Wanted: Dead or Alive
The Inheritance
TV Flash files “The Inheritance” as hour 66 of 94 in the TV Flash guide — Wanted: Dead or Alive (1958–1961) on CBS, season 2, episode 30, aired 1960-04-30, 30 min.
From the desk
How this hour is filed
This leaf is S02E30: listed hour 66 of 94 in the Wanted: Dead or Alive guide, hour 30 of 32 in season 2. It aired 1960-04-30 (30 min). The listed hour before it is “Death, Divided by Three” (S02E29). Next is “Prison Trail” (S02E31).
Catalog log
Broadcast listing — not a TV Flash recap.
Clint Davis, owner of the largest ranch west of Missouri, is blind and dying, and hires Josh Randell to find his son.
Viewer FAQ
Where does The Inheritance sit in the Wanted: Dead or Alive guide?
S02E30 is listed hour 66 of 94 — hour 30 of 32 in season 2, season 2 episode 30.
When did Wanted: Dead or Alive S02E30 air?
The Inheritance aired 1960-04-30 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…