Kodiak (1974)
Kodiak
1974Kodiak 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.
Seasons & Episode
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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?
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.
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.
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.