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 (26)
1. The Ballad of Sidewinder and the Cherokee
Aired 14 September 1967 • 60 min
Boone and wounded Mingo ask a river pirate to help retrieve furs from a thief.
2. The Ordeal of Israel Boone
Aired 21 September 1967 • 60 min
Israel must call upon all he has learned to save Boone from a rattlesnake bite.
3. The Renegade
Aired 28 September 1967 • 60 min
An Indian jailed for murder escapes and comes to take revenge on witness Boone and recover his son from settlers.
4. Tanner
Aired 5 October 1967 • 60 min
Israel helps a starving outcast who is haunted by memories of the Shawnee murdering his parents.
5. Beaumarchais
Aired 12 October 1967 • 60 min
Boone guides a French ally, masquerading as an actor, who is traveling to Roanoke to buy guns for the Continental Army.
6. The King's Shilling
Aired 19 October 1967 • 60 min
A father takes a soldier hostage to force British troops to free his rebel son.
7. The Inheritance
Aired 26 October 1967 • 60 min
Strange happenings greet Rebecca and Israel when they visit a seaside house left to Rebecca by her uncle.
8. The Traitor
Aired 2 November 1967 • 60 min
Sentenced to death by the British, Boone will be spared if he rescues a colonel s daughter from Shawnee.
9. The Value of a King
Aired 9 November 1967 • 60 min
A slavehunter chains Boone with a group of escaped slaves then is attacked by Shawnee.
10. The Desperate Raid
Aired 16 November 1967 • 60 min
Boone teaches a lieutenant about backwoods fighting during an attack on a British cannon installation.
11. The Spanish Horse
Aired 23 November 1967 • 60 min
A boy, whose father was killed by Indians, faces the loss of his beloved horse.
12. Chief Mingo
Aired 7 December 1967 • 60 min
The murder of a Cherokee chief, perhaps by a bigoted trapper, makes Mingo temporary head of the tribe.
13. The Secret Code
Aired 14 December 1967 • 60 min
Ottawas capture Boone while he is trying to free a code expert from the British, then plan to torture him to death.
14. A Matter of Blood
Aired 28 December 1967 • 60 min
A Delaware, raised by a white planter, must prove herself a worthy tribal leader.
15. The Scrimshaw Ivory Chart
Aired 4 January 1968 • 60 min
A crow switches a rock for Israel s silver coin and leads him to a pirate seeking treasure.
16. The Imposter
Aired 18 January 1968 • 60 min
Mingo masquerades as a British major to steal a shipment of rapid-firing rifles.
17. The Witnesses
Aired 25 January 1968 • 60 min
A killer terrorizes witnesses Israel and friends into silence.
18. The Flaming Rocks
Aired 1 February 1968 • 60 min
Daniel, Mingo, and Jeremiah encounter the Garth family, whose patriarch is forcing the local Indians to mine coal. The chief of the Tuscarora threatens to kill them all if Daniel doesn't intervene and stop him.
19. Then Who Will They Hang from the Yardarm If Willy Gets Away?
Aired 8 February 1968 • 60 min
Israel befriends an accused British mutineer pursued by a shipmate sought for two murders.
20. The Spanish Fort
Aired 15 February 1968 • 60 min
Boone lets the Spanish capture him as part of a plan to blow up a partially completed Virginia fort.
21. Hero's Welcome
Aired 22 February 1968 • 60 min
Boone helps an old friend who lost his son because his neighbors think him a coward.
22. Orlando, the Prophet
Aired 29 February 1968 • 60 min
The Boones befriend a scheming medicine man's Gypsy bond-servant.
23. The Far Side of Fury
Aired 7 March 1968 • 60 min
Believing his son dead, Gideon takes revenge on Boone by stealing Israel.
24. Nightmare
Aired 14 March 1968 • 60 min
The Boone family is on the trail when they are beset by a rogue group of hostile Indians. When Daniel is captured Israel must find a way to rescue him.
25. Thirty Pieces of Silver
Aired 28 March 1968 • 60 min
A wagon load of guns is headed for Boonesborough with Daniel and Mingo in charge. An outlaw named Dekker plans to steal the wagon using information bought from Amos Fargo. Unknown to Fargo, his sister is traveling with Boone.
26. Faith's Way
Aired 4 April 1968 • 60 min
A local woman is looked upon suspiciously by the townspeople because of her "different" ways.