The Alaskans Episode Guide

1 :01x01 - Gold Sled

First aired: Oct/04/1959
Writer: Lowell Barrington, Harry Wittington
Director: Joseph Lejtes
Guest star: Sam Buffington (Count Meshikov), Jack Big Head (Chilkoot), Allyn Joslyn (Quag), Hank Patterson (Man)

Adventurers Silky Harris and Reno McKee prepare to travel to the Klondike region in search of gold. Singer Rocky Shaw, upon hearing a strange tale about gold buried in the snow, decides to make the trip along with Silky and Reno.

2 :01x02 - Cheating Cheaters

First aired: Oct/11/1959
Guest star: Frank Ferguson (guest star), Louis Quinn (Brother Bowers)

Skagway saloon owner Nifty Cronin agrees to ship gold dust stateside for Silky Harris but the boat mysteriously sinks. Is shifty Nifty trying to pull a fast one?

3 :01x03 - The Blizzard

First aired: Oct/18/1959
Guest star: Emory Parnell (Manager), Paul Wexler (Bookkeeper), Charles Fredericks (Marks), Kelly Thordsen (Bartender), John Dehner (Cornish), Richard Collier (Piano Player), George Cisar (Merchant), Andrea King (Duchess), Susan Crane (Mary Simon), Walter Burke (Jenks)

Reno McKee is joined by three suspicious characters while hauling a load of dynamite over a hazardous trail to Nome.

4 :01x04 - The Petticoat Crew

First aired: Oct/25/1959

Visions of riches dance in the head of Silky Harris when he decides to ship a boatload of dancing gals and Thanksgiving turkeys from Seattle to the gold mining town of Dawson. But Nifty Cronin has his own ideas about the "cargo."

5 :01x05 - Starvation Stampede

First aired: Nov/01/1959
Guest star: John Qualen (guest star), Allison Hayes (guest star), James Westerfield (guest star), Joe Di Reda (guest star)

When a supply ship is trapped in an early freeze on its way to an isolated mining town, the greedy town storekeeper decides to take advantage of the situation.

6 :01x06 - Big Deal

First aired: Nov/08/1959

Silky and Reno stumble into a swindle when they try to locate the owner of a lost legal document.

7 :01x07 - Contest at Gold Bottom

First aired: Nov/15/1959
Guest star: Eddie Quillan (guest star), Patrick Westwood (guest star), Monty Margetts (Sara McTavish), George Dunn (guest star), Archie Duncan (guest star), I. Stanford Jolley (Beriah Jackson)

Nifty Cronin has acquired the mortgage on Silky and Reno's mining property and threatens to foreclose. Not having enough money to make the payment things look dire for our heroes until a baby is abandoned on their doorstep. They decide to raise money by holding a "Name the Baby" contest.

8 :01x08 - Winter Song

First aired: Nov/22/1959
Guest star: Mickey Simpson (Steve Bonnett), George D. Wallace (Bill Adams), Jerome Cowan (Horatio Styles), Alan Baxter (Lee Bannister), Marie Windsor (Maria Julien)

Silky, Reno, and Rocky plan to stage a concert starring opera singer Maria Julien but after arriving the songstress suddenly loses her voice.

9 :01x09 - The Golden Fleece

First aired: Nov/29/1959
Guest star: Theodore Marcuse (guest star), Beatrice Kay (guest star)

Four men assault Reno McKee for seemingly no reason and then proceed to purchase an apparently worthless gold mine.

10 :01x10 - Doc Booker

First aired: Dec/06/1959
Guest star: Arthur Scott (Man), Fred Coby (Bartender), Simon Oakland (Doc. Booker), Julie Adams (Clara), Vernon Rich (Annoucer)

Doc Booker acts to stop a typhoid epidemic but then it's revealed that's he's not really a medical doctor.

11 :01x11 - The Abominable Snowman

First aired: Dec/13/1959
Guest star: Ray Teal (Ezra Granit), Ruta Lee (Alabama), Jack Mather (Father Malone), Robert Boon (Otto)

A miner dies after being attacked by a strange monster. Silky and another miner then compete in a race for ownership of his mine.

12 :01x12 - Remember the Maine

First aired: Dec/20/1959

Soapy Smith suddenly gets patriotic and organizes a special Skagway detachment to fight in the Spanish-American War. Silky Harris joins up to uncover Soapy's real motives.

13 :01x13 - Million Dollar Kid

First aired: Jan/03/1960
Guest star: Mort Mills (Wilkes), Bart Braverman (Kat)

Reno and Rocky decide to help a young Native American named Kat who wants to go to the Lower 48.

14 :01x14 - The Trial of Reno McKee

First aired: Jan/10/1960
Guest star: Don Kelly (Carl), Bing Russell (Edward Carse), Fredd Wayne (Burton), Efrem Zimbalist, Jr. (John Conrad), Karen Steele (Ellen Chambers)

Reno is framed for murder and his only hope for acquittal is an alcoholic lawyer whom Rocky and Silky try to keep sober.

15 :01x15 - Gold Fever

First aired: Jan/17/1960
Writer: William Driskill, Harry Tatelman, Sam Roeca
Guest star: Susan Morrow (guest star), Gerald Mohr (Swiftwater Charlie), Wynn Pearce (Danny McKee), Werner Klemperer (Baron)

Reno McKee's younger brother and his new bride arrive in Skagway and decide to strike out on their own in the gold fields.

16 :01x16 - The Challenge

First aired: Jan/24/1960
Writer: David Newhouse, Laszlo Gorog
Guest star: Robert Colbert (Phil), Don Dubbins (Grant), Leonides Ossetnyski (Hans Lindberg), Don Beddoe (Reed), Penny Edwards (Nancy Trenton), John Hoyt (Captain Ezra)

When an avalanche threatens to bury Skagway, Silky volunteers to climb a mountain and set off some explosives blasts which will divert the sliding snow. But someone appears not to want Silky to make the journey.

17 :01x17 - The Long Pursuit

First aired: Jan/31/1960
Writer: Lee Loeb, Steve Frazee
Guest star: Lovyss Bradley (Mrs. Leary), Harold Stone (Ed Bundy), Joel Ashley (Mr. Elkins), Ruta Lee (Amy), Dick Rich (Jeb Leary), Rusty Lane (Doc. Williams), Mike Road (Marshal Wallace)

Reno McKee joins forces with a Chicago detective to track down a woman who allegedly committed a murder.

18 :01x18 - Spring Fever

First aired: Feb/07/1960
Writer: Oscar Brodney
Director: Leslie H. Martinson
Guest star: Lyn Statten (Lucille), Maurice Marsac (Pierre Bouchard), Rex Reason (Gordon Talbot)

When Silky starts taking her for granted, Rocky begins flirting with a gentleman named Gordon Talbot who happens to have ulterior motives regarding the relationship.

19 :01x19 - Black Sand

First aired: Feb/14/1960
Writer: Hugh Benson
Guest star: Don Kelly (Dan O'Kelly), Richard Reeves (guest star), John Reach (Pete Yeager), Karen Steele (Nora Weber), Tom Drake (Dan Weber)

Reno heads out with Dan and Nora Weber to locate a lost gold mine. On the trail, the three are joined by two other men and Reno begins getting suspicious of Nora's behavior.

20 :01x20 - The Seal Skin-Game

First aired: Feb/21/1960
Guest star: Frank DeKova (Fantan), Jacqueline Beer (Jacqueline St. Clair), Peter Whitney (Bear River Blewitt), Robert Williams (Donlon), Dick Sargent (Joey)

Silky, Reno, and Rocky are conned into buying a bankrupt seal raising business and will do almost anything to find a buyer to take the business off their hands.

21 :01x21 - Peril at Caribou Crossing

First aired: Feb/28/1960
Guest star: Jerry Paris (Walter Collier), Steve Brodie (Purvis), Lee Van Cleef (Roc), Vladimir Sokoloff (Chanook), Fay Spain (Janice Collier)

Silky seeks shelter at an isolated cabin due to inclement weather, arriving right in the middle of a family quarrel. Things then go from awful to good grief when two outlaws arrive on the scene.

22 :01x22 - Behind The Moon

First aired: Mar/06/1960
Director: Charles Haas
Guest star: Andra Martin (Kerano), Lee Patterson (Tom Kirk), Michael Forest (Shaman), Hugh Sanders (Douglas Pemberton), Diane McBain (Harriet Pemberton)

A gold prospector discovers that his backers are making plans to drive Native Americans off their land because of deposits of gold there.

23 :01x23 - Partners

First aired: Mar/13/1960
Guest star: Jimmy Carter (Jimmy Hendricks), Alan Hale, Jr. (Hap Johnson), Warren Stevens (Jim Hendricks)

Young Jimmy Hendricks is told by Reno and Rocky that his father died a hero but when the lad discovers the unheroic truth, he disappears.

24 :01x24 - Disaster At Gold Hill

First aired: Mar/20/1960
Guest star: Mike Road (Arthur Bryant), Gilman Rankin (Tully), Madlyn Rhue (Fay Loomis), Rex Reason (Paul Loomis)

Silky gets into major trouble when he becomes involved in an explosive romantic triangle.

25 :01x25 - The Last Bullet

First aired: Mar/27/1960
Guest star: Gary Vinson (Larry Hoyt), Frank Cady (Bradshaw), Andra Martin (guest star)

Silky rescues a man from a wolfpack and takes him to a house occupied by wolves in human form.

26 :01x26 - A Barrel Of Gold

First aired: Apr/03/1960
Writer: Melvin Levy
Director: Reginald LeBorg
Guest star: Richard Evans (Roy), Ed Kemmer (Vess Owen), Hal Baylor (Corporal Thomas), Jean Allison (Rose Stevenson), Michael Forest (Pierre Duran), Jack Mather (Ed Stevenson)

Survivors of a prospecting party report that they were poisoned by spoiled meat.

27 :01x27 - The Bride Wore Black

First aired: Apr/10/1960
Guest star: Keith Richards (Arlington), Lee Bergere (Jack Hawley), John Beal (Cass Wilson), Fay Spain (Ellen Hawley)

Homely Cass Wilson sends Silky's picture to impress his mail order bride. Needless to say, there's trouble when the lass discovers that she's been deceived.

28 :01x28 - Odd Man Hangs

First aired: Apr/17/1960
Guest star: Walter Sande (Tom Carter), Myron Healey (Fred Simmons), Michael Forest (Pierre Duran), Valerie French (Marie Forbes)

Silky and two other men are jailed on a murder charge. All three will hang unless one of them confesses.

29 :01x29 - Counterblow

First aired: Apr/24/1960
Guest star: Robert McQueeney (Van Peyton), Horace McMahon (Tim Carstairs), Karen Steele (Lindia Fair)

Silky receives part ownership in a newspaper as payment for a debt. Then his partner is killed by organized crime elements.

30 :01x30 - Heart Of Gold

First aired: May/01/1960
Guest star: Emory Parnell (Swede), Charles Stevens (Chinook), Paul Birch (Dan Byers), Gary Vinson (Frank Andrews), Frank Ferguson (Brother Barlow), Napua Wood (Jessie), Jack Big Head (Joe), Michael Forest (Pierre Duran), Bernard Fein (Tom), Troy Donahue (Ted Andrews)

Pierre Duran, transporting miners' gold dust to Yukon City, is hijacked and left for dead.

31 :01x31 - Kangaroo Court

First aired: May/08/1960
Guest star: Joan O'Brien (Fay Campbell), Larry Pennell (Harry Seattle), Robert Lowery (John Ryan), Walter Burke (Sid Queen), Claude Akins (Constable Watts)

Silky encounters trouble when he gives a female entertainer and her main squeeze a lift into a new gold rush boomtown.

32 :01x32 - The Silent Land

First aired: May/15/1960
Guest star: Michael Forest (Pierre Duran), Nancy Hsueh (Anook), Harry Swoger (Morse), W. T. Chang (Sityak), Richard Carlyle (Fleming), Arthur Franz (Dr. Jim Manning), Leonard Strong (Shaman), Claude Akins (Constable Watts), Frank Ferguson (guest star)

Pierre Duran, transporting supplies to a remote outpost, meets a Mountie who's tracking down a pair of fugitives.

33 :01x33 - Calico

First aired: May/22/1960
Director: Robert B. Sinclair
Guest star: Billy M. Greene (Nathaniel), Myrna Fahey (Calico), William Leocester (Red), Leo Gordon (Tracy), Richard Webb (Clay), Tristram Coffin (Wheaton), Rex Reason (Stony McBride)

Silky wins a half share in a gold mine but there's a catch--his claim is forfeit unless he works it at least once a week. Then Silky's partner disappears without revealing the mine's location.

34 :01x34 - Sign Of The Kodiak

First aired: May/29/1960
Guest star: Robert Armstrong (John Coleman), Pippa Scott (Ruth Coleman), Chana Eden (Zeena), Leonid Kinskey (Ivan), Michael Forest (Pierre Duran), Lee Patterson (Jeff Warren)

In mountainous country, Pierre Duran encounters a hunter who's obssessed with killing an elusive Kodiak bear named Big Mike.

35 :01x35 - White Vengeance

First aired: Jun/05/1960
Writer: Raphael Hayes
Director: Lew Landers
Guest star: Tim Graham (Gil Hawkins), Peter Whitney (Jobka), Robert Colbert (Shawn), Lyn Statten (Corbi), Pat Renella (Evans), Andra Martin (Lily), Carol Anne Seflinger (Katja)

Silky heads for an old man's cabin to inform the man that his son has made a gold strike and nearly gets blasted full of bullets by the old man.

36 :01x36 - The Ballad Of Whitehorse

First aired: Jun/12/1960
Director: Charles Haas
Guest star: Jean Allison (Yukon Kate), Jack Shea (Green), James Parnell (Robert Howard), Ray Ballard (Bailey), Rex Reason (Joe Holland), Lonnie Poerce (Shirley), Ted White (Brown), Saundra Edwards (Molly), Frank J. Scannell (Auctioneer)

Silky is asked to be the best man at the wedding of a dying alcoholic poet and a dance hall gal.