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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.
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6 seasons · 165 episodesSeason 129 ep. · 1964–1965
Episode 1: Ken-Tuck-E
Sep 24, 1964 · 1h
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.
Episode 2: Tekawitha McLeod
Oct 1, 1964 · 1h
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.
Episode 3: My Brother's Keeper
Oct 8, 1964 · 1h
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....
Episode 4: The Family Fluellen
Oct 22, 1964 · 1h
Boone invites a widow and her hungry brood to town, but one of the children steals a telescope.
Episode 5: The Choosing
Oct 29, 1964 · 1h
British soldiers and Indians surround Jemima as she tries to help Boone, wounded in the wilderness.
Episode 6: Lac Duquesne
Nov 5, 1964 · 1h
Boone chases a river pirate who plans to sell a load of stolen arms to Shawnees.
Episode 7: The Sound of Wings
Nov 12, 1964 · 1h
A British officer captures Boone then impersonates him to win Indian allies.
Episode 8: A Short Walk to Salem
Nov 19, 1964 · 1h
Israel becomes lost in the woods after fur thieves ambush him, Boone and Yadkin.
Episode 9: The Sisters O'Hannrahan
Dec 3, 1964 · 1h
Yadkin's trickery leaves Boone the unexpected, and unwilling, owner of indentured Irish sisters.
Episode 10: Pompey
Dec 10, 1964 · 1h
A bondsman insists on returning a runaway slave unshackled by Boone.
Episode 11: Mountain of the Dead
Dec 17, 1964 · 1h
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.
Episode 12: Not in Our Stars
Dec 31, 1964 · 1h
Mingo plans to do more than protest a new treaty when he and Boone visit Virginia's governor general.
Episode 13: The Hostages
Jan 7, 1965 · 1h
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.
Episode 14: The Returning
Jan 14, 1965 · 1h
Boone cannot believe a boyhood friend murdered two Cherokee youths.
Episode 15: The Prophet
Jan 21, 1965 · 1h
A Shawnee prophet predicts massacre for the settlers of Boonesborough.
Episode 16: The First Stone
Jan 28, 1965 · 1h
Boone befriends a mother and son, but learns the woman is accused of witchcraft.
Episode 17: A Place of 1000 Spirits
Feb 4, 1965 · 1h
While hunting, the Boones meet a delirious British officer pursued by vengeful Shawnees.
Episode 18: The Sound of Fear
Feb 11, 1965 · 1h
A condemned bounty hunter who escaped from a military convoy takes the Boones hostage.
Episode 19: The Price of Friendship
Feb 18, 1965 · 1h
Boone assists a boy and winds up at the mercy of a larcenous clan.
Episode 20: The Quietists
Feb 25, 1965 · 1h
A Quaker family refuses to fight until Indians kidnap a daughter.
Episode 21: The Devil's Four
Mar 4, 1965 · 1h
Boone commands four criminals recruited by Yadkin to haul frieght to Boonesborough.
Episode 22: The Reunion
Mar 11, 1965 · 1h
While out hunting, Daniel and Cincinnatus come upon Timothy who is looking for his abandonded daughter Becky.
Episode 23: The Ben Franklin Encounter
Mar 18, 1965 · 1h
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.
Episode 24: Four-Leaf Clover
Mar 25, 1965 · 1h
An idealistic schoolteacher incites Boonesborough's wrath by giving gunpowder to the Shawnees.
Episode 25: Cain's Birthday (1)
Apr 1, 1965 · 1h
Boone seems guilty of betrayal when he allows Choctaws to capture the town's men
Episode 26: Cain's Birthday (2)
Apr 8, 1965 · 1h
Lacking water and powder, the women and children of Boonesborough seem easy prey for attacking Choctaws.
Episode 27: Daughter of the Devil
Apr 15, 1965 · 1h
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.
Episode 28: Doll of Sorrow
Apr 22, 1965 · 1h
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.
Episode 29: The Courtship of Jericho Jones
Apr 29, 1965 · 1h
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 230 ep. · 1965–1966
Episode 1: Empire of the Lost
Sep 16, 1965 · 1h
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.
Episode 2: The Tortoise and the Hare
Sep 23, 1965 · 1h
Boonesborough loses hope of winning an annual race when Boone sprains his ankle, until Jericho steps in.
Episode 3: The Mound Builders
Sep 30, 1965 · 1h
A chief of a long-dead Aztec tribe enters the Shawnees Valley of Death.
Episode 4: My Name Is Rawls
Oct 7, 1965 · 1h
Boone pursues a runaway slave stealing pelts to earn passage to Africa.
Episode 5: The Old Man and the Cave
Oct 14, 1965 · 1h
Israel violates a burial ritual when he rescues an aged Indian from death in a cave.
Episode 6: The Trek
Oct 21, 1965 · 1h
Boone first respects, then likes, a drunkard sought for burning an Indian village.
Episode 7: The Aaron Burr Story
Oct 28, 1965 · 1h
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.
Episode 8: Cry of Gold
Nov 4, 1965 · 1h
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.
Episode 9: The Peace Tree
Nov 11, 1965 · 1h
A Scottish emigrant, a Cherokee chief s son and Israel try to prevent a war between settlers and Indians.
Episode 10: The Thanksgiving Story
Nov 25, 1965 · 1h
Boone s eccentric father-in-law concocts a Thanksgiving Day plan to prevent a Choctaw attack.
Episode 11: A Rope for Mingo
Dec 2, 1965 · 1h
Vigilantes stalk Mingo after his knife falls into the hands of a Cherokee who murders a trader s family.
Episode 12: The First Beau
Dec 9, 1965 · 1h
Feelings for Jemima make a dashing young outlaw consider reforming.
Episode 13: The Perilous Journey
Dec 16, 1965 · 1h
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.
Episode 14: The Christmas Story
Dec 23, 1965 · 1h
On a cold Christmas Eve, hungry Boonesborough awaits the birth of an Indian child who could reconcile two tribes.
Episode 15: The Tamarack Massacre Affair
Dec 30, 1965 · 1h
The sister of a British officer lies that she narrowly escaped an Indian massacre; Boone must avert war.
Episode 16: Gabriel
Jan 6, 1966 · 1h
A Spanish military expedition chasing a French revolutionary mistakes Boone for its quarry.
Episode 17: Seminole Territory
Jan 13, 1966 · 1h
After Seminoles hail him a god, a magician lets his power go to his head.
Episode 18: The Deserter
Jan 20, 1966 · 1h
A bounty hunter seeking Army deserters learns one of his captives is valuable Boone.
Episode 19: Crisis by Fire
Jan 27, 1966 · 1h
A former Continental Army officer uses a smallpox threat to raise troops against Indians.
Episode 20: The Gun
Feb 3, 1966 · 1h
Boone heads to Pennsylvania to have a new gun made, but meets two scoundrels seeking a guide to the Mississippi.
Episode 21: The Prisoners
Feb 10, 1966 · 1h
Three escaped Army prisoners, seeking revenge on a former commander, pressure Boone by seizing his children.
Episode 22: The Fifth Man
Feb 17, 1966 · 1h
Boone and his party endure hardship to blow up a bridge between the advancing British and Fort Wayne.
Episode 23: The Gun-Barrel Highway
Feb 24, 1966 · 1h
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.
Episode 24: The Search
Mar 3, 1966 · 1h
An ambush on the way to New Orleans leaves Boone in possession of a famous pirate s journal.
Episode 25: Fifty Rifles
Mar 10, 1966 · 1h
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.
Episode 26: The Trap
Mar 17, 1966 · 1h
Renegades take Israel hostage when they find him and injured Mingo in the forest.
Episode 27: The Accused
Mar 24, 1966 · 1h
Mingo arranges a prison break to free Boone after a couple frames him for murder.
Episode 28: Cibola
Mar 31, 1966 · 1h
A man finds only danger when he seeks a fabled city of gold.
Episode 29: The High Cumberland (1)
Apr 14, 1966 · 1h
On his way through Kentucky, Boone meets his future wife, makes an Indian friend and uncovers deception.
Episode 30: The High Cumberland (2)
Apr 21, 1966 · 1h
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
Season 328 ep. · 1966–1967
Episode 1: Dan'l Boone Shot a B'ar
Sep 15, 1966 · 1h
Boone faces a killer bear and the man who has sworn vengeance on the animal.
Episode 2: The Allegiances
Sep 22, 1966 · 1h
Mingo struggles with his divided heritage when an Indian council announces the British will help recapture Indian land.
Episode 3: Goliath
Sep 29, 1966 · 1h
Fearing three vengeful brothers, Otis spends money given to him for draft horses on a husky slave.
Episode 4: Grizzly
Oct 6, 1966 · 1h
Israel helps clear a wild-looking mountain man accused of murdering a man who refused to pay a debt.
Episode 5: First in War, First in Peace
Oct 13, 1966 · 1h
Washington visits in answer to a letter from Boone, who never wrote to him.
Episode 6: Run a Crooked Mile
Oct 20, 1966 · 1h
Israel is taken captive so Boone will help steal a war hero s body and then extort money from the family.
Episode 7: The Matchmaker
Oct 27, 1966 · 1h
Boone and Mingo agree to transport an unwilling Creek princess to an arranged wedding with a Shawnee.
Episode 8: Onatha
Nov 3, 1966 · 1h
Boone employs a mastodon s skeleton to fight two slave traders seeking runaway slaves.
Episode 9: The Loser's Race
Nov 10, 1966 · 1h
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.
Episode 10: The Enchanted Gun
Nov 17, 1966 · 1h
A Shawnee faces danger when he believes in the magic of a gun given to him by Boone for saving Israel s life.
Episode 11: Requiem for Craw Green
Dec 1, 1966 · 1h
Mingo masquerades as white to help an Indian boy condemned by the bigoted head of a settlement.
Episode 12: The Lost Colony
Dec 8, 1966 · 1h
A buckskin-clad girl leads Boone to a lost colony of settlers in a valley feared by Indians.
Episode 13: River Passage
Dec 15, 1966 · 1h
Boone fights a dishonest boatman and Shawnee to deliver gunpowder to Boonesborough.
Episode 14: When a King Is a Pawn
Dec 22, 1966 · 1h
Boone and Israel foil a plot to grab a French prince and send him back to a revolutionary tribunal.
Episode 15: The Symbol
Dec 29, 1966 · 1h
An impoverished nobleman acquires the Liberty Bell and decides to sell it to the British.
Episode 16: The Williamsburg Cannon (1)
Jan 12, 1967 · 1h
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.
Episode 17: The Williamsburg Cannon (2)
Jan 19, 1967 · 1h
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.
Episode 18: The Wolf Man
Jan 26, 1967 · 1h
As Boonesborough awaits a slavery vote, a frontiersman struggles to protect his pet wolf from townspeople.
Episode 19: The Jasper Ledbedder Story
Feb 2, 1967 · 1h
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.
Episode 20: When I Became a Man, I Put Away Childish Things
Feb 9, 1967 · 1h
Israel runs away with his pet fawn when Boone says the destructive animal, too tame to set free, must be killed.
Episode 21: The Long Way Home
Feb 16, 1967 · 1h
Boone sets out to recapture a prisoner, an educated black accused of murdering an Indian chief.
Episode 22: The Young Ones
Feb 23, 1967 · 1h
An orphan, determined to keep his family together, causes trouble for rescuer Boone.
Episode 23: Delo Jones
Mar 2, 1967 · 1h
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.
Episode 24: The Necklace
Mar 9, 1967 · 1h
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.
Episode 25: Fort West Point
Mar 23, 1967 · 1h
Boone and Mingo try to stop the commandant of West Point from selling the fort to the British.
Episode 26: Bitter Mission
Mar 30, 1967 · 1h
A traitor's plan to profit from war with the Spanish backfires.
Episode 27: Take the Southbound Stage
Apr 6, 1967 · 1h
Rebecca decides to help Boone rescue President John Adams from kidnappers.
Episode 28: The Fallow Land
Apr 13, 1967 · 1h
After fur-trappers break a treaty, a Cherokee chief s hotheaded son tries to start a war.
Season 426 ep. · 1967–1968
Episode 1: The Ballad of Sidewinder and the Cherokee
Sep 14, 1967 · 1h
Boone and wounded Mingo ask a river pirate to help retrieve furs from a thief.
Episode 2: The Ordeal of Israel Boone
Sep 21, 1967 · 1h
Israel must call upon all he has learned to save Boone from a rattlesnake bite.
Episode 3: The Renegade
Sep 28, 1967 · 1h
An Indian jailed for murder escapes and comes to take revenge on witness Boone and recover his son from settlers.
Episode 4: Tanner
Oct 5, 1967 · 1h
Israel helps a starving outcast who is haunted by memories of the Shawnee murdering his parents.
Episode 5: Beaumarchais
Oct 12, 1967 · 1h
Boone guides a French ally, masquerading as an actor, who is traveling to Roanoke to buy guns for the Continental Army.
Episode 6: The King's Shilling
Oct 19, 1967 · 1h
A father takes a soldier hostage to force British troops to free his rebel son.
Episode 7: The Inheritance
Oct 26, 1967 · 1h
Strange happenings greet Rebecca and Israel when they visit a seaside house left to Rebecca by her uncle.
Episode 8: The Traitor
Nov 2, 1967 · 1h
Sentenced to death by the British, Boone will be spared if he rescues a colonel s daughter from Shawnee.
Episode 9: The Value of a King
Nov 9, 1967 · 1h
A slavehunter chains Boone with a group of escaped slaves then is attacked by Shawnee.
Episode 10: The Desperate Raid
Nov 16, 1967 · 1h
Boone teaches a lieutenant about backwoods fighting during an attack on a British cannon installation.
Episode 11: The Spanish Horse
Nov 23, 1967 · 1h
A boy, whose father was killed by Indians, faces the loss of his beloved horse.
Episode 12: Chief Mingo
Dec 7, 1967 · 1h
The murder of a Cherokee chief, perhaps by a bigoted trapper, makes Mingo temporary head of the tribe.
Episode 13: The Secret Code
Dec 14, 1967 · 1h
Ottawas capture Boone while he is trying to free a code expert from the British, then plan to torture him to death.
Episode 14: A Matter of Blood
Dec 28, 1967 · 1h
A Delaware, raised by a white planter, must prove herself a worthy tribal leader.
Episode 15: The Scrimshaw Ivory Chart
Jan 4, 1968 · 1h
A crow switches a rock for Israel s silver coin and leads him to a pirate seeking treasure.
Episode 16: The Imposter
Jan 18, 1968 · 1h
Mingo masquerades as a British major to steal a shipment of rapid-firing rifles.
Episode 17: The Witnesses
Jan 25, 1968 · 1h
A killer terrorizes witnesses Israel and friends into silence.
Episode 18: The Flaming Rocks
Feb 1, 1968 · 1h
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.
Episode 19: Then Who Will They Hang from the Yardarm If Willy Gets Away?
Feb 8, 1968 · 1h
Israel befriends an accused British mutineer pursued by a shipmate sought for two murders.
Episode 20: The Spanish Fort
Feb 15, 1968 · 1h
Boone lets the Spanish capture him as part of a plan to blow up a partially completed Virginia fort.
Episode 21: Hero's Welcome
Feb 22, 1968 · 1h
Boone helps an old friend who lost his son because his neighbors think him a coward.
Episode 22: Orlando, the Prophet
Feb 29, 1968 · 1h
The Boones befriend a scheming medicine man's Gypsy bond-servant.
Episode 23: The Far Side of Fury
Mar 7, 1968 · 1h
Believing his son dead, Gideon takes revenge on Boone by stealing Israel.
Episode 24: Nightmare
Mar 14, 1968 · 1h
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.
Episode 25: Thirty Pieces of Silver
Mar 28, 1968 · 1h
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.
Episode 26: Faith's Way
Apr 4, 1968 · 1h
A local woman is looked upon suspiciously by the townspeople because of her "different" ways.
Season 526 ep. · 1968–1969
Episode 1: Be Thankful for the Fickleness of Women
Sep 19, 1968 · 1h
Josh buys a pretty bondservant, then may have to marry her when she falls for him.
Episode 2: The Blackbirder
Oct 3, 1968 · 1h
A bounty hunter seeking a naval deserter is tricked into capturing Boone s friend Gideon as an escaped slave.
Episode 3: The Dandy
Oct 10, 1968 · 1h
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.
Episode 4: The Fleeing Nuns
Oct 24, 1968 · 1h
On the way to New Orleans, Boone and a friend help two nuns, then learn one is an aristocrat fleeing the French Revolution.
Episode 5: The Plague That Came to Ford's Run
Oct 31, 1968 · 1h
Josh returns to his hometown to visit a friend but finds the community a wreck and his friend missing.
Episode 6: The Bait
Nov 7, 1968 · 1h
A woman and her boyfriend rob Boone's stagecoach and steal his tax money.
Episode 7: Big, Black and Out There
Nov 14, 1968 · 1h
A former slave, adopted by Indians, terrorizes and robs Boonesborough.
Episode 8: Flag of Truce
Nov 21, 1968 · 1h
An Army general plans to use Boone as bait in a trap for the frontiersman s friend, a Wyandot chief.
Episode 9: The Valley of the Sun
Nov 28, 1968 · 1h
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.
Episode 10: The Patriot
Dec 5, 1968 · 1h
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.
Episode 11: The Return of Sidewinder
Dec 12, 1968 · 1h
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.
Episode 12: Minnow for a Shark
Jan 2, 1969 · 1h
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.
Episode 13: To Slay a Giant
Jan 9, 1969 · 1h
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.
Episode 14: A Tall Tale of Prater Beasely
Jan 16, 1969 · 1h
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.
Episode 15: Copperhead Izzy
Jan 30, 1969 · 1h
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.
Episode 16: Three Score and Ten
Feb 6, 1969 · 1h
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.
Episode 17: Jonah
Feb 13, 1969 · 1h
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.
Episode 18: Bickford's Bridge
Feb 20, 1969 · 1h
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.
Episode 19: A Touch of Charity
Feb 27, 1969 · 1h
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.
Episode 20: For Want of a Hero
Mar 6, 1969 · 1h
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.
Episode 21: Love and Equity
Mar 13, 1969 · 1h
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.
Episode 22: The Allies
Mar 27, 1969 · 1h
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.
Episode 23: A Man Before His Time
Apr 3, 1969 · 1h
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.
Episode 24: For a Few Rifles
Apr 10, 1969 · 1h
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.
Episode 25: Sweet Molly Malone
Apr 17, 1969 · 1h
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.
Episode 26: A Pinch of Salt
May 1, 1969 · 1h
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.
Season 626 ep. · 1969–1970
Episode 1: A Very Small Rifle
Sep 18, 1969 · 1h
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.
Episode 2: The Road to Freedom
Oct 2, 1969 · 1h
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.
Episode 3: Benvenuto... Who?
Oct 9, 1969 · 1h
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.
Episode 4: The Man
Oct 16, 1969 · 1h
A former slave, now a chief of the Tuscarora, helps Daniel lead a ragtag group of soldiers on an operation against the British.
Episode 5: The Printing Press
Oct 23, 1969 · 1h
Daniel and Israel Boone visit Benjamin Franklin at his home in Philadelphia. While there, they are forced to match wits with the British Army.
Episode 6: The Traitor
Oct 30, 1969 · 1h
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.
Episode 7: The Grand Alliance
Nov 13, 1969 · 1h
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.
Episode 8: Target Boone
Nov 20, 1969 · 1h
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.
Episode 9: A Bearskin for Jamie Blue
Nov 27, 1969 · 1h
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.
Episode 10: The Cache
Dec 4, 1969 · 1h
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?
Episode 11: The Terrible Tarbots
Dec 11, 1969 · 1h
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.
Episode 12: Hannah Comes Home
Dec 25, 1969 · 1h
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.
Episode 13: An Angel Cried
Jan 8, 1970 · 1h
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.
Episode 14: Perilous Passage
Jan 15, 1970 · 1h
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.
Episode 15: The Sunshine Patriots
Jan 22, 1970 · 1h
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.
Episode 16: Mama Cooper
Feb 5, 1970 · 1h
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.
Episode 17: Before the Tall Man
Feb 12, 1970 · 1h
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.
Episode 18: Run for the Money
Feb 19, 1970 · 1h
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.
Episode 19: A Matter of Vengeance
Feb 26, 1970 · 1h
A man who lost his parents years before blames a scarred stranger.
Episode 20: The Landlords
Mar 5, 1970 · 1h
Boone poses as a pirate to outwit a swindler who sold simpleton brothers a deed to Boonesborough
Episode 21: Readin', Ritin', and Revolt
Mar 12, 1970 · 1h
Israel joins forces with an Indian classmate to force the teaching of a course in Indian culture.
Episode 22: Noblesse Oblige
Mar 26, 1970 · 1h
A cook posing as a French prince falls in love in Boonesborough;
Episode 23: L'Épreuve d'Israël Boone
Apr 9, 1970 · 1h
Israel befriends an elderly Indian plotting revenge for his tribe s near-extinction.
Episode 24: Bringing Up Josh
Apr 16, 1970 · 1h
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.
Episode 25: How to Become a Goddess
Apr 30, 1970 · 1h
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.
Episode 26: Israel and Love
May 7, 1970 · 1h
Israel finds first love with the daughter of a flamboyant woodcarver.


















