Daniel Boone

6.9
19641h

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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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Seasons

29 Episodes • Premiered 1964

Still image for Daniel Boone season 1 episode 1: Ken-Tuck-E

1. Ken-Tuck-E

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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2. Tekawitha McLeod

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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3. My Brother's Keeper

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....

Still image for Daniel Boone season 1 episode 4: The Family Fluellen

4. The Family Fluellen

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

Still image for Daniel Boone season 1 episode 5: The Choosing

5. The Choosing

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

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6. Lac Duquesne

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

Still image for Daniel Boone season 1 episode 7: The Sound of Wings

7. The Sound of Wings

A British officer captures Boone then impersonates him to win Indian allies.

Still image for Daniel Boone season 1 episode 8: A Short Walk to Salem

8. A Short Walk to Salem

Israel becomes lost in the woods after fur thieves ambush him, Boone and Yadkin.

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9. The Sisters O'Hannrahan

Yadkin's trickery leaves Boone the unexpected, and unwilling, owner of indentured Irish sisters.

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10. Pompey

A bondsman insists on returning a runaway slave unshackled by Boone.

Still image for Daniel Boone season 1 episode 11: Mountain of the Dead

11. Mountain of the Dead

A dream about a man whom Daniel thought was dead is followed by the appearance of three men at his door demanding that he take them to the site of a bloody Native American massacre.

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12. Not in Our Stars

Mingo plans to do more than protest a new treaty when he and Boone visit Virginia's governor general.

Still image for Daniel Boone season 1 episode 13: The Hostages

13. The Hostages

Rumors circulate that the British are employing Indians to fight for them. Daniel becomes personally involved when he gets word his wife Rebecca has been taken by an Indian raiding party.

Still image for Daniel Boone season 1 episode 14: The Returning

14. The Returning

Boone cannot believe a boyhood friend murdered two Cherokee youths.

Still image for Daniel Boone season 1 episode 15: The Prophet

15. The Prophet

A Shawnee prophet predicts massacre for the settlers of Boonesborough.

Still image for Daniel Boone season 1 episode 16: The First Stone

16. The First Stone

Boone befriends a mother and son, but learns the woman is accused of witchcraft.

Still image for Daniel Boone season 1 episode 17: A Place of 1000 Spirits

17. A Place of 1000 Spirits

While hunting, the Boones meet a delirious British officer pursued by vengeful Shawnees.

Still image for Daniel Boone season 1 episode 18: The Sound of Fear

18. The Sound of Fear

A condemned bounty hunter who escaped from a military convoy takes the Boones hostage.

Still image for Daniel Boone season 1 episode 19: The Price of Friendship

19. The Price of Friendship

Boone assists a boy and winds up at the mercy of a larcenous clan.

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20. The Quietists

A Quaker family refuses to fight until Indians kidnap a daughter.

Still image for Daniel Boone season 1 episode 21: The Devil's Four

21. The Devil's Four

Boone commands four criminals recruited by Yadkin to haul frieght to Boonesborough.

Still image for Daniel Boone season 1 episode 22: The Reunion

22. The Reunion

While out hunting, Daniel and Cincinnatus come upon Timothy who is looking for his abandonded daughter Becky.

Still image for Daniel Boone season 1 episode 23: The Ben Franklin Encounter

23. The Ben Franklin Encounter

Boone and Mingo travel East and get caught up in a confrontation between Benjamin Franklin and British Admiral Lord Clydesdale, who threatens to hang them all for treason.

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24. Four-Leaf Clover

An idealistic schoolteacher incites Boonesborough's wrath by giving gunpowder to the Shawnees.

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25. Cain's Birthday (1)

Boone seems guilty of betrayal when he allows Choctaws to capture the town's men

Still image for Daniel Boone season 1 episode 26: Cain's Birthday (2)

26. Cain's Birthday (2)

Lacking water and powder, the women and children of Boonesborough seem easy prey for attacking Choctaws.

Still image for Daniel Boone season 1 episode 27: Daughter of the Devil

27. Daughter of the Devil

A man is found dead by a group of travelers, one of them hears a strange noise and believes it to be the Devil in the form of a black panther. Daniel and Mingo believe a far more mundane explanation is at hand, and investigate to prove their point.

Still image for Daniel Boone season 1 episode 28: Doll of Sorrow

28. Doll of Sorrow

Israel accidentally startles a passing peddler's horse and his goods are ruined. Daniel agrees to compensate him for his loss but matters are complicated when he steals a grieving Indian women's mourning doll.

Still image for Daniel Boone season 1 episode 29: The Courtship of Jericho Jones

29. The Courtship of Jericho Jones

Jericho and Sumah, the daughter of the Indian chief, want to marry. Daniel proposes a trial engagement. For a month Jericho will live with the Indians and Sumah will live with Boone's family and see if each can adapt to the other culture.

Cast

Photo of Fess Parker

Fess Parker

Daniel Boone

Photo of Ed Ames

Ed Ames

Mingo

Photo of Patricia Blair

Patricia Blair

Rebecca Boone

Photo of Darby Hinton

Darby Hinton

Israel Boone

Photo of Dal McKennon

Dal McKennon

Cincinnatus

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