Borden Chase
Director
Daniel Boone (1964)
Season 1
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.
Released Sept. 24, 1964
Episode 60 min
10+
Genres: Action, Adventure, Western
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Watch Providers: Philo
Production Companies: 20th Century Fox Television
Network: NBC
Country: United States
Languages:
English
S1E1 - Ken-Tuck-E
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.
Sept. 24, 1964, midnight
S1E2 - Tekawitha McLeod
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.
Oct. 1, 1964, midnight
S1E3 - My Brother's Keeper
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....
Oct. 8, 1964, midnight
S1E4 - The Family Fluellen
Boone invites a widow and her hungry brood to town, but one of the children steals a telescope.
Oct. 22, 1964, midnight
S1E5 - The Choosing
British soldiers and Indians surround Jemima as she tries to help Boone, wounded in the wilderness.
Oct. 29, 1964, midnight
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S1E6 - Lac Duquesne
Boone chases a river pirate who plans to sell a load of stolen arms to Shawnees.
Nov. 5, 1964, midnight
S1E7 - The Sound of Wings
A British officer captures Boone then impersonates him to win Indian allies.
Nov. 12, 1964, midnight
S1E8 - A Short Walk to Salem
Israel becomes lost in the woods after fur thieves ambush him, Boone and Yadkin.
Nov. 19, 1964, midnight
S1E9 - The Sisters O'Hannrahan
Yadkin's trickery leaves Boone the unexpected, and unwilling, owner of indentured Irish sisters.
Dec. 3, 1964, midnight
S1E10 - Pompey
A bondsman insists on returning a runaway slave unshackled by Boone.
Dec. 10, 1964, midnight
S1E11 - Mountain of the Dead
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.
Dec. 17, 1964, midnight
S1E12 - Not in Our Stars
Mingo plans to do more than protest a new treaty when he and Boone visit Virginia's governor general.
Dec. 31, 1964, midnight
S1E13 - The Hostages
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.
Jan. 7, 1965, midnight
S1E14 - The Returning
Boone cannot believe a boyhood friend murdered two Cherokee youths.
Jan. 14, 1965, midnight
S1E15 - The Prophet
A Shawnee prophet predicts massacre for the settlers of Boonesborough.
Jan. 21, 1965, midnight
S1E16 - The First Stone
Boone befriends a mother and son, but learns the woman is accused of witchcraft.
Jan. 28, 1965, midnight
S1E17 - A Place of 1000 Spirits
While hunting, the Boones meet a delirious British officer pursued by vengeful Shawnees.
Feb. 4, 1965, midnight
S1E18 - The Sound of Fear
A condemned bounty hunter who escaped from a military convoy takes the Boones hostage.
Feb. 11, 1965, midnight
S1E19 - The Price of Friendship
Boone assists a boy and winds up at the mercy of a larcenous clan.
Feb. 18, 1965, midnight
S1E20 - The Quietists
A Quaker family refuses to fight until Indians kidnap a daughter.
Feb. 25, 1965, midnight
S1E21 - The Devil's Four
Boone commands four criminals recruited by Yadkin to haul frieght to Boonesborough.
March 4, 1965, midnight
S1E22 - The Reunion
While out hunting, Daniel and Cincinnatus come upon Timothy who is looking for his abandonded daughter Becky.
March 11, 1965, midnight
S1E23 - The Ben Franklin Encounter
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.
March 18, 1965, midnight
S1E24 - Four-Leaf Clover
An idealistic schoolteacher incites Boonesborough's wrath by giving gunpowder to the Shawnees.
March 25, 1965, midnight
S1E25 - Cain's Birthday (1)
Boone seems guilty of betrayal when he allows Choctaws to capture the town's men
April 1, 1965, midnight
S1E26 - Cain's Birthday (2)
Lacking water and powder, the women and children of Boonesborough seem easy prey for attacking Choctaws.
April 8, 1965, midnight
S1E27 - Daughter of the Devil
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.
April 15, 1965, midnight
S1E28 - Doll of Sorrow
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.
April 22, 1965, midnight
S1E29 - The Courtship of Jericho Jones
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.
April 29, 1965, midnight
Network: NBC
Episode Runtime: 60 min.
Season Runtime: 9900 min.
Released: Sept. 24, 1964
Last Air Date: May 7, 1970, midnight
Status: Ended
Certification: TV-PG / 10+
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