The Alaskans

Season 11959

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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37 Episodes

E01 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.

October 4, 1959

E02 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.

October 11, 1959

E03 The Blizzard

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.

October 18, 1959

E04 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.

October 25, 1959

E05 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.

November 1, 1959

E06 Big Deal

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

November 8, 1959

E07 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.

November 15, 1959

E08 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.

November 22, 1959

E09 The Golden Fleece

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

November 29, 1959

E10 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.

December 6, 1959

E11 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.

December 13, 1959

E12 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.

December 20, 1959

E13 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.

January 3, 1960

E14 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.

January 10, 1960

E15 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.

January 17, 1960

E16 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.

January 24, 1960

E17 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.

January 31, 1960

E18 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.

February 7, 1960

E19 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.

February 14, 1960

E20 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.

February 21, 1960

E21 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.

February 28, 1960

E22 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.

March 6, 1960

E23 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.

March 13, 1960

E24 Disaster At Gold Hill

Silky becomes involved in an explosive romantic triangle.

March 20, 1960

E25 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.

March 27, 1960

E26 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.

April 3, 1960

E27 The Bride Wore Black

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

April 10, 1960

E28 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.

April 17, 1960

E29 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.

April 24, 1960

E30 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.

May 1, 1960

E31 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.

May 8, 1960

E32 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.

May 15, 1960

E33 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.

May 22, 1960

E34 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.

May 29, 1960

E35 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.

June 5, 1960

E36 The Ballad Of Whitehorse

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.

June 12, 1960

E37 The Devil Made Fire

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.

June 19, 1960

The Alaskans

E01 Gold Sled

E02 Cheating Cheaters

E03 The Blizzard

E04 The Petticoat Crew

E05 Starvation Stampede

E06 Big Deal

E07 Contest at Gold Bottom

E08 Winter Song

E09 The Golden Fleece

E10 Doc Booker

E11 The Abominable Snowman

E12 Remember the Maine

E13 Million Dollar Kid

E14 The Trial of Reno McKee

E15 Gold Fever

E16 The Challenge

E17 The Long Pursuit

E18 Spring Fever

E19 Black Sand

E20 The Seal Skin-Game

E21 Peril at Caribou Crossing

E22 Behind The Moon

E23 Partners

E24 Disaster At Gold Hill

E25 The Last Bullet

E26 A Barrel Of Gold

E27 The Bride Wore Black

E28 Odd Man Hangs

E29 Counterblow

E30 Heart Of Gold

E31 Kangaroo Court

E32 The Silent Land

E33 Calico

E34 Sign Of The Kodiak

E35 White Vengeance

E36 The Ballad Of Whitehorse

E37 The Devil Made Fire

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E01 Gold Sled

E02 Cheating Cheaters

E03 The Blizzard

E04 The Petticoat Crew

E05 Starvation Stampede

E06 Big Deal

E07 Contest at Gold Bottom

E08 Winter Song

E09 The Golden Fleece

E10 Doc Booker

E11 The Abominable Snowman

E12 Remember the Maine

E13 Million Dollar Kid

E14 The Trial of Reno McKee

E15 Gold Fever

E16 The Challenge

E17 The Long Pursuit

E18 Spring Fever

E19 Black Sand

E20 The Seal Skin-Game

E21 Peril at Caribou Crossing

E22 Behind The Moon