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The Alaska Kid (1993)

The Alaska Kid poster
Directed by
James Hill
Genre
adventure television series
Country
Germany
Elsewhere
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How it feels

A young newspaper reporter heads to Alaska during the Klondike Gold Rush. He gets into adventures around the mining camps while writing stories.

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What happens

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. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

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