Challenge of the Yukon — 1945
54 episodes broadcast in 1945.
A bank robbery in Seahorse points to Joe Faro, who waits at his cabin outside town -- with a trap set for the Mountie.
January 11, 1945
Man-Hunt
A boy drawn to King is torn by the fact that his own father pulled the bank robbery Preston is investigating.
The richest and least-liked man in Deaville turns up shot in the back in the snow soon after making enemies at the saloon.
Certain that Louis Cambeaux is behind three robberies, Preston hunts for both the hidden loot and a charge that will hold him.
A trapper is ambushed on the trail, and King leads Preston to the man who did it.
A father forbids his daughter's marriage to a luckless gambler, and the young couple's troubles pull Preston in.
Injured in a ravine, Preston sends King for help -- and the man who finds him is a wanted killer content to leave him to freeze.
After a blizzard, Preston and a companion drive off a wolf pack and find a lone girl with no clear reason to be out there.
Preston reaches Horse River to news that Jim Bixby has trapped valuable ermine, and fears -- rightly -- for the man's life.
When a gambler named Duke Slade crosses King, Preston only wishes his dog could tell him what the animal plainly knows.
King pulls a man from thin ice, but the fellow's large gold nugget has gone missing -- was it stolen?
White men ply renegade Chinook with liquor and set them on a couple, and King finds a hidden mine entrance to lead Preston to the rescue.
A trapper disarms a dangerous man who nearly kills his wife and baby, and an avalanche delivers rough justice.
A young miner who just struck gold is found murdered on the trail, and his partner asks Preston to find the killer.
A man who killed a priest and stole his collection box falls in with Preston -- and nearly gets King put down.
A wealthy prospector gives his dance-hall bride her weight in gold, and then she disappears overnight.
Rather than carry a gun, the smooth Jules Dupre lets his trained killer dog Lobo do his work as he jumps one miner's claim after another.
As the Yukon's great annual sled race is run, King discovers a hurt boy lying along the trail.
A young Indian is scared off his rich gold claim by eerie noises from the 'god of the mountain,' and Preston looks into it.
A mother's fear of dogs nearly costs her lost son his life, until King drives off a menacing wolf.
On the trail of the murderer Indian Pete, Preston is shot and owes his life to King.
June 5, 1945
2nd Audition Show Trail
When a lead sled dog is accused of robbing traps, Preston insists even a dog deserves a fair trial -- and so, later, does a wolf.
Three men are murdered and robbed by hatchet, while a dying man begs to see a new medicine man.
A dog named Thunder, long mistreated by a killer, proves to have a very long memory.
After old John Dore strikes gold and then breaks his leg, two claim jumpers close in on him, his granddaughter, and King.
A veteran prospector spends his $10,000 savings on a mine that looks worthless -- but is it really?
Preston and King pull Judge Fitzgerald's teenage granddaughter Betty from an icy river, in a tale that threads young romance through a pair of escaped convicts.
Two prisoners set fire to the jail and break out, and Preston takes up the chase.
A retired sea captain panning for gold has a talking parrot whose barked orders end up saving an Indian tribe from smallpox.
Bart Nicholls and his gang make a run for Dawson City with Preston close behind.
Gamblers try to take a rich claim's map from young Jim and his sister, until an old partner shows up to help.
Shot north of the Arctic Circle, Preston is nursed back to health by young Pete and a kindly Eskimo couple.
Wealthy but unwilling to quit her restaurant, Maw guards young Jimmy when danger comes -- with a surprise baked in.
The ghost said to haunt Crazy Pete's cabin takes beads and leaves gold nuggets -- a puzzle Preston means to crack.
An Eskimo killer flees to his far-northern tribe and learns that not even the Arctic shields him from the Mounties.
A man seen fleeing a Whitehorse murder has an unbeatable alibi -- he was with Sergeant Preston.
A big man who won't stand cruelty to animals is painfully shy with Annie, until a bullet in the leg plays Cupid.
A birthday gift of red mittens -- and a new trick of King's -- leads Preston to a killer.
An English gentleman arrives to claim his half of the Golden Horseshoe Mine, a greenhorn among hard cases.
A boy's stolen pet bear turns up performing in Beaver Bill's traveling medicine show.
A trading-post owner's granddaughter reaches Forty Mile just as he is held up and she nearly freezes.
Dynamite the battle-scarred cat -- not the explosive -- sniffs out a stolen shipment of valuable furs.
Corporal Cleary is shot dead by Drew Pierce, a former Mountie, and Preston takes the trail.
A mean, grasping woman stands to inherit $200,000 in gold from her dying husband.
An Irish couple bring their swift wolfhound Tara to the Yukon in search of the family gold mine.
A killer kidnaps the padre, steals the $30,000 mission fund, and takes the clergyman's place in town.
Bringing in the killer Jules Razar, Preston and his companions are trapped on a ledge by a savage storm.
Two freight men whose business a new steamboat has ruined plan to blow her up -- passengers and all.
A robbed German prospector's faithful dachshund treks alone into town to fetch help.
A sour old moneylender with an unhappy past finds himself unexpectedly charmed by a young girl.
December 27, 1945
New Year's Eve
Knowing King's one fear is firecrackers, robbers use the New Year's noise to cover their crime.
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