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The Alaskans

1959-10-04 · 60 min / episode · ★ 6.7

Western · Drama

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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Roger MooreRoger MooreSilky Harris
Dorothy ProvineDorothy Provine
Jeff YorkJeff York
Ray DantonRay Danton

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