Wanted: Dead or Alive
Prison Trail
TV Flash files “Prison Trail” as hour 67 of 94 in the TV Flash guide — Wanted: Dead or Alive (1958–1961) on CBS, season 2, episode 31, aired 1960-05-14, 30 min.
From the desk
How this hour is filed
This leaf is S02E31: listed hour 67 of 94 in the Wanted: Dead or Alive guide, hour 31 of 32 in season 2. It aired 1960-05-14 (30 min). The listed hour before it is “The Inheritance” (S02E30). Next is “Pay-Off at Pinto” (S02E32).
Catalog log
Broadcast listing — not a TV Flash recap.
Josh and Jason are returning four prisoners to prison. On their way they encounter a stranger who keeps following them. From the prisoners themselves Josh learns that the stranger is out to kill them before they reach the prison.
Viewer FAQ
Where does Prison Trail sit in the Wanted: Dead or Alive guide?
S02E31 is listed hour 67 of 94 — hour 31 of 32 in season 2, season 2 episode 31.
When did Wanted: Dead or Alive S02E31 air?
Prison Trail aired 1960-05-14 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…