Wanted: Dead or Alive
Pay-Off at Pinto
TV Flash files “Pay-Off at Pinto” as the last listed hour of season 2 — Wanted: Dead or Alive (1958–1961) on CBS, season 2, episode 32, aired 1960-05-21, 30 min.
From the desk
How this hour is filed
This leaf is S02E32: listed hour 68 of 94 in the Wanted: Dead or Alive guide, last listed hour of season 2. It aired 1960-05-21 (30 min). The listed hour before it is “Prison Trail” (S02E31). Next is “The Trial” (S03E01).
Catalog log
Broadcast listing — not a TV Flash recap.
The bank of Pinto has been recently robbed. The banks owner, Tom Wing, hires Josh to go to Santa Fe to pick up funds to be returned to his bank. On his way back, Josh is robbed too, and the citizens of Pinto are outraged and want to see Tom Wing hanged.
Viewer FAQ
Where does Pay-Off at Pinto sit in the Wanted: Dead or Alive guide?
S02E32 is listed hour 68 of 94 — last listed hour of season 2, season 2 episode 32.
When did Wanted: Dead or Alive S02E32 air?
Pay-Off at Pinto aired 1960-05-21 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.…
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…