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.
#2 - The Fifth Man
Season 2 - Episode 22 - Aired 2/17/1966
Boone and his party endure hardship to blow up a bridge between the advancing British and Fort Wayne.
#4 - The Gun
Season 2 - Episode 20 - Aired 2/3/1966
Boone heads to Pennsylvania to have a new gun made, but meets two scoundrels seeking a guide to the Mississippi.
#5 - 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.
#6 - 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.
#7 - 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
#10 - 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.
#11 - 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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#12 - 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.
#13 - Cry of Gold
Season 2 - Episode 8 - Aired 11/4/1965
Two scumbag land developers hire English boxing champion Thomas Cromwell to dispose of Daniel in a prizefight so they can buy up Boonesborough property.
#14 - 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
#15 - Crisis by Fire
Season 2 - Episode 19 - Aired 1/27/1966
A former Continental Army officer (George Sanders) uses a smallpox threat to raise troops against Indians.
#17 - The Accused
Season 2 - Episode 27 - Aired 3/24/1966
Mingo arranges a prison break to free Boone after a couple frames him for murder; guest Joanna Moore.
#18 - The Tamarack Massacre Affair
Season 2 - Episode 15 - Aired 12/30/1965
The sister of a British officer lies that she narrowly escaped an Indian massacre; Boone must avert war.
#19 - Gabriel
Season 2 - Episode 16 - Aired 1/6/1966
A Spanish military expedition chasing a French revolutionary mistakes Boone for its quarry; guests Cesar Romero, Mike Mazurki.
#21 - 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.
#22 - 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.
#24 - The Aaron Burr Story
Season 2 - Episode 7 - Aired 10/28/1965
Disgraced Vice President Aaron Burr arrives in Boonesborough looking for a guide to the mouth of the Cumberland River. Daniel smells a rat and declines but young Jericho Jones agrees to undertake the task.
#25 - 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.