The Alaskans

1h

Western

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.

Episodes

Cast

Gold Sled

1. Gold Sled

1h

4th Oct 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.

Cheating Cheaters

2. Cheating Cheaters

1h

11th Oct 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.

The Blizzard

3. The Blizzard

1h

18th Oct 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.

The Petticoat Crew

4. The Petticoat Crew

1h

25th Oct 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.

Starvation Stampede

5. Starvation Stampede

1h

1st Nov 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.

Big Deal

6. Big Deal

1h

8th Nov 1959

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

1h

15th Nov 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.

Winter Song

8. Winter Song

1h

22nd Nov 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.

The Golden Fleece

9. The Golden Fleece

1h

29th Nov 1959

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

Doc Booker

10. Doc Booker

1h

6th Dec 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.

The Abominable Snowman

11. The Abominable Snowman

1h

13th Dec 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.

Remember the Maine

12. Remember the Maine

1h

20th Dec 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.

Million Dollar Kid

13. Million Dollar Kid

1h

3rd Jan 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.

The Trial of Reno McKee

14. The Trial of Reno McKee

1h

10th Jan 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.

Gold Fever

15. Gold Fever

1h

17th Jan 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.

The Challenge

16. The Challenge

1h

24th Jan 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.

The Long Pursuit

17. The Long Pursuit

1h

31st Jan 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.

Spring Fever

18. Spring Fever

1h

7th Feb 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.

Black Sand

19. Black Sand

1h

14th Feb 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.

The Seal Skin-Game

20. The Seal Skin-Game

1h

21st Feb 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.

Peril at Caribou Crossing

21. Peril at Caribou Crossing

1h

28th Feb 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.

Behind The Moon

22. Behind The Moon

1h

6th Mar 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.

Partners

23. Partners

1h

13th Mar 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.

Disaster At Gold Hill

24. Disaster At Gold Hill

1h

20th Mar 1960

Silky becomes involved in an explosive romantic triangle.

The Last Bullet

25. The Last Bullet

1h

27th Mar 1960

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

1h

3rd Apr 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.

The Bride Wore Black

27. The Bride Wore Black

1h

10th Apr 1960

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

1h

17th Apr 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.

Counterblow

29. Counterblow

1h

24th Apr 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.

Heart Of Gold

30. Heart Of Gold

1h

1st May 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.

Kangaroo Court

31. Kangaroo Court

1h

8th May 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.

The Silent Land

32. The Silent Land

1h

15th May 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.

Calico

33. Calico

1h

22nd May 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.

Sign Of The Kodiak

34. Sign Of The Kodiak

1h

29th May 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.

White Vengeance

35. White Vengeance

1h

5th Jun 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.

The Ballad Of Whitehorse

36. The Ballad Of Whitehorse

1h

12th Jun 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.

The Devil Made Fire

37. The Devil Made Fire

1h

19th Jun 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.

First air date

4th Oct 1959

Last air date

19th Jun 1960

Status

Ended

Type

Scripted

Original language

en

Networks