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One of the best of the classic western television shows! Josh Randall (Steve McQueen) is a bounty hunter with morals and ethics. With his sawed of winchester called a Mare’s Laig or sometimes Mare’s Leg. Josh takes jobs in the old west. Later in the Show Wright King appears as Jason! Wright was scheduled to take over the show when Steve moved into movies but the show was canceled! Steve Mcqueen ( Josh Randall ) is a Civil War veteran with a sawed-off rifle as a holstered weapon makes a living as a bounty hunter in the Wild West of the 1870s.
TV western series that launched Steve McQueen’s movie stardom holds up well even after 50 years. Guest stars among the best on TV at the time and the story lines are varied enough to keep your interest and different enough from competing series to stand out. McQueen’s character of Josh Randall is a Confederate veteran and bounty hunter with a soft heart. He often donates his earnings to the needy and helps his prisoners if they have been wrongly accused. Randall carries a shortened Winchester Model 1892 carbine, called the “Mare’s Leg,” in a holster patterned after “gunslinger” rigs then popular in movies and television. Randall had the ability to draw and fire this gun with blazing speed, as fast as, or in many cases much faster than, his adversaries with handguns that were much smaller. Two Mare’s Legs were used in the series, differing in the shape of the lever, round versus oval. For several episodes in 1960 Randall had a sidekick named Jason Nichols (Wright King) a former deputy sheriff turned bounty hunter. They worked very well together onscreen, sharing a brotherly chemistry audiences enjoyed. By the start of the third season, Nichols was no longer anywhere to be seen. The episode called, “The Partners”, where Nichols killed three men, much to the chagrin of Randall who felt the men could have been taken alive, has been speculated to be the episode that broke up the partnership, but was actually only the second episode where Wright King was shown and far from the last episode in which he appeared.
Episode Guide for the Wanted Dead or Alive – western TV show
Season 1
1 1-01 06/Sep/58 The Martin Poster
2 1-02 13/Sep/58 Fatal Memory
3 1-03 20/Sep/58 The Bounty
4 1-04 27/Sep/58 Dead End
5 1-05 04/Oct/58 Shawnee Bill
6 1-06 11/Oct/58 The Giveaway Gun
7 1-07 18/Oct/58 Ransom for a Nun
8 1-08 25/Oct/58 Miracle at Pot Hole
9 1-09 01/Nov/58 The Fourth Headstone
10 1-10 08/Nov/58 Til Death Do Us Part
11 1-11 15/Nov/58 The Favor
12 1-12 22/Nov/58 Ricochet
13 1-13 29/Nov/58 Sheriff of Red Rock
14 1-14 06/Dec/58 Die by the Gun
15 1-15 13/Dec/58 Rawhide Breed
16 1-16 20/Dec/58 Eight Cent Reward
17 1-17 27/Dec/58 Drop to Drink
18 1-18 03/Jan/59 Rope Law
19 1-19 10/Jan/59 Six-Up to Bannach
20 1-20 17/Jan/59 The Spur
21 1-21 24/Jan/59 Reunion for Revenge
22 1-22 31/Jan/59 Competition
23 1-23 07/Feb/59 Call Your Shot
24 1-24 14/Feb/59 Secret Ballot
25 1-25 21/Feb/59 The Corner
26 1-26 28/Feb/59 Eager Man
27 1-27 07/Mar/59 The Legend
28 1-28 14/Mar/59 Railroaded
29 1-29 21/Mar/59 Double Fee
30 1-30 28/Mar/59 The Kovack Affair
31 1-31 04/Apr/59 Bounty for a Bride
32 1-32 11/Apr/59 Crossroads
33 1-33 18/Apr/59 Angels of Vengeance
34 1-34 25/Apr/59 Littlest Client
35 1-35 02/May/59 The Conquerors
36 1-36 09/May/59 Amos Carter
Season 2
37 2-01 05/Sep/59 Montana Kid
38 2-02 12/Sep/59 The Healing Woman
39 2-03 19/Sep/59 The Matchmaker
40 2-04 26/Sep/59 Breakout
41 2-05 03/Oct/59 Estralita
42 2-06 10/Oct/59 The Hostage
43 2-07 17/Oct/59 The Empty Cell
44 2-08 24/Oct/59 Bad Gun
45 2-09 31/Oct/59 The Tyrant
46 2-10 07/Nov/59 Reckless
47 2-11 14/Nov/59 Desert Seed
48 2-12 21/Nov/59 Twelve Hours to Crazy Horse
49 2-13 28/Nov/59 No Trail Back
50 2-14 05/Dec/59 Man on Horseback
51 2-15 12/Dec/59 Chain Gang
52 2-16 26/Dec/59 Vanishing Act
53 2-17 02/Jan/60 Mental Lapse
54 2-18 09/Jan/60 Angela
55 2-19 16/Jan/60 The Monster
56 2-20 23/Jan/60 The Most Beautiful Woman
57 2-21 30/Jan/60 Jason
58 2-22 06/Feb/60 The Partners
59 2-23 13/Feb/60 Tolliver Bender
60 2-24 20/Feb/60 A House Divided
61 2-25 27/Feb/60 Triple Vice
62 2-26 19/Mar/60 Black Belt
63 2-27 26/Mar/60 The Pariah
64 2-28 09/Apr/60 Vendetta
65 2-29 23/Apr/60 Death Divided by Three
66 2-30 30/Apr/60 The Inheritance
67 2-31 14/May/60 Prison Trail
68 2-32 21/May/60 Pay-Off at Pinto
Season 3
69 3-01 21/Sep/60 The Trial
70 3-02 28/Sep/60 The Cure
71 3-03 05/Oct/60 Journey for Josh
72 3-04 12/Oct/60 The Looters
73 3-05 19/Oct/60 The Twain Shall Meet
74 3-06 26/Oct/60 The Showdown
75 3-07 02/Nov/60 Surprise Witness
76 3-08 09/Nov/60 To the Victor
77 3-09 16/Nov/60 Criss-Cross
78 3-10 23/Nov/60 The Medicine Man
79 3-11 07/Dec/60 One Mother Too Many
80 3-12 14/Dec/60 The Choice
81 3-13 21/Dec/60 Three for One
82 3-14 28/Dec/60 Witch Woman
83 3-15 04/Jan/61 Baa-Baa
84 3-16 11/Jan/61 The Last Retreat
85 3-17 25/Jan/61 Bounty on Josh
86 3-18 01/Feb/61 Hero in the Dust
87 3-19 08/Feb/61 Epitaph
88 3-20 15/Feb/61 The Voice of Silence
89 3-21 22/Feb/61 El Gato
90 3-22 01/Mar/61 Detour
91 3-23 08/Mar/61 Monday Morning
92 3-24 15/Mar/61 The Long Search
93 3-25 22/Mar/61 Dead Reckoning
94 3-26 29/Mar/61 Barney’s Bounty