The WORST episodes of Daniel Boone
Every episode of Daniel Boone ever, ranked from worst to best by thousands of votes from fans of the show. The worst 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 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.
#2 - The Flaming Rocks
Season 4 - Episode 18 - Aired 2/1/1968
Daniel, Mingo, and pal Jeremiah intercede to prevent reprisals when a stubborn Welshman begins mining coal from Tuscarora land
#3 - Then Who Will They Hang from the Yardarm If Willy Gets Away?
Season 4 - Episode 19 - Aired 2/8/1968
Israel befriends an accused British mutineer pursued by a shipmate (Wilfrid Hyde-White) sought for two murders.
#4 - The Spanish Fort
Season 4 - Episode 20 - Aired 2/15/1968
Boone lets the Spanish capture him as part of a plan to blow up a partially completed Virginia fort.
#5 - 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.
#6 - Orlando, the Prophet
Season 4 - Episode 22 - Aired 2/29/1968
The Boones befriend a scheming medicine man s (Hans Conried) Gypsy bondservant (Anthony Alda).
#7 - The Far Side of Fury
Season 4 - Episode 23 - Aired 3/7/1968
Believing his son dead, Gideon takes revenge on Boone by stealing Israel.
#8 - 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.
#9 - Thirty Pieces of Silver
Season 4 - Episode 25 - Aired 3/28/1968
Daniel and Mingo are on a secret mission to deliver guns to the settlers but Amos Fargo plans to buy his indentured sister's freedom by selling them out to a gang of renegades who are after the guns.
#10 - Faith's Way
Season 4 - Episode 26 - Aired 4/4/1968
A schoolteacher has the uncanny ability to communicate with animals. Unfortunately, Native Americans believe she is a witch responsible for the forays of a marauding panther.
#11 - 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.
#12 - The Witnesses
Season 4 - Episode 17 - Aired 1/25/1968
A killer (John Carradine) terrorizes witnesses Israel and friends into silence; guest Virginia Gregg.
#13 - 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.
#14 - 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.
#15 - 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.
#16 - 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.
#17 - 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.
#18 - 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.
#19 - 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.
#20 - 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.
#21 - 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.
#22 - The Inheritance
Season 4 - Episode 7 - Aired 10/26/1967
Strange happenings greet Rebecca and Israel when they visit a seaside house left to Rebecca by her uncle.
#23 - Fort West Point
Season 3 - Episode 25 - Aired 3/23/1967
Boone and Mingo try to stop the commandant of West Point from selling the fort to the British.
#24 - Bitter Mission
Season 3 - Episode 26 - Aired 3/30/1967
A traitor s (Simon Oakland) plan to profit from war with the Spanish backfires; guest Cesar Romero.
#25 - Take the Southbound Stage
Season 3 - Episode 27 - Aired 4/6/1967
Rebecca decides to help Boone rescue President John Adams from kidnappers.