About this season
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.
Episodes (29)
1. Ken-Tuck-E
Aired 24 September 1964 • 60 min
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.
2. Tekawitha McLeod
Aired 1 October 1964 • 60 min
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.
3. My Brother's Keeper
Aired 8 October 1964 • 60 min
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....
4. The Family Fluellen
Aired 22 October 1964 • 60 min
Boone invites a widow and her hungry brood to town, but one of the children steals a telescope.
5. The Choosing
Aired 29 October 1964 • 60 min
British soldiers and Indians surround Jemima as she tries to help Boone, wounded in the wilderness.
6. Lac Duquesne
10.0Aired 5 November 1964 • 60 min
Boone chases a river pirate who plans to sell a load of stolen arms to Shawnees.
7. The Sound of Wings
Aired 12 November 1964 • 60 min
A British officer captures Boone then impersonates him to win Indian allies.
8. A Short Walk to Salem
Aired 19 November 1964 • 60 min
Israel becomes lost in the woods after fur thieves ambush him, Boone and Yadkin.
9. The Sisters O'Hannrahan
Aired 3 December 1964 • 60 min
Yadkin's trickery leaves Boone the unexpected, and unwilling, owner of indentured Irish sisters.
10. Pompey
Aired 10 December 1964 • 60 min
A bondsman insists on returning a runaway slave unshackled by Boone.
11. Mountain of the Dead
Aired 17 December 1964 • 60 min
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.
12. Not in Our Stars
Aired 31 December 1964 • 60 min
Mingo plans to do more than protest a new treaty when he and Boone visit Virginia's governor general.
13. The Hostages
Aired 7 January 1965 • 60 min
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.
14. The Returning
Aired 14 January 1965 • 60 min
Boone cannot believe a boyhood friend murdered two Cherokee youths.
15. The Prophet
Aired 21 January 1965 • 60 min
A Shawnee prophet predicts massacre for the settlers of Boonesborough.
16. The First Stone
Aired 28 January 1965 • 60 min
Boone befriends a mother and son, but learns the woman is accused of witchcraft.
17. A Place of 1000 Spirits
Aired 4 February 1965 • 60 min
While hunting, the Boones meet a delirious British officer pursued by vengeful Shawnees.
18. The Sound of Fear
Aired 11 February 1965 • 60 min
A condemned bounty hunter who escaped from a military convoy takes the Boones hostage.
19. The Price of Friendship
Aired 18 February 1965 • 60 min
Boone assists a boy and winds up at the mercy of a larcenous clan.
20. The Quietists
Aired 25 February 1965 • 60 min
A Quaker family refuses to fight until Indians kidnap a daughter.
21. The Devil's Four
Aired 4 March 1965 • 60 min
Boone commands four criminals recruited by Yadkin to haul frieght to Boonesborough.
22. The Reunion
Aired 11 March 1965 • 60 min
While out hunting, Daniel and Cincinnatus come upon Timothy who is looking for his abandonded daughter Becky.
23. The Ben Franklin Encounter
Aired 18 March 1965 • 60 min
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.
24. Four-Leaf Clover
Aired 25 March 1965 • 60 min
An idealistic schoolteacher incites Boonesborough's wrath by giving gunpowder to the Shawnees.
25. Cain's Birthday (1)
Aired 1 April 1965 • 60 min
Boone seems guilty of betrayal when he allows Choctaws to capture the town's men
26. Cain's Birthday (2)
Aired 8 April 1965 • 60 min
Lacking water and powder, the women and children of Boonesborough seem easy prey for attacking Choctaws.
27. Daughter of the Devil
Aired 15 April 1965 • 60 min
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.
28. Doll of Sorrow
Aired 22 April 1965 • 60 min
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.
29. The Courtship of Jericho Jones
Aired 29 April 1965 • 60 min
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.