Kodiak

1974
Kodiak

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EP1 Red Snow, White Death Sep 13, 1974

Kodiak comes upon a plane crash in mountain country. Benton, the pilot, has been fatally shot and robbed of $80,000 he was transporting for the Bank of Anchorage. A witness is Abraham Lincoln Imhook, an elderly Eskimo who thinks he no longer has a reason to live and is reluctant to leave the mountain.

EP2 Death Chase Sep 20, 1974

Following the shooting of a young girl's father, two snowmobiles are pitted in a desperate chase as Kodiak pursues the girl and her boyfriend. In “Death Chase,” George Taylor tells Kodiak that a wild youth, Sammy Ross, shot him in the shoulder and kidnapped his daughter, Mary.

EP3 A Time to Die Sep 27, 1974

A grieving, vengeful father threatens to kill Kodiak to prevent him from bringing his son’s murderer to trial so he can mete out his own justice. Three youths are found shot to death and Kodiak tracks down Samson Toey and they begin the long trek to a coastal city for trial. Stryker, the father of one of the victims, and Paul, another son, and an employee, Williams, intercept Kodiak and demand the prisoner. Stryker plans to avenge his son's death in his own way. Kodiak refuses to give up his prisoner and a deadly cat-and-mouse game begins.

EP4 The Last Enemy Oct 04, 1974

Kodiak must stop an old war buddy, Buzz Howard, from terrorizing the countryside after a dynamite blast shocks him into believing he is fighting the war again under heavy combat conditions. Construction crewmen Buzz and Sam are about to detonate a dynamite charge when Buzz sees two hunters entering the danger zone. While trying on his two-way radio to get Sam not to detonate, Buzz dashes into the area. Sam doesn’t hear his radio and blasts. Buzz' mind is affected as the result of the concussion and he is triggered back to the Korean War. He runs amok, wounds a man, and then begins shooting up the countryside as if the people are the enemy.

EP5 The Hunters Jan 01, 0001

A pair of hunters arrives on a mysterious mission involving the bush nurse Mandy. Mandy Farrow is being hounded by her former boyfriend and a gangster.

EP6 Captured Jan 01, 0001

Three seal poachers whose disdain for civilization results in a senseless killing, mark Kodiak as their next victim. The seal poachers, Ty and Brook Spencer, along with their cohort, Kelly Toms, gets into an argument with fur buyer Jack Capp when he refuses to buy their poached furs. In an ensuing scuffle, Ty shoots Capp. Kodiak apprehends Ty, places him under guard with Mr. Imhook and sets out to arrest the other poachers. Brook gets the jump on Kodiak and plans to use him as hostage for his brother’s release.

EP7 Cold Fear (aka The Killer) Jan 01, 0001

Kodiak must rush a pregnant woman to the bush nurse. Kodiak's attempt to get an expectant mother through the snow to where professional help is available runs into a double confrontation with an angry husband and an escaping murderer.

EP8 A Lesson in Terror Jan 01, 0001

Kodiak is forced to intervene in a serious family argument when the future of an impressionable youth is at stake. Brock, his father, has shot a man and run away with the youth.

EP9 The Deadly Promise (aka The Burning Snow) Jan 01, 0001

Kodiak is named probation officer of a hot-tempered Indian (A Martinez) just released from jail. Kodiak finds himself in mid-air with an injured pilot and desperate prisoner. Kodiak finds himself in a plane with an unconscious pilot, and at the mercy of a defiant parolee who can either tell him how to land or to go to blazes.

EP10 Killers Three (aka Thunder Mountain) Jan 01, 0001

Kodiak hast to get a thief down out of the mountains. Two fugitives track Kodiak, who is caring for a baby and has a prisoner in tow.

EP11 Deadly Friend Jan 01, 0001

Kodiak becomes suspicious of a cop who arrives to extradite a young car thief. Officer Mitch Kellog has come to take John Nootka back to Seattle on a charge of car theft and tells a very different tale of life and death, but which is Kodiak to believe?

EP12 The Animals (aka Chains of Ice) Jan 01, 0001

Ford Windust is an embittered gold miner who has lost his arm and now he keeps his partner, Abel Lonegan in chains and under the threat of his shotgun to keep him mining for gold.

EP13 The Rescue Jan 01, 0001

Kodiak is in rough country with a stretcher case, an elderly woman, and a bush-pilot with a broken shoulder to cope with the going sets even tougher. Kodiak attempts the rescue of three plane-crash victims, one of whom was hospital-bound for heart surgery. The cop rescues a mother and her daughter from a plane that has crashed in rugged Alaskan wilderness.
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Kodiak is a short lived, half-hour adventure program that aired Friday evenings at 8:00 p.m Eastern time on ABC during the 1974-1975 television season. The show revolved around the main character of Cal "Kodiak" McKay, an Alaska State Trooper. Kodiak, always accompanied by his Eskimo sidekick Abraham Lincoln Imhook, used his four-wheel drive truck to track down desperate killers through 50,000 miles of Alaska backcountry. The show was broadcast against NBC's mega-hit Sanford and Son. Kodiak couldn't lure viewers in to watch and was cancelled after the first episode, although a total of four episodes were aired. The show was filmed in Bend, Oregon Using the Old Skyliners Ski Lodge as the primary Meeting Place.

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crat-2 You know, I always remember this show because it was a part of the triple K's that was on during that time. Kolchak, Kojak, Kodiak. If I remember it right, Kodiak came on Friday nights. I didn't know it replaced the Brady Bunch, of course, I was watching Sanford & Son by then. Also, I didn't know Clint Walker stared in it. I thought it was a some what smaller native American Ranger, who drove a jeep, and used some unique form of martial arts to foil crime in the north west area. Well, at any rate, I do remember, and gladly not the only one, to also remember that there was a T.V. show named Kodiak in the early 70's. Hey!Perhaps my memory of the native American in that role would make a good show now.
Anirishmanstale Yes........Remembering when there was a time that television at least was making an attempt at being adventurous and exciting. Even if it was on a hokey family level. Now we have been reduced to seeing prime time become infested with the dreadful likes of the reality show revolution. Watching fat people work out and whine about how much being a porker has ruined their lives. Or, licking our chops at seeing the back stabbing behind the back two timing that is the very life breath of shows like "Survivor". Not even the situation comedy seems likely to survive the venomous infection that is realty TV. What chance does an old fashioned family drama have. If its all the same to you, I will catch a rerun of Kodiak. If there ever is one....
rcj5365 The reason why the short-lived series "Kodiak" has a place in television history and one of the forgotten cop shows of the 1970's?For one,this series replaced "The Brady Bunch" which was a huge ratings winner for the five astounding seasons that it ran on ABC. And to think that network executives at ABC thought that "Kodiak" would out do "The Brady Bunch"? However,it was the opposite."Kodiak" produced four episodes(and also an unknown episode that was never telecast)and it ran on ABC-TV from September 13,1974 until its demise on October 4,1974. The series was produced by Stanley Shpetner for Warner Bors. Television. "Kodiak" was filmed on location in Alaska. For one,the series was on Friday nights at the 8:00 hour(where they put this on the same time slot where "The Brady Bunch" used to be),and it was clobbered in the ratings opposite CBS' short-lived action-adventure science fiction series "The Planet of the Apes",and opposite the NBC powerhouse comedies of "Sanford and Son",and "Chico and the Man",which were Number One in their timeslots."Kodiak" ran a half-hour and the series stars Clint Walker(Cheyenne)as Alaska State Patrolmen Cal "Kodiak" McKay who was responsible for 50,000 square miles of rugged country for all the criminals,avalanche victims,miners and con-artists he had to contend with therein the Alaskan wilderness. Basically he does get his man in every episode,and in the process rescues people in great danger with his assistant Abraham(Abner Biberman). Only four episodes were produced of this series,which I can say about some shows that don't even stay on the air more than less these days. Some of the episodes were in order:"Red Snow,White Death"(telecast 9-13-74,special guest star Stefanie Powers), "Death Chase"(telecast 9-20-74,special guest star Kay Lenz),"A Time To Die"(telecast 9-27-74,special guest star Steve Forrest),and the final episode of the series "The Last Enemy"(telecast 10-4-74,special guest star William Shatner). The unknown episode that was never telecast was titled "Lesson In Terror". After this series,it to know the reason why Clint Walker went into retirement after this.
STEVE The reason I searched for this show is I recalled it as having been on TV in 1976. Evidently I was in error. OK....I vaguely recall this forgettable junk.... Clint(Hercules)Walker on a snow-mobile? The opening narration went something like this...."The Big Man lives in a Big Land, has a Big Job",etc.,etc.,etc. My step-brother and I would add our own narration..."The Big Man lives in a Big Land, has a Big Job, drives a Big Truck,lives in a Big House,eats a Big Meal, and takes a Big S**t, Big Deal !!" Now wouldn't that have been more memorable ?Clint should have retired after "The Dirty Dozen". Perhaps this muck is still watched with nostalgia in Alaska.