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The Alaskans(TV show/series, 1959-1960)

1h per episode | Genre: Western

Scripted Reality in 1 season with 37 episodes

The AlaskansRating: 2.8/5 (with 1 vote)
The Alaskans is a 1959–1960 ABC/Warner Bros. Western television series set during the late 1890s in the port of Skagway, Alaska. The show features Roger Moore as "Silky Harris" and Jeff York as "Reno McKee", a pair of adventurers intent on swindling travelers bound for the Yukon Territories during the height of the Klondike Gold Rush. Their plans are inevitably complicated by the presence of singer "Rocky Shaw" (Dorothy Provine), "an entertainer with a taste for the finer things in life". The show was the first regular work on American television for the British actor Roger Moore. ()
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The Alaskans is a 1959-1960 ABC/Warner Brothers western television series set during the late 1890s in the port of Skagway, Alaska. The show features Roger Moore as "Silky Harris" and Jeff York as "Reno McKee", a pair of adventurers intent on swindling travelers bound for the Yukon Territories during the height of the Klondike Gold Rush. Their plans are inevitably complicated by the presence of singer "Rocky Shaw", "an entertainer with a taste for the finer things in life". The show was the first regular work on American television for the British actor Roger Moore.

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The Alaskans Seasons and Episodes

10/04/1959Season 1 - 37 episodes
#1 | 10/04/1959Gold Sled
Silky Harris and Reno McKee are preparing to travel to the Klondike in search of gold. Entertainer Rocky Shaw, intrigued by a weird tale of gold buried in the snow, is eager to take the trip with the two men.
#2 | 10/11/1959Cheating Cheaters
Skagway saloon owner Nifty Cronin agrees to ship gold dust to the States for Silky Harris, Reno McKee and a number of other miners. En route the boat mysteriously sinks. When Silky threatens to investigate, Cronin admits that the gold was never placed on board.
#3 | 10/18/1959The Blizzard
Reno McKee is hauling a load of dynamite over a perilous trail to Nome when he is suddenly joined by three suspicious characters. Soon, a mighty blizzard threatens the group.
#4 | 10/25/1959The Petticoat Crew
Silky Harris dreams of a financial coup when he decides to ship a boatload of dancing girls and Thanksgiving turkeys from Seattle to Dawson. En route, Silky is surprised to encounter con man Nifty Cronin.
#5 | 11/01/1959Starvation Stampede
A supply ship is trapped in an early freeze on its way to an isolated mining town. the greedy town storekeeper takes advantage of this mishap, forcing the miners to pay exorbitant prices for food and supplies.
#6 | 11/08/1959Big Deal
Silky Harris and Reno McKee find a lost legal document and try to locate the owner. they stumble on a swindle scheme.
#7 | 11/15/1959Contest at Gold Bottom
Nifty Cronin threatens to foreclose a mortgage on Silky and Reno's mining property unless they can meet their next payment. Meanwhile, a baby is abandoned on their doorstep and, to raise the money, they decide to have a ""Name the Baby"" contest.
#8 | 11/22/1959Winter Song
Silky, Reno and Rocky plan to stage a concert with opera star Maria Julien. Arriving in Eagle City to perform before a packed house, Miss Julien suddenly loses her voice.
#9 | 11/29/1959The Golden Fleece
Four men assault Silky Harris' partner Reno McKee and then purchase an apparently worthless gold mine.
#10 | 12/06/1959Doc Booker
Doc Booker and his new bride act to stop a typhoid epidemic. Then a woman tells the citizens that Booker isn't a real doctor.
#11 | 12/13/1959The Abominable Snowman
A miner dies after being attacked by a weird monster. It is decided that the dead man's gold mine will go to the winner of a race between Silky Harris and another miner named Otto.
#12 | 12/20/1959Remember the Maine
A con man named Soapy suddenly gets patriotic and organizes a special Skagway Guard to march off to the Spanish-American War. Silky Harris is suspicious of Soapy's motives.
#13 | 01/03/1960Million Dollar Kid
Reno McKee and Rocky Shaw encounter a young Indian named Kat who wants to go to the United States. The youth decides to trade some shares in a gold mine for the supplies he needs.
#14 | 01/10/1960The Trial of Reno McKee
Reno McKee is held for murder, although Silky Harris and Rocky Shaw know that someone else is responsible for the crime. The only way to keep Reno from hanging is to sober up a lawyer who can legally prove McKee's innocence.
#15 | 01/17/1960Gold Fever
Reno McKee's younger brother Danny comes to Skagway with his new bride. Reno wishes them will and offers a mine partnership to Danny, but the young man and his wife decide to strike out alone in the gold fields.
#16 | 01/24/1960The Challenge
The town is threatened by an impending avalanche, and Silky Harris volunteers to climb a mountain and set off some blasts which will divert the snow slide. As time runs short, Silky learns that a killer is trying to get rid of him and doom the town.
#17 | 01/31/1960The Long Pursuit
Chicago detective Ed Bundy has traced a suspected murderess to an Alaskan village. On the trail to the town, Bundy saves Reno McKee's life, and the two men join forces to look for the girl.
#18 | 02/07/1960Spring Fever
Furious because Silky's taking her for granted, Rocky casts about for someone else to encourage. She comes up with a gentleman named Gordon Talbot, who is secretly after a gold claim that should be Rockys.
#19 | 02/14/1960Black Sand
Reno strikes out with Dan and Nora Weber to locate a lost gold mine. Along the trail, two other men join the group, and Reno becomes suspicious of Nora's behavior.
#20 | 02/21/1960The Seal Skin-Game
Silky, Reno and Rocky are conned into buying a bankrupt seal raising business. Silky begins to sound like a con man himself when he tries to save the situation by promising some miners a huge return if they will take the business off his hands.
#21 | 02/28/1960Peril at Caribou Crossing
Weather drives Silky to shelter at an isolated cabin. He sees that his arrival has complicated a family quarrel, but before anything comes of it, two outlaws barge in bringing bigger trouble.
#22 | 03/06/1960Behind The Moon
No sooner has a gold prospector made plans to marry an Indian girl than his backers plot to chase the Indians off the tribal land. It seems that gold has been discovered there.
#23 | 03/13/1960Partners
Rocky and Reno tell young Jimmy Hendricks that his father died a hero. But the lad overhears the less heroic truth about his father, and disappears.
#24 | 03/20/1960Disaster At Gold Hill
Silky becomes involved in an explosive romantic triangle.
#25 | 03/27/1960The Last Bullet
Silky rescues a man from a pack of wolves and takes him to a trail house occupied by a pack of human wolves.
#26 | 04/03/1960A Barrel Of Gold
A prospecting party started out to find gold, but death makes a strike and the only survivors report they were poisoned with spoiled meat.
#27 | 04/10/1960The Bride Wore Black
Cass Wilson uses Silky's picture to win a mail-order bride. There is trouble when the girl arrives.
#28 | 04/17/1960Odd Man Hangs
Silky is one of the players in a strange game. He and two other men are jailed on a murder charge. Everyone is certain that one of them is a killer.
#29 | 04/24/1960Counterblow
The Skookum Sentinel newspaper is handed over to Silky in payment of a debt. He finds himself with a ready-made crusade when his partner is killed by mobsters.
#30 | 05/01/1960Heart Of Gold
Pierre Duran is transporting thousands of dollars worth of the miners' gold dust to Yukon City. On the way, he is hijacked and left for dead.
#31 | 05/08/1960Kangaroo Court
Traveling alone in barren and isolated country, Silky comes upon a girl entertainer and her male companion. They ask for a lift to a new gold-rush town.
#32 | 05/15/1960The Silent Land
Loading supplies for a remote outpost, Pierre Duran meets a Mountie who is trailing a pair of fugitives. Later, traveling deep into the Arctic wilderness, Pierre encounters the Mountie again--this time marooned in the snow.
#33 | 05/22/1960Calico
Silky Harris wins a half share in a gold mine. But there is a catch. His claim is forfeit unless he works it one day a week--and his partner vanishes without revealing the mine's location.
#34 | 05/29/1960Sign Of The Kodiak
Traveling in mountain country, Pierre Duran narrowly escapes death from a hunter's bullet. The marksman seems obsessed with killing Big Mike, an elusive Kodiak bear.
#35 | 06/05/1960White Vengeance
Silky Harris heads for old Gil Hawkins' mountain cabin to tell him his son has made a gold strike. But before Silky can identify himself, the old man almost shoots him with a rifle.
#36 | 06/12/1960The Ballad Of Whitehorse
The Whitehorse saloon is decked out for a wedding. Robert Howard III, a drunken poet with six months to live, is marrying Yukon Kate, the queen of the dance hall girls. They ask Silky Harris to be best man.
#37 | 06/19/1960The Devil Made Fire
Reno McKee is transporting dynamite over a perilous trail to Nome when he is suddenly joined by three suspicious characters. What is more, a mighty blizzard threatens the group.

Additional Information

Production country: United States of America (USA)
Plays in: Alaska
Original language: English (EN)
Spoken languages: English (EN)
Translated into 3 languages: German (DE), English (EN), Spanish (ES)
Status: Ended
First episode released on: 10/04/1959
Last episode released on: 06/19/1960
Color: Black & White (B/W)

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