Wanted Dead or Alive (TV series)

*Wanted Dead or Alive*
Wanted Dead or Alive
	Title card
Genre	Western
Starring	Steve McQueen; Wright King;
Theme music composer	William Loose (first season); Herschel Burke Gilbert (second and third seasons);
Country of origin	United States
Original language	English
No. of seasons	3
No. of episodes	94 (list of episodes)
Production
Producer	Vincent Fennelly
Camera setup	Single-camera
Running time	25 mins.
Production companies	Four Star Television; Malcom Enterprises, Inc; CBS Productions;
Original release
Network	CBS
Release	September 6, 1958 –; March 29, 1961
Related
	Trackdown

Wanted Dead or Alive is an American Western television series starring Steve McQueen as bounty hunter Josh Randall. It aired on CBS for three seasons from 1958–1961. The black-and-white program was a spin-off of a March 1958 episode of Trackdown, a 1957–1959 Western series starring Robert Culp. Both series were produced by Vincent Fennelly for Four Star Television in association with CBS.^: 895

The series made McQueen, known for the concept of "cool" in entertainment, a television star.^: 105 He later became the first TV star to cross over into comparable status on the big screen.