The Alaskans
The Alaskans
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The Alaskans

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

5.5 / 10
1959
1 season
36 episodes
WesternDrama

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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  • Gold Sled

    1.Gold Sled

    04-10-195960m

    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 ta...

  • Cheating Cheaters

    2.Cheating Cheaters

    11-10-195960m

    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 Sil...

  • The Devil Made Five

    3.The Devil Made Five

    18-10-195960m

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

  • The Petticoat Crew

    4.The Petticoat Crew

    25-10-195960m

    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 encoun...

  • Starvation Stampede

    5.Starvation Stampede

    01-11-195960m

    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...

  • Big Deal

    6.Big Deal

    08-11-195960m

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

  • Contest at Gold Bottom

    7.Contest at Gold Bottom

    15-11-195960m

    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, t...

  • Winter Song

    8.Winter Song

    22-11-195960m

    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.

  • The Golden Fleece

    9.The Golden Fleece

    29-11-195960m

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

  • Doc Booker

    10.Doc Booker

    06-12-195960m

    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.

  • The Abominable Snowman

    11.The Abominable Snowman

    13-12-195960m

    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...

  • Remember the Maine

    12.Remember the Maine

    20-12-195960m

    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.

  • Million Dollar Kid

    13.Million Dollar Kid

    03-01-196060m

    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.

  • The Trial of Reno McKee

    14.The Trial of Reno McKee

    10-01-196060m

    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 la...

  • Gold Fever

    15.Gold Fever

    17-01-196060m

    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 stri...

  • The Challenge

    16.The Challenge

    24-01-196060m

    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, Sil...

  • The Long Pursuit

    17.The Long Pursuit

    31-01-196060m

    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...

  • Spring Fever

    18.Spring Fever

    07-02-196060m

    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 cl...

  • Black Sand

    19.Black Sand

    14-02-196060m

    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.

  • The Seal Skin-Game

    20.The Seal Skin-Game

    21-02-196060m

    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 m...

  • Peril at Caribou Crossing

    21.Peril at Caribou Crossing

    28-02-196060m

    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 big...

  • Behind The Moon

    22.Behind The Moon

    06-03-196060m

    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.

  • Partners

    23.Partners

    13-03-196060m

    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.

  • Disaster At Gold Hill

    24.Disaster At Gold Hill

    20-03-196060m

    Silky becomes involved in an explosive romantic triangle.

  • The Last Bullet

    25.The Last Bullet

    27-03-196060m

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

  • A Barrel Of Gold

    26.A Barrel Of Gold

    03-04-196060m

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

  • The Bride Wore Black

    27.The Bride Wore Black

    10-04-196060m

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

  • Odd Man Hangs

    28.Odd Man Hangs

    17-04-196060m

    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.

  • Counterblow

    29.Counterblow

    24-04-196060m

    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.

  • Heart Of Gold

    30.Heart Of Gold

    01-05-196060m

    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.

  • Kangaroo Court

    31.Kangaroo Court

    08-05-196060m

    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.

  • The Silent Land

    32.The Silent Land

    15-05-196060m

    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 Mo...

  • Calico

    33.Calico

    22-05-196060m

    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...

  • Sign Of The Kodiak

    34.Sign Of The Kodiak

    29-05-196060m

    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.

  • White Vengeance

    35.White Vengeance

    05-06-196060m

    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 rifl...

  • The Ballad Of Whitehorse

    36.The Ballad Of Whitehorse

    12-06-196060m

    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...

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