1958
Approved
30m

Summary 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. View more details

1958
Approved
30m

Wanted: Dead or Alive

Directed : Unknown

Written : Unknown

Stars : Steve McQueen Olan Soule Wright King Mort Mills

All cast & crew

Details

Genres : Western

Release date : Sep 5, 1958

Countries of origin : United States

Language : English

Filming locations : Apacheland Studios - 4369 S. Kings Ranch Road, Gold Canyon, Arizona, USA

Production companies : CBS Television Network Four Star Productions Malcolm Enterprises

Summary 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. View more details

Details

Genres : Western

Release date : Sep 5, 1958

Countries of origin : United States

Language : English

Filming locations : Apacheland Studios - 4369 S. Kings Ranch Road, Gold Canyon, Arizona, USA

Production companies : CBS Television Network Four Star Productions Malcolm Enterprises

Photos

Steve McQueen in Wanted: Dead or Alive (1958)

Steve McQueen and Jimmy Lydon in Wanted: Dead or Alive (1958)

Steve McQueen and John McIntire in Wanted: Dead or Alive (1958)

Steve McQueen and J. Pat O'Malley in Wanted: Dead or Alive (1958)

Steve McQueen and King Calder in Wanted: Dead or Alive (1958)

Steve McQueen and Charles Aidman in Wanted: Dead or Alive (1958)

Steve McQueen and Robert Foulk in Wanted: Dead or Alive (1958)

Steve McQueen and Toni Gerry in Wanted: Dead or Alive (1958)

Episodes

View All Seasons

Episode 1 • Sep 05, 1958

The Martin Poster

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.

Episode 2 • Sep 12, 1958

Fatal Memory

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.

Episode 3 • Sep 19, 1958

The Bounty

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.

Episode 4 • Sep 26, 1958

Dead End

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.

Episode 5 • Oct 03, 1958

Passing of Shawnee Bill

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.

Episode 6 • Oct 10, 1958

The Giveaway Gun

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.

Episode 7 • Oct 17, 1958

Ransom for a Nun

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.

Episode 8 • Oct 24, 1958

Miracle at Pot Hole

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.

Episode 9 • Oct 31, 1958

The Fourth Headstone

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.

Episode 10 • Nov 07, 1958

Til Death Do Us Part

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.

Episode 11 • Nov 14, 1958

The Favor

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.

Episode 12 • Nov 21, 1958

Ricochet

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.

Episode 13 • Nov 28, 1958

Sheriff of Red Rock

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.

Episode 14 • Dec 05, 1958

Die by the Gun

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.

Episode 15 • Dec 12, 1958

Rawhide Breed

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.

Episode 16 • Dec 19, 1958

Eight Cent Reward

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.

Episode 17 • Dec 26, 1958

Drop to Drink

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.

Episode 18 • Jan 02, 1959

Rope Law

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.

Episode 19 • Jan 09, 1959

Six-Up to Bannach

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.

Episode 20 • Jan 16, 1959

The Spurs

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.

Episode 21 • Jan 23, 1959

Reunion for a Revenge

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.

Episode 22 • Jan 30, 1959

Competition

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.

Episode 23 • Feb 06, 1959

Call Your Shot

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.

Episode 24 • Feb 13, 1959

Secret Ballot

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.

Episode 25 • Feb 20, 1959

The Corner

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.

Episode 26 • Feb 27, 1959

Eager Man

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.

Episode 27 • Mar 06, 1959

The Legend

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.

Episode 28 • Mar 13, 1959

Railroaded

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.

Episode 29 • Mar 20, 1959

Double Fee

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.

Episode 30 • Mar 27, 1959

The Kovack Affair

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.

Episode 31 • Apr 03, 1959

Bounty for a Bride

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.

Episode 32 • Apr 10, 1959

Crossroads

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.

Episode 33 • Apr 17, 1959

Angels of Vengeance

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.

Episode 34 • Apr 23, 1959

Littlest Client

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.

Episode 35 • May 01, 1959

The Conquerors

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.

Episode 36 • May 08, 1959

Amos Carter

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.

This week's popular movies

This week's popular TV shows

The Drifter

6.3

Generally favorable

Lash of the West

5.6

Mixed or average

The Monroes

7.7

Generally favorable

The Gabby Hayes Show

Generally favorable

Wide Country

Generally favorable

How the West Was Won

8.2

Generally favorable

Hec Ramsey

7.7

Generally favorable

The Rifleman

8.3

Generally favorable

The Quest

7.1

Generally favorable

The Oregon Trail

6.7

Generally favorable

Edit Focus

How the West Was Won

A family saga covering several decades of Westward expansion in the 19th century, including the Gold Rush, the Civil War, and the building of the railroads.

The Wild Wild West

Undercover government agents Jim West and Artemus Gordon battle crime in the 1870s.