The Alaskans — Season 1

Aired 4 October 1959 • 60 min

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.

Aired 11 October 1959 • 60 min

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.

Aired 18 October 1959 • 60 min

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

Aired 25 October 1959 • 60 min

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.

Aired 1 November 1959 • 60 min

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.

Aired 8 November 1959 • 60 min

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

Aired 15 November 1959 • 60 min

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.

Aired 22 November 1959 • 60 min

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.

Aired 29 November 1959 • 60 min

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

Aired 6 December 1959 • 60 min

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.

Aired 13 December 1959 • 60 min

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.

Aired 20 December 1959 • 60 min

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.

Aired 3 January 1960 • 60 min

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.

Aired 10 January 1960 • 60 min

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.

Aired 17 January 1960 • 60 min

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.

Aired 24 January 1960 • 60 min

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.

Aired 31 January 1960 • 60 min

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.

Aired 7 February 1960 • 60 min

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.

Aired 14 February 1960 • 60 min

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.

Aired 21 February 1960 • 60 min

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.

Aired 28 February 1960 • 60 min

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.

Aired 6 March 1960 • 60 min

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.

Aired 13 March 1960 • 60 min

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.

Aired 20 March 1960 • 60 min

Silky becomes involved in an explosive romantic triangle.

Aired 27 March 1960 • 60 min

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

Aired 3 April 1960 • 60 min

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

Aired 10 April 1960 • 60 min

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

Aired 17 April 1960 • 60 min

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.

Aired 24 April 1960 • 60 min

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.

Aired 1 May 1960 • 60 min

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.

Aired 8 May 1960 • 60 min

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.

Aired 15 May 1960 • 60 min

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.

Aired 22 May 1960 • 60 min

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.

Aired 29 May 1960 • 60 min

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.

Aired 5 June 1960 • 60 min

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.

Aired 12 June 1960 • 60 min

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.