60 minSeason 1 • Episode 36
LatestThe Whitehorse saloon is decked out for a wedding. Robert Howard III, a drunken poet with six months to live, is marrying Yukon Kate, the queen of the dance hall girls. They ask Silky Harris to be best man.
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.
Acting
Baby Roger Moore smirking his way through Alaska before Bond ever called.
Production
Warner Bros. backlot 'Alaska'—gloriously unconvincing snow and all.
Costume
Silky Harris's wardrobe: the frontier's most suspiciously well-dressed grifter.
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
Roger Moore was so broke he took this role while still technically under contract to MGM in England—Warner Bros. essentially smuggled him into American television.
The show rode the tail end of 1950s Alaska Fever, capitalizing on statehood (1959) and leftover Sergeant Preston props from the same studio lot.
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