The BEST episodes of Daniel Boone season 5
Every episode of Daniel Boone season 5, ranked from best to worst by thousands of votes from fans of the show. The best episodes of Daniel Boone season 5!
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 - For a Few Rifles
Season 5 - Episode 24 - Aired 4/10/1969
Israel is snatched by a band of Native Americans who want twenty rifles in exchange for releasing the boy
Watch Now:Amazon#2 - Love and Equity
Season 5 - Episode 21 - Aired 3/13/1969
Prater Beasley returns to Boonesborough to help some farmers with a drought and ends up defending himself on charges of witchcraft after a "love potion" he gave to two buffoonish brothers fails to work.
Watch Now:Amazon#3 - A Man Before His Time
Season 5 - Episode 23 - Aired 4/3/1969
Young Luke Slater swears to avenge the self-defense killing of his father by Daniel's friend Ben
Watch Now:Amazon#4 - To Slay a Giant
Season 5 - Episode 13 - Aired 1/9/1969
When Gideon is accused of murder, Daniel must clear him quickly before some of the settlers turn into a lynch mob.
Watch Now:Amazon#5 - 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.
#6 - Three Score and Ten
Season 5 - Episode 16 - Aired 2/6/1969
An aging gunsmith tries to prove to himself and others that he can still be useful but then he's captured by the Shawnee who want him to assemble rifles for them to use against the Boonesborough settlers.
Watch Now:Amazon#7 - 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 - 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.
Watch Now:Amazon#9 - 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.
#10 - Flag of Truce
Season 5 - Episode 8 - Aired 11/21/1968
An Army general plans to use Boone as bait in a trap for the frontiersman s friend, a Wyandot chief.
Watch Now:Amazon#11 - Sweet Molly Malone
Season 5 - Episode 25 - Aired 4/17/1969
Daniel and Rebecca are matchmaking again. This time it's for Molly Malone and tinker Herman Bloedel.
Watch Now:Amazon#12 - 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.
#13 - A Pinch of Salt
Season 5 - Episode 26 - Aired 5/1/1969
Daniel and artist David Scott are on a land survey and become drawn up in the love spat between a rifle-wielding woman and a domineering hulk of a man.
Watch Now:Amazon#14 - 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.
Watch Now:Amazon#15 - Copperhead Izzy
Season 5 - Episode 15 - Aired 1/30/1969
In this re-telling of Oliver Twist, Israel visits his uncle in Williamsburg and becomes involved with a group of orphans who are forced to steal for their living by the Fagin-like Dr. Samuel Morton.
Watch Now:Amazon#16 - The Patriot
Season 5 - Episode 10 - Aired 12/5/1968
John Gist, a former Loyalist who has been living in exile in Canada, returns to Boonesborough. His presence re-opens a lot of old wounds from the Revolutionary War especially with his own son who fought against the British.
Watch Now:Amazon#17 - The Dandy
Season 5 - Episode 3 - Aired 10/10/1968
Daniel tries to educate a young fop in the ways of a woodsman as a favor to an old friend. This one could take a while especially when a band of Shawnees get on their trail.
Watch Now:Amazon#18 - Minnow for a Shark
Season 5 - Episode 12 - Aired 1/2/1969
Israel becomes involved in the theft of the King's dispatch box when he travels to Virginia with Daniel and Rebecca.
Watch Now:Amazon#19 - Be Thankful for the Fickleness of Women
Season 5 - Episode 1 - Aired 9/19/1968
Josh buys a pretty bondservant (Brooke Bundy), then may have to marry her when she falls for him.
#20 - The Bait
Season 5 - Episode 6 - Aired 11/7/1968
A woman (Lois Nettleton) and her boyfriend (Skip Ward) rob Boone s stagecoach and steal his tax money.
Watch Now:Amazon#21 - For Want of a Hero
Season 5 - Episode 20 - Aired 3/6/1969
Daniel, Rebecca, and Israel become involved in the scheme of five soldiers who survived a massacre to steal an Army payroll.
Watch Now:Amazon#22 - The Blackbirder
Season 5 - Episode 2 - Aired 10/3/1968
A bounty hunter seeking a naval deserter is tricked into capturing Boone s friend Gideon as an escaped slave.
#23 - The Return of Sidewinder
Season 5 - Episode 11 - Aired 12/12/1968
Daniel does battle once again with his friendly enemy, Joe Snag, who has taken to robbing freight wagons with a gang that calls themselves the Cumberland Buckaroos.
#24 - The Plague That Came to Ford's Run
Season 5 - Episode 5 - Aired 10/31/1968
Josh returns to his hometown to visit a friend but finds the community a wreck and his friend missing.
#25 - The Fleeing Nuns
Season 5 - Episode 4 - Aired 10/24/1968
On the way to New Orleans, Boone and a friend help two nuns, then learn one is an aristocrat fleeing the French Revolution.