Detective Patsy: More than once Josh is hired by someone to track down a missing person or wanted fugitive, who is using Josh as a fall guy for their real plan.Designated Girl Fight: In "Fatal Memory", the female Villain of the Week is tackled by the daughter of the man she was attempting to frame, while Josh fights the villainess' brother outside.Death Faked for You: In "The Martin Poster", Andy Martin digs a fake grave for his brother Carl, who was wounded during their escape, so that anyone following them will assume he died.And they only had half an hour to squeeze all that in! The episode manages to work in Fourth-Date Marriage (as it seems Randall decides to spend the rest of his life with her) and Cartwright Curse, as her partner kills her and is then killed by Josh. Dating Catwoman: In "Journey for Josh," Randall is transporting a female bank robber while keeping an eye out for her male partner.Rather than killing him, they cut off his right thumb, removing his ability to cock a hammer one-handed and thus destroying his speed as a gunslinger. Crippling the Competition: In "The Bounty", a ruthless bounty hunter, feared for the speed of his shooting, is pursued by a band of Apache seeking revenge for an old man he had killed.Some episodes like "Sheriff of Red Rock" had him deal with less scrupulous bounty hunters who would try and jump him to take his prisoner and claim the reward for themselves. Although visually striking, from a practical standpoint it is almost useless for self-defense. Awesome, but Impractical: The "Mare's Leg" is too short to be fired like a rifle and if fired like a handgun requires an awkward and uncomfortable angle on the wrist.The producers wanted to use the 45-70s because they were more visually impressive than the relatively small, pistol sized rounds actually used in the 1892 carbine. Anachronism Stew: The Mare's Leg is a cut down Winchester model 1892 carbine in 44-40 caliber, but the bullets in Josh's cartridge belt are 45-70 caliber rounds used in the larger, more powerful rifles of the day.
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The 1987 film of the same title is a Setting Update of sorts starring Rutger Hauer as Randall's great-grandson, who is also a bounty hunter.
Randall carries a shortened Winchester Model 1892 carbine, called the "Mare's Leg", in a holster patterned after "gunslinger" rigs then popular in movies and television. He often donates his earnings to the needy and helps his prisoners if they have been wrongly accused. McQueen's character of Josh Randall is a Confederate veteran and bounty hunter with a soft heart.
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The black-and-white program was a spin-off of a March 1958 episode of Trackdown, a 1957-1959 western series featuring Robert Culp as a Texas Ranger named Hoby Gilman. It aired on CBS for three seasons from 1958-1961. Wanted: Dead or Alive is an American Western television series starring Steve McQueen as the bounty hunter Josh Randall.
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