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''Wanted: Dead or Alive'' is an American {{Western}} television series starring [[Creator/SteveMcQueenActor Steve McQueen]] as the bounty hunter Josh Randall. It aired on Creator/{{CBS}} for three seasons from 1958-1961. The black-and-white program was a spin-off of a March 1958 episode of ''Series/{{Trackdown}}'', a 1957-1959 western series featuring Creator/RobertCulp as a Texas Ranger named Hoby Gilman.

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''Wanted: Dead or Alive'' is an American {{Western}} television series starring [[Creator/SteveMcQueenActor Steve McQueen]] that followed a DramaticHalfHour format and stars Creator/{{Steve McQueen|Actor}} as the bounty hunter Josh Randall. It aired on Creator/{{CBS}} for three seasons from 1958-1961. The black-and-white program was a spin-off of a March 1958 episode of ''Series/{{Trackdown}}'', a 1957-1959 western series featuring Creator/RobertCulp as a Texas Ranger named Hoby Gilman.
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* TheSheriff: Josh runs into the full gamut - from those who are respectable and firm believers in justice to [[CorruptHick corrupt hicks]] and petty tyrants who use the badge to bully the townspeople they're supposed to protect. Josh usually finds a way to bring the corrupt ones down by episode's end.

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* TheSheriff: Josh runs into the full gamut - from those who are respectable and firm believers in justice to [[CorruptHick corrupt hicks]] hicks and petty tyrants who use the badge to bully the townspeople they're supposed to protect. Josh usually finds a way to bring the corrupt ones down by episode's end.
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''Wanted: Dead or Alive'' is an American {{Western}} television series starring Creator/SteveMcQueenActor as the bounty hunter Josh Randall. It aired on Creator/{{CBS}} for three seasons from 1958-1961. The black-and-white program was a spin-off of a March 1958 episode of ''Series/{{Trackdown}}'', a 1957-1959 western series featuring Creator/RobertCulp as a Texas Ranger named Hoby Gilman.

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''Wanted: Dead or Alive'' is an American {{Western}} television series starring Creator/SteveMcQueenActor [[Creator/SteveMcQueenActor Steve McQueen]] as the bounty hunter Josh Randall. It aired on Creator/{{CBS}} for three seasons from 1958-1961. The black-and-white program was a spin-off of a March 1958 episode of ''Series/{{Trackdown}}'', a 1957-1959 western series featuring Creator/RobertCulp as a Texas Ranger named Hoby Gilman.
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''Wanted: Dead or Alive'' is an American {{Western}} television series starring Creator/SteveMcQueenActor as the bounty hunter Josh Randall. It aired on Creator/{{CBS}} for three seasons from 1958-1961. The black-and-white program was a spin-off of a March 1958 episode of ''Series/{{Trackdown}}'', a 1957-1959 western series featuring Robert Culp as a Texas Ranger named Hoby Gilman.

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''Wanted: Dead or Alive'' is an American {{Western}} television series starring Creator/SteveMcQueenActor as the bounty hunter Josh Randall. It aired on Creator/{{CBS}} for three seasons from 1958-1961. The black-and-white program was a spin-off of a March 1958 episode of ''Series/{{Trackdown}}'', a 1957-1959 western series featuring Robert Culp Creator/RobertCulp as a Texas Ranger named Hoby Gilman.
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* TheSheriff: Josh runs into the full gamut - from those who are respectable and firm believers in justice to CorruptHicks and petty tyrants who use the badge to bully the townspeople they're supposed to protect. Josh usually finds a way to bring the corrupt ones down by episode's end.

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* TheSheriff: Josh runs into the full gamut - from those who are respectable and firm believers in justice to CorruptHicks [[CorruptHick corrupt hicks]] and petty tyrants who use the badge to bully the townspeople they're supposed to protect. Josh usually finds a way to bring the corrupt ones down by episode's end.

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* BountyHunter
* CripplingTheCompetition: In "The Bounty", a ruthless bounty hunter, feared for the speed of his shooting, is pursued by a band of Apache seeking for an old man he had killed. Rather than killing him, they cut off his right thumb, removing his ability to cock a hammer one-handed and thus destroying his speed as a gunslinger.

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* BountyHunter
BountyHunter: Josh. Some episodes like "Sheriff of Red Rock" had him deal with less scrupulous bounty hunters who would try and jump him to take his prisoner and claim the reward for themselves.
* CripplingTheCompetition: In "The Bounty", a ruthless bounty hunter, feared for the speed of his shooting, is pursued by a band of Apache seeking revenge for an old man he had killed. Rather than killing him, they cut off his right thumb, removing his ability to cock a hammer one-handed and thus destroying his speed as a gunslinger.



* DetectivePatsy: More than once Josh is hired by someone to track down a missing person or wanted fugitive, who is using Josh as a fall guy for their real plan.



* SawedOffShotgun: Sawn-off repeating rifle actually.

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* SawedOffShotgun: Sawn-off Sawed-off repeating rifle actually.actually.
* TheSheriff: Josh runs into the full gamut - from those who are respectable and firm believers in justice to CorruptHicks and petty tyrants who use the badge to bully the townspeople they're supposed to protect. Josh usually finds a way to bring the corrupt ones down by episode's end.



* ThirstyDesert: "Rawhide Breed" takes place in one of these. Josh and another man are trying to cross it after their stagecoach is attacked, with little water to be had and hostile Indians in pursuit.



* YouHaveOutlivedYourUsefulness: The first episode, "The Martin" sees the outlaw Andy Martin murder a doctor and take his supplies after he treats his wounded brother.

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* WantedPoster: When on a job, Josh often carried the poster of the person he was trying to capture so that he could claim the reward.
* YouHaveOutlivedYourUsefulness: The first episode, "The Martin" Martin Poster" sees the outlaw Andy Martin murder a doctor and take his supplies after he treats his wounded brother.
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* ElCidPloy: In "The Passing of Shawnee Bill", Josh ties the body of Bill to the saddle of his horse and sends it galloping out of the box canyon where he is trapped. Dalt, the man who has been stalking them, assumes Bill is making a break for it and fires several shots into the body, giving Josh time to get behind him and get the drop on him.


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* IconicItem: Josh's sidearm, the Mare's Leg: a cut down Winchester model 1892 carbine in 44-40 caliber. InUniverse the gun is distinctive enough that people who have never met him can identify him by it.

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