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* ObfuscatingDisability: In "Dead End", a ranch manager confined to a wheelchair after an accident with a bronco hires Josh to track down a ranch hand who allegedly stole the cash from the ranch's cattle sales. When Josh finds the cowhand, he is already dead: shot in the back. The ranch manager then appears, walking with a limp. He faked how the bad accident was, then murdered the hand, stole the money, and hired Josh. He plans to murder Josh and frame him and the cowhand for the theft.
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* HandfulForAnEye: In "Dead End", a Mexican cowhand tries sneaking up on Josh as he is asleep. Josh, who is actually awake, palms a handful of dirt from the ground and tosses it in the cowhand's face as he gets close.
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* HandfulForAnEye: AHandfulForAnEye: In "Dead End", a Mexican cowhand tries sneaking up on Josh as he is asleep. Josh, who is actually awake, palms a handful of dirt from the ground and tosses it in the cowhand's face as he gets close.
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* HandfulForAnEye: In "Dead End", a Mexican cowhand tries sneaking up on Josh as he is asleep. Josh, who is actually awake, palms a handful of dirt from the ground and tosses it in the cowhand's face as he gets close.
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* StabTheScorpion: In "Dead End", Josh is holding a Mexican cowhand he suspected of attempting to bushwhack him at gunpoint. The Mexican pulls a hidden knife and throws it Josh. The knife goes over his shoulder and imaples the rattlesnake slithering on the the log behind him.
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* 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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* PistolWhipping: In "The Bounty", a rival bounty hunter clubs Josh into unconsciousness with his own mare's leg.
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* DesignatedGirlFight: In "Fatal Memory", the female VillainOfTheWeek is tackled by the daughter of the man she was attempting to frame, while Josh fights the villainess' brother outside.
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* InTheBack: In "The Martin Poster", Andy Martin shoots the doctor who has just saved his brother's life in the back as he walks away, so as to leave no witnesses.
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* SuperWindoWJump: In "The Martin Poster", Andy Martin escapes from Josh by jumping through a closed window and running off with not cuts, bruises or any other damage.
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* SuperWindoWJump: In "The Martin Poster", Andy Martin escapes from Josh by jumping through a closed window and running off with not cuts, bruises or any other damage.
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* DeathFakedForYou: In "The Martin Poster", Andy Martin digs a fake grave for his brother Carl, who was wounded during their escape, so that anyone following them will assume he died.
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* PunnyName: In "The Martin", Dr. Leach's name is probably a conscious joke. At one time, doctors bled their patients (using leeches) to correct the balance of "humors", to restore the patient to health.
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* PunnyName: In "The Martin", Martin Poster", Dr. Leach's name is probably a conscious joke. At one time, doctors bled their patients (using leeches) to correct the balance of "humors", to restore the patient to health.
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* TaeKwonDoor: In "The Martin Poster", an outlaw is hiding behind a door waiting to jump Josh. Tipped off by the marshal's eye movements, Josh uses his elbow to slam the door back into the outlaw.
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* ArtisticLicenseBallistics: The Mare's Leg is a cut down Winchester model 1892 carbine in 44-40 caliber, but the bullets in his cartridge belt are 45-70 caliber rounds used in the larger, more powerful rifles of the day. The producers wanted to use the 45-70s because they were more visually impressive than the relatively small, pistol sized rounds actually used in the 1892 carbine.
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* ArtisticLicenseBallistics: AnachronismStew: The Mare's Leg is a cut down Winchester model 1892 carbine in 44-40 caliber, but the bullets in his Josh's cartridge belt are 45-70 caliber rounds used in the larger, more powerful rifles of the day. The producers wanted to use the 45-70s because they were more visually impressive than the relatively small, pistol sized rounds actually used in the 1892 carbine.
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* AnachronismStew: The use of the 1892 carbine when the series is set in the 1870s.
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* ImproperlyPlacedFirearms: The use of the 1892 carbine when the series is set in the 1870s.
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* PunnyName: In "The Martin", Dr. Leach's name is probably a conscious joke. At one time, doctors bled their patients (using leeches) to correct the balance of "humors", to restore the patient to health.
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* 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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* AnachronismStew: The use of the 1892 carbine when the series is set in the 1870s.
* ArtisticLicenseBallistics: The Mare's Leg is a cut down Winchester model 1892 carbine in 44-40 caliber, but the bullets in his cartridge belt are 45-70 caliber rounds used in the larger, more powerful rifles of the day. The producers wanted to use the 45-70s because they were more visually impressive than the relatively small, pistol sized rounds actually used in the 1892 carbine.
* AwesomeButImpractical: The "Mare's Leg" is too short to be fired like a rifle and if fired like a handgun requires an awkward and uncomfortable angle on the wrist. Although visually striking, from a practical standpoint it is almost useless for self-defense.
* ArtisticLicenseBallistics: The Mare's Leg is a cut down Winchester model 1892 carbine in 44-40 caliber, but the bullets in his cartridge belt are 45-70 caliber rounds used in the larger, more powerful rifles of the day. The producers wanted to use the 45-70s because they were more visually impressive than the relatively small, pistol sized rounds actually used in the 1892 carbine.
* AwesomeButImpractical: The "Mare's Leg" is too short to be fired like a rifle and if fired like a handgun requires an awkward and uncomfortable angle on the wrist. Although visually striking, from a practical standpoint it is almost useless for self-defense.
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* HandCannon: the "Mare's Leg" in .44-40, despite the .45-70 cartridges on Randall's belt.
* HangingJudge: "Miracle at Pot Hole."
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* HangingJudge: "Miracle at Pot Hole."
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* HandCannon: the The "Mare's Leg" in .44-40, despite the .45-70 cartridges on Randall's belt.
* HangingJudge: In "Miracle at PotHole."
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 KangarooCourt.
* LysistrataGambit: In "To theVictor." The sheriff's wife Victor", Josh Randall's problem is even named Liz Strata.a town where the women (led by Liz, the daughter of Sheriff Strata - get it?) withhold themselves from the men in a protest against guns. After an attack on the town which they can't protect themselves against, the women give in [[spoiler:unaware that Josh had arranged for the attack]].
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* EvilTwin: "Hero in the Dust" features a twin who seems to have no redeeming qualities -- who seems to be bad to the bone, and frames his brother for his crimes; the focus is on the "good" brother, who troubles over their relationship and turns to Josh to see that it ends with both of them alive.
-->'''Pete Weaver:''' Now, there ''is'' a difference between you and me... but the only ones who can ''tell'' that difference is you -- and me.
-->'''Pete Weaver:''' Now, there ''is'' a difference between you and me... but the only ones who can ''tell'' that difference is you -- and me.
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* DatingCatwoman: In "Journey for Josh," Randall is transporting a female bank robber while keeping an eye out for her male partner. They eventually fall in love. [[spoiler:The episode manages to work in FourthDateMarriage (as it seems Randall decides to spend the rest of his life with her) ''and'' CartwrightCurse, as her partner kills her and is then killed by Josh.]] And they only had half an hour to squeeze all that in!
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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 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.
''Wanted: Dead or Alive'' is an American Western television series starring Creator/SteveMcQueenActor as the bounty hunter Josh Randall. It aired on 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
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''Wanted: Dead or Alive'' is an American Western television series starring SteveMcQueen as the bounty hunter Josh Randall. It aired on 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 SteveMcQueen Creator/SteveMcQueenActor as the bounty hunter Josh Randall. It aired on 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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* UnorthodoxReloadUnorthodoxReload: Josh would frequently flip-cock his "Mare's Leg".
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[=McQueen=]'s character of Josh Randall is a [[TheAmericanCivilWar 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.
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[=McQueen=]'s character of Josh Randall is a [[TheAmericanCivilWar [[UsefulNotes/TheAmericanCivilWar 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.
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The 1987 film of the same title is a SettingUpdate of sorts starring RutgerHauer as Randall's great-grandson, who is also a bounty hunter.
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The 1987 film of the same title is a SettingUpdate of sorts starring Rutger Hauer as Randall's great-grandson, who is also a bounty hunter.
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