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The Alaskans
1959 - 1960 5.5 (2 votes) 1 Seasons
Genres
Western
Networks
ABC

The Alaskans

Their game was Klondike gold -but others could do the digging

Overview

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.

Key Crew

Producer: William T. Orr

Top Cast

Roger Moore
Roger Moore

Silky Harris

Dorothy Provine
Dorothy Provine

Jeff York
Jeff York

Ray Danton
Ray Danton

Seasons

Season 1 poster
Season 1 (1959)

No overview available.

37 episodes

Episodes
Episode 1: Gold Sled
1959-10-04

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.

Runtime: 60 min
Episode 2: Cheating Cheaters
1959-10-11

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.

Runtime: 60 min
Episode 3: The Blizzard
1959-10-18

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.

Runtime: 60 min
Episode 4: The Petticoat Crew
1959-10-25

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.

Runtime: 60 min
Episode 5: Starvation Stampede
1959-11-01

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.

Runtime: 60 min
Episode 6: Big Deal
1959-11-08

Silky Harris and Reno McKee find a lost legal document and try to locate the owner. they stumble on a swindle scheme.

Runtime: 60 min
Episode 7: Contest at Gold Bottom
1959-11-15

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.

Runtime: 60 min
Episode 8: Winter Song
1959-11-22

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.

Runtime: 60 min
Episode 9: The Golden Fleece
1959-11-29

Four men assault Silky Harris' partner Reno McKee and then purchase an apparently worthless gold mine.

Runtime: 60 min
Episode 10: Doc Booker
1959-12-06

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.

Runtime: 60 min
Episode 11: The Abominable Snowman
1959-12-13

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.

Runtime: 60 min
Episode 12: Remember the Maine
1959-12-20

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.

Runtime: 60 min
Episode 13: Million Dollar Kid
1960-01-03

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.

Runtime: 60 min
Episode 14: The Trial of Reno McKee
1960-01-10

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.

Runtime: 60 min
Episode 15: Gold Fever
1960-01-17

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.

Runtime: 60 min
Episode 16: The Challenge
1960-01-24

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.

Runtime: 60 min
Episode 17: The Long Pursuit
1960-01-31

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.

Runtime: 60 min
Episode 18: Spring Fever
1960-02-07

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.

Runtime: 60 min
Episode 19: Black Sand
1960-02-14

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.

Runtime: 60 min
Episode 20: The Seal Skin-Game
1960-02-21

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.

Runtime: 60 min
Episode 21: Peril at Caribou Crossing
1960-02-28

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.

Runtime: 60 min
Episode 22: Behind The Moon
1960-03-06

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.

Runtime: 60 min
Episode 23: Partners
1960-03-13

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.

Runtime: 60 min
Episode 24: Disaster At Gold Hill
1960-03-20

Silky becomes involved in an explosive romantic triangle.

Runtime: 60 min
Episode 25: The Last Bullet
1960-03-27

Silky rescues a man from a pack of wolves and takes him to a trail house occupied by a pack of human wolves.

Runtime: 60 min
Episode 26: A Barrel Of Gold
1960-04-03

A prospecting party started out to find gold, but death makes a strike and the only survivors report they were poisoned with spoiled meat.

Runtime: 60 min
Episode 27: The Bride Wore Black
1960-04-10

Cass Wilson uses Silky's picture to win a mail-order bride. There is trouble when the girl arrives.

Runtime: 60 min
Episode 28: Odd Man Hangs
1960-04-17

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.

Runtime: 60 min
Episode 29: Counterblow
1960-04-24

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.

Runtime: 60 min
Episode 30: Heart Of Gold
1960-05-01

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.

Runtime: 60 min
Episode 31: Kangaroo Court
1960-05-08

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.

Runtime: 60 min
Episode 32: The Silent Land
1960-05-15

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.

Runtime: 60 min
Episode 33: Calico
1960-05-22

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.

Runtime: 60 min
Episode 34: Sign Of The Kodiak
1960-05-29

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.

Runtime: 60 min
Episode 35: White Vengeance
1960-06-05

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.

Runtime: 60 min
Episode 36: The Ballad Of Whitehorse
1960-06-12

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.

Runtime: 60 min
Episode 37: The Devil Made Fire
1960-06-19

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.

Runtime: 60 min

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