The Tamarack Massacre Affair is a well-written episode from season two of the frontier drama, Daniel Boone. The plot concerns a British scheme to provoke a war between the Shawnee and the Kentucky settlers loyal to the cause of American liberty. How do they plan on doing this? By faking an Indian massacre. Their instrument: the crafty and scheming Madeleine Lorne, sister of a British officer.
Dina Merrill, as Madeleine Lorne, gives one of the best performances of the series by a female guest star. It's unusual too in that the series for the most part, like other shows of its era, concentrated on male characters. Many times the females were only used as window dressing.
The only thing that prevents me from giving this episode a 10 is the performance of Robert Lansing as a stereotypical stubborn Continental Army officer. Lansing never had much range as an actor and if you close your eyes you can almost swear he's back at the 87th Precinct playing a police detective. Still, Lansing's subpar but tolerable performance only lowers the grade a little and The Tamarack Massacre is well worth watching should TV Land decide to air it again.moreless
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Daniel is sent to negotiate a friendship treaty with the Iroquois tribe but one Madeline Lorne says they are guilty of a massacre of which she is the only survivor.
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Russ McCubbinBritish Sergeant
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Robert LansingCapt. Robert Ives
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GUEST STAR
Dina MerrillMadeline Lorne
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Veronica Cartwright
Jemima Boone
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Ed Ames
Mingo
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Darby Hinton
Israel Boone
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Fess Parker
Daniel Boone
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Patricia Blair
Rebecca Boone
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Dal McKennon
Cincinnatus
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QUOTES (17)
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Mingo (to Madeline): I didn't mean to frighten you. I was merely trying to put you out.
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Madeline (to Mingo): After all I've been through another hour's nothing if I can find Daniel Boone.
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Daniel (to Ives about Rain Cloud): It seems he's gonna take my word. Why should I doubt his?
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Israel (about Madeline): Boy, she sure is a lot prettier than she was when she got here.
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Daniel: Mrs. Lorne, we'd like to know how you managed to get here. Madeline: By the grace of God, Mr. Boone.
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Madeline: Treaty! Don't tell me you had a treaty with those murderin' savages!
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Ives (to Daniel about Madeline): For the love of heaven, man, hasn't the poor woman suffered enough as it is?
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Ives (to Madeline): My dear lady, how could your presence be anything but an inspiration to us all?
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Madeline (to Mingo): How stupid of me. I seem to be makin' a nuisance of myself already.
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Madeline: Then what actually are you? Mingo: I'm an American.
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Ives (about Madeline): She's a remarkable woman, Mr. Boone.
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Daniel (to Ives): You better turn your men in. We might be just a tad busy in the morning.
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Madeline: What are you looking at me for? Mingo: Admiration, shall we say.
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Madeline: Captain, if I'm gonna be sick, I'm gonna be sick by myself.
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Daniel: Mingo, do you feel like tacklin' some pretty long odds? Mingo: With you, are there any other kind?
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Mingo: A great man once said, Miss Lorne, that to free another is the first step in freeing oneself.
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Israel: It's no use, Ma. They ain't sayin' it all right but you sure can hear what they're thinkin'.
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Dallas McKennon and guest star Robert Lansing had previously appeared together on the 1961-62 NBC police drama The 87th Precinct.
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Robert Lansing had previously starred in the NBC police drama 87th Precinct. He would go onto co-star on the CBS spy thriller The Equalizer which ran during the 80's.
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Guest star Dina Merrill is the daughter of noted financier E. F. Hutton and socialite Marjorie Meriweather Post of Post Cereal fame.
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