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Kodiak(TV show/series, 1974)

30min per episode | Genre: Drama

Scripted Reality in 1 season with 13 episodes

KodiakRating: 2.5/5 (with 1 vote)
Kodiak is a half-hour adventure program that aired Friday evenings at 8:00 p.m Eastern time on ABC during the 1974-1975 television season. The show filled the time spot left vacant by ABC's cancellation of The Brady Bunch. The show revolved around the main character of Cal "Kodiak" McKay (played by Clint Walker), an Alaska State Trooper. Kodiak, always accompanied by his Eskimo sidekick Abraham Lincoln Imhook, used his four-wheel drive truck to track down desperate killers through 50,000 miles of Alaska backcountry. The show received unfavorable reviews from critics like John J. O'Connor who called it a "disaster" and wrote that its premiere episode was "about as interesting as watching a large block of polluted ice." It suffered low ratings due to being scheduled opposite NBC's mega-hit Sanford and Son. Kodiak was cancelled after the first episode, although a total of four episodes were aired. The show was filmed in Bend, Oregon, using the Old Skyliners Ski Lodge as the primary meeting place. Abner Biberman portrayed Imhook, and Maggie Blye had the role of police radio dispatcher Mandy. The program was created by Stan Shpetner and Anthony Lawrence; Shpetner was the producer. ()
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About Kodiak

Kodiak is a short lived, half-hour adventure program that aired Friday evenings at 8:00 p.m Eastern time on ABC during the 1974-1975 television season. The show revolved around the main character of Cal "Kodiak" McKay, an Alaska State Trooper. Kodiak, always accompanied by his Eskimo sidekick Abraham Lincoln Imhook, used his four-wheel drive truck to track down desperate killers through 50,000 miles of Alaska backcountry. The show was broadcast against NBC's mega-hit Sanford and Son. Kodiak couldn't lure viewers in to watch and was cancelled after the first episode, although a total of four episodes were aired. The show was filmed in Bend, Oregon Using the Old Skyliners Ski Lodge as the primary Meeting Place.

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Kodiak Seasons and Episodes

09/13/1974Season 1 - 13 episodes
#1 | 09/13/1974Red Snow, White Death
Kodiak comes upon a plane crash in mountain country. Benton, the pilot, has been fatally shot and robbed of $80,000 he was transporting for the Bank of Anchorage. A witness is Abraham Lincoln Imhook, an elderly Eskimo who thinks he no longer has a reason to live and is reluctant to leave the mountain.
#2 | 09/20/1974Death Chase
Following the shooting of a young girl's father, two snowmobiles are pitted in a desperate chase as Kodiak pursues the girl and her boyfriend. In “Death Chase,” George Taylor tells Kodiak that a wild youth, Sammy Ross, shot him in the shoulder and kidnapped his daughter, Mary.
#3 | 09/27/1974A Time to Die
A grieving, vengeful father threatens to kill Kodiak to prevent him from bringing his son’s murderer to trial so he can mete out his own justice. Three youths are found shot to death and Kodiak tracks down Samson Toey and they begin the long trek to a coastal city for trial. Stryker, the father of one of the victims, and Paul, another son, and an employee, Williams, intercept Kodiak and demand the prisoner. Stryker plans to avenge his son's death in his own way. Kodiak refuses to give up his prisoner and a deadly cat-and-mouse game begins.
#4 | 10/04/1974The Last Enemy
Kodiak must stop an old war buddy, Buzz Howard, from terrorizing the countryside after a dynamite blast shocks him into believing he is fighting the war again under heavy combat conditions. Construction crewmen Buzz and Sam are about to detonate a dynamite charge when Buzz sees two hunters entering the danger zone. While trying on his two-way radio to get Sam not to detonate, Buzz dashes into the area. Sam doesn’t hear his radio and blasts. Buzz' mind is affected as the result of the concussion and he is triggered back to the Korean War. He runs amok, wounds a man, and then begins shooting up the countryside as if the people are the enemy.
#5The Hunters
A pair of hunters arrives on a mysterious mission involving the bush nurse Mandy. Mandy Farrow is being hounded by her former boyfriend and a gangster.
#6Captured
Three seal poachers whose disdain for civilization results in a senseless killing, mark Kodiak as their next victim. The seal poachers, Ty and Brook Spencer, along with their cohort, Kelly Toms, gets into an argument with fur buyer Jack Capp when he refuses to buy their poached furs. In an ensuing scuffle, Ty shoots Capp. Kodiak apprehends Ty, places him under guard with Mr. Imhook and sets out to arrest the other poachers. Brook gets the jump on Kodiak and plans to use him as hostage for his brother’s release.
#7Cold Fear (aka The Killer)
Kodiak must rush a pregnant woman to the bush nurse. Kodiak's attempt to get an expectant mother through the snow to where professional help is available runs into a double confrontation with an angry husband and an escaping murderer.
#8A Lesson in Terror
Kodiak is forced to intervene in a serious family argument when the future of an impressionable youth is at stake. Brock, his father, has shot a man and run away with the youth.
#9The Deadly Promise (aka The Burning Snow)
Kodiak is named probation officer of a hot-tempered Indian (A Martinez) just released from jail. Kodiak finds himself in mid-air with an injured pilot and desperate prisoner. Kodiak finds himself in a plane with an unconscious pilot, and at the mercy of a defiant parolee who can either tell him how to land or to go to blazes.
#10Killers Three (aka Thunder Mountain)
Kodiak hast to get a thief down out of the mountains. Two fugitives track Kodiak, who is caring for a baby and has a prisoner in tow.
#11Deadly Friend
Kodiak becomes suspicious of a cop who arrives to extradite a young car thief. Officer Mitch Kellog has come to take John Nootka back to Seattle on a charge of car theft and tells a very different tale of life and death, but which is Kodiak to believe?
#12The Animals (aka Chains of Ice)
Ford Windust is an embittered gold miner who has lost his arm and now he keeps his partner, Abel Lonegan in chains and under the threat of his shotgun to keep him mining for gold.
#13The Rescue
Kodiak is in rough country with a stretcher case, an elderly woman, and a bush-pilot with a broken shoulder to cope with the going sets even tougher. Kodiak attempts the rescue of three plane-crash victims, one of whom was hospital-bound for heart surgery. The cop rescues a mother and her daughter from a plane that has crashed in rugged Alaskan wilderness.

Additional Information

Production country: United States of America (USA)
Plays in: Alaska
Original language: English (EN)
Spoken languages: English (EN)
Translated into 2 languages: English (EN), Spanish (ES)
Status: Ended
First episode released on: 09/13/1974
Last episode released on: 10/04/1974
Director: William Witney

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