

Daniel Boone
★ 7.0 · 6 seasons
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.
Season 1 · 29 episodes
- E1
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.
- E2
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.
- E3
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....
- E4
The Family Fluellen
Boone invites a widow and her hungry brood to town, but one of the children steals a telescope.
- E5
The Choosing
British soldiers and Indians surround Jemima as she tries to help Boone, wounded in the wilderness.
- E6
Lac Duquesne
Boone chases a river pirate who plans to sell a load of stolen arms to Shawnees.
- E7
The Sound of Wings
A British officer captures Boone then impersonates him to win Indian allies.
- E8
A Short Walk to Salem
Israel becomes lost in the woods after fur thieves ambush him, Boone and Yadkin.
- E9
The Sisters O'Hannrahan
Yadkin's trickery leaves Boone the unexpected, and unwilling, owner of indentured Irish sisters.
- E10
Pompey
A bondsman insists on returning a runaway slave unshackled by Boone.
- E11
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.
- E12
Not in Our Stars
Mingo plans to do more than protest a new treaty when he and Boone visit Virginia's governor general.
- E13
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.
- E14
The Returning
Boone cannot believe a boyhood friend murdered two Cherokee youths.
- E15
The Prophet
A Shawnee prophet predicts massacre for the settlers of Boonesborough.
- E16
The First Stone
Boone befriends a mother and son, but learns the woman is accused of witchcraft.
- E17
A Place of 1000 Spirits
While hunting, the Boones meet a delirious British officer pursued by vengeful Shawnees.
- E18
The Sound of Fear
A condemned bounty hunter who escaped from a military convoy takes the Boones hostage.
- E19
The Price of Friendship
Boone assists a boy and winds up at the mercy of a larcenous clan.
- E20
The Quietists
A Quaker family refuses to fight until Indians kidnap a daughter.
- E21
The Devil's Four
Boone commands four criminals recruited by Yadkin to haul frieght to Boonesborough.
- E22
The Reunion
While out hunting, Daniel and Cincinnatus come upon Timothy who is looking for his abandonded daughter Becky.
- E23
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.
- E24
Four-Leaf Clover
An idealistic schoolteacher incites Boonesborough's wrath by giving gunpowder to the Shawnees.
- E25
Cain's Birthday (1)
Boone seems guilty of betrayal when he allows Choctaws to capture the town's men
- E26
Cain's Birthday (2)
Lacking water and powder, the women and children of Boonesborough seem easy prey for attacking Choctaws.
- E27
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.
- E28
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.
- E29
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.
Season 2 · 30 episodes
- E1
Empire of the Lost
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.
- E2
The Tortoise and the Hare
Boonesborough loses hope of winning an annual race when Boone sprains his ankle, until Jericho steps in.
- E3
The Mound Builders
A chief of a long-dead Aztec tribe enters the Shawnees Valley of Death.
- E4
My Name Is Rawls
Boone pursues a runaway slave stealing pelts to earn passage to Africa.
- E5
The Old Man and the Cave
Israel violates a burial ritual when he rescues an aged Indian from death in a cave.
- E6
The Trek
Season 3 · 28 episodes
- E1
Dan'l Boone Shot a B'ar
Boone faces a killer bear and the man who has sworn vengeance on the animal.
- E2
The Allegiances
Mingo struggles with his divided heritage when an Indian council announces the British will help recapture Indian land.
- E3
Goliath
Fearing three vengeful brothers, Otis spends money given to him for draft horses on a husky slave.
- E4
Grizzly
Israel helps clear a wild-looking mountain man accused of murdering a man who refused to pay a debt.
- E5
First in War, First in Peace
Washington visits in answer to a letter from Boone, who never wrote to him.
- E6
Run a Crooked Mile
Israel is taken captive so Boone will help steal a war hero s body and then extort money from the family.
- E7
Season 4 · 26 episodes
- E1
The Ballad of Sidewinder and the Cherokee
Boone and wounded Mingo ask a river pirate to help retrieve furs from a thief.
- E2
The Ordeal of Israel Boone
Israel must call upon all he has learned to save Boone from a rattlesnake bite.
- E3
The Renegade
An Indian jailed for murder escapes and comes to take revenge on witness Boone and recover his son from settlers.
- E4
Tanner
Israel helps a starving outcast who is haunted by memories of the Shawnee murdering his parents.
- E5
Beaumarchais
Boone guides a French ally, masquerading as an actor, who is traveling to Roanoke to buy guns for the Continental Army.
- E6
The King's Shilling
A father takes a soldier hostage to force British troops to free his rebel son.
- E7
Season 5 · 26 episodes
- E1
Be Thankful for the Fickleness of Women
Josh buys a pretty bondservant, then may have to marry her when she falls for him.
- E2
The Blackbirder
A bounty hunter seeking a naval deserter is tricked into capturing Boone s friend Gideon as an escaped slave.
- E3
The Dandy
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.
- E4
The Fleeing Nuns
On the way to New Orleans, Boone and a friend help two nuns, then learn one is an aristocrat fleeing the French Revolution.
- E5
The Plague That Came to Ford's Run
Josh returns to his hometown to visit a friend but finds the community a wreck and his friend missing.
- E6
The Bait
A woman and her boyfriend rob Boone's stagecoach and steal his tax money.
Season 6 · 26 episodes
- E1
A Very Small Rifle
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.
- E2
The Road to Freedom
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.
- E3
Benvenuto... Who?
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.
- E4
The Man
A former slave, now a chief of the Tuscarora, helps Daniel lead a ragtag group of soldiers on an operation against the British.
- E5
The Printing Press
Daniel and Israel Boone visit Benjamin Franklin at his home in Philadelphia. While there, they are forced to match wits with the British Army.
- E6
The Traitor
Cast

Fess Parker
Daniel Boone

Ed Ames
Mingo

Patricia Blair
Rebecca Boone

Darby Hinton
Israel Boone

Dal McKennon
Cincinnatus