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Television series (1959–1960)

For the 1924 lost film, see The Alaskan.

The Alaskans is a 1959–1960 ABC/Warner Bros.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.^[3] 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".^[4]

The show was the first regular work on American television for the British actor Roger Moore.

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Background and production

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, th