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Daniel Boone
Overview
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.
Status
Ended
Created By
Borden Chase
Network
NBC
Seasons & Episodes
Season 4
Episodes
The Ballad of Sidewinder and the Cherokee
Boone and wounded Mingo ask a river pirate to help retrieve furs from a thief.
The Ordeal of Israel Boone
Israel must call upon all he has learned to save Boone from a rattlesnake bite.
The Renegade
An Indian jailed for murder escapes and comes to take revenge on witness Boone and recover his son from settlers.
Tanner
Israel helps a starving outcast who is haunted by memories of the Shawnee murdering his parents.
Beaumarchais
Boone guides a French ally, masquerading as an actor, who is traveling to Roanoke to buy guns for the Continental Army.
The King's Shilling
A father takes a soldier hostage to force British troops to free his rebel son.
The Inheritance
Strange happenings greet Rebecca and Israel when they visit a seaside house left to Rebecca by her uncle.
The Traitor
Sentenced to death by the British, Boone will be spared if he rescues a colonel s daughter from Shawnee.
The Value of a King
A slavehunter chains Boone with a group of escaped slaves then is attacked by Shawnee.
The Desperate Raid
Boone teaches a lieutenant about backwoods fighting during an attack on a British cannon installation.
The Spanish Horse
A boy, whose father was killed by Indians, faces the loss of his beloved horse.
Chief Mingo
The murder of a Cherokee chief, perhaps by a bigoted trapper, makes Mingo temporary head of the tribe.
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.
A Matter of Blood
A Delaware, raised by a white planter, must prove herself a worthy tribal leader.
The Scrimshaw Ivory Chart
A crow switches a rock for Israel s silver coin and leads him to a pirate seeking treasure.
The Imposter
Mingo masquerades as a British major to steal a shipment of rapid-firing rifles.
The Witnesses
A killer terrorizes witnesses Israel and friends into silence.
The Flaming Rocks
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.
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.
The Spanish Fort
Boone lets the Spanish capture him as part of a plan to blow up a partially completed Virginia fort.
Hero's Welcome
Boone helps an old friend who lost his son because his neighbors think him a coward.
Orlando, the Prophet
The Boones befriend a scheming medicine man's Gypsy bond-servant.
The Far Side of Fury
Believing his son dead, Gideon takes revenge on Boone by stealing Israel.
Nightmare
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.
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 the wagon using information bought from Amos Fargo. Unknown to Fargo, his sister is traveling with Boone.
Faith's Way
A local woman is looked upon suspiciously by the townspeople because of her "different" ways.
Top Cast
Fess Parker
Daniel Boone
Ed Ames
Mingo
Patricia Blair
Rebecca Boone
Darby Hinton
Israel Boone
Dal McKennon
Cincinnatus
