The BEST episodes of Daniel Boone season 1
Every episode of Daniel Boone season 1, ranked from best to worst by thousands of votes from fans of the show. The best episodes of Daniel Boone season 1!
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 - 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)
#6 - 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.
#7 - 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.
#8 - 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.
#9 - 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.
#10 - 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.
#11 - 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.
#12 - 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.
#13 - 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.
#14 - 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.
#15 - 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.
#16 - The Returning
Season 1 - Episode 14 - Aired 1/14/1965
Boone cannot believe a boyhood friend (Pat Hingle) murdered three Cherokee youths.
#17 - Mountain of the Dead
Season 1 - Episode 11 - Aired 12/17/1964
A dream about a man whom Daniel thought was dead is followed by the appearance of three men at his door demanding that he take them to the site of a bloody Native American massacre.
#18 - Pompey
Season 1 - Episode 10 - Aired 12/10/1964
A bondsman (Peter Whitney) insists on returning a runaway slave (Brock Peters) unshackled by Boone.
#19 - The Sisters O'Hannrahan
Season 1 - Episode 9 - Aired 12/3/1964
Yadkin's trickery leaves Boone the unexpected, and unwilling, owner of indentured Irish sisters (Fay Spain, Nina Shipman).
#20 - 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.
#21 - 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
#22 - 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.
#23 - 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.
#24 - 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.
#25 - 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.