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 (28)
1. Dan'l Boone Shot a B'ar
Aired 15 September 1966 • 60 min
Boone faces a killer bear and the man who has sworn vengeance on the animal.
2. The Allegiances
Aired 22 September 1966 • 60 min
Mingo struggles with his divided heritage when an Indian council announces the British will help recapture Indian land.
3. Goliath
Aired 29 September 1966 • 60 min
Fearing three vengeful brothers, Otis spends money given to him for draft horses on a husky slave.
4. Grizzly
Aired 6 October 1966 • 60 min
Israel helps clear a wild-looking mountain man accused of murdering a man who refused to pay a debt.
5. First in War, First in Peace
Aired 13 October 1966 • 60 min
Washington visits in answer to a letter from Boone, who never wrote to him.
6. Run a Crooked Mile
Aired 20 October 1966 • 60 min
Israel is taken captive so Boone will help steal a war hero s body and then extort money from the family.
7. The Matchmaker
1.0Aired 27 October 1966 • 60 min
Boone and Mingo agree to transport an unwilling Creek princess to an arranged wedding with a Shawnee.
8. Onatha
Aired 3 November 1966 • 60 min
Boone employs a mastodon s skeleton to fight two slave traders seeking runaway slaves.
9. The Loser's Race
Aired 10 November 1966 • 60 min
Daniel and the other settlers in Boonesborough will lose their land if they do not pay a new tax of one shilling per acre within two weeks. As Daniel is about to take the money to Williamsburg an old friend shows up offering to help.
10. The Enchanted Gun
Aired 17 November 1966 • 60 min
A Shawnee faces danger when he believes in the magic of a gun given to him by Boone for saving Israel s life.
11. Requiem for Craw Green
Aired 1 December 1966 • 60 min
Mingo masquerades as white to help an Indian boy condemned by the bigoted head of a settlement.
12. The Lost Colony
Aired 8 December 1966 • 60 min
A buckskin-clad girl leads Boone to a lost colony of settlers in a valley feared by Indians.
13. River Passage
Aired 15 December 1966 • 60 min
Boone fights a dishonest boatman and Shawnee to deliver gunpowder to Boonesborough.
14. When a King Is a Pawn
Aired 22 December 1966 • 60 min
Boone and Israel foil a plot to grab a French prince and send him back to a revolutionary tribunal.
15. The Symbol
Aired 29 December 1966 • 60 min
An impoverished nobleman acquires the Liberty Bell and decides to sell it to the British.
16. The Williamsburg Cannon (1)
Aired 12 January 1967 • 60 min
Virginia's governor, Patrick Henry, assigns Daniel to escort a somewhat nervous artillery captain and his cannon through hostile territory, and the fact that the cannon is large and hard to maneuver is making the journey more difficult.
17. The Williamsburg Cannon (2)
Aired 19 January 1967 • 60 min
Virginia's governor Patrick Henry assigns Daniel to escort a somewhat nervous artillery captain and his cannon through hostile territory, and the fact that the cannon is large and hard to maneuver is making the journey more difficult.
18. The Wolf Man
Aired 26 January 1967 • 60 min
As Boonesborough awaits a slavery vote, a frontiersman struggles to protect his pet wolf from townspeople.
19. The Jasper Ledbedder Story
Aired 2 February 1967 • 60 min
Daniel and Mingo find an old colonist named Jasper Ledbedder who claims that Native Americans abducted his wife and child after his party had a massacre. They agree to help him, even though they suspect his story is not entirely true.
20. When I Became a Man, I Put Away Childish Things
Aired 9 February 1967 • 60 min
Israel runs away with his pet fawn when Boone says the destructive animal, too tame to set free, must be killed.
21. The Long Way Home
Aired 16 February 1967 • 60 min
Boone sets out to recapture a prisoner, an educated black accused of murdering an Indian chief.
22. The Young Ones
Aired 23 February 1967 • 60 min
An orphan, determined to keep his family together, causes trouble for rescuer Boone.
23. Delo Jones
Aired 2 March 1967 • 60 min
A fugitive from Virginia, Delo Jones, comes to Boonesborough ahead of a British contingent determined to arrest him for a murder. Daniel believes he may be innocent and plans a trap to catch the real killer.
24. The Necklace
Aired 9 March 1967 • 60 min
A dying man confesses to murder and theft, producing a pearl necklace as proof, and tells of the innocent man to be hanged for his crimes. Against townsfolks' wishes, Daniel takes the necklace to New Orleans to secure the freedom of the accused man.
25. Fort West Point
Aired 23 March 1967 • 60 min
Boone and Mingo try to stop the commandant of West Point from selling the fort to the British.
26. Bitter Mission
Aired 30 March 1967 • 60 min
A traitor's plan to profit from war with the Spanish backfires.
27. Take the Southbound Stage
Aired 6 April 1967 • 60 min
Rebecca decides to help Boone rescue President John Adams from kidnappers.
28. The Fallow Land
Aired 13 April 1967 • 60 min
After fur-trappers break a treaty, a Cherokee chief s hotheaded son tries to start a war.