Daniel Boone
NBC (ended 1970)
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Season 6
- Ep 26Israel and Love5/7/70
It's young love, first love for Israel who falls for the daughter of a woodcarver who has lost his inspiration to carve and is drowning himself with false shots of courage at the local crawl and fall. - Ep 25How to Become a Goddess4/30/70
The Onondaga tribe mistake Rebecca for a fabled red-haired goddess in their folklore. - Ep 24Bringing Up Josh4/16/70
Josh Clements is in a spot once again when he becomes foster father to a pair of orphans. Widow Mary Spoon has had her sights set on marrying Josh for quite a while and insists that he cannot raise the two children properly without a mother figure--namely her. - Ep 23The Homecoming4/9/70
An old man discovers that he is the last of the Piqua tribe which once lived in the area where Boonesborough now stands. He plots to avenge the demise of his people by destroying the settlers. - Ep 22Noblesse Oblige3/26/70
An exiled Prince of France changes places with his chef because he's growing tired of the fawning receptions everywhere he goes. - Ep 21Readin', Ritin', and Revolt3/12/70
The children of Boonesborough want schoomaster Pickering to teach them about Native American culture but their request is opposed by both the teacher and their parents. - Ep 20The Landlords3/5/70
Two moronic assclowns are swindled by a man who claims ownership of Boonesborough and sells them the deed. - Ep 19A Matter of Vengeance2/26/70
Mason Pruitt is convinced that a visitor to Boonesborough is the killer of his parents. - Ep 18Run for the Money2/19/70
It's time for the annual footrace between the settlers and the Native Americans. Since Daniel has gotten a little long in the tooth when it comes to cross country running it's up to Cincinnatus to find another candidate. He finds one in fleet-footed slave Lucas Hunter but then learns that Lucas' brother will be running for the Native Americans.moreless - Ep 17Before the Tall Man2/12/70
Daniel and Rebecca are at it again playing matchmaker this time to hot tempered carpenter Tom Lincoln and idealistic Nancy Hanks. It's a rough road because Tom wants nothing to do with Nancy but if the two don't get together then a great American leader will not be born. - Ep 16Mama Cooper2/5/70
Gabe finds evidence that his mother is still alive and vows to find her and buy her freedom. - Ep 15The Sunshine Patriots1/22/70
Josh and Gabe resemble 18th century versions of Gene Wilder and Richard Pryor when they bumble, stumble, and fumble their way through a spy mission in Williamsburg. - Ep 14Perilous Passage1/15/70
Daniel and Gabe are joined by young Sam Weaver on their way homeward from a mission behind British lines. The only problem is that there's a bounty on their heads and someone appears to know the exact location of the route they're traveling back to Kentucky. - Ep 13An Angel Cried1/8/70
Josh once again finds himself in a full blown mess as he and a Catholic nun try to stay alive in hostile Native American territory. - Ep 12Hannah Comes Home12/25/69
Hannah, a white woman captured by Indians in a raid 15 years before, is ransomed and returned to her husband in Boonesborough. The reunion is complicated by the fact that Hannah gave birth to a son during her captivity and he wants no part of the white man's world. - Ep 11The Terrible Tarbots12/11/69
Daniel and Gabe do battle with a trio of nasty assclowns who have taken Israel hostage and stolen a chest of Army gold they were transporting. - Ep 10The Cache12/4/69
Josh is headed for Kentucky's highest hanging tree when a trapper is found knifed to death near his campsite. Even Daniel might not be a big enough man to get him out of this entanglement. - Ep 9A Bearskin for Jamie Blue11/27/69
The Boones befriend young Jamie Blue, a young indentured servant who was born in prison and has been hardened by a lifetime of living in poverty. Can they melt Jamie's heart of stone? - Ep 8Target Boone11/20/69
Adam Jarrett and his sons are after Daniel's hide. They blame him for the death of Adam's wife in a river boat accident which involved a boat on which Daniel was traveling. - Ep 7The Grand Alliance11/13/69
The Spaniards are planning an invasion of U.S. territory. Only Josh Clements, Gabe Cooper, and a Spanish pirate with a grudge against his government can save the day. Heaven help us all. - Ep 6The Traitor10/30/69
Daniel guides the wife of a British commander to Fort Detroit to rendezvous with her husband who says he plans to surrender the fort to the Continentals. - Ep 5The Printing Press10/23/69
Daniel and Israel travel to Philadelphia to obtain much-needed supplies for the Kentucky settlers but the British have decreed that supplies can only be bought with currency. Daniel then gets old friend Benjamin Franklin to print up a batch of counterfeit notes but this method doesn't seem very ethical to young Israel.moreless - Ep 4The Man10/16/69
Daniel must disable a British cannon which threatens to sink a Patriot detachment coming up river. His only help comes from two assclowns, a British POW, and Gabe Cooper, an escaped slave who's now a Tuscarora chief. - Ep 3Benvenuto... Who?10/9/69
Josh becomes involved once again with a scheming woman who hides a stolen diamond inside his guitar to keep her co-horts in crime from finding it. - Ep 2The Road to Freedom10/2/69
Israel helps slaves George and Jimmy Hill escape from their owners. - Ep 1A Very Small Rifle9/18/69
Johnny Appleseed acts as a peacemaker between the settlers and the Cherokee when a young Cherokee is accidentally shot by a young settler.
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Season 5
- Ep 26A Pinch of Salt5/1/69
Daniel and artist David Scott are on a land survey and become drawn up in the love spat between a rifle-wielding woman and a domineering hulk of a man. - Ep 25Sweet Molly Malone4/17/69
Daniel and Rebecca are matchmaking again. This time it's for Molly Malone and tinker Herman Bloedel. - Ep 24For a Few Rifles4/10/69
Israel is snatched by a band of Native Americans who want twenty rifles in exchange for releasing the boy. - Ep 23A Man Before His Time4/3/69
Young Luke Slater swears to avenge the self-defense killing of his father by Daniel's friend Ben. - Ep 22The Allies3/27/69
Daniel, Cully, and Mason Pruitt race to intercept a British convoy carrying weapons and whiskey to their Native American allies but their horses are stolen by a family of ne'er-do-wells. - Ep 21Love and Equity3/13/69
Prater Beasley returns to Boonesborough to help some farmers with a drought and ends up defending himself on charges of witchcraft after a "love potion" he gave to two buffoonish brothers fails to work. - Ep 20For Want of a Hero3/6/69
Daniel, Rebecca, and Israel become involved in the scheme of five soldiers who survived a massacre to steal an Army payroll. - Ep 19A Touch of Charity2/27/69
Jimmy McGill wants to win the hand of lovely Miss Charity Brown and asks Daniel and Cincinnatus for a bit of help. - Ep 18Bickford's Bridge2/20/69
Daniel's orders from the Continental Army are to destroy all bridges in the path of the advancing British but stubborn James Bickford and his sons have rebuilt their bridge and refuse to let it be destroyed again. - Ep 17Jonah2/13/69
Josh's late uncle, who wanted him to give up his carefree ways, leaves him an inheritance--a plot of land near Boonesborough and an educated slave named Jonah. Josh, who doesn't believe in slavery, frees Jonah but he refuses to leave until he's made a proper gentleman out of Josh. Needless to say, Jonah's plow is in the hard ground especially when Josh enters him into a prizefight without asking.moreless - Ep 16Three Score and Ten2/6/69
An aging gunsmith tries to prove to himself and others that he can still be useful but then he's captured by the Shawnee who want him to assemble rifles for them to use against the Boonesborough settlers. - Ep 15Copperhead Izzy1/30/69
In this re-telling of Oliver Twist, Israel visits his uncle in Williamsburg and becomes involved with a group of orphans who are forced to steal for their living by the Fagin-like Dr. Samuel Morton. - Ep 14A Tall Tale of Prater Beasley1/16/69
Prater Beasly is a wandering minstrel and teller of tall tales who travels with an invisible bear. Prater and his invisible bear try to help a crippled boy learn self-reliance. - Ep 13To Slay a Giant1/9/69
When Gideon is accused of murder, Daniel must clear him quickly before some of the settlers turn into a lynch mob. - Ep 12Minnow for a Shark1/2/69
Israel becomes involved in the theft of the King's dispatch box when he travels to Virginia with Daniel and Rebecca. - Ep 11The Return of Sidewinder12/12/68
Daniel does battle once again with his friendly enemy, Joe Snag, who has taken to robbing freight wagons with a gang that calls themselves the Cumberland Buckaroos. - Ep 10The Patriot12/5/68
John Gist, a former Loyalist who has been living in exile in Canada, returns to Boonesborough. His presence re-opens a lot of old wounds from the Revolutionary War especially with his own son who fought against the British. - Ep 9The Valley of the Sun11/28/68
Poor ole Josh Clements gets into a mess again when he becomes separated from Daniel during a deer hunt. He's captured by a nutty Englishman who has discovered a lost Aztec treasure and will do anything to protect his find from outsiders. - Ep 8Flag of Truce11/21/68
Daniel works to arrange a treaty with the Wyandotte tribe unaware that a general wants to arrest and hang their chief who happens to be a friend of Daniel's. - Ep 7Big, Black and Out There11/14/68
Gideon has conflicting loyalties when he and Daniel track down a runaway slave who has been stealing from the settlers. - Ep 6The Bait11/7/68
Daniel tries to track down a frontier version of Bonnie and Clyde who just held up a stagecoach. - Ep 5The Plague That Came to Ford's Run10/31/68
Josh Clements probes the disappearance of a German guitar maker in a xenophobic community that is suspicious of foreigners and outsiders. - Ep 4The Fleeing Nuns10/24/68
Daniel and Mason Pruitt try to aid two nuns who are actually a French noblewoman and her maid. They are fleeing a pair of nasty French revolutionaries who intend to return them to their homeland for a date with the guillotine. - Ep 3The Dandy10/10/68
Daniel tries to educate a young fop in the ways of a woodsman as a favor to an old friend. This one could take a while especially when a band of Shawnees get on their trail. - Ep 2The Blackbirder10/3/68
Bounty hunter Lute Purdy mistakes Gideon for an escaped slave. Things go from awful to good grief for Gideon when Mason Pruitt, a deserter from a slave ship, falsely identifes Gideon as the escapee. - Ep 1Be Thankful for the Fickleness of Women9/19/68
Josh Clements makes his first appearance on the show and he's in the type of trouble that would become his norm. He has to find a husband for a pretty bondservant he accidentally bought or marry her himself. Daniel, for the first of many times, tries to help Josh extricate himself from his predicament.moreless
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Season 4
- Ep 26Faith's Way4/4/68
A schoolteacher has the uncanny ability to communicate with animals. Unfortunately, Native Americans believe she is a witch responsible for the forays of a marauding panther. - Ep 25Thirty Pieces of Silver3/28/68
Daniel and Mingo are on a secret mission to deliver guns to the settlers but Amos Fargo plans to buy his indentured sister's freedom by selling them out to a gang of renegades who are after the guns. - Ep 24Nightmare3/14/68
One of the better episodes of the series is this tale about Daniel, Israel, and Rebecca's efforts to elude a group of bloodthirsty Shawnees on their way home to Boonesborough. - Ep 23The Far Side of Fury3/7/68
When Gideon's son is kidnapped by Native Americans while in Daniel's care his tracks lead to the edge of a waterfall which leads all concerned to believe that the child is dead. Gideon then goes mad with grief and decides to punish Daniel by killing Israel. - Ep 22Orlando, the Prophet2/29/68
Mingo and Israel tangle with a medicine showman when they try to help the showman's Gypsy bondservant win his freedom. - Ep 21Hero's Welcome2/22/68
Everyone thinks that Simon Jarvis is a coward including his friends and family. Daniel and Mingo help Simon prove differently. - Ep 20The Spanish Fort2/15/68
Daniel allows himself to be captured on a dangerous mission to sabotage a Spanish fort being built on American soil with American slave labor but there's an informer in his midst. - Ep 19Then Who Will They Hang from the Yardarm If Willy Gets Away?2/8/68
Willy Crawford is a British sailor being sought as a mutineer. Thanks to the kindness of Daniel and Israel he's allowed to settle in Boonesborough and begin new life for himself. But then a man named George Perkins shows up in the settlement and things take a turn for the worse for poor Willy.moreless - Ep 18The Flaming Rocks2/1/68
Daniel, Mingo, and pal Jeremiah intercede to prevent reprisals when a stubborn Welshman begins mining coal from Tuscarora land. - Ep 17The Witnesses1/25/68
Israel and two of his friends witness a murder but nobody believes them---except the killer. - Ep 16The Imposter1/18/68
Mingo, Rebecca, and a backwoodsman pose as a British major, his fiancee, and orderly as part of a convoluted plan to prevent the Brits from gaining access to a new rapid-firing rifle which could change the course of the Revolutionary War. - Ep 15The Scrimshaw Ivory Chart1/4/68
Daniel, Rebecca, and Israel get involved with amiable pirate Will Scataway in a quest for buried treasure. - Ep 14A Matter of Blood12/28/67
An Native American princess raised among the whites has a tough row to hoe as she tries to prove herself worthy to become queen of the Delaware tribe. - Ep 13The Secret Code12/14/67
Daniel has a tough mission for the Patriot cause this time. He has to rescue the Continental Army's top code expert from British and Indian hands--or kill him before they can make the poor fellow talk. - Ep 12Chief Mingo12/7/67
Close friends Daniel and Mingo clash over whether the alleged murderer of a Cherokee chief should be tried by the Native Americans or in a white court of law. - Ep 11The Spanish Horse11/23/67
All Cal Trevor's father left him was a lame thoroughbred horse. Daniel, as is his nature, lends a helping hand. - Ep 10The Desperate Raid11/16/67
Daniel and a young army lieutenant are forced by necessity to hire a group of scumbags to help deliver supplies to a besieged fort. - Ep 9The Value of a King11/9/67
Daniel must secure free passage for a group of runaway slaves who are holding Israel hostage. In order to do this he has to outwit slavehunter Asa Webb. - Ep 8The Traitor11/2/67
Captured by the British, Daniel manages to escape execution as a traitor by volunteering to rescue the captured daughter of a British colonel from the Shawnees. - Ep 7The Inheritance10/26/67
Rebecca inherits a spooky old mansion that is rumored to be haunted. - Ep 6The King's Shilling10/19/67
David Hubbard is arrested by the British and sentenced to hang for sedition and treasonous activities. In order to save his son's life, David's father kidnaps a British soldier to exchange for him. It's up to Daniel to try and save the lives of both David and the soldier. - Ep 5Beaumarchais10/12/67
Daniel and Mingo lend a hand to French dramatist Pierre Beaumarchais, an ally of the Patriot cause. It seems as though the good playwright is attempting to smuggle gold through British lines. - Ep 4Tanner10/5/67
Israel is abducted by a frightened and brain damaged outcast whom he had earlier befriended. - Ep 3The Renegade9/28/67
Tom and Martha Jimson have adopted a young Native American boy at the request of his deceased mother but his renegade father is determined to reclaim him. Daniel and Mingo lend a hand in the matter. - Ep 2The Ordeal of Israel Boone9/21/67
Israel desperately seeks help for Daniel who has been bitten by a rattlesnake. - Ep 1The Ballad of Sidewinder and the Cherokee9/14/67
Daniel and Mingo have their furs stolen and in order to recover them they have to pit river pirates Joe Snag and Milo Quaife against each other.
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Season 3
- Ep 28The Fallow Land4/13/67
The scenario of three trappers poaching on Cherokee land threatens to instigate a Native American war. It's Daniel to the rescue. - Ep 27Take the Southbound Stage4/6/67
When President John Adams is kidnapped it is Daniel who is recruited to deliver the ransom money. - Ep 26Bitter Mission3/30/67
To prevent war, a wounded Daniel begins a long journey with traitorous retired general, James Wilkerson, as his prisoner. Wilkerson, with the aide of the Spanish, is pitting Virginia against Kentucky in order to snatch the region for himself. - Ep 25Fort West Point3/23/67
In this thinly veiled version of the Benedict Arnold story, Daniel tries to halt the commanding general of Fort West Point from turning the fort over to the British. - Ep 24The Necklace3/9/67
Daniel heads for New Orleans carrying a pearl necklace that will exonerate a wrongfully convicted man but his journey is imperiled by three no-talent assclowns who are determined to steal the necklace. - Ep 23Delo Jones3/2/67
Happy go lucky woodsman Delo Jones arrives in Boonesborough carrying a big secret: he's on the run from a murder charge. Daniel discovers his secret and prepares to turn him over to a pursuing posse but Delo swears that the officer in charge of the posse is the real killer. - Ep 22The Young Ones2/23/67
Three young survivors of a Native American massacre stir up a hornet's nest worth of trouble for Daniel when they claim he's their father and intends to abandon them. - Ep 21The Long Way Home2/16/67
Daniel hunts an escaped Army prisoner who is wanted for murder. The fugitive is an old friend of Daniel's named Birch Kendall. - Ep 20When I Became a Man, I Put Away Childish Things2/9/67
In this sentimental, pathos episode, Israel's pet fawn destroys a neighbor's crop and the boy is faced with the painful prospect of seeing his pet destroyed. - Ep 19The Jasper Ledbedder Story2/2/67
Jasper Ledbedder arrives on the scene with a sad tale of woe about hostile Shawnees abducting his family. Daniel and Mingo accompany Jasper deep into Shawnee territory but then discover the real object of the journey. - Ep 18The Wolf Man1/26/67
The settlers of Boonesborough are faced with deciding whether or not slavery should be permitted in their settlement. - Ep 17The Williamsburg Cannon (2)1/19/67
The British set a trap for Daniel and his small band hauling a heavy cannon to Continental forces on the Western frontier. - Ep 16The Williamsburg Cannon (1)1/12/67
Virginia Governor Patrick Henry recruits Daniel and Mingo to help with the transportation of a heavy cannon to Continental troops on the frontier. In order to reach their destination they must travel through hundreds of miles of enemy infested territory. - Ep 15The Symbol12/29/66
When the Liberty Bell is stolen by a renegade Spaniard named Count de Borba it's Daniel and Mingo to the rescue. - Ep 14When a King Is a Pawn12/22/66
Daniel and Israel save French Prince Charles from being returned to France and a certain date with the guillotine. - Ep 13River Passage12/15/66
Daniel, trying to deliver gunpowder from Pittsburgh to Boonesborough, has to deal with hostile Native Americans and river rat Bill Sedley. - Ep 12The Lost Colony12/8/66
Daniel and Mingo discover an isolated and remote valley populated by people who claim to be descended from the Lost Colony of Roanoke Island. - Ep 11Requiem for Craw Green12/1/66
Seeking answers in the mysterious death of his half-breed friend, Craw Green, Mingo cuts his locks and disguises himself as a white man in order to travel to a settlement called Logan's Fort. Logan's Fort is run by a vicious bigot named Roark Logan who has been driving away or killing all the Native Americans in the area in order to acquire their property. Mingo eventually discovers that Logan holds an ironic secret of his own.moreless - Ep 10The Enchanted Gun11/17/66
After giving his rifle to a Shawnee warrior, Daniel must prove that the weapon is not enchanted or more powerful than the regular law. - Ep 9The Loser's Race11/10/66
Daniel must haul ass from Boonesborough to Williamsburg in order to pay a delinquent land tax but the man traveling with him has been hired to make sure he never reaches his destination. - Ep 8Onatha11/3/66
Daniel and Mingo save a small black girl from drowning but then clash with two slave hunters who claim ownership of her. - Ep 7The Matchmaker10/27/66
Daniel and Mingo play matchmaker for a Creek princess and the son of a Shawnee chief in order to avert an inter tribal war but then she's kidnapped by ne'er-do-wells Stinch and Coll who soon wish they hadn't done the deed. - Ep 6Run a Crooked Mile10/20/66
Daniel is forced to collect a ransom for a band of body-snatchers who are holding Israel hostage. - Ep 5First in War, First in Peace10/13/66
Daniel must foil an assassination plot aimed against George Washington. - Ep 4Grizzly10/6/66
Israel is the only person who can clear a man wrongfully accused of murder. - Ep 3Goliath9/29/66
Robbers force horse trader Otis Cobb to buy a slave with the settler's money--and now he has to pay them back. - Ep 2The Allegiances9/22/66
Mingo has divided loyalties when he learns that his Cherokee tribe will be part of a British scheme to drive all white settlers from Kentucky. - Ep 1Dan'l Boone Shot a B'ar9/15/66
Daniel confronts Cletus Mott and the bear that killed Mott's father and brother. Mott is determined to hunt down the bear and threatens anyone who gets in the way of his revenge.
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Season 2
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Season 1
