Wanted: Dead or Alive
Twelve Hours to Crazy Horse
TV Flash files “Twelve Hours to Crazy Horse” as hour 48 of 94 in the TV Flash guide — Wanted: Dead or Alive (1958–1961) on CBS, season 2, episode 12, aired 1959-11-21, 30 min.
From the desk
How this hour is filed
This leaf is S02E12: listed hour 48 of 94 in the Wanted: Dead or Alive guide, hour 12 of 32 in season 2. It aired 1959-11-21 (30 min). The listed hour before it is “Desert Seed” (S02E11). Next is “No Trail Back” (S02E13).
Catalog log
Broadcast listing — not a TV Flash recap.
Josh delivers Dan Murdock, wanted for multiple murders, to the Sheriff of Mesa City. While there Josh learns that one of the murdered victims is the brother of Sheriff Hayes who will take revenge while transporting his prisoner to Crazy Horse. Josh joins both men to prevent any wrong doing on the trail back to Crazy Horse.
Viewer FAQ
Where does Twelve Hours to Crazy Horse sit in the Wanted: Dead or Alive guide?
S02E12 is listed hour 48 of 94 — hour 12 of 32 in season 2, season 2 episode 12.
When did Wanted: Dead or Alive S02E12 air?
Twelve Hours to Crazy Horse aired 1959-11-21 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.…
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- 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…