Wanted: Dead or Alive
Jason
TV Flash files “Jason” as hour 57 of 94 in the TV Flash guide — Wanted: Dead or Alive (1958–1961) on CBS, season 2, episode 21, aired 1960-01-30, 30 min.
From the desk
How this hour is filed
This leaf is S02E21: listed hour 57 of 94 in the Wanted: Dead or Alive guide, hour 21 of 32 in season 2. It aired 1960-01-30 (30 min). The listed hour before it is “The Most Beautiful Woman” (S02E20). Next is “The Partners” (S02E22).
Catalog log
Broadcast listing — not a TV Flash recap.
Josh Randall caught 'Doc' Phillips, the partner of outlaw Clell Fennon, and wants to use him as bait to get Fennon. Deputy Jason Nichols admires Josh so much the he wants to become a bounty hunter and ride with Randall and has an idea on how to capture Fennon.
Viewer FAQ
Where does Jason sit in the Wanted: Dead or Alive guide?
S02E21 is listed hour 57 of 94 — hour 21 of 32 in season 2, season 2 episode 21.
When did Wanted: Dead or Alive S02E21 air?
Jason aired 1960-01-30 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…