
Episode: Ricochet (1958)

Approved | 25 min | Western

Josh sets out to help a heartbroken wife locate her missing husband, but his mission of mercy meets with a resistant and tight-lipped townspeople. Josh discovers another man is also seeking the missing husband, but with murder in mind.

Director: Don McDougall | Stars: Steve McQueen, J. Carrol Naish, Onslow Stevens, Tom Drake

Votes: 144

13. Wanted: Dead or Alive (1958–1961)
Episode: Sheriff of Red Rock (1958)

Approved | 25 min | Western

Josh is bushwhacked by bounty hunters in cahoots with the local sheriff, who now must keep Josh from blowing the whistle on their illegal but lucrative "bounty game". He finds himself in jail with his quarry and as new quarry.

Director: Thomas Carr | Stars: Steve McQueen, Joe Mantell, Frank Silvera, John Litel

Votes: 145

14. Wanted: Dead or Alive (1958–1961)
Episode: Die by the Gun (1958)

Approved | 25 min | Western

A sadistic pair of killers escape from prison who have no qualms about killing. They hijack the stagecoach Josh is riding with a young prisoner by felling a tree on its path. They decide to use Josh and the prisoner as hostages.

Director: Don McDougall | Stars: Steve McQueen, John Larch, Warren Oates, Ray Teal

Votes: 154

15. Wanted: Dead or Alive (1958–1961)
Episode: Rawhide Breed (1958)

Approved | 25 min | Western

Following an Indian attack on their stagecoach that kills his prisoner, Randall and an eastern gentleman unaccustomed to the ways of the West must trek to safety across many long, hot miles of hostile Apache territory.

Director: Don McDougall | Stars: Steve McQueen, George Macready, Charles Cooper, Steve Rowland

Votes: 134

16. Wanted: Dead or Alive (1958–1961)
Episode: Eight Cent Reward (1958)

Approved | 25 min | Western

On Christmas Eve Randall receives his most daunting assignment yet from a young boy who has eight cents to pay: bring in Santa Claus. Tricked into the job, Randall tries to make the best of a bad situation for the boy's family.

Director: Thomas Carr | Stars: Steve McQueen, Mort Mills, Virginia Gregg, Lloyd Corrigan

Votes: 180

17. Wanted: Dead or Alive (1958–1961)
Episode: Drop to Drink (1958)

Approved | 25 min | Western

Thieves are lying in wait to ambush mail carriers, so Josh is hired to help ensure that the mail will get through. The thieves have news about a $20,000 diamond ring that is being delivered.

Director: Don McDougall | Stars: Steve McQueen, Joe Maross, John Cliff, Victor Rodman

Votes: 138

18. Wanted: Dead or Alive (1958–1961)
Episode: Rope Law (1959)

Approved | 25 min | Western

Josh is knocked out by a posse who wants his prisoner who is wanted for killing his step-daughter. When he goes to recover his reward, he finds he has been paid but he still wants justice and soon finds the prisoner may be innocent.

Director: Thomas Carr | Stars: Steve McQueen, Darryl Hickman, Richard Arlen, Robert Strauss

Votes: 131

19. Wanted: Dead or Alive (1958–1961)
Episode: Six-Up to Bannach (1959)

Approved | 25 min | Western

Josh needs to get his wounded prisoner to Bannach in three days to prevent an innocent man from hanging. His only option is a stagecoach carrying dynamite but Josh is willing to take the risk against the wishes of the driver.

Director: Thomas Carr | Stars: Steve McQueen, James Best, Sam Buffington, Stacy Harris

Votes: 145

20. Wanted: Dead or Alive (1958–1961)
Episode: The Spurs (1959)

Approved | 25 min | Western

Josh rides into a small town looking for Vic Warsaw but is told by the Sheriff that Warsaw was buried that day and killed by Miss Lucy Fremont the night before. But, when Josh examines Warsaw's belongings, he has other ideas.

Director: Don McDougall | Stars: Steve McQueen, Betsy Drake, Dick Foran, Robert Ellenstein

Votes: 144

21. Wanted: Dead or Alive (1958–1961)
Episode: Reunion for a Revenge (1959)

Approved | 25 min | Western

Four men break out of prison looking for revenge against Aben Starr who turned them in after their first escape attempt. Josh finds Starr running a stage stop hoping to catch the escapees there but instead finds himself caught by them.

Director: R.G. Springsteen | Stars: Steve McQueen, Ralph Meeker, Judith Braun, Ed Kemmer

Votes: 151

22. Wanted: Dead or Alive (1958–1961)
Episode: Competition (1959)

Approved | 25 min | Western

Josh is resting in Benson when two bounty hunters bring in a man - the mayor - dead. Although the man was wanted, the sheriff and others want nothing to do with the pair. When they disrupt Josh's plans, he concocts a trap for them.

Director: R.G. Springsteen | Stars: Steve McQueen, Pat Crowley, Charles Aidman, Lee Farr

Votes: 129

23. Wanted: Dead or Alive (1958–1961)
Episode: Call Your Shot (1959)

Approved | 25 min | Western

A grieving father who is the town drunk hires Josh Randall with his last $30 to find his murdered son's body, but Josh's search for clues runs up against a cowardly conspiracy of silence. Josh isn't sure anyone is missing at all.

Director: Don McDougall | Stars: Steve McQueen, James Dunn, Steve Brodie, Luana Patten

Votes: 133

24. Wanted: Dead or Alive (1958–1961)
Episode: Secret Ballot (1959)

Approved | 25 min | Western

At the request of his friend's wife, Randall comes to assist and protect a war buddy in his bid for the town's mayoralty, quickly running afoul of the established political machine and its corrupt mayor and wanted sheriff.

Director: Don McDougall | Stars: Steve McQueen, Wayne Morris, Bethel Leslie, DeForest Kelley

Votes: 133

25. Wanted: Dead or Alive (1958–1961)
Episode: The Corner (1959)

Approved | 25 min | Western

A bounty hunter is not a hero in his own hometown, as Josh learns when he honors a dying friend's request to return his body to Cameron and the townspeople rush to judgment, believing Josh killed him for the reward money.

Director: R.G. Springsteen | Stars: Steve McQueen, John Litel, Rachel Ames, James Dobson

Votes: 117

26. Wanted: Dead or Alive (1958–1961)
Episode: Eager Man (1959)

Approved | 25 min | Western

Josh is approached by the wife of a wanted man eager to turn himself in peacefully, provided Josh splits the bounty with his wife. To ensure the deal goes as planned, Josh enlists the aid of an old friend: Sheriff Pat Garrett.

Director: Don McDougall | Stars: Steve McQueen, Toni Gerry, Richard Devon, Walter Sande

Votes: 124

27. Wanted: Dead or Alive (1958–1961)
Episode: The Legend (1959)

Approved | 25 min | Western

A man with unwavering faith in a legend about lost treasure hires Josh to lead his family on an expedition into the desert to locate the cache of Spanish gold. His method of getting Josh may be fatal to Josh and the family.

Director: Thomas Carr | Stars: Steve McQueen, Victor Jory, Kenneth Tobey, Warren Oates

Votes: 142

28. Wanted: Dead or Alive (1958–1961)
Episode: Railroaded (1959)

Approved | 25 min | Western

When a young runaway is framed for killing a Pinkerton agent, Randall turns detective to uncover the real killer. He learns there has been a series of murders on the railroad and there is a $200 reward for anyone killing an agent.

Director: Thomas Carr | Stars: Steve McQueen, Edgar Buchanan, Buzz Martin, Mort Mills

Votes: 143

29. Wanted: Dead or Alive (1958–1961)
Episode: Double Fee (1959)

Approved | 25 min | Western

Josh is requested to meet a famous singer at the opera house in Denver who has a job for him. He uncovers an unconventional kidnapping plot when he signs on to rescue the ransomed sister of the famous singer at Sugar Creek.

Director: Don McDougall | Stars: Steve McQueen, Diane Brewster, Christopher Dark, Robert H. Harris

Votes: 118

30. Wanted: Dead or Alive (1958–1961)
Episode: The Kovack Affair (1959)

Approved | 25 min | Western

Josh comes to the aid of his old friend Jesse, who is being strong-armed into selling the Outrider Hotel and Saloon owned by his beautiful girlfriend who wants no violence by self-proclaimed mayor and town bully Peter Kovack.

Director: Thomas Carr | Stars: Steve McQueen, Jean Willes, James Coburn, Jacques Aubuchon

Votes: 134

31. Wanted: Dead or Alive (1958–1961)
Episode: Bounty for a Bride (1959)

Approved | 24 min | Western

A decidedly different and dangerous assignment awaits Josh when he agrees to go into the Apache camp and compete in their contests to win the hand of a white woman the Indians kidnapped as a child and have raised as their own.

Director: Don McDougall | Stars: Steve McQueen, Lori Nelson, Patrick McVey, Michael Pate

Votes: 129

32. Wanted: Dead or Alive (1958–1961)
Episode: Crossroads (1959)

Approved | 25 min | Western

Pursuing killer Joe Collins into the Superstition Mountains, Josh is followed by a man who believes Collins could be his long lost son. Because of a horseshoe problem, Josh catches up with the man who takes Josh to a possible hideout.

Director: Don McDougall | Stars: Steve McQueen, John McIntire, Clu Gulager, Hugh Sanders

Votes: 127

33. Wanted: Dead or Alive (1958–1961)
Episode: Angels of Vengeance (1959)

Approved | 25 min | Western

A blindly obedient religious cult cast lots and it falls upon a young woman to act as its angel of vengeance. Her mission is to murder Josh Randall in retaliation for his killing their cult leader's drunk son in a shootout.

Director: R.G. Springsteen | Stars: Steve McQueen, John Dehner, Eduard Franz, Rachel Ames

Votes: 134

34. Wanted: Dead or Alive (1958–1961)
Episode: Littlest Client (1959)

Approved | 25 min | Western

Josh receives a letter from a girl at the St. Elizabeth Home for Young Ladies. Expecting a young woman, Josh finds a young orphan girl wanting him to find the parents she insists are still alive and with whom she yearns to be reunited.

Director: Thomas Carr | Stars: Steve McQueen, Anthony Caruso, Ahna Capri, Robert J. Wilke

Votes: 129

35. Wanted: Dead or Alive (1958–1961)
Episode: The Conquerors (1959)

Approved | 25 min | Western

A concerned father hires Josh to retrieve his son, a passionate young ideologue whose gift for rousing rhetoric is being used by plunderers to recruit freedom fighters to serve in their phony liberation of Baja California.

Director: Thomas Carr | Stars: Steve McQueen, John Dehner, Than Wyenn, Michael Pate

Votes: 115

36. Wanted: Dead or Alive (1958–1961)
Episode: Amos Carter (1959)

Approved | 25 min | Western

Josh's big talk after a dog is shot lands him in big trouble when his browbeating the locals in the saloon about ending the decades-long Carter-Blake feud gets him drafted to go reconcile the hate-fueled hillbillies for $200.

Director: Thomas Carr | Stars: Steve McQueen, Arthur Hunnicutt, Edgar Buchanan, Wright King

Votes: 134

37. Wanted: Dead or Alive (1958–1961)
Episode: Montana Kid (1959)

Approved | 25 min | Western

To track down the cheating tinhorn gambler Johnny Deuce and recover his money, Randall befriends the card sharp's stepson and protégé, a twelve-year-old orphan boy and card cheat in training nicknamed The Montana Kid.

Director: Thomas Carr | Stars: Steve McQueen, Richard Eyer, Jean Willes, Steve Brodie

Votes: 141

38. Wanted: Dead or Alive (1958–1961)
Episode: The Healing Woman (1959)

Approved | 30 min | Western

Josh embarks on a mission of mercy when he pleads with the parents of a boy with appendicitis to let the doctor operate. The father, embittered against modern medicine, trusts only the local witch to cure his son's sickness.

Director: Don McDougall | Stars: Steve McQueen, Mort Mills, Virginia Gregg, James Westerfield

Votes: 123

39. Wanted: Dead or Alive (1958–1961)
Episode: The Matchmaker (1959)

Approved | 25 min | Western

Josh reluctantly accepts an offbeat assignment: finding a beautiful bride for his bashful buddy Charlie, the homeliest and loneliest man in the West. He gives Josh a list of the beautiful women in town that are suitable - to him.

Director: Frank McDonald | Stars: Steve McQueen, Fay Spain, Royal Dano, Virginia Christine

Votes: 132

40. Wanted: Dead or Alive (1958–1961)
Episode: Breakout (1959)

Approved | 30 min | Western

Josh in a federal prison plotting the great escape? The government employs Randall to portray an escaped prisoner in order to trick his cellmate into leading authorities to the $50,000 he stole and stashed away in a secret location.

Director: Thomas Carr | Stars: Steve McQueen, Mona Freeman, Phillip Pine, Richard Carlyle

Votes: 132

41. Wanted: Dead or Alive (1958–1961)
Episode: Estralita (1959)

Approved | 26 min | Western

Randall finds his prey in the hands of a lynch mob wiping out his bounty. After Randall rescues Jake Pringle from the lynch mob's rope, he learns he's not the only one with a vested interest in keeping the killer alive.

Director: Don McDougall | Stars: Steve McQueen, Robert J. Wilke, Rita Lynn, Charles Aidman

Votes: 128

42. Wanted: Dead or Alive (1958–1961)
Episode: The Hostage (1959)

Approved | 26 min | Western

Who needs enemies with friends like the residents of Rogue City, who celebrate Randall for bringing in notorious killer Jumbo Kane, but just as quickly turn on Josh when Kane breaks loose and demands a hostage to ensure his escape.

Director: Don McDougall | Stars: Steve McQueen, Alexander Scourby, Marcia Henderson, Lee Van Cleef

Votes: 142

43. Wanted: Dead or Alive (1958–1961)
Episode: The Empty Cell (1959)

Approved | 26 min | Western

Randall is rooked out of his bounty by crafty criminal Hunt Willis and his accomplice. Not one to accept defeat, Josh turns detective to rout the outlaws, his investigation dogged by the suspicious sheriff, a cousin to Willis.

Director: Thomas Carr | Stars: Steve McQueen, Lon Chaney Jr., Jack Kruschen, DeForest Kelley

Votes: 134

44. Wanted: Dead or Alive (1958–1961)
Episode: Bad Gun (1959)

Approved | 26 min | Western

Against better judgment after losing a quick draw contest and bet, Josh serves as guide for a dandified East Coast gun salesman who comes west to retrieve and replace a defective gun he sold to notorious outlaw Curly Bill Brocius.

Director: Thomas Carr | Stars: Steve McQueen, King Donovan, Harry Bellaver, Jackie Russell

Votes: 118

45. Wanted: Dead or Alive (1958–1961)
Episode: The Tyrant (1959)

Approved | 30 min | Western

On the trail of a Cavalry deserter and the horses he stole, Josh rides into a town ruled as the private fiefdom of its autocratic, psychopathic marshal who is holding the horses and deserter. He wants a ransom from Josh for them.

Director: Don McDougall | Stars: Steve McQueen, R.G. Armstrong, Vaughn Taylor, Frank Albertson

Votes: 119

46. Wanted: Dead or Alive (1958–1961)
Episode: Reckless (1959)

Approved | 25 min | Western

Hired by a father to bring back the man who killed his son Josh is surprised when he doesn't get paid because he brought the man back alive. He pursues the matter to make sure that the father's hate isn't allowed to kill an innocent man.

Director: R.G. Springsteen | Stars: Steve McQueen, Everett Sloane, Les Johnson, Jean Allison

Votes: 115

47. Wanted: Dead or Alive (1958–1961)
Episode: Desert Seed (1959)

Approved | 25 min | Western

Josh must bring a man back for murder. He has to outwit the man's nephew and men bent on claiming the bounty. Josh must prove to the nephew that he can be trusted to get his uncle back to stand trial for a crime committed in self-defense.

Director: Don McDougall | Stars: Steve McQueen, Rafael Campos, Carlos Romero, Tom Gilson

Votes: 114

48. Wanted: Dead or Alive (1958–1961)
Episode: Twelve Hours to Crazy Horse (1959)

Approved | 30 min | Western

Josh brings a wanted man in to the Mesa City Sheriff, only to find he killed the sheriff's brother. Josh decides to join the sheriff and prisoner on the trip to take the man to Crazy Horse for trial but along the way the man escapes.

Director: Thomas Carr | Stars: Steve McQueen, John Dehner, Jimmy Lydon, Dabbs Greer

Votes: 113

49. Wanted: Dead or Alive (1958–1961)
Episode: No Trail Back (1959)

Approved | 25 min | Western

Josh is looking for a man who, while trying to rob a bank, is bitten by a rabid dog. He learns the law wanted him originally to lead them to his outlaw brother. Josh ends up captured by them but they don't believe him about the rabies.

Director: Don McDougall | Stars: Steve McQueen, Robert J. Wilke, Wright King, Howard Petrie

Votes: 116

50. Wanted: Dead or Alive (1958–1961)
Episode: Man on Horseback (1959)

Approved | 25 min | Western

A man shoots his brother over ownership of their property and blames it on an Indian who reclaimed his horse the man found and stole. He then ups the bounty on the Indian to push Josh to find the Indian to "hide" the evidence.

Director: Don McDougall | Stars: Steve McQueen, Fred Beir, Jeanne Cooper, Jay Silverheels

Votes: 117

51. Wanted: Dead or Alive (1958–1961)
Episode: Chain Gang (1959)

Approved | 26 min | Western

Josh is captured by a corrupt deputy and is forced by the sheriff to work on a chain gang in a gold mine. He learns the mine owner and staff keep the men imprisoned by adding to their sentences every time they break the rules.

Director: Thomas Carr | Stars: Steve McQueen, Dave Willock, Ted de Corsia, Laurie Mitchell

Votes: 126

52. Wanted: Dead or Alive (1958–1961)
Episode: Vanishing Act (1959)

Approved | 25 min | Western

Randall is tracking an escape artist who is forced to distract a town, letting three guys rob the bank. When Randall catches them, he turns them over to the sheriff, but they escape. Therefore, Randall must track him down again.

Director: Don McDougall | Stars: Steve McQueen, Lawrence Dobkin, Dyan Cannon, Steve Darrell

Votes: 121

53. Wanted: Dead or Alive (1958–1961)
Episode: Mental Lapse (1960)

Approved | 25 min | Western

Josh plays detective when he signs on to help an amnesiac discover his identity. The first clue is when Josh must kill a man trying to kill Josh's client who has a telegram on him that may indicate Josh's client is wanted.

Director: Thomas Carr | Stars: Steve McQueen, Harry Townes, Jan Shepard, Ed Prentiss

Votes: 103

54. Wanted: Dead or Alive (1958–1961)
Episode: Angela (1960)

Approved | 25 min | Western

After watching her father stabbed to death, a grieving daughter wants immediate justice rather than wait for the slower-moving wheels of justice. She vows to bring vengeance upon the man who murdered her father that Josh also wanted.

Director: George Blair | Stars: Steve McQueen, Fay Spain, Joe Patridge, Wayne Rogers

Votes: 127

55. Wanted: Dead or Alive (1958–1961)
Episode: The Monster (1960)

Approved | 25 min | Western

Josh is determined to debunk the dire menace posed by a marauding monster that has smashed mining camps, decimated an Indian village and that has the residents of nearby Nugget City hiding behind locked doors.

Director: Thomas Carr | Stars: Steve McQueen, Martin Landau, Bek Nelson, Eugene Mazzola

Votes: 134

56. Wanted: Dead or Alive (1958–1961)
Episode: Most Beautiful Woman (1960)

Approved | 25 min | Western

Josh, down on his luck, hires out for $100/day to find a woman - one catch is she may be dead. A man wants Josh to help find his fiancé who was last heard from at Hogan but the people there refuse to divulge what happened to her.

Director: Arthur Hilton | Stars: Steve McQueen, Arthur Franz, Mort Mills, Gordon Polk

Votes: 116

57. Wanted: Dead or Alive (1958–1961)
Episode: Jason (1960)

Approved | 25 min | Western

Josh brings in "Doc" Phillips hoping he can lure Clell Fanning out as he has an old score to settle with Clell. He is shot by one of Clell's henchman and he must rely on the deputy, Jason Nichols, who takes over after the Sheriff is killed.

Director: George Blair | Stars: Steve McQueen, Sean McClory, Barry Kelley, Pierre Watkin

Votes: 132

58. Wanted: Dead or Alive (1958–1961)
Episode: The Partners (1960)

Approved | 25 min | Western

Josh is arrested on a bogus horse-stealing charge. Jason shows up to get him out of jail and a proposal for the two of them to work together. Together they kill 3 brothers wanting revenge against Josh for killing their brother.

Director: George Blair | Stars: Steve McQueen, Wright King, Robert Morris, Elaine Riley

Votes: 109

59. Wanted: Dead or Alive (1958–1961)
Episode: Tolliver Bender (1960)

Approved | 30 min | Western

To net a thousand-dollar reward and save a friend, Josh saves Tolliver Bender from a hanging so he can testify in a nearby trial. Double-crosses are immediately hatched by those who want Tolliver dead and by those who want the money.

Director: George Blair | Stars: Steve McQueen, Gloria Talbott, Wright King, Douglas Fowley

Votes: 136

60. Wanted: Dead or Alive (1958–1961)
Episode: A House Divided (1960)

Approved | 30 min | Western

An attractive woman hires Josh for $1000 to clear her father on a false murder charge in a town that is not very welcoming to Josh. Meanwhile, the real killer who tried to run Josh out of town hires Jason to kill Josh for $100.

Director: George Blair | Stars: Steve McQueen, Eduard Franz, Helen Westcott, Stafford Repp

Votes: 112

61. Wanted: Dead or Alive (1958–1961)
Episode: Triple Vise (1960)

Approved | 30 min | Western

Josh and Jason are hired to chase a killer who went to Mexico by his brother who is about to hang for a crime his brother committed. There they meet a barmaid with a different perspective among the less than helpful residents.

Director: George Blair | Stars: Steve McQueen, Wright King, Chana Eden, Pedro Gonzalez Gonzalez

Votes: 106

62. Wanted: Dead or Alive (1958–1961)
Episode: Black Belt (1960)

Approved | 30 min | Western

Josh and Jason are on the trail of a karate expert accused of killing his employer. However, his karate ability puts Josh on the sidelines with a broken rib while Jason takes over to track him but hopefully with a healthy respect for him.

Director: George Blair | Stars: Steve McQueen, Wright King, Robert Kino, Richard Crane

Votes: 117

63. Wanted: Dead or Alive (1958–1961)
Episode: The Pariah (1960)

Approved | 30 min | Western

Randall learns "hate comes high" in a town whose people have hired a trio of killers to murder their fellow resident Randy Holleran, a sniveling drunkard whom Josh can't stand but has promised his father to protect.

Director: George Blair | Stars: Steve McQueen, Susan Oliver, Don Dubbins, Frank Ferguson

Votes: 123

64. Wanted: Dead or Alive (1958–1961)
Episode: Vendetta (1960)

Approved | 30 min | Western

Josh captures a wanted recruit and returns him to the Army, but the Captain at an encampment refuses to pay the bounty as he has another use for the trooper. The Colonel at an Army post drafts Josh to stop the mentally unstable officer.

Director: George Blair | Stars: Steve McQueen, Wright King, Willis Bouchey, Bert Remsen

Votes: 117

65. Wanted: Dead or Alive (1958–1961)
Episode: Death Divided by Three (1960)

Approved | 30 min | Western

Josh and Jason track down a fugitive in Texas wanted for murder in Arizona who they find is also sought by his wife who claims he is innocent. When Josh catches the outlaw, he asks to avoid his wife but then escapes from Josh.

Director: George Blair | Stars: Steve McQueen, Wright King, Mara Corday, Richard Garland

Votes: 117

66. Wanted: Dead or Alive (1958–1961)
Episode: The Inheritance (1960)

Approved | 30 min | Western

A dying man offers Josh $2000 to find his son, who ran away from home 15 years ago. The only real identification is a broach the boy took from his mother. Josh follows the trail to a deputy who believes he knows the missing man.

Director: Arthur Hilton | Stars: Steve McQueen, Ed Kemmer, John Litel, Don Kennedy

Votes: 107

67. Wanted: Dead or Alive (1958–1961)
Episode: Prison Trail (1960)

Approved | 30 min | Western

Josh and Jason are escorting four prisoners - three men and one woman - to Leavenworth prison when a stranger begins following along behind asking to travel with the group for protection from the Pawnee Indians but Josh refuses.

Director: Thomas Carr | Stars: Steve McQueen, Wright King, Brad Dexter, Claude Akins

Votes: 124

68. Wanted: Dead or Alive (1958–1961)
Episode: Pay-off at Pinto (1960)

Approved | 30 min | Western

Josh is summoned for help when the Pinto bank is robbed. The citizens of Pinto are in a lynching mood although the owner says he has enough gold in other banks to cover everyone's deposits as Josh is sent to bring the new money.

Director: Don McDougall | Stars: Steve McQueen, Barry Kelley, Philip Ahn, Addison Richards

Votes: 97

69. Wanted: Dead or Alive (1958–1961)
Episode: The Trial (1960)

Approved | 25 min | Western

Josh expects a $400 bounty for bringing in Daniel Trenner but finds his prisoner stolen from him by the sheriff. Four ex-army personnel want to stage an illegal mock trial accusing their former lieutenant of dereliction of duty.

Director: Harry Harris | Stars: Steve McQueen, Paul Burke, James Coburn, John Pickard

Votes: 130

70. Wanted: Dead or Alive (1958–1961)
Episode: The Cure (1960)

Approved | 25 min | Western

Josh is hired by a woman to sober up Harry a drunk who is also Josh's friend. She learned his wealthy brother who Harry hasn't seen in fifteen years and detests is coming to visit so she wants Harry to be presentable for the visit.

Director: Gene Reynolds | Stars: Steve McQueen, Claudia Bryar, Charles Thompson, Thomas Browne Henry

Votes: 108

71. Wanted: Dead or Alive (1958–1961)
Episode: Journey for Josh (1960)

Approved | 25 min | Western

Josh and the beautiful female prisoner he is transporting to trial are on a three day trip while her partner is still on the loose in the area. For once Josh may not follow through on obeying the law as they fall in love with each other.

Director: Harry Harris | Stars: Steve McQueen, Lisa Gaye, Jason Wingreen, Orville Sherman

Votes: 134

72. Wanted: Dead or Alive (1958–1961)
Episode: The Looters (1960)

Approved | 25 min | Western

Josh is on his way to River City to transport three convicts there to be hanged. The three dangerous prisoners escape from jail and appoint themselves the law, after the town is hit by a tornado that wrecks the town and kills the sheriff.

Director: Harry Harris | Stars: Steve McQueen, Gloria Blondell, Dennis Patrick, Tom Gilson

Votes: 117

73. Wanted: Dead or Alive (1958–1961)
Episode: The Twain Shall Meet (1960)

Approved | 25 min | Western

A journalist from Boston accompanies Josh on his manhunt to get an exclusive story on a bounty hunter as part of a series of articles. Josh agrees to let him join him in the hunt for Jack Torrance but finds they have different methods.

Director: Richard Donner | Stars: Steve McQueen, Michael Lipton, Mary Tyler Moore, Howard Ledig

Votes: 131

74. Wanted: Dead or Alive (1958–1961)
Episode: The Showdown (1960)

Approved | 25 min | Western

Josh feels compelled to repay a debt to an old friend who's in jail and may hang. However, the friend takes advantage of Josh to escape forcing Josh to go on the hunt for him until it appears he died when he went over a cliff.

Director: Murray Golden | Stars: Steve McQueen, Tom Drake, June Dayton, Jackie Loughery

Votes: 97

75. Wanted: Dead or Alive (1958–1961)
Episode: Surprise Witness (1960)

Approved | 25 min | Western

Josh brings in outlaw Carlos Domingo but he has to be released when the witness against him is killed in front of Josh. Josh concocts a surprise witness to step forward to testify against the notorious killer - his own mother.

Director: Murray Golden | Stars: Steve McQueen, Sari Price, Argentina Brunetti, Bill Quinn

Votes: 99

76. Wanted: Dead or Alive (1958–1961)
Episode: To the Victor (1960)

Approved | 25 min | Western

Josh is sent for by Sheriff Mike Strata and the desperate men of Coronado. He is hired for $500 to convince the women of the town to come back to their men when they leave demanding that all towns men give up their guns for good.

Director: Murray Golden | Stars: Steve McQueen, Frank Albertson, George Ramsey, Nacho Galindo

Votes: 103

77. Wanted: Dead or Alive (1958–1961)
Episode: Criss Cross (1960)

Approved | 25 min | Western

Josh brings in a young man wanted for robbery but loses his reward and expenses. A well meaning Dr. pays an innocent man to take the blame for his son's robbery, but the son sets out to kill the man to make sure he never tells.

Director: Murray Golden | Stars: Steve McQueen, Mark Rydell, Vaughn Taylor, Patricia King

Votes: 92

78. Wanted: Dead or Alive (1958–1961)
Episode: The Medicine Man (1960)

Approved | 25 min | Western

Josh arrives in a town for rest and to gamble just as the local bank has been robbed. A traveling medicine man known to Josh knows the whereabouts of the suspect and wants Josh to help because he thinks the suspect is innocent.

Director: Richard Donner | Stars: Steve McQueen, Cloris Leachman, J. Pat O'Malley, John Baer

Votes: 108

79. Wanted: Dead or Alive (1958–1961)
Episode: One Mother Too Many (1960)

Approved | 25 min | Western

A widow wants to hire/propose to Josh so she doesn't lose custody of her son. Josh served under her husband in the war. His mother tried to control him and now is trying to steal her grandson to raise him to take over the family fortune.

Director: Harry Harris | Stars: Steve McQueen, Joyce Meadows, Bryan Russell, Betty Lou Gerson

Votes: 119

80. Wanted: Dead or Alive (1958–1961)
Episode: The Choice (1960)

Approved | 25 min | Western

A woman asks Josh, an old friend, to help find her husband Frank - a bounty hunter out to settle a score. She and Frank have been married for 25 years and Frank is slowing down. He wants to catch a young outlaw who shot him in the leg.

Director: Harry Harris | Stars: Steve McQueen, Dick Foran, Maxine Stuart, Burt Douglas

Votes: 114

81. Wanted: Dead or Alive (1958–1961)
Episode: Three for One (1960)

Approved | 25 min | Western

When Randall has a sheriff bed a prisoner, the man's gang kidnaps the sheriff and two others and threatens to kill one per day until the man is freed as the deputy's girl pressures him to let the sheriff die as condition for marriage.

Director: Murray Golden | Stars: Steve McQueen, Richard Anderson, Gloria Talbott, Terry Becker

Votes: 115

82. Wanted: Dead or Alive (1958–1961)
Episode: Witch Woman (1960)

Approved | 25 min | Western

In Mexico, Josh is hired to protect a sensible man and his pregnant wife from his father-in-law and the villagers who are angered when he refuses the town healing woman or "witch" from being present when his wife gives birth.

Director: Harry Harris | Stars: Steve McQueen, Jeanette Nolan, Victor Millan, Rodolfo Hoyos Jr.

Votes: 108

83. Wanted: Dead or Alive (1958–1961)
Episode: Baa-Baa (1961)

Approved | 25 min | Western

After Josh reluctantly takes the task of finding a man and his wife's pet ewe, he becomes the butt of many jokes in the community while cattlemen nearly hang him when he mentions sheep. His only clue is a gold bell the ewe wore.

Director: Harry Harris | Stars: Steve McQueen, Hollis Irving, Dave Willock, Stuart Randall

Votes: 115

84. Wanted: Dead or Alive (1958–1961)
Episode: The Last Retreat (1961)

Approved | 25 min | Western

When a convicted killer escapes prison, Josh is hired for $500 to protect the woman whose testimony put him there. The woman's husband is an attorney who says he has always been a coward and never carries a gun. Josh is not so sure.

Director: Richard Donner | Stars: Steve McQueen, Constance Ford, Ross Elliott, Warren Oates

Votes: 117

85. Wanted: Dead or Alive (1958–1961)
Episode: Bounty on Josh (1961)

Approved | 25 min | Western

Josh rides into a town looking for a man who asked him to come there for a job that pays $500. When he goes to the man's room at the hotel, Josh is shot. He must figure out who shot him but the sheriff is ordering him out of town.

Director: Richard Donner | Stars: Steve McQueen, Jean Allison, Rhys Williams, Michael Greene

Votes: 116

86. Wanted: Dead or Alive (1958–1961)
Episode: Hero in the Dust (1961)

Approved | 25 min | Western

Josh is hired by Harry Weaver to track down his twin brother Pete, who's wanted with a $500 bounty on him. Harry is tired of being used by Pete plus the law and bounty hunters are apt to mistake him for Pete resulting in his own death.

Director: Harry Harris | Stars: Steve McQueen, Ralph Bell, Audrey Caire, Nick Bon Tempi

Votes: 105

87. Wanted: Dead or Alive (1958–1961)
Episode: Epitaph (1961)

Approved | 25 min | Western

Josh is called in to track down a new outlaw - the local sheriff who is a friend. The good sheriff who was seduced into robbing a bank by his beautiful but deadly girlfriend, convinces Josh to let him assist in her capture.

Director: Harry Harris | Stars: Steve McQueen, Enid Jaynes, Lewis Charles, James Drake

Votes: 110

88. Wanted: Dead or Alive (1958–1961)
Episode: The Voice of Silence (1961)

Approved | 25 min | Western

Josh reluctantly takes a job protecting a beautiful deaf, mute, teenage girl and keeping everyone off the father's place for a day or two. Although initially bored, Josh starts to develop a relationship with the friendly girl.

Director: Richard Donner | Stars: Steve McQueen, Carolyn Kearney, Roy Barcroft, Dick Rich

Votes: 156

89. Wanted: Dead or Alive (1958–1961)
Episode: El Gato (1961)

Approved | 25 min | Western

Josh escorts an East Coast photographer to take a picture of his friend El Gato (The Cat), who is a famous, hilarious bandit living in the hills of Mexico with a small army. However, El Gato is new to photographs and leery.

Director: Murray Golden | Stars: Steve McQueen, Noah Beery Jr., Olan Soule, Steven Marlo

Votes: 95

90. Wanted: Dead or Alive (1958–1961)
Episode: Detour (1961)

Approved | 25 min | Western

A broke Josh is hired by a fearful man to help him elope with his sweetheart, Jane, the daughter of a local rancher. The girl's father is vehemently opposed to the marriage and hence the necessity for Josh to get involved.

Director: Murray Golden | Stars: Steve McQueen, Howard Smith, Melinda Casey, Jan Brooks

Votes: 110

91. Wanted: Dead or Alive (1958–1961)
Episode: Monday Morning (1961)

Approved | 25 min | Western

Josh takes a job for $200 protecting an express office employee who stole $10,000 and wants to return it before it's discovered missing. However, he had an accomplice in the robbery but he does not know where the accomplice is at.

Director: Murray Golden | Stars: Steve McQueen, Richard Carlyle, Ralph Bell, Bill Quinn

Votes: 92

92. Wanted: Dead or Alive (1958–1961)
Episode: The Long Search (1961)

Approved | 25 min | Western

A Japanese woman travels to the U.S. to find an American man who proposed to her in Japan and hires Josh to find him since no one will help her in her search. Josh is confronted by the Japanese man to whom she had been promised.

Director: Murray Golden | Stars: Steve McQueen, Linda Wong, Lynette Bernay, Dale Ishimoto

Votes: 112

93. Wanted: Dead or Alive (1958–1961)
Episode: Dead Reckoning (1961)

Approved | 25 min | Western

Josh arrives in town thinking the sheriff summoned him to go after a man. Instead, a woman wants Josh to bring in the man, her wanted husband, alive, so he can prove self defense, but the brothers of the man he killed are out to hang him.

Director: Murray Golden | Stars: Steve McQueen, Jimmy Lydon, John Alderman, Chuck Hayward

Votes: 88

94. Wanted: Dead or Alive (1958–1961)
Episode: Barney's Bounty (1961)

Approved | 25 min | Western

Josh rides to Barney Durant's horse business to rent a couple of horses right after Barney pushes his son David to leave. When Josh's 2 bounty prisoners escape taking 2 horses from his horse trader friend, he helps in tracking them down.

Director: Richard Donner | Stars: Steve McQueen, Jonathan Bolt, Alan Austin, Vince Deadrick Sr.

Votes: 101



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