Much like Rawhide,
Wanted Dead or Alive would probably
be consigned to the heap of long-forgotten westerns if it hadn't been the
launch vehicle for a future movie mega-star, in this case Steve McQueen. But
unlike Clint Eastwood, who practically stumbled into acting with little prior
background, McQueen had at a young age vowed to become an actor, training at
the Actors Studio with Lee Strasburg and befriending James Dean before the
rebel's early death. Though he had a short, uncredited part in the film that
made Paul Newman a star, Somebody Up
There Likes Me, McQueen first began catching the eye of casting directors
and producers with his few turns on drama anthology TV fare such as The United States Steel Hour in 1956 and
a two-part drama titled "The Defender" on Studio One in Hollywood in 1957. The character of bounty hunter
Josh Randall was spun off from a 1958 episode of Trackdown titled "The Bounty Hunter," but in between
filming the pilot for Wanted Dead or
Alive and actually being given the part, McQueen starred in the classic
1950s sci-fi schlockfest The Blob, a
film that he later found both amusing and embarrassing. However, according to
biographer Christopher Sandiford, the roots of the McQueen understated style as
loner/anti-hero were all there in The
Blob. Like a combination of The Rifleman with its distinctive weapon and Have Gun Will Travel with its traveling gun for hire, Wanted Dead or Alive was the perfect
vehicle for McQueen for several reasons. Like McQueen, the character of Josh
Randall is a loner and outcast--bounty hunting is frequently referred to in the
program as an unsavory, mercenary profession. McQueen himself had few friends
and was driven by fierce ambition to reach the top of his profession after
suffering through a horrible childhood (see the biographical synopsis below).
He also valued his independence, the main reason why he was able to tolerate only
three seasons of being under the thumb of the producers of Wanted before bolting for more autonomy in feature films. And
because of his character's peripatetic profession, there was no room or need
for additional regular characters, giving McQueen maximum exposure in front of
the camera, something he was particularly hungry for early in his career,
according to Sandiford.
That is, until Season 2 of Wanted when the producers decided to introduce a
"partner" for Josh in the part of Jason Nichols, played by Wright
King, who starts out as a deputy in Virginia City in the episode titled
"Jason" (January 30, 1960) but by episode's end, after working with
Josh to bring down and solve the mystery of outlaw Clel Fannin, decides he
wants to be a bounty hunter, too, and gets Josh to reluctantly allow him to tag
along. Sandiford doesn't spend a lot of time on McQueen's tenure on Wanted and doesn't even mention how
McQueen felt about the addition of Jason's character to the series, but given
what he does say about McQueen's priorities at that point in his career, McQueen
couldn't have accepted the reduced camera time very favorably. As things played
out, Jason appeared in only 10 more episodes in Season 2 and was not brought
back for Season 3, with no explanation for his disappearance.
But jettisoning Jason in Season 3 did not solve the problem
of the series getting stuck in a rut. There are only so many ways to spin a
bounty hunter going after and eventually bringing in a wanted criminal, so the
writers began going a little far afield from Josh's stated business just to
give the plots more variety. In "The Cure" (September 28, 1960), Josh
is hired to keep Harry Simmons off the bottle by a female store owner who wants
Simmons to shape up and marry her. "To the Victor" (November 9, 1960)
is an anti-feminist yarn in which Josh is hired by the men of Coronado to end a
boycott by the town's women, who want their husbands to give up their guns. In
"One Mother Too Many" (December 7, 1960), Josh is hired by a widow to
settle a custody suit with her mother-in-law about the upbringing of her son.
And in "Witch Woman" (December 28, 1960) Josh is hired by a Mexican
school teacher to help expose and depose the local medicine woman, who holds a
powerful grip over a superstitious village.
Even though he is a loner with no roots and often has little
opportunity to pursue female companionship, Season 3 has him fall in love with
a female outlaw in "Journey for Josh" (October 5, 1960), and he keeps
company with saloon girl Kitty Connors in "The Showdown" (October 26,
1960), though we never see her again after that episode. Yet, recognizing the
shortcomings of his trade, he also convinces aging bounty hunter Frank Koster
to finally retire and give his wife Jane the peace, stability, and
companionship that she has patiently waited 25 years for in "The
Choice" (December 14, 1960). But there is no indication that Josh seeks
that stability and peace for himself, at least not through the first half of
Season 3.
One characteristic that sets Josh apart from most other
western gunslingers is his choice of weapon. Like Chuck Connors' Luke McCain in
The Rifleman, he brandishes a
modified repeater rifle instead of a pistol, which allows him to get off more
shots quickly than with a standard six-shooter. But Josh's so-called
"mare's leg" also has a sawed-off barrel, making it more suitable for
close range than a rifle, and a sawed-off butt at the other end so that he can
carry it in a holster strapped to his leg, just like a pistol. By Season 3, the
mare's leg had become so prominent that the opening sequence contains a segment
that zooms in on his leg and shows him snapping the rifle into its holster.
The gun was featured in a lengthy
article in Guns Quarterly in 1961 and
was reproduced in toy form by Marx Toys. Sandiford notes that McQueen practiced
with it for hours to be able to whip it in and out of the holster in fast-moving
action scenes.
As it turns out, Season 3 would be the last for the series
due to a convergence of events. Topping the list was a loss of audience: though
the show had risen from humble beginnings during its first year to #9 during
its second season in 1959-60, it was moved from its Saturday night slot
directly following Perry Mason to
Wednesday evening for Season 3, preceded by The
Aquanauts. It fell out of the top 30 in the ratings and was canceled in the
spring of 1961. Sandiford also cites McQueen being caught on set having sex
with the continuity girl as a contributing factor, but the loss in ratings
surely had the biggest impact. Even so, McQueen had his eye on movie stardom--The Magnificent Seven was released in
1960 and by the time McQueen filmed The
Great Escape three years later, his brief residence on the small screen was
no longer even in his rearview mirror.
All 1960 episodes of Wanted credit the score to Rudy Schrager
(though the credits do not distinguish between the score for the theme song and
the score for each individual episode). Schrager had emigrated from what is now
the Ukraine in the 1930s and found work in Hollywood writing scores for
B-movies. In the early 1940s he moved over to radio but returned to film by the
end of the decade, still working on mostly second-tier fare, though he did
score Charlie Chaplin's Monsieur Verdoux
in 1947. The advent and rise of television reduced the number of opportunities
for scoring feature-length movies. Composers like Schrager were forbidden by
contract from working in television, so music director David Chudnow set up a
scheme in which the music was recorded in Europe under fictitious pseudonyms
with Chudnow funneling the royalties to the various composers, like Schrager,
in secret. Under this scheme, some of the music Schrager had written for the
film The Guilty wound up being used
for The Adventures of Superman on TV.
Eventually Schrager and the others were allowed to score for TV in the open.
Besides Wanted, he also composed for Johnny Ringo, The Westerner, Rawhide,
and Gunsmoke before retiring in the
1970s. He died August 24, 1983 at the age of 82.
The complete series has been released on DVD by Mill Creek Entertainment.
The Actors
Steve McQueen
Born Terrence Steven McQueen in Beech Grove, Indiana,
McQueen endured a horrific childhood in which he was abandoned by his father
six months after he was born. There is no record that his parents were ever
married. His mother was an alcoholic prostitute who several times shipped Steve
off to live with relatives and finally to a boarding school, which he ran away
from in the 9th grade. McQueen was physically abused by some of her boyfriends
and lovers. He engaged in a life of petty crime, had a number of odd jobs, and
served three years in the Marines before winding up in New York at age 21.
There he hooked up with an actress who urged him to give acting a try, which he
did, first at Sandy Meisner's Neighborhood Playhouse. From there he moved to
the Hagen-Berghof drama school and on to Strasburg's Actors Studio. After a few
roles in off-Broadway productions, he scored his first TV appearance on the Goodyear Playhouse in 1955. Three years
later, he was the star of his own show and never looked back.
After Wanted was
canceled, he stuck strictly to movies, starting with the goofy comedy The Honeymoon Machine in 1961 and the
grim war picture Hell Is for Heroes
the year after that. His film career from there out has been well chronicled
elsewhere. But despite his reputation as the King of Cool, McQueen was at heart
insecure, paranoid, a drug addict, and notoriously unfaithful as a husband. He
also could be kind and generous to the few people he trusted and likewise made
many anonymous charitable contributions to organizations, like boys' homes,
that did work he could appreciate. He escaped death at the hands of Charles
Manson when he declined an invitation to dine with Sharon Tate the night she
was murdered, but he couldn't escape exposure to asbestos, either from his
years as a Marine working on ship hulls or use of the chemical on movie lots,
eventually succumbing to mesothelioma, for which he sought alternative medical
treatment in Mexico. The official autopsy said he died of a heart attack following
surgery on November 7, 1980 at the age of 50, but the alternative-medicine
doctor treating him at the time, former dentist William Kelley, alleges that
someone had injected him with a substance that induced a blood clot, in other
words, that he was murdered.
Wright King
Born in Oklahoma, King had wanted to become an actor from
the age of 4. His first break came after graduating high school when he won a
scholarship to a new theater studio school in St. Louis. From there, he worked
summer stock in Massachusetts and was part of a traveling troupe of performers
who toured the country doing children's theater. He then moved on to doing
Yiddish theater in New York, where he met his wife of over 60 years June Roth.
He began appearing on TV in 1949, but his biggest early success was playing an
unnamed collector in the film version of A
Streetcar Named Desire in 1951. From there, he made a string of TV
appearances throughout the early 1950s, including multiple appearances on The Gabby Hayes Show and Studio One in Hollywood. In 1953-54 he
had a regular role as Ernest P. Duckweather on the series Johnny Jupiter. Appearances on a raft of other programs continued
up to and after his short stint on Wanted.
He also added more film credits to his expansive resumé,
including The Young Guns and Hot Rod Rumble in the later 1950s. But
perhaps his biggest post-Wanted role
was playing Dr. Galen in the original film version of Planet of the Apes. He continued TV work and occasional film
appearances through the 1970s until he and his wife retired to Portland, Oregon
in 1987. His wife June died in December 2008, but King is still living, turning
89 this past January.
Notable Guest Stars
Season 2, Episode 17, "Mental
Lapse": Harry Townes (shown on the left, starred in The
Brothers Karamazov, Screaming Mimi,
and Sanctuary) plays amnesiac Olin
McDonald. Jan Shepard (Nurse Betty on Dr.
Christian) plays his girlfriend Lilith Preston. Ed Prentiss (Mr. Bailey on Leave It to Beaver and Carl Jensen on The Virginian) plays Dade City Sheriff
Truxton. Paul Dubov (Michel on The Ann
Sothern Show) plays saloon owner Blade Tomson. Billy Halop (starred in Angels With Dirty Faces, Tom Brown's School Days, and Hit the Road and played Bert Munson on All in the Family) plays Tomson's
henchman.
Season 2, Episode 18, "Angela": Howard Petrie (Hugh
Blaine on Bat Masterson) plays murder
victim Sam Pryor. Fay Spain (starred in Dragstrip
Girl, Al Capone, and The Gentle Rain) plays his daughter
Angela. Richard Bakalyan (starred in The
Delicate Delinquent, The Cool and the
Crazy, Juvenile Jungle, Hot Car Girl, Paratroop Command, and The
Computer Wore Tennis Shoes) plays robber Harry Quint. Wayne Rogers (shown on the right, played Luke
Perry on Stagecoach West, Capt. John
McIntiye on M*A*S*H*, Jake Axminster
on City of Angels, Dr. Charley
Michaels on House Calls, and Charlie
Garrett on Murder, She Wrote) plays
Quint's friend Ash Langford. Warren Oates (shown on the left, starred in In the Heat of the Night, The
Wild Bunch, and Stripes and played
Ves Painter on Stoney Burke) plays
Quint's friend George Aswell. 
Season 2, Episode 19, "The Monster": Eugene
Mazzola (Joey Drum on Jefferson Drum)
plays a runaway Indian boy. Martin Landau (shown on the left, starred in North by Northwest, Cleopatra,
The Greatest Story Ever Told, The Fall of the House of Usher, and Ed Wood and played Rollin Hand on Mission: Impossible!, Commander John
Koenig on Space: 1999, Dr. Sol Gold
on The Evidence, Bob Ryan on Entourage, and Frank Malone on Without a Trace) plays elephant trainer
Khorba. Russell Thorson (Det. Lt. Otto Lindstrom on The Detectives and William Kennerly on Peyton Place) plays the Nugget City sheriff. Bek Nelson (Dru Lemp
on Lawman and Phyllis Sloan on Peyton Place) plays trapeze artist
Hannah Blake. William Fawcett (Clayton on Duffy's
Tavern, Marshal George Higgins on The
Adventures of Rin Tin Tin, and Pete Wilkey on Fury) plays an unnamed prospector.
Season 2, Episode 20, "The Most Beautiful Woman": Arthur
Franz (starred in Flight to Mars, The Member of the Wedding, and The Caine Mutiny) plays fiancé seeker
John Garth. Mort Mills (Marshal Frank Tallman on Man Without a Gun, Sgt. Ben Landro on Perry Mason, and Sheriff Fred Madden on The Big Valley) plays Hogan strongman Frank. Owen Bush (Ben on Shane, John Belson on Sirota's Court, and Crimshaw on Our House) plays hotel owner Hose.
Season 2, Episode 21, "Jason": Sean McClory (shown on the right, played Jack
McGivern on The Californians and
Myles Delaney on Bring 'Em Back Alive)
plays wanted criminal Doc Phillips/Clel Fannin. Barry Kelley (starred in The Asphalt Jungle, The Manchurian Candidate, and The
Love Bug and played Mr. Slocum on Pete
and Gladys and Mr. Hergesheimer on Mister
Ed) plays Virginia City Sheriff Holmes. Orville Sherman (Mr. Feeney on Buckskin, Wib Smith on Gunsmoke, and Tupper on Daniel Boone) plays unruly citizen
Metcalfe.
Season 2, Episode 22, "The Partners": Robert
Morris (Lt. Cmdr. Napier on Warship)
plays wanted outlaw Billy Joe Henry. Richard Farnsworth (starred in The Grey Fox, The Natural, Misery, and The Straight Story) plays his brother
Rance. Wayne Heffley (Officer Dennis on Highway
Patrol, Mr. Kennedy on Little House
on the Prairie, and Vern Scofield on Days
of Our Lives) plays his brother Homer. Leslie Bradley (starred in The Crimson Pirate, Slaves of Babylon, Lady
Godiva of Coventry, and Attack of the
Crab Monsters) plays local Marshal Thompson.
Season 2, Episode 23, "Tolliver Bender": John
Carradine (shown on the left, starred in Stagecoach, The Grapes of Wrath, House of Frankenstein, House of Dracula, The Ten Commandments, and Sex
Kittens Go to College and played Gen. Joshua McCord on Branded) plays Pittman justice-dispenser Amos McKenna. Percy Helton
(Homer Cratchit on The Beverly
Hillbillies) plays an old man in Pittman. Joseph V. Perry (Nemo on Everybody
Loves Raymond) plays Pittman resident Flint. Gloria Talbott (starred in The Cyclops, Daughter of Dr. Jekyll, and I
Married a Monster From Outer Space and played Moneta on Zorro) plays Tolliver Bender's daughter
Addy.
Season 2, Episode 24, "A House Divided": Eduard
Franz (starred in The Thing From Another
World, Lady Godiva of Coventry, The Jazz Singer (1952), Sins of Jezebel, and The Indian Fighter and played Gregorio
Verdugo on Zorro and Dr. Edward
Raymer on Breaking Point) plays accused
killer Bayard Cole. Stafford Repp (Chief O'Hara on Batman) plays his half-brother Clete. Don Gordon (shown on the right, played Richard Jensen on
Peyton Place) plays Clete's son Buff.
Raymond Hatton (starred in Oliver Twist
(1916), The Hunchback of Notre Dame,
and Lord Jim, played Marshal Sandy
Hopkins in 28 westerns and Rusty Joslin in 7 other westerns, and played The
Mole on Dick Tracy) plays an unnamed
stableman.
Season 2, Episode 25, "Triple Vise": William
Phipps (Curley Bill Brocius on The Life
and Legend of Wyatt Earp, Uncle Link on Boone,
and Jake Dodge on Santa Barbara)
plays accused killer Al Hemp. Bing Russell (Deputy Clem Foster on Bonanza) plays his brother Billy. Nestor
Paiva (Theo Gonzales on Zorro) plays
the sheriff of Buena Nova. Pedro Pedro Gonzalez (Pedro Vasquez on The Texan) plays Buena Nova resident
Tomas.
Season 2, Episode 26, "Black Belt": Richard Crane (shown on the left, played Rocky
Jones on Rocky Jones, Space Ranger
Dick Preston on Commando Cody, Sky
Marshal of the Universe, and Lt. Gene Plehn on Surfside 6) plays Paul Cameron, son of a murdered man. Forrest
Taylor (starred in True Nobility, Big Calibre, Too Much Beef, and The Lost
Planet and played Doc Brannon on Man
Without a Gun) plays Railton, KS Dr. Russell. Stuart Randall (Sheriff Art
Sampson on Cimarron City, Al
Livermore on Lassie, and Sheriff Mort
Corey on Laramie) plays railroad
foreman Mr. Cummings.
Season 2, Episode 27, "The Pariah": Frank Ferguson
(shown on the right, played Gus Broeberg on My Friend Flicka,
Eli Carson on Peyton Place, and Dr.
Barton Stuart on Petticoat Junction)
plays Horse Hollow store owner Amos Wilson. Susan Oliver (Ann Howard on Peyton Place) plays his daughter Bess. Rhys
Williams (Doc Burrage on The Rifleman)
plays local Dr. Horton. Bill Quinn (Frank Sweeney on The Rifleman, Judge Tesman on Arrest
and Trial, and Mr. Van Ranseleer on All
in the Family and Archie Bunker's
Place) plays townsman Bill. King Calder (Lt. Gray on Martin Kane) plays local Sheriff Jackson.
Season 2, Episode 28, "Vendetta": Arthur Batanides
(Sgt. Sam Olivera on Johnny Midnight)
plays noted Indian killer Alan Stokes. Harry Towne (see "Mental
Lapse" above) plays deranged Army Capt. William Phelps. Bert Ramsen (Detective
Lawrence on Peyton Place, Mr. Pell on
Gibbsville, Mario on It's a Living, and Jack Crager on Dynasty) plays his second-in-command Lt.
Pierce. Willis Bouchey (Mayor Terwilliger on The Great Gildersleeve, Springer on Pete and Gladys, and the judge 23 times on Perry Mason) plays Fort Carson commander Colonel Bradley.
Season 2, Episode 29, "Death Divided by Three": Richard
Garland (Clay Horton on Lassie) plays
wanted killer Jake Lorenz. Mara Corday (shown on the left, starred in Tarantula, The Giant Claw,
and Girls on the Loose) plays his
wife Lucinda. John Harmon (Eddie Halstead on The Rifleman and the fingerprint expert on Perry Mason) plays an unnamed hotel clerk. Mark Allen (Matt Kissel
on The Travels of Jamie McPheeters
and Sam Evans on Dark Shadows) plays a
blacksmith. Walter Sande (appeared in To
Have and Have Not, A Place in the Sun,
and Bad Day at Black Rock and played
Capt. Horatio Bullwinkle on The
Adventures of Tugboat Annie and Papa Holstrum on The Farmer's Daughter) plays local Sheriff George.
Season 2, Episode 30, "The Inheritance": John
Litel (starred in Back in Circulation,
On Trial, Murder in the Blue Room, four Nancy Drew films, and eight Henry
Aldrich films and played the Governor on Zorro
and Dan Murchison on Stagecoach West)
plays wealthy ranch owner Clint Davis. John Anderson (played Virgil Earp on The Life and Legend of Wyatt Earp, Dr.
Herbert Styles on Dallas, and Harry
Jackson on MacGyver) plays Grangerville
deputy Tom Fix. Ed Kemmer (Commander Buzz Corry on Space Patrol, Paul Britton on The
Secret Storm, and Dick Martin on As
the World Turns) plays imposter Adam Smith.
Season 2, Episode 31, "Prison Trail": Beverly
Garland (shown on the right, played Casey Jones on Decoy, Ellis
Collins on The Bing Crosby Show,
Barbara Harper Douglas on My Three Sons,
Dorothy "Dotty" West on Scarecrow
and Mrs. King, Ellen Lane on Lois
& Clark: The New Adventures of Superman, and Ginger on 7th Heaven) plays captured prisoner
Sally Lind. Claude Akins (Sonny Pruett on Movin'
On and Sheriff Elroy P. Lobo on B.J
and the Bear and on Lobo) plays prisoner
Jack Kelley. Brad Dexter (starred in Macao,
Between Heaven and Hell, and Run Silent, Run Deep) plays pursuing
stranger Davis.
Season 2, Episode 32, "Pay-Off at Pinto": Philip
Ahn (Master Kan on Kung Fu) plays
bank owner Tom Wing. Barry Kelley (see "Jason" above) plays Pinto
Sheriff Luke Deaver. Addison Richards (starred in Boys Town, They Made Her a Spy,
Flying Tigers, and The Deerslayer and played Doc Calhoun on
Trackdown and Doc Landy on The Deputy) plays Pinto Dr. John Allen.
Than Wyenn (Licenciado Piña on Zorro)
plays irate citizen Elkins. Harlan Warde (John Hamilton on The Rifleman and Sherriff John Brannan on The Virginian) plays leading citizen Ed Shaw.
Season 3, Episode 1, "The Trial": Paul Burke (starred
in Della, Valley of the Dolls, and The
Thomas Crown Affair and played Dr. Noah McCann on Noah's Ark, Jeff Kittridge on Harbormaster,
Robertson/Robinson on Five Fingers,
Det. Adam Flint on Naked City, Col.
Joseph Anson Gallagher on 12 O'Clock High,
C.C. Capwell on Santa Barbara, Nicholas
Broderick on Hot Shots, and Neal
McVane on Dynasty) plays accused
killer Daniel Trenner. James Coburn (shown on the left, starred in The Magnificent Seven, Charade,
Our Man Flint, and In Like Flint and played Jeff Durain on Klondike and Gregg Miles on Acapulco) plays Junction City Sheriff
Howard Catlett. John Pickard (Capt. Shank Adams on Boots and Saddles and Sgt. Maj. Murdock on Gunslinger) plays former Union Sgt. Langley. Edwin Mills (the voice
of Dr. Cornelius on Return to the Planet
of the Apes) plays former Union Pvt. Atkins.
Season 3, Episode 2, "The Cure": Harold J. Stone (shown on the right, played John
Kennedy on The Grand Jury, Hamilton
Greeley on My World and Welcome to It,
and Sam Steinberg on Bridget Loves Bernie)
plays alcoholic Harry Simmons.
Season 3, Episode 3, "Journey for Josh": Lisa Gaye
(Gwen Kirby on How to Marry a Millionaire)
plays bank robber Susan Marno. Jason Wingreen (Dr. Aaron Clark on The Long, Hot Summer, Harry Snowden on All in the Family and Archie Bunker's Place, and Judge Arthur
Beaumont on Matlock) plays horse
trader Nick Peters. Orville Sherman (Mr. Feeney on Buckskin, Wib Smith on Gunsmoke,
and Tupper on Daniel Boone) plays Allenton
Sheriff Owens.
Season 3, Episode 4, "The Looters": Gloria
Blondell (shown on the left, played Honeybee Gillis in The Life of
Riley and the voice of Gloria on Calvin
and the Colonel) plays saloon girl Lucy. Dennis Patrick (Paul Stoddard on Dark Shadows and Vaughn Leland on Dallas) plays imprisoned criminal Eli. John
Eldredge (starred in The Woman in Red,
The Murder of Dr. Harrigan, and The Black Cat and played Harry Archer on
Meet Corliss Archer) plays River City
attorney Phineas Porter. Pat McCaffrie (Chuck Forrest on Bachelor Father) plays saloon proprietor Leonard. Dave Willock (starred
in Let's Face It, Pin Up Girl, and The Fabulous Dorseys and played Lt. Binning on Boots and Saddles, Harvey Clayton on Margie, and was the narrator on the animated Wacky Races) plays alcoholic bartender Judge.
Season 3, Episode 5, "The Twain Shall Meet": Michael
Lipton (Ben Newcomb on Buckskin)
plays newspaper reporter Arthur Pierce Madison. Mary Tyler Moore (shown on the right, played Laura Petrie
on The Dick Van Dyke Show, Mary Richards on The Mary Tyler Moore Show, Mary Brenner on Mary, and Annie McGuire on Annie
McGuire) plays saloon girl Sophie Anderson.
Season 3, Episode 6, "The Showdown": Tom Drake (starred
in Meet Me in St. Louis, Mr. Belvedere
Goes to College, and The Sandpiper)
plays Josh's childhood friend John Hayward. June Dayton (Thelma on The F.B.I.) plays his wife Gloria. Walter
Sande (see "Death Divided by Three" above) plays Sheriff Walt Spence.
Jackie Loughery (Letty Bean on Judge Roy
Bean) plays saloon girl Kitty Connors. Mark Allen (see "Death Divided
by Three" above) plays Deputy Charlie Evans.
Season 3, Episode 7, "Surprise Witness": Lee
Bergere (George on Hot L Baltimore
and Joseph Anders on Dynasty) plays murder
suspect Carlos Domingo. Bill Quinn (see "The Pariah" above) plays Sheriff
George Macon.
Season 3, Episode 8, "To the Victor": Frank
Albertson (starred in Alice Adams, Man Made Monster, and It's a Wonderful Life and played Mr. Cooper
on Bringing Up Buddy) plays Coronado
Sheriff Mike Strata. Suzanne Storrs (Janet Halloran on Naked City) plays his rebellious daughter Liz. Olan Soule (shown on the left, played Aristotle
"Tut" Jones on Captain Midnight,
Ray Pinker on Dragnet (1952-59), and
Fred Springer on Arnie) plays storekeeper
Simon Denton. Jan Stine (Roger on TheDonna Reed Show) plays newlywed Kenneth Adams. Richard Farnsworth (see
"The Partners" above) plays fake robber Hal.
Season 3, Episode 9, "Criss Cross": Mark Rydell (directed
The Rievers, The Cowboys, On Golden Pond,
and The Rose) plays wanted man Tom
Adams. Vaughn Taylor (starred in Jailhouse
Rock, Cat on a Hot Tin Roof, Psycho, and In Cold Blood and played Ernest P. Duckweather on Johnny Jupiter) plays his father Doc
Adams. Guy Wilkinson (Panhandle Perkins in 22 westerns) plays an old prospector.
Season 3, Episode 10, "The Medicine Man": J. Pat
O'Malley (Judge Caleb Marsh on Black
Saddle, Duffy on Frontier Circus,
Harry Burns on My Favorite Martian,
Mr. Bundy on Wendy and Me, Herbert
Morrison on A Touch of Grace, and
Bert Beasley on Maude) plays elixir
salesman Doc Farnsworth. Ted de Corsia (Police Chief Hagedorn on Steve Canyon) plays banker Arthur
Barchester. Cloris Leachman (shown on the right, played Ruth Martin on Lassie
and Phyllis Lindstrom on The Mary Tyler
Moore Show, Rhoda, and Phyllis) plays his daughter Ann. John
Baer (Terry Lee on Terry and the Pirates)
plays wanted man Jim Lansing.
Season 3, Episode 11, "One Mother Too Many": Joyce
Meadows (Stacy on Two Faces West)
plays widow Beth Morrison. Bryan Russell (starred in Bye Bye Birdie, Safe at Home!,
and The Wonderful World of the Brothers
Grimm) plays her son Davey. Betty Lou Gerson (the voice of Cruella de Vil
in 101 Dalmations) plays her
mother-in-law Irene Goodhue Morrison. Robert F. Hoy (Joe Butler on The High Chaparral, Detective Howard on Dallas, and Cliff on Our House) plays the elder Mrs.
Morrison's henchman. Lewis Charles (Lou on The
Feather and Father Gang) plays drifter Malcolm.
Season 3, Episode 12, "The
Choice": Dick Foran (Fire Chief Ed Washburne on Lassie and Slim on O.K.,
Crackerby!) plays aging bounty hunter Frank Koster. Maxine Stuart (Maureen
on Norby, Ruth Burton on Room for One More, Mrs. Hewitt on Peyton Place, Marge Newberry on Executive Suite, Amanda Earp on The Rousters, and Eleanor
"Gram" Rutledge on The Pursuit
of Happiness) plays his worried wife Jane. Burt Douglas (Jim Fisk on Days of Our Lives) plays wanted young
gun Stacy Lenz.
Season 3, Episode 13, "Three
for One": Terry Becker (Chief Francis Ethelbert Sharkey on Voyage to the Bottom of the Sea) plays Center
City Deputy Fred Kimball. Richard Anderson (shown on the left, played D.A. Glenn Wagner on Bus Stop, Lt. Steve Drumm on Perry Mason, Chief George Untermeyer on Dan August, Oscar Goldman on The Six Million Dollar Man and The Bionic Woman, and Buck Fallmont on Dynasty) plays prisoner Tom Fellows. Harry
Landers (Dr. Ted Hoffman on Ben Casey)
plays gang leader Lafe Martin. Kasey Rogers (Julie Anderson on Peyton Place and Louise Tate on Bewitched) plays Kimball's girlfriend
Kate. Gloria Talbott (see " Tolliver Bender " above) plays Fellows'
wife Jennifer Clay. Sydney Smith (starred in No Time for Sergeants and Tonka
and played the judge 6 times on Perry Mason) plays banker Ben Farrell.
Season 3, Episode 14, "Witch
Woman": Jeanette Dolan (shown on the right, starred in Macbeth
(1948), The Big Heat, Tribute to a Bad Man, and The Reluctant Astronaut, did voicework
for Psycho, The Rescuers, and The Fox and
the Hound, and played Annette Devereaux on Hotel de Paree and Holly Grainger on The Virginian) plays Mexican healer woman La Curandera. Victor
Millan (Zahir on Ramar of the Jungle)
plays school teacher Rafael Guerra. Rodolfo Hoyos, Jr. (Luis Valdez on Viva Valdez) plays his father-in-law Don
Emilio Flores. 
