The BEST episodes of Daniel Boone
Every episode of Daniel Boone ever, ranked from best to worst by thousands of votes from fans of the show. The best episodes of Daniel Boone!
Frontier hero Daniel Boone conducts surveys and expeditions around Boonesborough, running into both friendly and hostile Indians, just before and during the Revolutionary War.
#7 - A Tall Tale of Prater Beasely
Season 5 - Episode 14 - Aired 1/16/1969
Prater Beaseley 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.
#10 - Jonah
Season 5 - Episode 17 - Aired 2/13/1969
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.
#11 - The Valley of the Sun
Season 5 - Episode 9 - Aired 11/28/1968
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.
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#12 - Big, Black and Out There
Season 5 - Episode 7 - Aired 11/14/1968
A former slave (Yaphet Kotto), adopted by Indians, terrorizes and robs Boonesborough.
#15 - A Very Small Rifle
Season 6 - Episode 1 - Aired 9/18/1969
Johnny Appleseed acts as a peacemaker between the settlers and the Cherokee when a young Cherokee is accidentally shot by a young settler.
#16 - The Printing Press
Season 6 - Episode 5 - Aired 10/23/1969
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.
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#23 - Then Who Will They Hang from the Yardarm If Willy Gets Away?
Season 4 - Episode 19 - Aired 2/8/1968
Israel befriends an accused British mutineer pursued by a shipmate (Wilfrid Hyde-White) sought for two murders.
#24 - The Witnesses
Season 4 - Episode 17 - Aired 1/25/1968
A killer (John Carradine) terrorizes witnesses Israel and friends into silence; guest Virginia Gregg.
#25 - The High Cumberland (2)
Season 2 - Episode 30 - Aired 4/21/1966
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.