Wanted: Dead or Alive
Rawhide Breed
TV Flash files “Rawhide Breed” as hour 15 of 94 in the TV Flash guide — Wanted: Dead or Alive (1958–1961) on CBS, season 1, episode 15, aired 1958-12-13, 30 min.
From the desk
How this hour is filed
This leaf is S01E15: listed hour 15 of 94 in the Wanted: Dead or Alive guide, hour 15 of 36 in season 1. It aired 1958-12-13 (30 min). The listed hour before it is “Die by the Gun” (S01E14). Next is “Eight Cent Reward” (S01E16).
Catalog log
Broadcast listing — not a TV Flash recap.
Josh and a passenger are the only two people that survived an Apache attack on the stagecoach that they were riding in. The two have a long walk to the next relay station, not realizing that the Kreager brothers are on their trail hopeing to free their brother who was in Randall's custody but died during the attack.
Viewer FAQ
Where does Rawhide Breed sit in the Wanted: Dead or Alive guide?
S01E15 is listed hour 15 of 94 — hour 15 of 36 in season 1, season 1 episode 15.
When did Wanted: Dead or Alive S01E15 air?
Rawhide Breed aired 1958-12-13 and is listed at 30 minutes.
Where should I start?
Start with McQueen and the Mare's Leg. The bounty-hunter brief and the underplaying are visible immediately.
In the series
Why this series still plays
Wanted: Dead or Alive made Steve McQueen a star with a sawed-off Mare's Leg and quiet bounty-hunter cool. Stylish antihero western in a crowded field. A 2026 viewer watches the proto-cool that movies later sold as McQueen myth — the cut-down Winchester as branding, intensity as the whole performance.
The gun is already the logo. Steve McQueen walks into CBS, 1958, as bounty hunter Josh Randall with a cut-down Winchester carbine — the Mare's Leg — and a volume knob turned so far down the rest of the western field sounds like shouting. Wanted: Dead or Alive is stylish antihero television in a crowded hat market, Four Star Television's three-season star factory, ninety-four half-hours of quiet intensity sold as a brand. The sawed-off is merch and myth in the same prop. Underplaying is the whole performance.…
Filed against
- Steve McQueen as Josh Randall
Steve McQueen made Wanted: Dead or Alive a star vehicle as Josh Randall — sawed-off Mare's Leg, quiet bounty-hunter cool, stylish antihero western in a crowded 1950s field. Intensity as the brand. TV Flash files him as proto-cool the…