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The Alaska Kid

1993 · 1 season

A rugged, good-natured frontier yarn with snowy vistas, hearty adventure and a likeable hero bumbling through gold-rush scrapes.

Created by
James Hill
Genres
Action & adventure
Overview
The 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.
How it feels
Warm, earnest and tense. Measured and easy to follow.
About
Survival, addiction, friendship, ambition
Content
Mild violence and gore. No sexual content or swearing.
Note
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Created by
James Hill
Genres
Action & adventure
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How it feels

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Full breakdown
Tone
  • warmstrength 2 of 3
  • earneststrength 2 of 3
  • tensestrength 1 of 3
Pacing
measured, 2 of 4, from slow-burn to relentless
Attention
easy-watch, 2 of 4, from background-friendly to demanding
Themes
Places
Era
period
Audience
family
Form
Content intensity
  • Gore mild
  • Language none
  • Violence mild
  • Sex none
All scales, 0 to 10
Scales, 0 to 10
ScaleValue0 to 10
Action6
Horror2
Humour5
Realism6
Romance3
Tension5
Darkness4
Complexity4
Emotional weight4

Cast

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Details

Genres
action & adventure
Created by
James Hill
Starring
John Tremaine, Raimund Harmstorf, Mark Pillow, Donovan Scott, Edward Żentara, Alexander Kuznetsov, Marina Livanova, Ingeborga Dapkūnaitė
Cinematography
Jerzy Gościk
Length
1 seasons, 13 episodes, 50 min each
Network
ZDF
Country
Germany

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