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''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.〔(Episode World's synopsis of ''The Alaskans'' )〕 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".〔(''The Alaskans'' at TVDays.com )〕 The show was the first regular work on American television for the British actor Roger Moore. ==Relationship with ''Maverick''== ''The Alaskans'' is closely related to the ABC/WB series ''Maverick'' through broadcast and production. ''Maverick'' was the most prominent of ABC's Sunday night of western dramas. For the 1959–60 season, Sundays began with ''Colt .45'' and ''Maverick'', then John Russell's ''Lawman'' and Nick Adams' ''The Rebel'', and concluded with ''The Alaskans''.〔(''The Rebel'' at tvobscurities.com )〕 This may have influenced the career path of Roger Moore. The same year that ''The Alaskans'' was canceled, James Garner left ''Maverick''. Moore became, under protest,〔 Garner's replacement, playing Bret Maverick's cousin Beau Maverick in the fourth season of ''Maverick''. ''Maverick'' and ''The Alaskans'' were also related through script, if not narrative. The two shows were not part of the same fictional world, as evidenced by a lack of crossovers between the two. Because of the 1960 Writers Guild of America strike as well as an ongoing Warner Bros. policy to save money on writers, however, ''The Alaskans'' inherited a certain amount of scripted material from ''Maverick''. Moore bristled at the lack of originality in scripts: "An old ''Bronco'' script would interchange with an ''Alaskans'' or ''Maverick''. In some cases, even the dialogue stayed unchanged."〔 In 2007, Moore noted, "Quite often I realized that we were filming ''Maverick'' scripts, with the names changed."〔(Moore answer to a June 2007 question on his official website )〕 This made it simple for Jack L. Warner to envision Moore as Maverick since Moore had literally delivered Garner's dialogue while reshooting the same scripts with different names and locales. Since the show has not been available to home audiences for more than forty years, independent verification of either claim is difficult. However, ''The Alaskans'' may have drawn from other series as well. One viewer has detailed which specific ''Maverick'', ''Sugarfoot'' and ''Cheyenne'' episodes spawned clones on ''The Alaskans''. Cannibalizing scripts was standard operating procedure at Warner Bros. television. Their first big hit in the detective genre, ''77 Sunset Strip'', was copied in analogous series such as ''Bourbon Street Beat'', ''Surfside Six'', and ''Hawaiian Eye'', with only the locations changed – Los Angeles to New Orleans, Miami Beach, and Hawaii. The basic characters were identical with only the character parts which spoke in jargon being re-written e.g. horse racing tout to jazz slang. This pre-dated the troubles with the Writers Guild. 〔(WBTV Posse forum thread, giving parent episodes on other programs and their children on ''The Alaskans''. Free registration required to view. )〕 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「The Alaskans」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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