Wanted: Dead or Alive: Season 03 (1960)

Having been teamed with deputy sheriff Jason Nichols during the latter part of Wanted: Dead or Alive's second season, bounty hunter Josh Randall (Steve McQueen) reverts to his original "lone wolf" status as the series' third and final season gets under way -- a reflection, perhaps, of McQueen's notorious reluctance to share the spotlight with any other actor. Although it is McQueen's star power that sustains interest throughout the series' third season, Wanted: Dead or Alive continues to be blessed with the cream of the guest-star crop. The season opener, "The Trial," features James Coburn, fresh from co-starring with McQueen in the 1960 film classic The Magnificent Seven; future director Mark Rydell (On Golden Pond) is prominently cast in "Criss-Cross"; Roy Barcroft, burly bad guy in many a Republic Western, plays a rare sympathetic role in "The Voice of Silence"; comic actor Howard Morris appears as a moonstruck Romeo in "Detour"; and that scheming, Southern-accented saloon gal in "The Twain Shall Meet" is none other than Mary Tyler Moore! Although Wanted: Dead or Alive was still doing well ratings-wise during its third season, Steve McQueen had a hankerin' to quit TV and become a full-time movie star, and thus his series was canceled after 94 episodes. ~ Hal Erickson, Rovi