Wanted: Dead or Alive
The Partners
TV Flash files “The Partners” as hour 58 of 94 in the TV Flash guide — Wanted: Dead or Alive (1958–1961) on CBS, season 2, episode 22, aired 1960-02-06, 30 min.
From the desk
How this hour is filed
This leaf is S02E22: listed hour 58 of 94 in the Wanted: Dead or Alive guide, hour 22 of 32 in season 2. It aired 1960-02-06 (30 min). The listed hour before it is “Jason” (S02E21). Next is “Tolliver Bender” (S02E23).
Catalog log
Broadcast listing — not a TV Flash recap.
Josh gets arrested for horse theft, then he finds out it was Jason who put him behind bars because Jason wants to go after notorious outlaw Billy Joe Henry and bring him in alone without Josh's help.
Viewer FAQ
Where does The Partners sit in the Wanted: Dead or Alive guide?
S02E22 is listed hour 58 of 94 — hour 22 of 32 in season 2, season 2 episode 22.
When did Wanted: Dead or Alive S02E22 air?
The Partners aired 1960-02-06 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…