Daniel Boone
Daniel Boone
TV ShowEnded

Daniel Boone

7.0 / 10
1964
6 seasons
165 episodes
Action & AdventureWestern

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

  • Ken-Tuck-E

    1.Ken-Tuck-E

    24-09-196460m

    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.

  • Tekawitha McLeod

    2.Tekawitha McLeod

    01-10-196460m

    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 g...

  • My Brother's Keeper

    3.My Brother's Keeper

    08-10-196460m

    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 Boon...

  • The Family Fluellen

    4.The Family Fluellen

    22-10-196460m

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

  • The Choosing

    5.The Choosing

    29-10-196460m

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

  • Lac Duquesne

    6.Lac Duquesne

    10.0
    05-11-196460m

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

  • The Sound of Wings

    7.The Sound of Wings

    12-11-196460m

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

  • A Short Walk to Salem

    8.A Short Walk to Salem

    19-11-196460m

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

  • The Sisters O'Hannrahan

    9.The Sisters O'Hannrahan

    03-12-196460m

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

  • Pompey

    10.Pompey

    10-12-196460m

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

  • Mountain of the Dead

    11.Mountain of the Dead

    17-12-196460m

    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...

  • Not in Our Stars

    12.Not in Our Stars

    31-12-196460m

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

  • The Hostages

    13.The Hostages

    07-01-196560m

    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...

  • The Returning

    14.The Returning

    14-01-196560m

    Boone cannot believe a boyhood friend murdered two Cherokee youths.

  • The Prophet

    15.The Prophet

    21-01-196560m

    A Shawnee prophet predicts massacre for the settlers of Boonesborough.

  • The First Stone

    16.The First Stone

    28-01-196560m

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

  • A Place of 1000 Spirits

    17.A Place of 1000 Spirits

    04-02-196560m

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

  • The Sound of Fear

    18.The Sound of Fear

    11-02-196560m

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

  • The Price of Friendship

    19.The Price of Friendship

    18-02-196560m

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

  • The Quietists

    20.The Quietists

    25-02-196560m

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

  • The Devil's Four

    21.The Devil's Four

    04-03-196560m

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

  • The Reunion

    22.The Reunion

    11-03-196560m

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

  • The Ben Franklin Encounter

    23.The Ben Franklin Encounter

    18-03-196560m

    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.

  • Four-Leaf Clover

    24.Four-Leaf Clover

    25-03-196560m

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

  • Cain's Birthday (1)

    25.Cain's Birthday (1)

    01-04-196560m

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

  • Cain's Birthday (2)

    26.Cain's Birthday (2)

    08-04-196560m

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

  • Daughter of the Devil

    27.Daughter of the Devil

    15-04-196560m

    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 m...

  • Doll of Sorrow

    28.Doll of Sorrow

    22-04-196560m

    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...

  • The Courtship of Jericho Jones

    29.The Courtship of Jericho Jones

    29-04-196560m

    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 Boon...

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