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 - 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.
#8 - 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 - 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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#15 - 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.
#17 - The Witnesses
Season 4 - Episode 17 - Aired 1/25/1968
A killer (John Carradine) terrorizes witnesses Israel and friends into silence; guest Virginia Gregg.
#20 - Hero's Welcome
Season 4 - Episode 21 - Aired 2/22/1968
Boone helps an old friend (Charles Drake) who lost his son because his neighbors think him a coward.
#21 - 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.
#22 - Nightmare
Season 4 - Episode 24 - Aired 3/14/1968
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.
#23 - The Road to Freedom
Season 6 - Episode 2 - Aired 10/2/1969
Israel helps slaves George and Jimmy Hill escape from their owners.
#24 - The Allies
Season 5 - Episode 22 - Aired 3/27/1969
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.
#25 - Bickford's Bridge
Season 5 - Episode 18 - Aired 2/20/1969
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.