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The Alaskans is a western and drama TV series that premiered on ABC on October 4, 1959. It has 1 season and 36 episodes so far and has ended. The latest episode, Season 1 Episode 36 "The Ballad Of Whitehorse", aired on June 12, 1960.

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.

  • Western
  • Drama

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Episodes

36 episodes · 1 season

Season 1

1959 · 36 episodes · Last episode: 66 years ago

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    36. The Ballad Of Whitehorse

    Finale

    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.

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    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.

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    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.

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    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.

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    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.

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    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.

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    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.

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    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.

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    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.

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    27. The Bride Wore Black

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

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    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.

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    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.

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    24. Disaster At Gold Hill

    Silky becomes involved in an explosive romantic triangle.

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    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.

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    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.

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    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.

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    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.

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    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.

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    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.

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    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.

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    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.

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    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.

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    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.

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    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.

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    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.

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    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.

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    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.

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    9. The Golden Fleece

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

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    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.

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    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.

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    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.

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    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.

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    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.

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    3. The Devil Made Five

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

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    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.

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    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.

Cast & crew

  • Allyn Joslyn

    Allyn Joslyn

  • Frank Ferguson

    Frank Ferguson

  • Ruta Lee

    Ruta Lee

  • George D. Wallace

    George D. Wallace

  • James Westerfield

    James Westerfield

  • Beatrice Kay

    Beatrice Kay

  • Paul Wexler

    Paul Wexler

  • Julie Adams

    Julie Adams

  • Archie Duncan

    Archie Duncan

  • Dick Sargent

    Dick Sargent

  • Bart Braverman

    Bart Braverman

  • Werner Klemperer

    Werner Klemperer

  • Don Beddoe

    Don Beddoe

  • Ed Kemmer

    Ed Kemmer

  • Gary Vinson

    Gary Vinson

  • Warren Stevens

    Warren Stevens

The Alaskans FAQ

Will there be new episodes of The Alaskans?

The Alaskans has ended, so no new episodes are scheduled. The final episode aired on June 12, 1960.

When did the latest episode of The Alaskans come out?

The most recent episode of The Alaskans, Season 1 Episode 36 "The Ballad Of Whitehorse", aired on June 12, 1960.

How many seasons of The Alaskans are there?

The Alaskans has 1 season with 36 episodes in total.

When did The Alaskans first air?

The Alaskans first aired on ABC on October 4, 1959.

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