Daniel Boone
Daniel Boone

Daniel Boone

1964 6 Seasons 165 Episodes ⭐ 7.0 Action & Adventure Western

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.

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 & Episodes

EP 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

EP 2

Tekawitha McLeod

A dance at Fort Boonesborough is interrupted by Flathead Joseph, a halfbreed slave trader. He has a young Indian girl wi

EP 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 wa

EP 4

The Family Fluellen

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

EP 5

The Choosing

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

EP 6

Lac Duquesne

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

EP 7

The Sound of Wings

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

EP 8

A Short Walk to Salem

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

EP 9

The Sisters O'Hannrahan

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

EP 10

Pompey

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

EP 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 h

EP 12

Not in Our Stars

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

EP 13

The Hostages

Rumors circulate that the British are employing Indians to fight for them. Daniel becomes personally involved when he ge

EP 14

The Returning

Boone cannot believe a boyhood friend murdered two Cherokee youths.

EP 15

The Prophet

A Shawnee prophet predicts massacre for the settlers of Boonesborough.

EP 16

The First Stone

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

EP 17

A Place of 1000 Spirits

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

EP 18

The Sound of Fear

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

EP 19

The Price of Friendship

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

EP 20

The Quietists

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

EP 21

The Devil's Four

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

EP 22

The Reunion

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

EP 23

The Ben Franklin Encounter

Boone and Mingo travel East and get caught up in a confrontation between Benjamin Franklin and British Admiral Lord Clyd

EP 24

Four-Leaf Clover

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

EP 25

Cain's Birthday (1)

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

EP 26

Cain's Birthday (2)

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

EP 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 fo

EP 28

Doll of Sorrow

Israel accidentally startles a passing peddler's horse and his goods are ruined. Daniel agrees to compensate him for his

EP 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 Jeri

EP 1

Empire of the Lost

Boone returns from a solo expedition to find Boonesborough eerily empty. A corrupt British officer has kidnapped the set

EP 2

The Tortoise and the Hare

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

EP 3

The Mound Builders

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

EP 4

My Name Is Rawls

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

EP 5

The Old Man and the Cave

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

EP 6

The Trek

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

EP 7

The Aaron Burr Story

Aaron Burr, ex-Vice President, comes to Boonesborough to enlist Daniel to guide him on a long and dangerous journey to t

EP 8

Cry of Gold

A man arrives at Boonesborough offering unusually high prices for beaver pelts. Daniel doesn't trust this generous trade

EP 9

The Peace Tree

A Scottish emigrant, a Cherokee chief s son and Israel try to prevent a war between settlers and Indians.

EP 10

The Thanksgiving Story

Boone s eccentric father-in-law concocts a Thanksgiving Day plan to prevent a Choctaw attack.

EP 11

A Rope for Mingo

Vigilantes stalk Mingo after his knife falls into the hands of a Cherokee who murders a trader s family.

EP 12

The First Beau

Feelings for Jemima make a dashing young outlaw consider reforming.

EP 13

The Perilous Journey

Daniel and Rebecca finally get to take a long delayed honeymoon but it gets interrupted by an officer of the Continental

EP 14

The Christmas Story

On a cold Christmas Eve, hungry Boonesborough awaits the birth of an Indian child who could reconcile two tribes.

EP 15

The Tamarack Massacre Affair

The sister of a British officer lies that she narrowly escaped an Indian massacre; Boone must avert war.

EP 16

Gabriel

A Spanish military expedition chasing a French revolutionary mistakes Boone for its quarry.

EP 17

Seminole Territory

After Seminoles hail him a god, a magician lets his power go to his head.

EP 18

The Deserter

A bounty hunter seeking Army deserters learns one of his captives is valuable Boone.

EP 19

Crisis by Fire

A former Continental Army officer uses a smallpox threat to raise troops against Indians.

EP 20

The Gun

Boone heads to Pennsylvania to have a new gun made, but meets two scoundrels seeking a guide to the Mississippi.

EP 21

The Prisoners

Three escaped Army prisoners, seeking revenge on a former commander, pressure Boone by seizing his children.

EP 22

The Fifth Man

Boone and his party endure hardship to blow up a bridge between the advancing British and Fort Wayne.

EP 23

The Gun-Barrel Highway

Cassady was supposed to build a new road in the wilderness around Shawnee land. But when he decides there isn't enough t

EP 24

The Search

An ambush on the way to New Orleans leaves Boone in possession of a famous pirate s journal.

EP 25

Fifty Rifles

William Blunt, an old friend of Boone's, steals a wagon carrying fifty rifles and powder, which he intends to sell to th

EP 26

The Trap

Renegades take Israel hostage when they find him and injured Mingo in the forest.

EP 27

The Accused

Mingo arranges a prison break to free Boone after a couple frames him for murder.

EP 28

Cibola

A man finds only danger when he seeks a fabled city of gold.

EP 29

The High Cumberland (1)

On his way through Kentucky, Boone meets his future wife, makes an Indian friend and uncovers deception.

EP 30

The High Cumberland (2)

Daniel Boone continues his trek to Kentucky. In the conclusion of this two-part episode detailing the early years of Dan

EP 1

Dan'l Boone Shot a B'ar

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

EP 2

The Allegiances

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

EP 3

Goliath

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

EP 4

Grizzly

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

EP 5

First in War, First in Peace

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

EP 6

Run a Crooked Mile

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

EP 7

The Matchmaker

Boone and Mingo agree to transport an unwilling Creek princess to an arranged wedding with a Shawnee.

EP 8

Onatha

Boone employs a mastodon s skeleton to fight two slave traders seeking runaway slaves.

EP 9

The Loser's Race

Daniel and the other settlers in Boonesborough will lose their land if they do not pay a new tax of one shilling per acr

EP 10

The Enchanted Gun

A Shawnee faces danger when he believes in the magic of a gun given to him by Boone for saving Israel s life.

EP 11

Requiem for Craw Green

Mingo masquerades as white to help an Indian boy condemned by the bigoted head of a settlement.

EP 12

The Lost Colony

A buckskin-clad girl leads Boone to a lost colony of settlers in a valley feared by Indians.

EP 13

River Passage

Boone fights a dishonest boatman and Shawnee to deliver gunpowder to Boonesborough.

EP 14

When a King Is a Pawn

Boone and Israel foil a plot to grab a French prince and send him back to a revolutionary tribunal.

EP 15

The Symbol

An impoverished nobleman acquires the Liberty Bell and decides to sell it to the British.

EP 16

The Williamsburg Cannon (1)

Virginia's governor, Patrick Henry, assigns Daniel to escort a somewhat nervous artillery captain and his cannon through

EP 17

The Williamsburg Cannon (2)

Virginia's governor Patrick Henry assigns Daniel to escort a somewhat nervous artillery captain and his cannon through h

EP 18

The Wolf Man

As Boonesborough awaits a slavery vote, a frontiersman struggles to protect his pet wolf from townspeople.

EP 19

The Jasper Ledbedder Story

Daniel and Mingo find an old colonist named Jasper Ledbedder who claims that Native Americans abducted his wife and chil

EP 20

When I Became a Man, I Put Away Childish Things

Israel runs away with his pet fawn when Boone says the destructive animal, too tame to set free, must be killed.

EP 21

The Long Way Home

Boone sets out to recapture a prisoner, an educated black accused of murdering an Indian chief.

EP 22

The Young Ones

An orphan, determined to keep his family together, causes trouble for rescuer Boone.

EP 23

Delo Jones

A fugitive from Virginia, Delo Jones, comes to Boonesborough ahead of a British contingent determined to arrest him for

EP 24

The Necklace

A dying man confesses to murder and theft, producing a pearl necklace as proof, and tells of the innocent man to be hang

EP 25

Fort West Point

Boone and Mingo try to stop the commandant of West Point from selling the fort to the British.

EP 26

Bitter Mission

A traitor's plan to profit from war with the Spanish backfires.

EP 27

Take the Southbound Stage

Rebecca decides to help Boone rescue President John Adams from kidnappers.

EP 28

The Fallow Land

After fur-trappers break a treaty, a Cherokee chief s hotheaded son tries to start a war.

EP 1

The Ballad of Sidewinder and the Cherokee

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

EP 2

The Ordeal of Israel Boone

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

EP 3

The Renegade

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

EP 4

Tanner

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

EP 5

Beaumarchais

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

EP 6

The King's Shilling

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

EP 7

The Inheritance

Strange happenings greet Rebecca and Israel when they visit a seaside house left to Rebecca by her uncle.

EP 8

The Traitor

Sentenced to death by the British, Boone will be spared if he rescues a colonel s daughter from Shawnee.

EP 9

The Value of a King

A slavehunter chains Boone with a group of escaped slaves then is attacked by Shawnee.

EP 10

The Desperate Raid

Boone teaches a lieutenant about backwoods fighting during an attack on a British cannon installation.

EP 11

The Spanish Horse

A boy, whose father was killed by Indians, faces the loss of his beloved horse.

EP 12

Chief Mingo

The murder of a Cherokee chief, perhaps by a bigoted trapper, makes Mingo temporary head of the tribe.

EP 13

The Secret Code

Ottawas capture Boone while he is trying to free a code expert from the British, then plan to torture him to death.

EP 14

A Matter of Blood

A Delaware, raised by a white planter, must prove herself a worthy tribal leader.

EP 15

The Scrimshaw Ivory Chart

A crow switches a rock for Israel s silver coin and leads him to a pirate seeking treasure.

EP 16

The Imposter

Mingo masquerades as a British major to steal a shipment of rapid-firing rifles.

EP 17

The Witnesses

A killer terrorizes witnesses Israel and friends into silence.

EP 18

The Flaming Rocks

Daniel, Mingo, and Jeremiah encounter the Garth family, whose patriarch is forcing the local Indians to mine coal. The c

EP 19

Then Who Will They Hang from the Yardarm If Willy Gets Away?

Israel befriends an accused British mutineer pursued by a shipmate sought for two murders.

EP 20

The Spanish Fort

Boone lets the Spanish capture him as part of a plan to blow up a partially completed Virginia fort.

EP 21

Hero's Welcome

Boone helps an old friend who lost his son because his neighbors think him a coward.

EP 22

Orlando, the Prophet

The Boones befriend a scheming medicine man's Gypsy bond-servant.

EP 23

The Far Side of Fury

Believing his son dead, Gideon takes revenge on Boone by stealing Israel.

EP 24

Nightmare

The Boone family is on the trail when they are beset by a rogue group of hostile Indians. When Daniel is captured Israel

EP 25

Thirty Pieces of Silver

A wagon load of guns is headed for Boonesborough with Daniel and Mingo in charge. An outlaw named Dekker plans to steal

EP 26

Faith's Way

A local woman is looked upon suspiciously by the townspeople because of her "different" ways.

EP 1

Be Thankful for the Fickleness of Women

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

EP 2

The Blackbirder

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

EP 3

The Dandy

Daniel agrees to a request of a friend to take his son, whom he regards as spoiled and irresponsible, and teach him the

EP 4

The Fleeing Nuns

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

EP 5

The Plague That Came to Ford's Run

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

EP 6

The Bait

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

EP 7

Big, Black and Out There

A former slave, adopted by Indians, terrorizes and robs Boonesborough.

EP 8

Flag of Truce

An Army general plans to use Boone as bait in a trap for the frontiersman s friend, a Wyandot chief.

EP 9

The Valley of the Sun

While on a hunting trip with Daniel, Josh Clements meets mad collector Sir Hubert and is then held prisoner in a cavern

EP 10

The Patriot

John Gist had gone to Canada rather than fight the British. Now, after American independence, he wants to come back and

EP 11

The Return of Sidewinder

Highwaymen - known as "buckaroos" - are robbing people around Boonesborough. After the British offer a rich reward for t

EP 12

Minnow for a Shark

Israel finds himself in the middle of a plot by a British Commodore to use a box of gold to find a thief, who may or may

EP 13

To Slay a Giant

Gideon is accused of murdering Cyrus Blake and his revenge minded brother, Enoch, is determined to hang him now rather t

EP 14

A Tall Tale of Prater Beasely

Prater Beasley is a teller of tall tales, but Israel and a disabled friend decide to follow him to see the mythical bear

EP 15

Copperhead Izzy

Israel is abducted and forced to live with a group of street urchins who work as pickpockets. With Daniel away on busine

EP 16

Three Score and Ten

An elderly man, who has worn out his welcome in town with his tall tales, takes up residence with the Shawnee, who enjoy

EP 17

Jonah

Josh inherits a section of land and a slave to teach him how to farm. When two men show up in Boonesborough, one with a

EP 18

Bickford's Bridge

Boone has orders from the Army to blow up bridges along the western frontier to prevent a British attack. When he reache

EP 19

A Touch of Charity

To help out Jimmy McGill, a penniless young man swindled in a land deal, Daniel offers him a piece of land to be paid fo

EP 20

For Want of a Hero

On their way back home Daniel and his family plan to stop at a fort for the night. When they arrive they find it has bee

EP 21

Love and Equity

In a semi-comic episode, Prater Beasley is called back to Boonesborough to get rid of a ground squirrel problem. Unfortu

EP 22

The Allies

Daniel and friends Mason and Cully are on a mission to stop an alliance between the British and the Chickasaw and Chocta

EP 23

A Man Before His Time

A fugitive is being tracked through the woods where he is killed in a confrontation. The man's only son is now an orphan

EP 24

For a Few Rifles

A man believes he has purchased land in Shawnee territory, but Daniel is certain that the Shawnee did not have anything

EP 25

Sweet Molly Malone

Sgt. Malone is a hard drinking, pipe smoking veteran of the war. The Sgt. is also a woman, which puts her at odds with t

EP 26

A Pinch of Salt

While on a surveying mission for the Continental Congress, Daniel and David get caught in the middle of a dispute betwee

EP 1

A Very Small Rifle

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 ang

EP 2

The Road to Freedom

A runaway slave and his son are on the run from three bounty hunters. When the father breaks his leg the son continues o

EP 3

Benvenuto... Who?

Visiting New Orleans to sell the furs they've trapped, Daniel and Josh become mixed up with a beautiful French jewel thi

EP 4

The Man

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

EP 5

The Printing Press

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

EP 6

The Traitor

The British commander of Fort Detroit will turn over the fort's defense plan if the Americans will reunite him with his

EP 7

The Grand Alliance

Josh and Gabe are captured by a Spanish officer who tells them another Spanish officer is secretly building a base from

EP 8

Target Boone

Daniel and his family find themselves being continually terrorized by an old man and his sons. The old man blames Boone

EP 9

A Bearskin for Jamie Blue

While trading furs Daniel acquires an indentured servant who was born in prison and has never been free. Daniel intends

EP 10

The Cache

When a trapper is murdered Josh is fingered as the killer. Daniel encourages him to surrender with the idea that the rea

EP 11

The Terrible Tarbots

While transporting a box filled with gold for the Continental army, Daniel is beset upon by thieves. Complicating matter

EP 12

Hannah Comes Home

A woman long thought dead is discovered by Daniel living with the Chickasaw. Daniel tells her her husband is still alive

EP 13

An Angel Cried

Josh discovers that an Indian party has burned down a mission with the only surviving nun hiding in a root cellar. They

EP 14

Perilous Passage

Daniel and Gabe become prisoners of the British after blowing up an important bridge. After escaping custody with anothe

EP 15

The Sunshine Patriots

Josh and Gabe are sent to Yorktown to intercept the arrival of Sir Peacham, an eccentric inventor, who is employed by th

EP 16

Mama Cooper

Gabe encounters a child with a doll that he believes could have only been made by his mother, whom he hasn't seen since

EP 17

Before the Tall Man

Rebecca decides to play matchmaker to Tom and Nancy, two people Daniel doesn't think go together. Considering how much t

EP 18

Run for the Money

Cincinnatus thinks he has found the fastest runner around and brings him to Boonesborough for a big race. His dream for

EP 19

A Matter of Vengeance

A man who lost his parents years before blames a scarred stranger.

EP 20

The Landlords

Boone poses as a pirate to outwit a swindler who sold simpleton brothers a deed to Boonesborough

EP 21

Readin', Ritin', and Revolt

Israel joins forces with an Indian classmate to force the teaching of a course in Indian culture.

EP 22

Noblesse Oblige

A cook posing as a French prince falls in love in Boonesborough;

EP 23

L'Épreuve d'Israël Boone

Israel befriends an elderly Indian plotting revenge for his tribe s near-extinction.

EP 24

Bringing Up Josh

While in New Orleans with Daniel, Josh 'inherits' two abandoned children from a poor widow. Unwilling to leave them to b

EP 25

How to Become a Goddess

Two inept brothers stumble into the middle of an Indian religious ceremony. Desperate to save their lives, they promise

EP 26

Israel and Love

Israel finds first love with the daughter of a flamboyant woodcarver.

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