The Alaskans | |
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Roger Moore on the set of The Alaskans, 1959 | |
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Theme music composer | "Gold Fever" by Mack David and Jerry Livingston[2] |
Composer | Max Steiner |
Country of origin | United States |
Original language | English |
No. of seasons | 1 |
No. of episodes | 37 |
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Executive producer | William T. Orr |
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Production location | California |
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Running time | 60 minutes |
Production company | Warner Bros. Television |
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Network | ABC |
Release | October 4, 1959 June 19, 1960 | –
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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.