Their game was Klondike gold -but others could do the digging
Original title
The Alaskans
Released
10/4/1959
Origin country
US
Genre
Drama, Western
Status
Ended
Number of seasons
1
Number of episodes
36
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.
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.
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.
Reno takes a dangerous job carrying a load of dynamite but along the way, picks up a few strangers.
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.
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.
Silky Harris and Reno McKee find a lost legal document and try to locate the owner. they stumble on a swindle scheme.
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.
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.
Four men assault Silky Harris' partner Reno McKee and then purchase an apparently worthless gold mine.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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 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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
Silky becomes involved in an explosive romantic triangle.
Silky rescues a man from a pack of wolves and takes him to a trail house occupied by a pack of human wolves.
A prospecting party started out to find gold, but death makes a strike and the only survivors report they were poisoned with spoiled meat.
Cass Wilson uses Silky's picture to win a mail-order bride. There is trouble when the girl arrives.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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 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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