''The Alaska Kid'' is a 1991 German-Russian-Polish television miniseries, based on

Jack London John Griffith Chaney (January 12, 1876 – November 22, 1916), better known as Jack London, was an American novelist, journalist and activist. A pioneer of commercial fiction and American magazines, he was one of the first American authors to ...

's 1912 short story anthology, ''Smoke Bellew''. It was directed by James Hill. First broadcast on the German

ZDF ZDF (, short for Zweites Deutsches Fernsehen; ; "Second German Television") is a German public-service television broadcaster based in Mainz, Rhineland-Palatinate. It is run as an independent nonprofit institution, which was founded by all fe ...

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 Alaska ( ; russian: Аляска, Alyaska; ale, Alax̂sxax̂; ; ems, Alas'kaaq; Yup'ik: ''Alaskaq''; tli, Anáaski) is a state located in the Western United States on the northwest extremity of North America. A semi-exclave of the U.S. ...

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* Television series based on American novels Klondike Gold Rush Television shows set in Alaska ZDF original programming German drama television series 1990s German television miniseries Russian television miniseries 1993 German television series debuts 1993 German television series endings 1990s Russian television series 1993 Russian television series debuts 1993 Russian television series endings Television series based on short fiction Television shows based on works by Jack London {{Germany-tv-prog-stub

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