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.
#1 - The Hostages
Season 1 - Episode 13 - Aired 1/7/1965
A band of Senecas kidnap Rebecca and ransack the Boone cabin. The unusual thing about this little group is that they are led by a white Tory officer.
#2 - The Sound of Fear
Season 1 - Episode 18 - Aired 2/11/1965
A condemned bounty hunter (Dan Duryea) who escaped from a military convoy takes the Boones hostage.
#3 - Cain's Birthday (1)
Season 1 - Episode 25 - Aired 4/1/1965
Boone seems guilty of betrayal when he allows Choctaws to capture the town's men
#4 - Tekawitha McLeod
Season 1 - Episode 2 - Aired 10/1/1964
A man called Flathead Joseph kidnaps the adopted daughter of a Cherokee chief and offers her to the Boonesborough settlers in exchange for a jug of rum. When it's revealed that the girl is in reality white, Daniel purchases her freedom. Then the Cherokee arrive on the scene and want to take the girl back to live with them. Some of the settlers do not agree that she should return but the girl herself wants to go
#5 - Doll of Sorrow
Season 1 - Episode 28 - Aired 4/22/1965
Israel accidentally startles a passing peddler's horse and his goods are ruined. Daniel agrees to compensate Seth Jannings for his loss, but matters are complicated when Jannings steals a sacred mourning doll from the wife of a Native American chief and plans to hold it for ransom. Knowing that this could lead to major hostilities with the Native Americans, Daniel puts his own neck on the line to retrieve the doll from Jannings.
#6 - The Mound Builders
Season 2 - Episode 3 - Aired 9/30/1965
A chief (Henry Silva) of a long-dead Aztec tribe enters the Shawnees Valley of Death; guest Simon Oakland.
#7 - Empire of the Lost
Season 2 - Episode 1 - Aired 9/16/1965
Daniel receives a major surprise upon his return from a journey when British Colonel Worthing orders Boonesborough to be evacuated. He says it's because he's battling a Native American rebellion but Daniel suspects otherwise.
#8 - The Courtship of Jericho Jones
Season 1 - Episode 29 - Aired 4/29/1965
Jericho Jones kidnaps a Creek princess and elopes with her. Needless to say, this event causes considerable disruption of settler-Native American relations.
#9 - Daughter of the Devil
Season 1 - Episode 27 - Aired 4/15/1965
Superstition runs rampant in Boonesborough when two mysterious travelers arrive and are followed by the appearance of a deadly panther.
#10 - Cain's Birthday (2)
Season 1 - Episode 26 - Aired 4/8/1965
Lacking water and powder, the women and children of Boonesborough seem easy prey for attacking Choctaws.
#11 - Four-Leaf Clover
Season 1 - Episode 24 - Aired 3/25/1965
An idealistic schoolteacher (George Gobel) incites Boonesborough's wrath by giving gunpowder to the Shawnees.
#12 - The Devil's Four
Season 1 - Episode 21 - Aired 3/4/1965
Boone commands four criminals recruited by Yadkin to haul frieght to Boonesborough; guests Sean McClory, Gordon Jump.
#13 - The Quietists
Season 1 - Episode 20 - Aired 2/25/1965
A Quaker family refuses to fight until Indians kidnap a daughter; guests Alexander Scourby, Jay Silverheels.
#14 - A Place of 1000 Spirits
Season 1 - Episode 17 - Aired 2/4/1965
While hunting, the Boones meet a delirious British officer (Macdonald Carey) pursued by vengeful Shawnees.
#15 - The First Stone
Season 1 - Episode 16 - Aired 1/28/1965
Boone befriends a mother (Geraldine Brooks) and son (Kurt Russell), but learns the woman is accused of witchcraft.
#16 - The Prophet
Season 1 - Episode 15 - Aired 1/21/1965
A Shawnee prophet (John Russell) predicts massacre for the settlers of Boonesborough; guest Patricia Huston.
#17 - Not in Our Stars
Season 1 - Episode 12 - Aired 12/31/1964
Mingo plans to do more than protest a new treaty when he and Boone visit Virginia's governor general (Walter Pidgeon)
#18 - Ken-Tuck-E
Season 1 - Episode 1 - Aired 9/24/1964
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. Once they arrive, they encounter representatives of two of those four nations -- Shawnee warriors chasing a lone Cherokee warrior. Daniel helps drive the Shawnee away, and the grateful Cherokee, Mingo, returns the favor by showing Daniel and Yad an ideal location to build their fort. Yad returns east while Daniel remains with Mingo to explore the country.
#19 - My Brother's Keeper
Season 1 - Episode 3 - Aired 10/8/1964
Yadkin is seriously wounded in a Indian ambush and insists that the Indian who wounded him was none other than Mingo.
#20 - The Family Fluellen
Season 1 - Episode 4 - Aired 10/22/1964
Boone invites a widow (Bethel Leslie) and her hungry brood to town, but one of the children steals a telescope.
#21 - The Choosing
Season 1 - Episode 5 - Aired 10/29/1964
British soldiers and Indians surround Jemima as she tries to help Boone, wounded in the wilderness.
#22 - The Returning
Season 1 - Episode 14 - Aired 1/14/1965
Boone cannot believe a boyhood friend (Pat Hingle) murdered three Cherokee youths.
#23 - Lac Duquesne
Season 1 - Episode 6 - Aired 11/5/1964
Boone chases a river pirate (Emile Genest) who plans to sell a load of stolen arms to Shawnees.
#24 - The Sound of Wings
Season 1 - Episode 7 - Aired 11/12/1964
A British officer (Michael Rennie) captures Boone then impersonates him to win Indian allies; guest Frank DeKova
#25 - A Short Walk to Salem
Season 1 - Episode 8 - Aired 11/19/1964
Israel becomes lost in the woods after fur thieves ambush him, Boone and Yadkin.