The Alaskans
| The Alaskans | |
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Roger Moore with "co-star", 1959.
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| Genre | Western |
| Directed by |
Leslie Goodwins Richard Gordon Charles F. Haas Jesse Hibbs Leslie H. Martinson William A. Seiter Richard Sinclair Robert Sparr Herbert L. Strock Jacques Tourneur George Waggner |
| Starring |
Roger Moore Dorothy Provine Jeff York Ray Danton |
| Theme music composer | "Gold Fever" by Mack David and Jerry Livingston |
| Composer(s) | Max Steiner |
| Country of origin | United States |
| Original language(s) | English |
| No. of seasons | 1 |
| No. of episodes | 37 |
| Production | |
| Executive producer(s) | William T. Orr |
| Producer(s) |
Barry Ingster |
| Location(s) | California |
| Editor(s) | David Wages Robert B. Warwick |
| Running time | 60 minutes |
| Release | |
| Original network | ABC |
| Picture format | 1.33:1 monochrome |
| Audio format | monoaural |
| Original release | October 4, 1959 – June 19, 1960 |
| Chronology | |
| Related shows | Appears to have shared scripts but not characters or settings with: Maverick Bronco Cheyenne Sugarfoot |
Barry Ingster
Harry Tatelman
Charles Trapnell
Oren W. Haglund (Production manager)
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" (Dorothy Provine), "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.
The Alaskans is closely related to the ABC/WB series Maverick through broadcast and production. Maverick was the most prominent of ABC's Sunday night of western dramas. For the 1959–60 season, Sundays began with Colt .45 and Maverick, then John Russell's Lawman and Nick Adams' The Rebel, and concluded with The Alaskans.
This may have influenced the career path of Roger Moore. The same year that The Alaskans was canceled, James Garner left Maverick. Moore became, under protest, Garner's replacement, playing Bret Maverick's cousin Beau Maverick in the fourth season of Maverick.
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