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Klondike is a 17-episode half-hour Western
Western (genre)

The Western is a fiction genre seen in film, television, radio, literature, painting and other visual arts. Westerns are devoted to telling stories set primarily in the later half of the 19th century in what became the Western United States , but also in Western Canada, Mexico , Alaska and even Australia ....
 television series that aired on NBC. The series premiered on October 10, 1960 and ran until February 13, 1961. It faced stiff competition from The Danny Thomas Show
The Danny Thomas Show

The Danny Thomas Show is a sitcom which ran from 1953 to 1957 on American Broadcasting Company and from 1957 to 1964 on CBS. A revival series known as Make Room for Granddaddy aired on ABC from 1970 to 1971....
 on CBS
CBS

CBS Broadcasting Inc. is an American radio network and television network. The name is derived from the initials of Columbia Broadcasting System, its former legal name....
 and the second half of the first-season detective
Detective

A detective is an investigator, either a member of a police agency or a private person. The latter may be known as private investigators . Informally, and primarily in fiction, a detective is any licensed or unlicensed person who solves crimes, including historical crimes, or looks into records....
 series Surfside 6
Surfside 6

Surfside 6 is an American Broadcasting Company television series about a Miami Beach, Florida detective agency set on a houseboat,featuring Troy Donahue as Sandy Winfield, II, Van Williams as Kenny Madison , and Lee Patterson as Dave Thorne....
 starring Troy Donahue
Troy Donahue

Troy Donahue was an United States actor and teen idol of the late 1950s and early 1960s....
 on ABC. Klondike followed Dale Robertson
Dale Robertson

Dale Robertson is an United States actor best known for his starring roles on television....
's Tales of Wells Fargo
Tales of Wells Fargo

Tales of Wells Fargo is an United States Western television series that ran from March 18, 1957 to June 2, 1962 on NBC. Produced by Revue Productions, the series aired in a half-hour format until its final season when it expanded to an hour....
 on the NBC schedule.

londike was set during 1897 in the gold rush
Gold rush

A gold rush is a period of feverish migration of workers into the area of a dramatic discovery of commercial quantities of gold.Eight gold rushes took place throughout the 19th century in Argentina, Australia, Brazil, Canada, Chile, New Zealand, South Africa, and the United States....
 town of Skagway
Skagway, Alaska

Skagway is a first-class borough in Alaska, on the Alaska Panhandle. It was formerly a city first incorporated in 1900 that was re-incorporated as a borough on June 25, 2007....
 in the Alaska
Alaska

Alaska is the largest U.S. state of the United States by area; it is situated in the northwest extremity of the North American continent, with Canada to the east, the Arctic Ocean to the north, and the Pacific Ocean to the west and south, with Russia further west across the Bering Strait....
n Klondike
Klondike, Yukon

The Klondike or Clondike is a region of the Yukon in northwest Canada, east of the Alaska border. It lies around the Klondike River, a small river that enters the Yukon River from the east at Dawson City, Yukon....
 region, starring Ralph Taeger
Ralph Taeger

Ralph Taeger is an United States actor who starred in three television program during the 1960s....
 and James Coburn
James Coburn

'James Harrison Coburn, Jr.' was an United States film and television actor. He is perhaps best known for his charisma and natural charm. He had appeared in almost 70 films and made over 100 appearances on television in his 45-year career, and won an Academy Award for Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor for his performance in Affliction...
, with supporting roles for Joi Lansing
Joi Lansing

Joi Lansing was a model, a film and television actress, and a nightclub singer....
 as Goldie and Mari Blanchard
Mari Blanchard

Mari Blanchard was a voluptuous and exotic looking femme fatale of 1950s and early 1960s Hollywood.California native Mari Blanchard was a blonde actress who almost exclusively appeared in B movies....
 as Kathy O'Hara.

Taeger played the "good guy" Mike Halliday, described by one observer as "Clint Walker
Clint Walker

Norman Eugene "Clint" Walker is an United States actor best known for his cowboy role as "Cheyenne Bodie" in the western film television series, Cheyenne ....
 without the charisma
Charisma

The word charisma refers to a rare trait found in certain human personalities usually including extreme charm and a 'magnetic' quality of personality and/or appearance along with innate and powerfully sophisticated personal communicability and persuasiveness....
", and Coburn portrayed the con man Jeff Durain.






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Klondike is a 17-episode half-hour Western
Western (genre)

The Western is a fiction genre seen in film, television, radio, literature, painting and other visual arts. Westerns are devoted to telling stories set primarily in the later half of the 19th century in what became the Western United States , but also in Western Canada, Mexico , Alaska and even Australia ....
 television series that aired on NBC. The series premiered on October 10, 1960 and ran until February 13, 1961. It faced stiff competition from The Danny Thomas Show
The Danny Thomas Show

The Danny Thomas Show is a sitcom which ran from 1953 to 1957 on American Broadcasting Company and from 1957 to 1964 on CBS. A revival series known as Make Room for Granddaddy aired on ABC from 1970 to 1971....
 on CBS
CBS

CBS Broadcasting Inc. is an American radio network and television network. The name is derived from the initials of Columbia Broadcasting System, its former legal name....
 and the second half of the first-season detective
Detective

A detective is an investigator, either a member of a police agency or a private person. The latter may be known as private investigators . Informally, and primarily in fiction, a detective is any licensed or unlicensed person who solves crimes, including historical crimes, or looks into records....
 series Surfside 6
Surfside 6

Surfside 6 is an American Broadcasting Company television series about a Miami Beach, Florida detective agency set on a houseboat,featuring Troy Donahue as Sandy Winfield, II, Van Williams as Kenny Madison , and Lee Patterson as Dave Thorne....
 starring Troy Donahue
Troy Donahue

Troy Donahue was an United States actor and teen idol of the late 1950s and early 1960s....
 on ABC. Klondike followed Dale Robertson
Dale Robertson

Dale Robertson is an United States actor best known for his starring roles on television....
's Tales of Wells Fargo
Tales of Wells Fargo

Tales of Wells Fargo is an United States Western television series that ran from March 18, 1957 to June 2, 1962 on NBC. Produced by Revue Productions, the series aired in a half-hour format until its final season when it expanded to an hour....
 on the NBC schedule.

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Klondike was set during 1897 in the gold rush
Gold rush

A gold rush is a period of feverish migration of workers into the area of a dramatic discovery of commercial quantities of gold.Eight gold rushes took place throughout the 19th century in Argentina, Australia, Brazil, Canada, Chile, New Zealand, South Africa, and the United States....
 town of Skagway
Skagway, Alaska

Skagway is a first-class borough in Alaska, on the Alaska Panhandle. It was formerly a city first incorporated in 1900 that was re-incorporated as a borough on June 25, 2007....
 in the Alaska
Alaska

Alaska is the largest U.S. state of the United States by area; it is situated in the northwest extremity of the North American continent, with Canada to the east, the Arctic Ocean to the north, and the Pacific Ocean to the west and south, with Russia further west across the Bering Strait....
n Klondike
Klondike, Yukon

The Klondike or Clondike is a region of the Yukon in northwest Canada, east of the Alaska border. It lies around the Klondike River, a small river that enters the Yukon River from the east at Dawson City, Yukon....
 region, starring Ralph Taeger
Ralph Taeger

Ralph Taeger is an United States actor who starred in three television program during the 1960s....
 and James Coburn
James Coburn

'James Harrison Coburn, Jr.' was an United States film and television actor. He is perhaps best known for his charisma and natural charm. He had appeared in almost 70 films and made over 100 appearances on television in his 45-year career, and won an Academy Award for Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor for his performance in Affliction...
, with supporting roles for Joi Lansing
Joi Lansing

Joi Lansing was a model, a film and television actress, and a nightclub singer....
 as Goldie and Mari Blanchard
Mari Blanchard

Mari Blanchard was a voluptuous and exotic looking femme fatale of 1950s and early 1960s Hollywood.California native Mari Blanchard was a blonde actress who almost exclusively appeared in B movies....
 as Kathy O'Hara.

Taeger played the "good guy" Mike Halliday, described by one observer as "Clint Walker
Clint Walker

Norman Eugene "Clint" Walker is an United States actor best known for his cowboy role as "Cheyenne Bodie" in the western film television series, Cheyenne ....
 without the charisma
Charisma

The word charisma refers to a rare trait found in certain human personalities usually including extreme charm and a 'magnetic' quality of personality and/or appearance along with innate and powerfully sophisticated personal communicability and persuasiveness....
", and Coburn portrayed the con man Jeff Durain. When Klondike did not attract a large audience, NBC cancelled the show but shifted Taeger and Coburn to play detectives in Mexico
Mexico

The United Mexican States , commonly known as Mexico , is a federalism constitutionalism republic in North America. It is bordered on the north by the United States; on the south and west by the Pacific Ocean; on the southeast by Guatemala, Belize, and the Caribbean Sea; and on the east by the Gulf of Mexico....
 in the short-lived Acapulco
Acapulco (TV series)

Acapulco is an American half-hour adventure series that aired on NBC from February 27, 1961 to April 24, 1961. It is notable for providing Telly Savalas with his first regularly recurring role in a television series....
 series. Klondike was related to the hour-long 1959-1960 ABC series The Alaskans
The Alaskans

The Alaskans is a 1959 television series set in the port of Skagway, Alaska during the 1890s. 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....
 starring Roger Moore
Roger Moore

Sir Roger George Moore Order of the British Empire is an English actor. He is perhaps best known for portraying two British action heroes, Simon Templar in the television series The Saint from 1962 to 1969, and James Bond in James Bond ....
, Jeff York
Jeff York

Jeff York was an American film and television actor who began his career in the late 1930s using the stage name Granville Owen. He was also sometimes credited as Jeff Yorke....
, and Dorothy Provine
Dorothy Provine

Dorothy Provine is a singer, dancer, actress, and comedienne.Provine appeared in many professional and amateur stage productions while attending the University of Washington....
, also set in the port city of Skagway and during the 1890s.

In the debut episode, the characters rush to Alaska to search for gold. Other episodes included "The Golden Burro" with Edgar Buchanan
Edgar Buchanan

Edgar Buchanan was an United States actor with a long career in both film and television, most familiar today as Uncle Joe Carson from the Petticoat Junction, Green Acres and Beverly Hillbillies situation comedys of the 1960s....
 and Robert F. Simon
Robert F. Simon

Robert F. Simon was a prolific United States character actor, often portraying military or authority figure roles. Though his face was recognized by audiences, he was mostly unknown by name....
 about a burro
Donkey

The 'donkey' or 'ass', Equus africanus asinus, is a Domestication member of the Equidae or horse family, and an Odd-toed ungulates. The wild ancestor of the donkey is the Wild Ass, E....
 who could find and dig for gold; "Bathhouse Justice", in which a bathhouse serves as a courtroom in a murder
Murder

Murder as defined in common law countries, is the unlawful killing of another human being with intent , and generally this state of mind distinguishes murder from other forms of unlawful homicide....
 case; "Sure Thing, Men" in which the group seeks a mining site only to run afoul of an old sourdough
Sourdough

Sourdough refers to the process of leavening agent bread by capturing wild yeasts in a dough or batter, as opposed to using a domestic, purpose-cultured yeast such as Saccharomyces cerevisiae....
; "88 Keys to Trouble", in which someone releases all the inmates from the jail; "Saints and Stickups" in which a person of apparent moral bearing robs a stagecoach
Stagecoach

A stagecoach is a type of four-wheeled closed coach for passengers and goods, strongly sprung and drawn by four horses, usually four-in-hand....
, and "Swing Your Partner", in which a group comes to town and dances the night away. In the series finale, some members of the town are held hostage for their gold. The others work to free them, and to salvage the treasure for which they had all labored so diligently. Ron Hayes
Ron Hayes

Ronald G. Hayes was an United States television actor who as an activist in the environmental movement, worked for the establishment of the first Earth Day, observed on April 22, 1970....
 appeared as Harold Enright in the episode "Sitka Madonna".

Various episodes of Klondike were directed by Sam Peckinpah
Sam Peckinpah

David Samuel "Sam" Peckinpah was an United States film director who achieved iconic status following the release of his 1969 Western epic The Wild Bunch....
 and William Conrad
William Conrad

William Conrad was an American film director and television director and an actor and narrator in radio, film, and television known for his baritone voice, as well as his sizable girth....
, later Frank Cannon on CBS
CBS

CBS Broadcasting Inc. is an American radio network and television network. The name is derived from the initials of Columbia Broadcasting System, its former legal name....
's detective series Cannon
Cannon (TV series)

Cannon is a detective fiction television series which ran on CBS from 1971 to 1976. It starred William Conrad as the overweight detective Frank Cannon, who had resigned from the LAPD and become a private detective....
. Supporting roles were played by Western tough guy L.Q. Jones
L. Q. Jones

L.Q. Jones is an United States character actor and film director, known for his work in the films of Sam Peckinpah.Jones was born Justus Ellis McQueen in Beaumont, Texas, the son of Jessie Paralee and Justice Ellis McQueen, who was a railroad worker....
, a native Texan
Texas

Texas is a U.S. state located in the South Central United States, nicknamed the Lone Star State. Texas is the second largest U.S. state in both area and population, spanning , and with a growing population of 24.3 million residents....
 as Joe Teel, and by Karl Swenson
Karl Swenson

Karl Swenson was an United States theatre radio, film, and television actor.Born in Brooklyn, New York, Swenson made several appearances on Broadway in the 1930s and 40s, including the title role in Arthur Miller's first production, The Man Who Had All the Luck....
, a recognized character actor
Character actor

A character actor is one who predominantly plays a particular type of role rather than leading actor ones. Character actor roles can range from bit parts to leading actor....
 of Swedish
Swedish people

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 descent in two different roles.

Episodes

Episode # Production Code Episode Title Airdate
1 PA59-250 "Klondike Fever" October 10, 1960
2 PA59-248 "River Of Gold" October 24, 1960
3 PA59-247 "Saints and Stickups" October 31, 1960
4 PA59-246 "The Unexpected Candidate" November 7, 1960
5 PA59-245 "88 Keys To Trouble" November 14, 1960
6 PA59-244 "Swoger's Mule" November 21, 1960
7 PA59-243 "Sure Thing, Men" November 28, 1960
8 PA59-242 "Taste Of Danger" December 5, 1960
9 PA59-241 "Bare Knuckles" December 12, 1960
10 PA59-240 "Halliday's Club" December 19, 1960
11 PA59-239 "Bathhouse Justice" December 26, 1960
12 PA59-237 "Swing Your Partner" January 9, 1961
13 PA59-236 "The Golden Burro" January 16, 1961
14 PA59-238 "Queen Of The Klondike" January 23, 1961
15 PA59-235 "The Man Who Owned Skagway" January 30, 1961
16 PA59-234 "Sitka Madonna" February 6, 1961
17 PA59-233 "The Hostages" February 13, 1961


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