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Daniel Boone
1964 - 1970 6.9 (29 votes) 6 Seasons
Genres
Action & Adventure Western
Networks
NBC

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.

Key Crew

Producer: Joseph Silver, Cliff Bole, Barney Rosenzweig, George Sherman, Ted Schilz

Top Cast

Fess Parker
Fess Parker

Daniel Boone

Ed Ames
Ed Ames

Mingo

Patricia Blair
Patricia Blair

Rebecca Boone

Darby Hinton
Darby Hinton

Israel Boone

Dal McKennon
Dal McKennon

Cincinnatus

Seasons

Season 1 poster
Season 1 (1964)

No overview available.

29 episodes

Episodes
Episode 1: Ken-Tuck-E
1964-09-24

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.

Runtime: 60 min
Episode 2: Tekawitha McLeod
1964-10-01

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.

Runtime: 60 min
Episode 3: My Brother's Keeper
1964-10-08

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....

Runtime: 60 min
Episode 4: The Family Fluellen
1964-10-22

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

Runtime: 60 min
Episode 5: The Choosing
1964-10-29

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

Runtime: 60 min
Episode 6: Lac Duquesne
1964-11-05

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

Runtime: 60 min
Episode 7: The Sound of Wings
1964-11-12

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

Runtime: 60 min
Episode 8: A Short Walk to Salem
1964-11-19

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

Runtime: 60 min
Episode 9: The Sisters O'Hannrahan
1964-12-03

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

Runtime: 60 min
Episode 10: Pompey
1964-12-10

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

Runtime: 60 min
Episode 11: Mountain of the Dead
1964-12-17

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.

Runtime: 60 min
Episode 12: Not in Our Stars
1964-12-31

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

Runtime: 60 min
Episode 13: The Hostages
1965-01-07

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.

Runtime: 60 min
Episode 14: The Returning
1965-01-14

Boone cannot believe a boyhood friend murdered two Cherokee youths.

Runtime: 60 min
Episode 15: The Prophet
1965-01-21

A Shawnee prophet predicts massacre for the settlers of Boonesborough.

Runtime: 60 min
Episode 16: The First Stone
1965-01-28

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

Runtime: 60 min
Episode 17: A Place of 1000 Spirits
1965-02-04

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

Runtime: 60 min
Episode 18: The Sound of Fear
1965-02-11

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

Runtime: 60 min
Episode 19: The Price of Friendship
1965-02-18

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

Runtime: 60 min
Episode 20: The Quietists
1965-02-25

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

Runtime: 60 min
Episode 21: The Devil's Four
1965-03-04

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

Runtime: 60 min
Episode 22: The Reunion
1965-03-11

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

Runtime: 60 min
Episode 23: The Ben Franklin Encounter
1965-03-18

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.

Runtime: 60 min
Episode 24: Four-Leaf Clover
1965-03-25

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

Runtime: 60 min
Episode 25: Cain's Birthday (1)
1965-04-01

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

Runtime: 60 min
Episode 26: Cain's Birthday (2)
1965-04-08

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

Runtime: 60 min
Episode 27: Daughter of the Devil
1965-04-15

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.

Runtime: 60 min
Episode 28: Doll of Sorrow
1965-04-22

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.

Runtime: 60 min
Episode 29: The Courtship of Jericho Jones
1965-04-29

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.

Runtime: 60 min
Season 2 poster
Season 2 (1965)

No overview available.

30 episodes

Episodes
Episode 1: Empire of the Lost
1965-09-16

Boone returns from a solo expedition to find Boonesborough eerily empty. A corrupt British officer has kidnapped the settlers, including Boone's family, and forces them into unfriendly Chickesaw tribal lands with the intention of gaining personal control of the territory. He then captures Boone and demands that he sign away all rights to Boonesborough or watch his family and friends be turned over to the tribe. Boone manages to escape, but realizing he has no chance of freeing the captives on his own, he turns to a surprising source of help.

Runtime: 60 min
Episode 2: The Tortoise and the Hare
1965-09-23

Boonesborough loses hope of winning an annual race when Boone sprains his ankle, until Jericho steps in.

Runtime: 60 min
Episode 3: The Mound Builders
1965-09-30

A chief of a long-dead Aztec tribe enters the Shawnees Valley of Death.

Runtime: 60 min
Episode 4: My Name Is Rawls
1965-10-07

Boone pursues a runaway slave stealing pelts to earn passage to Africa.

Runtime: 60 min
Episode 5: The Old Man and the Cave
1965-10-14

Israel violates a burial ritual when he rescues an aged Indian from death in a cave.

Runtime: 60 min
Episode 6: The Trek
1965-10-21

Boone first respects, then likes, a drunkard sought for burning an Indian village.

Runtime: 60 min
Episode 7: The Aaron Burr Story
1965-10-28

Aaron Burr, ex-Vice President, comes to Boonesborough to enlist Daniel to guide him on a long and dangerous journey to the west, but is vague about his reasons for the trek. When Daniel turns him down due to his unease about Burr's secretive intentions, Jericho blindly jumps at the chance to take the offer and earn a hefty fee. After Burr and Jericho leave, Daniel discovers Burr's true mission, and he and Mingo set out to intercept them and save Jericho from his own naivety.

Runtime: 60 min
Episode 8: Cry of Gold
1965-11-04

A man arrives at Boonesborough offering unusually high prices for beaver pelts. Daniel doesn't trust this generous trader and soon discovers the man has an ulterior motive of a sinister nature.

Runtime: 60 min
Episode 9: The Peace Tree
1965-11-11

A Scottish emigrant, a Cherokee chief s son and Israel try to prevent a war between settlers and Indians.

Runtime: 60 min
Episode 10: The Thanksgiving Story
1965-11-25

Boone s eccentric father-in-law concocts a Thanksgiving Day plan to prevent a Choctaw attack.

Runtime: 60 min
Episode 11: A Rope for Mingo
1965-12-02

Vigilantes stalk Mingo after his knife falls into the hands of a Cherokee who murders a trader s family.

Runtime: 60 min
Episode 12: The First Beau
1965-12-09

Feelings for Jemima make a dashing young outlaw consider reforming.

Runtime: 60 min
Episode 13: The Perilous Journey
1965-12-16

Daniel and Rebecca finally get to take a long delayed honeymoon but it gets interrupted by an officer of the Continental Army with a confidential message for Daniel to deliver to New Orleans.

Runtime: 60 min
Episode 14: The Christmas Story
1965-12-23

On a cold Christmas Eve, hungry Boonesborough awaits the birth of an Indian child who could reconcile two tribes.

Runtime: 60 min
Episode 15: The Tamarack Massacre Affair
1965-12-30

The sister of a British officer lies that she narrowly escaped an Indian massacre; Boone must avert war.

Runtime: 60 min
Episode 16: Gabriel
1966-01-06

A Spanish military expedition chasing a French revolutionary mistakes Boone for its quarry.

Runtime: 60 min
Episode 17: Seminole Territory
1966-01-13

After Seminoles hail him a god, a magician lets his power go to his head.

Runtime: 60 min
Episode 18: The Deserter
1966-01-20

A bounty hunter seeking Army deserters learns one of his captives is valuable Boone.

Runtime: 60 min
Episode 19: Crisis by Fire
1966-01-27

A former Continental Army officer uses a smallpox threat to raise troops against Indians.

Runtime: 60 min
Episode 20: The Gun
1966-02-03

Boone heads to Pennsylvania to have a new gun made, but meets two scoundrels seeking a guide to the Mississippi.

Runtime: 60 min
Episode 21: The Prisoners
1966-02-10

Three escaped Army prisoners, seeking revenge on a former commander, pressure Boone by seizing his children.

Runtime: 60 min
Episode 22: The Fifth Man
1966-02-17

Boone and his party endure hardship to blow up a bridge between the advancing British and Fort Wayne.

Runtime: 60 min
Episode 23: The Gun-Barrel Highway
1966-02-24

Cassady was supposed to build a new road in the wilderness around Shawnee land. But when he decides there isn't enough time before winter to build the longer route, he decides to go straight through Shawnee land and into a possible war.

Runtime: 60 min
Episode 24: The Search
1966-03-03

An ambush on the way to New Orleans leaves Boone in possession of a famous pirate s journal.

Runtime: 60 min
Episode 25: Fifty Rifles
1966-03-10

William Blunt, an old friend of Boone's, steals a wagon carrying fifty rifles and powder, which he intends to sell to the Shawnee. Daniel, along with Mingo and Jericho, must find Blunt and recover the rifles before a deal with the chief is made.

Runtime: 60 min
Episode 26: The Trap
1966-03-17

Renegades take Israel hostage when they find him and injured Mingo in the forest.

Runtime: 60 min
Episode 27: The Accused
1966-03-24

Mingo arranges a prison break to free Boone after a couple frames him for murder.

Runtime: 60 min
Episode 28: Cibola
1966-03-31

A man finds only danger when he seeks a fabled city of gold.

Runtime: 60 min
Episode 29: The High Cumberland (1)
1966-04-14

On his way through Kentucky, Boone meets his future wife, makes an Indian friend and uncovers deception.

Runtime: 60 min
Episode 30: The High Cumberland (2)
1966-04-21

Daniel Boone continues his trek to Kentucky. In the conclusion of this two-part episode detailing the early years of Daniel Boone's life he must lead a party of settlers through a canyon and take a stand against pursuers who want their precious supplies all the while defeating rival Jim Santee for the affections of one Rebecca Bryan

Runtime: 60 min
Season 3 poster
Season 3 (1966)

No overview available.

28 episodes

Episodes
Episode 1: Dan'l Boone Shot a B'ar
1966-09-15

Boone faces a killer bear and the man who has sworn vengeance on the animal.

Runtime: 60 min
Episode 2: The Allegiances
1966-09-22

Mingo struggles with his divided heritage when an Indian council announces the British will help recapture Indian land.

Runtime: 60 min
Episode 3: Goliath
1966-09-29

Fearing three vengeful brothers, Otis spends money given to him for draft horses on a husky slave.

Runtime: 60 min
Episode 4: Grizzly
1966-10-06

Israel helps clear a wild-looking mountain man accused of murdering a man who refused to pay a debt.

Runtime: 60 min
Episode 5: First in War, First in Peace
1966-10-13

Washington visits in answer to a letter from Boone, who never wrote to him.

Runtime: 60 min
Episode 6: Run a Crooked Mile
1966-10-20

Israel is taken captive so Boone will help steal a war hero s body and then extort money from the family.

Runtime: 60 min
Episode 7: The Matchmaker
1966-10-27

Boone and Mingo agree to transport an unwilling Creek princess to an arranged wedding with a Shawnee.

Runtime: 60 min
Episode 8: Onatha
1966-11-03

Boone employs a mastodon s skeleton to fight two slave traders seeking runaway slaves.

Runtime: 60 min
Episode 9: The Loser's Race
1966-11-10

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.

Runtime: 60 min
Episode 10: The Enchanted Gun
1966-11-17

A Shawnee faces danger when he believes in the magic of a gun given to him by Boone for saving Israel s life.

Runtime: 60 min
Episode 11: Requiem for Craw Green
1966-12-01

Mingo masquerades as white to help an Indian boy condemned by the bigoted head of a settlement.

Runtime: 60 min
Episode 12: The Lost Colony
1966-12-08

A buckskin-clad girl leads Boone to a lost colony of settlers in a valley feared by Indians.

Runtime: 60 min
Episode 13: River Passage
1966-12-15

Boone fights a dishonest boatman and Shawnee to deliver gunpowder to Boonesborough.

Runtime: 60 min
Episode 14: When a King Is a Pawn
1966-12-22

Boone and Israel foil a plot to grab a French prince and send him back to a revolutionary tribunal.

Runtime: 60 min
Episode 15: The Symbol
1966-12-29

An impoverished nobleman acquires the Liberty Bell and decides to sell it to the British.

Runtime: 60 min
Episode 16: The Williamsburg Cannon (1)
1967-01-12

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.

Runtime: 60 min
Episode 17: The Williamsburg Cannon (2)
1967-01-19

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.

Runtime: 60 min
Episode 18: The Wolf Man
1967-01-26

As Boonesborough awaits a slavery vote, a frontiersman struggles to protect his pet wolf from townspeople.

Runtime: 60 min
Episode 19: The Jasper Ledbedder Story
1967-02-02

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.

Runtime: 60 min
Episode 20: When I Became a Man, I Put Away Childish Things
1967-02-09

Israel runs away with his pet fawn when Boone says the destructive animal, too tame to set free, must be killed.

Runtime: 60 min
Episode 21: The Long Way Home
1967-02-16

Boone sets out to recapture a prisoner, an educated black accused of murdering an Indian chief.

Runtime: 60 min
Episode 22: The Young Ones
1967-02-23

An orphan, determined to keep his family together, causes trouble for rescuer Boone.

Runtime: 60 min
Episode 23: Delo Jones
1967-03-02

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.

Runtime: 60 min
Episode 24: The Necklace
1967-03-09

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.

Runtime: 60 min
Episode 25: Fort West Point
1967-03-23

Boone and Mingo try to stop the commandant of West Point from selling the fort to the British.

Runtime: 60 min
Episode 26: Bitter Mission
1967-03-30

A traitor's plan to profit from war with the Spanish backfires.

Runtime: 60 min
Episode 27: Take the Southbound Stage
1967-04-06

Rebecca decides to help Boone rescue President John Adams from kidnappers.

Runtime: 60 min
Episode 28: The Fallow Land
1967-04-13

After fur-trappers break a treaty, a Cherokee chief s hotheaded son tries to start a war.

Runtime: 60 min
Season 4 poster
Season 4 (1967)

No overview available.

26 episodes

Episodes
Episode 1: The Ballad of Sidewinder and the Cherokee
1967-09-14

Boone and wounded Mingo ask a river pirate to help retrieve furs from a thief.

Runtime: 60 min
Episode 2: The Ordeal of Israel Boone
1967-09-21

Israel must call upon all he has learned to save Boone from a rattlesnake bite.

Runtime: 60 min
Episode 3: The Renegade
1967-09-28

An Indian jailed for murder escapes and comes to take revenge on witness Boone and recover his son from settlers.

Runtime: 60 min
Episode 4: Tanner
1967-10-05

Israel helps a starving outcast who is haunted by memories of the Shawnee murdering his parents.

Runtime: 60 min
Episode 5: Beaumarchais
1967-10-12

Boone guides a French ally, masquerading as an actor, who is traveling to Roanoke to buy guns for the Continental Army.

Runtime: 60 min
Episode 6: The King's Shilling
1967-10-19

A father takes a soldier hostage to force British troops to free his rebel son.

Runtime: 60 min
Episode 7: The Inheritance
1967-10-26

Strange happenings greet Rebecca and Israel when they visit a seaside house left to Rebecca by her uncle.

Runtime: 60 min
Episode 8: The Traitor
1967-11-02

Sentenced to death by the British, Boone will be spared if he rescues a colonel s daughter from Shawnee.

Runtime: 60 min
Episode 9: The Value of a King
1967-11-09

A slavehunter chains Boone with a group of escaped slaves then is attacked by Shawnee.

Runtime: 60 min
Episode 10: The Desperate Raid
1967-11-16

Boone teaches a lieutenant about backwoods fighting during an attack on a British cannon installation.

Runtime: 60 min
Episode 11: The Spanish Horse
1967-11-23

A boy, whose father was killed by Indians, faces the loss of his beloved horse.

Runtime: 60 min
Episode 12: Chief Mingo
1967-12-07

The murder of a Cherokee chief, perhaps by a bigoted trapper, makes Mingo temporary head of the tribe.

Runtime: 60 min
Episode 13: The Secret Code
1967-12-14

Ottawas capture Boone while he is trying to free a code expert from the British, then plan to torture him to death.

Runtime: 60 min
Episode 14: A Matter of Blood
1967-12-28

A Delaware, raised by a white planter, must prove herself a worthy tribal leader.

Runtime: 60 min
Episode 15: The Scrimshaw Ivory Chart
1968-01-04

A crow switches a rock for Israel s silver coin and leads him to a pirate seeking treasure.

Runtime: 60 min
Episode 16: The Imposter
1968-01-18

Mingo masquerades as a British major to steal a shipment of rapid-firing rifles.

Runtime: 60 min
Episode 17: The Witnesses
1968-01-25

A killer terrorizes witnesses Israel and friends into silence.

Runtime: 60 min
Episode 18: The Flaming Rocks
1968-02-01

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.

Runtime: 60 min
Episode 19: Then Who Will They Hang from the Yardarm If Willy Gets Away?
1968-02-08

Israel befriends an accused British mutineer pursued by a shipmate sought for two murders.

Runtime: 60 min
Episode 20: The Spanish Fort
1968-02-15

Boone lets the Spanish capture him as part of a plan to blow up a partially completed Virginia fort.

Runtime: 60 min
Episode 21: Hero's Welcome
1968-02-22

Boone helps an old friend who lost his son because his neighbors think him a coward.

Runtime: 60 min
Episode 22: Orlando, the Prophet
1968-02-29

The Boones befriend a scheming medicine man's Gypsy bond-servant.

Runtime: 60 min
Episode 23: The Far Side of Fury
1968-03-07

Believing his son dead, Gideon takes revenge on Boone by stealing Israel.

Runtime: 60 min
Episode 24: Nightmare
1968-03-14

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.

Runtime: 60 min
Episode 25: Thirty Pieces of Silver
1968-03-28

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.

Runtime: 60 min
Episode 26: Faith's Way
1968-04-04

A local woman is looked upon suspiciously by the townspeople because of her "different" ways.

Runtime: 60 min
Season 5 poster
Season 5 (1968)

No overview available.

26 episodes

Episodes
Episode 1: Be Thankful for the Fickleness of Women
1968-09-19

Josh buys a pretty bondservant, then may have to marry her when she falls for him.

Runtime: 60 min
Episode 2: The Blackbirder
1968-10-03

A bounty hunter seeking a naval deserter is tricked into capturing Boone s friend Gideon as an escaped slave.

Runtime: 60 min
Episode 3: The Dandy
1968-10-10

Daniel agrees to a request of a friend to take his son, whom he regards as spoiled and irresponsible, and teach him the ways of the wilderness and learn something more manly than the painting the young man seems most interested in. Daniel and the young man both get more than they were bargaining for in the process.

Runtime: 60 min
Episode 4: The Fleeing Nuns
1968-10-24

On the way to New Orleans, Boone and a friend help two nuns, then learn one is an aristocrat fleeing the French Revolution.

Runtime: 60 min
Episode 5: The Plague That Came to Ford's Run
1968-10-31

Josh returns to his hometown to visit a friend but finds the community a wreck and his friend missing.

Runtime: 60 min
Episode 6: The Bait
1968-11-07

A woman and her boyfriend rob Boone's stagecoach and steal his tax money.

Runtime: 60 min
Episode 7: Big, Black and Out There
1968-11-14

A former slave, adopted by Indians, terrorizes and robs Boonesborough.

Runtime: 60 min
Episode 8: Flag of Truce
1968-11-21

An Army general plans to use Boone as bait in a trap for the frontiersman s friend, a Wyandot chief.

Runtime: 60 min
Episode 9: The Valley of the Sun
1968-11-28

While on a hunting trip with Daniel, Josh Clements meets mad collector Sir Hubert and is then held prisoner in a cavern filled with treasures of the Aztec sun god.

Runtime: 60 min
Episode 10: The Patriot
1968-12-05

John Gist had gone to Canada rather than fight the British. Now, after American independence, he wants to come back and live again on his land. Daniel is caught in the middle trying to help his friend against those who see him as a traitor.

Runtime: 60 min
Episode 11: The Return of Sidewinder
1968-12-12

Highwaymen - known as "buckaroos" - are robbing people around Boonesborough. After the British offer a rich reward for their capture, Daniel discovers the man responsible is an old adversary from a time when he and Mingo were robbed.

Runtime: 60 min
Episode 12: Minnow for a Shark
1969-01-02

Israel finds himself in the middle of a plot by a British Commodore to use a box of gold to find a thief, who may or may not be his friend, the one-armed Capt. Jack.

Runtime: 60 min
Episode 13: To Slay a Giant
1969-01-09

Gideon is accused of murdering Cyrus Blake and his revenge minded brother, Enoch, is determined to hang him now rather than wait for a trial.

Runtime: 60 min
Episode 14: A Tall Tale of Prater Beasely
1969-01-16

Prater Beasley is a teller of tall tales, but Israel and a disabled friend decide to follow him to see the mythical bear he talks about. Beasley may be just what the disabled boy, caught between an overprotective mother and an overly macho father, really needs.

Runtime: 60 min
Episode 15: Copperhead Izzy
1969-01-30

Israel is abducted and forced to live with a group of street urchins who work as pickpockets. With Daniel away on business, Rebecca and her uncle Brian have to find Israel and rescue the other children.

Runtime: 60 min
Episode 16: Three Score and Ten
1969-02-06

An elderly man, who has worn out his welcome in town with his tall tales, takes up residence with the Shawnee, who enjoy his stories immensely. However, they are more interested in his wagonload of rifle parts and have plans for their use.

Runtime: 60 min
Episode 17: Jonah
1969-02-13

Josh inherits a section of land and a slave to teach him how to farm. When two men show up in Boonesborough, one with a reputation as a fighter, Josh, who has no interest in farming, sets up a bout between the man and Jonah, who fought for Josh's uncle at one time, and risks his land. When Jonah refuses to fight, Josh must take his place and try to win the bet.

Runtime: 60 min
Episode 18: Bickford's Bridge
1969-02-20

Boone has orders from the Army to blow up bridges along the western frontier to prevent a British attack. When he reaches the last bridge he is blocked by a farmer who must keep it open in order to transport his autumn harvest.

Runtime: 60 min
Episode 19: A Touch of Charity
1969-02-27

To help out Jimmy McGill, a penniless young man swindled in a land deal, Daniel offers him a piece of land to be paid for over time. When Amos Brown's daughter Charity, betrothed to another, is attracted to Jimmy, Brown forbids her to see him and moves up her wedding to a local man. To claim Charity before she weds the other man, McGill decides to make a fortune overnight.

Runtime: 60 min
Episode 20: For Want of a Hero
1969-03-06

On their way back home Daniel and his family plan to stop at a fort for the night. When they arrive they find it has been destroyed by Indians with only a few survivors. The surviving soldiers seem to be hiding some kind of secret.

Runtime: 60 min
Episode 21: Love and Equity
1969-03-13

In a semi-comic episode, Prater Beasley is called back to Boonesborough to get rid of a ground squirrel problem. Unfortunately, his methods get him into trouble, as he gets accused of fraud and even witchcraft.

Runtime: 60 min
Episode 22: The Allies
1969-03-27

Daniel and friends Mason and Cully are on a mission to stop an alliance between the British and the Chickasaw and Choctaw. To do this they plan to blow up a gorge on the route the British are taking, but on their way their horses are stolen by a vagabond family of three. When they catch the trio they decide to take them along, though they're not sure they can trust the crafty patriarch of the clan.

Runtime: 60 min
Episode 23: A Man Before His Time
1969-04-03

A fugitive is being tracked through the woods where he is killed in a confrontation. The man's only son is now an orphan and, after Daniel takes him back to town, plots revenge against them.

Runtime: 60 min
Episode 24: For a Few Rifles
1969-04-10

A man believes he has purchased land in Shawnee territory, but Daniel is certain that the Shawnee did not have anything to do with selling the land. When they go to meet the chief to try to work something out, he says he will give the man the land if the tribe gets twenty rifles. When Daniel refuses this offer, he finds out that Israel has been taken hostage in exchange for the rifles. While being held Israel meets a crippled and bitter Shawnee youth.

Runtime: 60 min
Episode 25: Sweet Molly Malone
1969-04-17

Sgt. Malone is a hard drinking, pipe smoking veteran of the war. The Sgt. is also a woman, which puts her at odds with the town folk. Rebecca decides she needs a man and matches her with a peddler who once fought with the Hessians.

Runtime: 60 min
Episode 26: A Pinch of Salt
1969-05-01

While on a surveying mission for the Continental Congress, Daniel and David get caught in the middle of a dispute between two women and a man bent on destroying their salt mine operation.

Runtime: 60 min
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Season 6 (1969)

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26 episodes

Episodes
Episode 1: A Very Small Rifle
1969-09-18

A young Cherokee boy is shot and is near death. Daniel Boone must find out who shot the boy in order to head off the angry Cherokee tribe from retaliating against everyone, killing many innocent people.

Runtime: 60 min
Episode 2: The Road to Freedom
1969-10-02

A runaway slave and his son are on the run from three bounty hunters. When the father breaks his leg the son continues on and turns to Israel and Ben for help.

Runtime: 60 min
Episode 3: Benvenuto... Who?
1969-10-09

Visiting New Orleans to sell the furs they've trapped, Daniel and Josh become mixed up with a beautiful French jewel thief who is attempting to double-cross the rest of her gang. The gullible Josh falls for the scheming woman's charms, which allows her to hide the stolen bauble inside his guitar.

Runtime: 60 min
Episode 4: The Man
1969-10-16

A former slave, now a chief of the Tuscarora, helps Daniel lead a ragtag group of soldiers on an operation against the British.

Runtime: 60 min
Episode 5: The Printing Press
1969-10-23

Daniel and Israel Boone visit Benjamin Franklin at his home in Philadelphia. While there, they are forced to match wits with the British Army.

Runtime: 60 min
Episode 6: The Traitor
1969-10-30

The British commander of Fort Detroit will turn over the fort's defense plan if the Americans will reunite him with his wife. Daniel and Cully escort her back to him but Daniel doubts the Colonel's willingness to be a traitor.

Runtime: 60 min
Episode 7: The Grand Alliance
1969-11-13

Josh and Gabe are captured by a Spanish officer who tells them another Spanish officer is secretly building a base from which he intends to invade the U.S. He asks them to infiltrate the fort and steal his plans to prevent another war.

Runtime: 60 min
Episode 8: Target Boone
1969-11-20

Daniel and his family find themselves being continually terrorized by an old man and his sons. The old man blames Boone for the death of his wife and for leaving him crippled, even though Daniel has no memory of ever meeting him.

Runtime: 60 min
Episode 9: A Bearskin for Jamie Blue
1969-11-27

While trading furs Daniel acquires an indentured servant who was born in prison and has never been free. Daniel intends to release him from service but the young man has trouble adjusting to his new life.

Runtime: 60 min
Episode 10: The Cache
1969-12-04

When a trapper is murdered Josh is fingered as the killer. Daniel encourages him to surrender with the idea that the real killers will be easier to catch once he is in custody. But will Josh be hanged before they're caught?

Runtime: 60 min
Episode 11: The Terrible Tarbots
1969-12-11

While transporting a box filled with gold for the Continental army, Daniel is beset upon by thieves. Complicating matters is that Israel is taken hostage as protection from Daniel while they lug the gold over the mountains.

Runtime: 60 min
Episode 12: Hannah Comes Home
1969-12-25

A woman long thought dead is discovered by Daniel living with the Chickasaw. Daniel tells her her husband is still alive and that she should come back. She does, but her husband has trouble accepting her Indian son.

Runtime: 60 min
Episode 13: An Angel Cried
1970-01-08

Josh discovers that an Indian party has burned down a mission with the only surviving nun hiding in a root cellar. They struggle to elude the Indians until help can finally arrive and save them.

Runtime: 60 min
Episode 14: Perilous Passage
1970-01-15

Daniel and Gabe become prisoners of the British after blowing up an important bridge. After escaping custody with another prisoner, they slowly work their way home through enemy territory. But they may be pawns in a larger plan.

Runtime: 60 min
Episode 15: The Sunshine Patriots
1970-01-22

Josh and Gabe are sent to Yorktown to intercept the arrival of Sir Peacham, an eccentric inventor, who is employed by the British but secretly sympathetic to the Americans. Josh and Gabe's mission is complicated by his daughter's intrigues.

Runtime: 60 min
Episode 16: Mama Cooper
1970-02-05

Gabe encounters a child with a doll that he believes could have only been made by his mother, whom he hasn't seen since he was a child, and sets out to find her.

Runtime: 60 min
Episode 17: Before the Tall Man
1970-02-12

Rebecca decides to play matchmaker to Tom and Nancy, two people Daniel doesn't think go together. Considering how much they fight each other he might be right. But Rebecca thinks she knows better.

Runtime: 60 min
Episode 18: Run for the Money
1970-02-19

Cincinnatus thinks he has found the fastest runner around and brings him to Boonesborough for a big race. His dream for success is complicated when another unknown runner enters the race and that the runners have a scheme of their own.

Runtime: 60 min
Episode 19: A Matter of Vengeance
1970-02-26

A man who lost his parents years before blames a scarred stranger.

Runtime: 60 min
Episode 20: The Landlords
1970-03-05

Boone poses as a pirate to outwit a swindler who sold simpleton brothers a deed to Boonesborough

Runtime: 60 min
Episode 21: Readin', Ritin', and Revolt
1970-03-12

Israel joins forces with an Indian classmate to force the teaching of a course in Indian culture.

Runtime: 60 min
Episode 22: Noblesse Oblige
1970-03-26

A cook posing as a French prince falls in love in Boonesborough;

Runtime: 60 min
Episode 23: L'Épreuve d'Israël Boone
1970-04-09

Israel befriends an elderly Indian plotting revenge for his tribe s near-extinction.

Runtime: 60 min
Episode 24: Bringing Up Josh
1970-04-16

While in New Orleans with Daniel, Josh 'inherits' two abandoned children from a poor widow. Unwilling to leave them to become orphans, he takes them with him back home only to find caring for two kids is a lot harder than he thought.

Runtime: 60 min
Episode 25: How to Become a Goddess
1970-04-30

Two inept brothers stumble into the middle of an Indian religious ceremony. Desperate to save their lives, they promise to bring back a woman whose hair is like fire, a description that conveniently describes Rebecca Boone.

Runtime: 60 min
Episode 26: Israel and Love
1970-05-07

Israel finds first love with the daughter of a flamboyant woodcarver.

Runtime: 60 min

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