Season 1 • Episode 13
LatestThe Alaska Kid is a 1991 German / Russian / Polish television miniseries, based on Jack London's 1912 short story anthology, Smoke Bellew. First broadcast on the German ZDF network in December 1993, the series stars Mark Pillow as "The Alaska Kid" Jack Bellew, a newspaper reporter on his beat during the Klondike Gold Rush in Alaska.
Production
Actual Siberian locations masquerading as Alaska—cold you can feel.
Practical Effects
Pre-CGI sled dogs and snow that'll freeze your nostalgia bones.
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
Mark Pillow was best known as Nuclear Man in Superman IV—this is his redemption arc.
Shot in Siberia during the Soviet collapse, crew reportedly traded vodka for location permits.
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