TV Show

Daniel Boone

Daniel Boone is an American action-adventure television series starring Fess Parker as Daniel Boone that aired from September 24, 1964 to September 10, 1970 on NBC for 165 episodes, and was made by 20th Century Fox Television. Ed Ames co-starred as Mingo, Boone's Cherokee friend, for the first four seasons of the series. Albert Salmi portrayed Boone's companion Yadkin in season one only. Dallas McKennon portrayed innkeeper Cincinnatus. Country Western singer-actor Jimmy Dean was a featured actor as Josh Clements during the 1968–1970 seasons. Actor and former NFL football player Rosey Grier made regular appearances as Gabe Cooper in the 1969 to 1970 season. The show was broadcast "in living color" beginning in fall 1965, the second season, and was shot entirely in California and Kanab, Utah.

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6 seasons

165 episodes total

Status

Ended

First Aired

1964

Rating

TV Show

6.9/10

30 votes • HD

Season 1

29 episodes
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Ken-Tuck-E
Episode 1

Ken-Tuck-E

Episode 1 • Sep 24, 1964

George Washington sends Daniel and Yadkin into Ken-Tuck-E, the dark and bloody hunting ground of four Indian nations, to find a site for a fort.

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Tekawitha McLeod
Episode 2

Tekawitha McLeod

Episode 2 • Oct 01, 1964

A dance at Fort Boonesborough is interrupted by Flathead Joseph, a halfbreed slave trader. He has a young Indian girl with him whom he claims is a Cherokee Princess...and a white girl. Her name is Tekawitha McLeod and she is the daughter of the Cherokee Chief Menewa. When Daniel confronts Menewa about this he admits she is white and taken from a raiding party but he wants her back. Daniel refuses when he realizes he knew her family. The Indians are determined to fight to get her back and the settlers of Boonesborough are just as determined to fight to keep her.

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My Brother's Keeper
Episode 3

My Brother's Keeper

Episode 3 • Oct 08, 1964

Mingo, wanted DEAD! Daniel Boone must capture his friend Mingo and bring him to justice before all Kentucky erupts in war. Daniel's friend Yadkin is a trusted friend to all in Booneborough and among the Cherokee. Yadkin had canoed up river and while meeting with a Cherokee trading party when they were ambushed by a Creek war party. Yadkin was found floating down river by Daniel's son Israel. With Cincinnatus removing the slug(bullet) and Rebecca Boone nursing him, he began to pull through....

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The Family Fluellen
Episode 4

The Family Fluellen

Episode 4 • Oct 22, 1964

Boone invites a widow and her hungry brood to town, but one of the children steals a telescope.

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The Choosing
Episode 5

The Choosing

Episode 5 • Oct 29, 1964

British soldiers and Indians surround Jemima as she tries to help Boone, wounded in the wilderness.

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Lac Duquesne
Episode 6

Lac Duquesne

Episode 6 • Nov 05, 1964

Boone chases a river pirate who plans to sell a load of stolen arms to Shawnees.

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Season 2

30 episodes
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Empire of the Lost
Episode 1

Empire of the Lost

Episode 1 • Sep 16, 1965

Boone returns from a solo expedition to find Boonesborough eerily empty. A corrupt British officer has kidnapped the settlers, including Boone's family, and forces them into unfriendly Chickesaw tribal lands with the intention of gaining personal control of the territory. He then captures Boone and demands that he sign away all rights to Boonesborough or watch his family and friends be turned over to the tribe. Boone manages to escape, but realizing he has no chance of freeing the captives on his own, he turns to a surprising source of help.

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The Tortoise and the Hare
Episode 2

The Tortoise and the Hare

Episode 2 • Sep 23, 1965

Boonesborough loses hope of winning an annual race when Boone sprains his ankle, until Jericho steps in.

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The Mound Builders
Episode 3

The Mound Builders

Episode 3 • Sep 30, 1965

A chief of a long-dead Aztec tribe enters the Shawnees Valley of Death.

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My Name Is Rawls
Episode 4

My Name Is Rawls

Episode 4 • Oct 07, 1965

Boone pursues a runaway slave stealing pelts to earn passage to Africa.

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The Old Man and the Cave
Episode 5

The Old Man and the Cave

Episode 5 • Oct 14, 1965

Israel violates a burial ritual when he rescues an aged Indian from death in a cave.

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The Trek
Episode 6

The Trek

Episode 6 • Oct 21, 1965

Boone first respects, then likes, a drunkard sought for burning an Indian village.

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Season 3

28 episodes
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Dan'l Boone Shot a B'ar
Episode 1

Dan'l Boone Shot a B'ar

Episode 1 • Sep 15, 1966

Boone faces a killer bear and the man who has sworn vengeance on the animal.

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The Allegiances
Episode 2

The Allegiances

Episode 2 • Sep 22, 1966

Mingo struggles with his divided heritage when an Indian council announces the British will help recapture Indian land.

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Goliath
Episode 3

Goliath

Episode 3 • Sep 29, 1966

Fearing three vengeful brothers, Otis spends money given to him for draft horses on a husky slave.

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Grizzly
Episode 4

Grizzly

Episode 4 • Oct 06, 1966

Israel helps clear a wild-looking mountain man accused of murdering a man who refused to pay a debt.

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First in War, First in Peace
Episode 5

First in War, First in Peace

Episode 5 • Oct 13, 1966

Washington visits in answer to a letter from Boone, who never wrote to him.

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Run a Crooked Mile
Episode 6

Run a Crooked Mile

Episode 6 • Oct 20, 1966

Israel is taken captive so Boone will help steal a war hero s body and then extort money from the family.

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Season 4

26 episodes
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The Ballad of Sidewinder and the Cherokee
Episode 1

The Ballad of Sidewinder and the Cherokee

Episode 1 • Sep 14, 1967

Boone and wounded Mingo ask a river pirate to help retrieve furs from a thief.

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The Ordeal of Israel Boone
Episode 2

The Ordeal of Israel Boone

Episode 2 • Sep 21, 1967

Israel must call upon all he has learned to save Boone from a rattlesnake bite.

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The Renegade
Episode 3

The Renegade

Episode 3 • Sep 28, 1967

An Indian jailed for murder escapes and comes to take revenge on witness Boone and recover his son from settlers.

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Tanner
Episode 4

Tanner

Episode 4 • Oct 05, 1967

Israel helps a starving outcast who is haunted by memories of the Shawnee murdering his parents.

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Beaumarchais
Episode 5

Beaumarchais

Episode 5 • Oct 12, 1967

Boone guides a French ally, masquerading as an actor, who is traveling to Roanoke to buy guns for the Continental Army.

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The King's Shilling
Episode 6

The King's Shilling

Episode 6 • Oct 19, 1967

A father takes a soldier hostage to force British troops to free his rebel son.

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Season 5

26 episodes
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Be Thankful for the Fickleness of Women
Episode 1

Be Thankful for the Fickleness of Women

Episode 1 • Sep 19, 1968

Josh buys a pretty bondservant, then may have to marry her when she falls for him.

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The Blackbirder
Episode 2

The Blackbirder

Episode 2 • Oct 03, 1968

A bounty hunter seeking a naval deserter is tricked into capturing Boone s friend Gideon as an escaped slave.

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The Dandy
Episode 3

The Dandy

Episode 3 • Oct 10, 1968

Daniel agrees to a request of a friend to take his son, whom he regards as spoiled and irresponsible, and teach him the ways of the wilderness and learn something more manly than the painting the young man seems most interested in. Daniel and the young man both get more than they were bargaining for in the process.

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The Fleeing Nuns
Episode 4

The Fleeing Nuns

Episode 4 • Oct 24, 1968

On the way to New Orleans, Boone and a friend help two nuns, then learn one is an aristocrat fleeing the French Revolution.

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The Plague That Came to Ford's Run
Episode 5

The Plague That Came to Ford's Run

Episode 5 • Oct 31, 1968

Josh returns to his hometown to visit a friend but finds the community a wreck and his friend missing.

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The Bait
Episode 6

The Bait

Episode 6 • Nov 07, 1968

A woman and her boyfriend rob Boone's stagecoach and steal his tax money.

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Season 6

26 episodes
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A Very Small Rifle
Episode 1

A Very Small Rifle

Episode 1 • Sep 18, 1969

A young Cherokee boy is shot and is near death. Daniel Boone must find out who shot the boy in order to head off the angry Cherokee tribe from retaliating against everyone, killing many innocent people.

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The Road to Freedom
Episode 2

The Road to Freedom

Episode 2 • Oct 02, 1969

A runaway slave and his son are on the run from three bounty hunters. When the father breaks his leg the son continues on and turns to Israel and Ben for help.

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Benvenuto... Who?
Episode 3

Benvenuto... Who?

Episode 3 • Oct 09, 1969

Visiting New Orleans to sell the furs they've trapped, Daniel and Josh become mixed up with a beautiful French jewel thief who is attempting to double-cross the rest of her gang. The gullible Josh falls for the scheming woman's charms, which allows her to hide the stolen bauble inside his guitar.

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The Man
Episode 4

The Man

Episode 4 • Oct 16, 1969

A former slave, now a chief of the Tuscarora, helps Daniel lead a ragtag group of soldiers on an operation against the British.

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The Printing Press
Episode 5

The Printing Press

Episode 5 • Oct 23, 1969

Daniel and Israel Boone visit Benjamin Franklin at his home in Philadelphia. While there, they are forced to match wits with the British Army.

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The Traitor
Episode 6

The Traitor

Episode 6 • Oct 30, 1969

The British commander of Fort Detroit will turn over the fort's defense plan if the Americans will reunite him with his wife. Daniel and Cully escort her back to him but Daniel doubts the Colonel's willingness to be a traitor.

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