Challenge of the Yukon — 1944
64 episodes broadcast in 1944.
January 4, 1944
Forgery and Murder
At the crowded Black Crow Cafe, a scar-faced stranger shadows Les Peterson while a man called the Doc plots a fatal reunion.
January 11, 1944
Macbeth's Bloody Knife
Deep in card debt, Dirk Malone is steered into grabbing the Claypipe Mine -- and its owner promptly turns up dead with the deed signed over to Dirk.
January 18, 1944
Wolf Pack
A banker is murdered in Placerville and a bloody knife points the way; Preston sorts the loudest accuser from the real killer.
January 25, 1944
Cabin on the Trail
MacLaine's gang seizes a young couple's cabin and turns them out into the killing cold with almost nothing to survive on.
February 1, 1944
Lady Luck Claim
A well-liked writer who chronicled Yukon life is found murdered, and Preston hunts for the reason someone wanted him silenced.
February 8, 1944
As a Man Thinketh
Fifteen thousand dollars vanishes from a Seattle brokerage and a clerk is blamed, a trail that runs all the way north to the Alaskan frontier.
February 15, 1944
Hannagan Brothers
A noseful of porcupine quills sets King -- and Preston -- on the path of a pair of murdering claim jumpers and a traveling zoologist.
February 22, 1944
The Great Dog King
Two brothers are split over dogs, and the dog-hater is the one with the winsome little daughter -- a difference that soon spells trouble.
February 29, 1944
The Vallera Diamond
Gold on a trading post, a trader's lovely daughter, and a circling wolf pack -- King fights to save Henri Duran's life.
A grieving son carries his mother's fabled, ill-starred diamond into the Yukon, where King foils an attempt to steal it.
March 16, 1944
Paul Matthews
The notorious con man Soapy Smith turns up in Skagway, suspiciously generous toward a preacher and his plans for a church.
An escaped prisoner strands Corporal Standish on the trail with no supplies, and the Mountie swears to bring him in anyway.
A man who took the blame for his father-in-law's bank embezzlement leaves town and loses everything, only to find his grown daughter years later.
A murder in the Yukon, a suspected Frenchman, and a cafe owner's fine plaid coat -- and King nearly makes a grave mistake.
May 5, 1944
A Woman Scorned
Trading on his resemblance to a jailed outlaw, Preston goes undercover to track and arrest the man's brother at Towanda Lake.
A sacred idol a Russian left for the local tribe is stolen by Tom Lawson, and Preston sets out to bring it back.
Arriving at an Indian settlement in mourning, Preston hears the story of how the tribe came to its Christian faith.
A boastful marksman and his gold both disappear from a cabin at World's End, and Preston suspects a neighbor named McClennan.
Two robbers kill a teller during the Morriston bank holdup, and Preston rides in pursuit.
A frail, unstable man drags his devoted daughter off to prospect in the north, her romance abandoned behind them.
July 6, 1944
Unscheduled Escape
A settler's wife is killed and his child carried off; years later, a locket worn by a grown woman tells him a startling truth.
No sooner does Lucky Walters hit paydirt than his partner Al McGregor betrays him and seizes the claim for himself.
A devoted daughter is caught between a horse-loving suitor and a dog-loving one, and the difference matters more than anyone expects.
A ruined man accuses another of killing his wife and wrecking him, then trails his enemy all the way to the Yukon.
Two men with a secret map know exactly where they are bound; the trick is getting there alive.
The Yukon's fanciest gambling hall, the Wheel of Fortune, is as crooked as its owner Duke Mendoza -- until King steps in.
Two men resolve to pull a job even with Sergeant Preston in town.
A dog-whipping newcomer with no Yukon hospitality in him learns a hard lesson out on the trail.
Two crooks pull off a rich gold heist, but their scheme comes apart once Preston takes their trail.
A gunman with a telltale blinking eye comes north to the Yukon and crosses paths with Sergeant Preston.
A young man is beaten and left to die so two crooks can impersonate him and seize his inheritance -- until King finds him half-frozen in the snow.
Long before guide dogs were trained, a blind man's faithful dog Alec is his only eyes and his only possession.
October 5, 1944
A Wrong Righted
A crusading editor campaigns to clean up his town, unaware that the corruption's source is his own fiancee's father.
A woman with little regard for Indians must reckon with one who has found placer gold -- and with King.
November 10, 1944
King Found the Clue
While Florabelle the dancing bear performs for the delighted crowd, the bank is quietly robbed.
A protective brother forbids his sister's romance with a cheap gambler; the pair deceive Preston, and King plainly disapproves.
November 25, 1944
Paula Buchanan
Two brothers arrive to build a cafe in a small mining town just as a lucky miner's offer of a mine share sparks trouble.
A mining engineer and his daughter are guided through the wilds as King faces down a lynx -- Jay Michael's last outing as Preston.
A jailed killer boasts he will never hang or even face a jury, then breaks out and murders his guard that very night.
A robber caught after shooting a banker may in fact be a long-sought thief who vanished seven years before.
Trapped in a wealthy old Scotsman's cabin with Rance Taggart's gunmen waiting outside, Preston must decide whether to run or stand.
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