The Alaska Kid

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The Alaska Kid
Starring Mark Pillow
Donovan Scott
Dawn Merrick
Craig Allan
Raimund Harmstorf
Alexander Kuznetsov
Wladimir Soschalsky
John Phillip Law
Robert Fuller
Ivan Desny
Edward Żentara
Eric Douglas
Anja Kruse
Ingeborga Dapkūnaitė
Paul Butkevich
Baadur Tsuladze
Country of origin Germany
Russia
Poland
No. of seasons1
No. of episodes13
Production
Running time50 minutes each
Release
Original network ZDF
Original releaseDecember 1993 (1993-12)

The Alaska Kid is a 1991 German-Russian-Polish television miniseries, based on Jack London's 1912 short story anthology, Smoke Bellew. It was directed by James Hill. 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.

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Episodes

No.TitleOriginal air date
1"Im Goldrausch" [1] 1 December 1993 (1993-12-01)
2"Lebendig begraben" [1] 2 December 1993 (1993-12-02)
3"Das Jungfernfeuer" [1] 6 December 1993 (1993-12-06)
4"Das Wunder der Liebe" [1] 7 December 1993 (1993-12-07)
5"Ansturm auf Squaw Creek" [1] 8 December 1993 (1993-12-08)
6"Kid muß hängen" [1] 9 December 1993 (1993-12-09)
7"König des Roulettes" [1] 13 December 1993 (1993-12-13)
8"Tötet Kid Bellew" [1] 14 December 1993 (1993-12-14)
9"Der Kampf des Jahres" [1] 15 December 1993 (1993-12-15)
10"Das große Rennen" [1] 16 December 1993 (1993-12-16)
11"Tödliches Poker" [1] 20 December 1993 (1993-12-20)
12"Mit vorgehaltenem Gewehr" [1] 21 December 1993 (1993-12-21)
13"Entscheidung im Ewigen Eis" [1] 22 December 1993 (1993-12-22)

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References

  1. 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 "Alaska Kid Sendetermine 01.12.1993 – 22.12.1993". fernsehserien.de (in German). Retrieved 2 November 2018.