The Alaskans

1959
The Alaskans

Seasons & Episodes

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EP1 Gold Sled Oct 04, 1959

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.

EP2 Cheating Cheaters Oct 11, 1959

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.

EP3 The Blizzard Oct 18, 1959

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.

EP4 The Petticoat Crew Oct 25, 1959

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.

EP5 Starvation Stampede Nov 01, 1959

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.

EP6 Big Deal Nov 08, 1959

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

EP7 Contest at Gold Bottom Nov 15, 1959

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.

EP8 Winter Song Nov 22, 1959

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.

EP9 The Golden Fleece Nov 29, 1959

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

EP10 Doc Booker Dec 06, 1959

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.

EP11 The Abominable Snowman Dec 13, 1959

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.

EP12 Remember the Maine Dec 20, 1959

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.

EP13 Million Dollar Kid Jan 03, 1960

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.

EP14 The Trial of Reno McKee Jan 10, 1960

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.

EP15 Gold Fever Jan 17, 1960

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.

EP16 The Challenge Jan 24, 1960

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.

EP17 The Long Pursuit Jan 31, 1960

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.

EP18 Spring Fever Feb 07, 1960

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.

EP19 Black Sand Feb 14, 1960

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.

EP20 The Seal Skin-Game Feb 21, 1960

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.

EP21 Peril at Caribou Crossing Feb 28, 1960

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.

EP22 Behind The Moon Mar 06, 1960

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.

EP23 Partners Mar 13, 1960

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.

EP24 Disaster At Gold Hill Mar 20, 1960

Silky becomes involved in an explosive romantic triangle.

EP25 The Last Bullet Mar 27, 1960

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

EP26 A Barrel Of Gold Apr 03, 1960

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

EP27 The Bride Wore Black Apr 10, 1960

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

EP28 Odd Man Hangs Apr 17, 1960

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.

EP29 Counterblow Apr 24, 1960

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.

EP30 Heart Of Gold May 01, 1960

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.

EP31 Kangaroo Court May 08, 1960

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.

EP32 The Silent Land May 15, 1960

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.

EP33 Calico May 22, 1960

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.

EP34 Sign Of The Kodiak May 29, 1960

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.

EP35 White Vengeance Jun 05, 1960

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.

EP36 The Ballad Of Whitehorse Jun 12, 1960

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.

EP37 The Devil Made Fire Jun 19, 1960

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.
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Synopsis

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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