The Alaskans(1959)

5.5
1 Seasons
WesternDrama

"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.

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Episodes

Gold Sled
Ep 1

Gold 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.

04/10/195960 min
Cheating Cheaters
Ep 2

Cheating 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.

11/10/195960 min
The Devil Made Five
Ep 3

The Devil Made Five

Reno takes a dangerous job carrying a load of dynamite but along the way, picks up a few strangers.

18/10/195960 min
The Petticoat Crew
Ep 4

The 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.

25/10/195960 min
Starvation Stampede
Ep 5

Starvation 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.

01/11/195960 min
Big Deal
Ep 6

Big Deal

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

08/11/195960 min
Contest at Gold Bottom
Ep 7

Contest 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.

15/11/195960 min
Winter Song
Ep 8

Winter 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.

22/11/195960 min
The Golden Fleece
Ep 9

The Golden Fleece

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

29/11/195960 min
Doc Booker
Ep 10

Doc 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.

06/12/195960 min
The Abominable Snowman
Ep 11

The 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.

13/12/195960 min
Remember the Maine
Ep 12

Remember 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.

20/12/195960 min
Million Dollar Kid
Ep 13

Million 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.

03/01/196060 min
The Trial of Reno McKee
Ep 14

The 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.

10/01/196060 min
Gold Fever
Ep 15

Gold 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.

17/01/196060 min
The Challenge
Ep 16

The 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.

24/01/196060 min
The Long Pursuit
Ep 17

The 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.

31/01/196060 min
Spring Fever
Ep 18

Spring 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.

07/02/196060 min
Black Sand
Ep 19

Black 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.

14/02/196060 min
The Seal Skin-Game
Ep 20

The 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.

21/02/196060 min
Peril at Caribou Crossing
Ep 21

Peril 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.

28/02/196060 min
Behind The Moon
Ep 22

Behind 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.

06/03/196060 min
Partners
Ep 23

Partners

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.

13/03/196060 min
Disaster At Gold Hill
Ep 24

Disaster At Gold Hill

Silky becomes involved in an explosive romantic triangle.

20/03/196060 min
The Last Bullet
Ep 25

The 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.

27/03/196060 min
A Barrel Of Gold
Ep 26

A 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.

03/04/196060 min
The Bride Wore Black
Ep 27

The Bride Wore Black

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

10/04/196060 min
Odd Man Hangs
Ep 28

Odd 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.

17/04/196060 min
Counterblow
Ep 29

Counterblow

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.

24/04/196060 min
Heart Of Gold
Ep 30

Heart 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.

01/05/196060 min
Kangaroo Court
Ep 31

Kangaroo 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.

08/05/196060 min
The Silent Land
Ep 32

The 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.

15/05/196060 min
Calico
Ep 33

Calico

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.

22/05/196060 min
Sign Of The Kodiak
Ep 34

Sign 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.

29/05/196060 min
White Vengeance
Ep 35

White 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.

05/06/196060 min
The Ballad Of Whitehorse
Ep 36

The 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.

12/06/196060 min
No Image
Ep 37

The 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.

19/06/196060 min

Show Info

StatusEnded
NetworkABC
TypeScripted

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