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The Alaskans (1959)
Their game was Klondike gold -but others could do the digging
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.
The Alaskans: Season 1 - 37 Episode s
1x1 - Gold Sled
October 4, 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.
1x2 - Cheating Cheaters
October 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.
1x3 - The Blizzard
October 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.
1x4 - The Petticoat Crew
October 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.
1x5 - Starvation Stampede
November 1, 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.
1x6 - Big Deal
November 8, 1959
Silky Harris and Reno McKee find a lost legal document and try to locate the owner. they stumble on a swindle scheme.
1x7 - Contest at Gold Bottom
November 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.
1x8 - Winter Song
November 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.
1x9 - The Golden Fleece
November 29, 1959
Four men assault Silky Harris' partner Reno McKee and then purchase an apparently worthless gold mine.
1x10 - Doc Booker
December 6, 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.
1x11 - The Abominable Snowman
December 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.
1x12 - Remember the Maine
December 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.
1x13 - Million Dollar Kid
January 3, 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.
1x14 - The Trial of Reno McKee
January 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.
1x15 - Gold Fever
January 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.
1x16 - The Challenge
January 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.
1x17 - The Long Pursuit
January 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.
1x18 - Spring Fever
February 7, 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.
1x19 - Black Sand
February 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.
1x20 - The Seal Skin-Game
February 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.
1x21 - Peril at Caribou Crossing
February 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.
1x22 - Behind The Moon
March 6, 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.
1x23 - Partners
March 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.
1x24 - Disaster At Gold Hill
March 20, 1960
Silky becomes involved in an explosive romantic triangle.
1x25 - The Last Bullet
March 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.
1x26 - A Barrel Of Gold
April 3, 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.
1x27 - The Bride Wore Black
April 10, 1960
Cass Wilson uses Silky's picture to win a mail-order bride. There is trouble when the girl arrives.
1x28 - Odd Man Hangs
April 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.
1x29 - Counterblow
April 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.
1x30 - Heart Of Gold
May 1, 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.
1x31 - Kangaroo Court
May 8, 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.
1x32 - 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.
1x33 - 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.
1x34 - 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.
1x35 - White Vengeance
June 5, 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.
1x36 - The Ballad Of Whitehorse
June 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.
1x37 - The Devil Made Fire
June 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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