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Wanted: Dead or Alive Dead Reckoning (1958–1961) Online
1958–1961 Steve McQueen Jimmy Lydon John Alderman Murray Golden
Original Title :
Dead Reckoning
Genre :
TV Episode / Western
Year :
1958–1961
Directror :
Murray Golden
Cast :
Steve McQueen,Jimmy Lydon,John Alderman
Writer :
Ed Adamson
Type :
TV Episode
Time :
25min
Rating :
8.1/10

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Wanted: Dead or Alive Dead Reckoning (1958–1961) Online

Josh arriving in town rides up to Sheriff Art Hampton's office where Art is nailing up a wanted poster. Seeing Josh, Art responds that he was thinking of Josh then. Josh says that is no surprise as he arrived from Colfax based on a message from Art about a Paul Decker. The surprised Art tells Josh he didn't send the message but to look at the poster he was nailing up. It is for Paul Decker wanted dead or alive for murder with a reward of $300. Josh decides to go after Decker but before he can leave, a woman calls to him. She clears up the details by saying she sent the message to Josh and that she is Mrs. Decker. She has heard Josh will bring in wanted men alive so she wants him to catch her husband so he can return to prove his innocence. She tells Josh where to find Decker. He rides there via Mesa City where he runs into the Taggart brothers at the general store who want to hang Decker for killing their brother regardless of whether he is innocent. Josh's attempt to lose them fails ...
Episode complete credited cast:
Steve McQueen Steve McQueen - Josh Randall
Jimmy Lydon Jimmy Lydon - Paul Decker (as James Lydon)
John Alderman John Alderman - Wade Taggart (as John L. Alderman)
Chuck Hayward Chuck Hayward - Burt Taggart
Jan Brooks Jan Brooks - Barbara Decker
Leonard Bell Leonard Bell - Ollie Prescott
Roy Engel Roy Engel - Sheriff Art Hampton


User reviews

Winotterin

Winotterin

In this episode, the series gets back to its roots as we get a western tale that is full of suspense and action. -- It all begins when Josh gets a message from the sheriff that he is wanted to find an outlaw, Paul Decker, that is accused of killing a local man named Taggart.. When Josh arrives he is informed that the Sheriff sent no message but finds out that the wife of Paul Decker sent the message and wants Josh to return her husband for trail before the Taggart family finds him. Josh is told of the whereabouts of Decker and plans to bring him back for justice.

Before Josh sets out to return Decker, he runs in to two brothers of Taggart with intent to hang Decker on sight. Josh has to get Decker back to the Sheriff's office plus also has to deal with the brothers that will do anything to keep Josh from getting Decker to town.

After an episode that did not live up to the series standard, this episode returned the series to the reason viewers enjoyed the show. An enjoyable western that was well written and well performed.
Hanad

Hanad

This was an excellent, suspenseful show with plenty of action and some pretty memorable scenes.

Some of those were in scenes involving guest actor James Lydon ("Paul Dexter/") For classic movie fans, that's "Jimmy Lydon," who was one of the featured members of the cast of the 1947 hit film, "Life With Father." Actor Lydon, by now, was a grown adult with a number of TV-credits to his resume (and a whole lot since!).

"Josh" not only gets involved with two vengeful "Taggart" brothers, "Burt" and "Ollie," he also has to play surgeon to save the man's life who he's bring in! Lots of good stuff in this episode, the second-to-last in the history of this series.