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 - Israel and Love
Season 6 - Episode 26 - Aired 5/7/1970
Israel finds first love with the daughter (Robin Mattson) of a flamboyant woodcarver (Tim O Connor).
#2 - The Grand Alliance
Season 6 - Episode 7 - Aired 11/13/1969
The Spaniards are planning an invasion of U.S. territory. Only Josh Clements, Gabe Cooper, and a Spanish pirate with a grudge against his government can save the day. Heaven help us all.
#3 - Target Boone
Season 6 - Episode 8 - Aired 11/20/1969
Adam Jarrett and his sons are after Daniel's hide. They blame him for the death of Adam's wife in a river boat accident which involved a boat on which Daniel was traveling.
#4 - Hannah Comes Home
Season 6 - Episode 12 - Aired 12/25/1969
Hannah, a white woman captured by Indians in a raid 15 years before, is ransomed and returned to her husband in Boonesborough. The reunion is complicated by the fact that Hannah gave birth to a son during her captivity and he wants no part of the white man's world.
#5 - Perilous Passage
Season 6 - Episode 14 - Aired 1/15/1970
Daniel and Gabe are joined by young Sam Weaver on their way homeward from a mission behind British lines. The only problem is that there's a bounty on their heads and someone appears to know the exact location of the route they're traveling back to Kentucky.
#6 - The Sunshine Patriots
Season 6 - Episode 15 - Aired 1/22/1970
Josh and Gabe resemble 18th century versions of Gene Wilder and Richard Pryor when they bumble, stumble, and fumble their way through a spy mission in Williamsburg.
#7 - Mama Cooper
Season 6 - Episode 16 - Aired 2/5/1970
Gabe finds evidence that his mother is still alive and vows to find her and buy her freedom.
#8 - Before the Tall Man
Season 6 - Episode 17 - Aired 2/12/1970
Daniel and Rebecca are at it again playing matchmaker this time to hot tempered carpenter Tom Lincoln and idealistic Nancy Hanks. It's a rough road because Tom wants nothing to do with Nancy but if the two don't get together then a great American leader will not be born
#9 - Run for the Money
Season 6 - Episode 18 - Aired 2/19/1970
It's time for the annual footrace between the settlers and the Native Americans. Since Daniel has gotten a little long in the tooth when it comes to cross country running it's up to Cincinnatus to find another candidate. He finds one in fleet-footed slave Lucas Hunter but then learns that Lucas' brother will be running for the Native Americans.
#10 - A Matter of Vengeance
Season 6 - Episode 19 - Aired 2/26/1970
A man who lost his parents years before blames a scarred stranger.
#11 - Readin', Ritin', and Revoltin'
Season 6 - Episode 21 - Aired 3/12/1970
Israel joins forces with an Indian classmate to force the teaching of a course in Indian culture.
#12 - Noblesse Oblige
Season 6 - Episode 22 - Aired 3/26/1970
A cook (Philip Proctor) posing as a French prince falls in love in Boonesborough;
#13 - The Homecoming
Season 6 - Episode 23 - Aired 4/9/1970
Israel befriends an elderly Indian (David Opatoshu) plotting revenge for his tribe s near-extinction.
#14 - Bringing Up Josh
Season 6 - Episode 24 - Aired 4/16/1970
Josh Clements is in a spot once again when he becomes foster father to a pair of orphans. Widow Mary Spoon has had her sights set on marrying Josh for quite a while and insists that he cannot raise the two children properly without a mother figure--namely her.
#15 - How to Become a Goddess
Season 6 - Episode 25 - Aired 4/30/1970
The Onondaga tribe mistake Rebecca for a fabled red-haired goddess in their folklore.
#16 - The Traitor
Season 6 - Episode 6 - Aired 10/30/1969
Daniel guides the wife of a British commander to Fort Detroit to rendezvous with her husband who says he plans to surrender the fort to the Continentals.
#17 - A Touch of Charity
Season 5 - Episode 19 - Aired 2/27/1969
Jimmy McGill wants to win the hand of lovely Miss Charity Brown and asks Daniel and Cincinnatus for a bit of help.
#18 - The Price of Friendship
Season 1 - Episode 19 - Aired 2/18/1965
Boone assists a boy hanging by his feet from a tree (Kurt Russell) and winds up at the mercy of a larcenous clan; guests Lloyd Nolan, Lane Bradford.
#19 - 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.
#20 - The Young Ones
Season 3 - Episode 22 - Aired 2/23/1967
An orphan (Kurt Russell), determined to keep his family together, causes trouble for rescuer Boone.
#21 - My Name Is Rawls
Season 2 - Episode 4 - Aired 10/7/1965
Boone pursues a runaway slave (Rafer Johnson) stealing pelts to earn passage to Africa; guest Michael Conrad.
#22 - 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.
#23 - Take the Southbound Stage
Season 3 - Episode 27 - Aired 4/6/1967
Rebecca decides to help Boone rescue President John Adams from kidnappers.
#24 - The Old Man and the Cave
Season 2 - Episode 5 - Aired 10/14/1965
Israel violates a burial ritual when he rescues an aged Indian (Cyril Delevanti) from death in a cave; guest Val Avery.
#25 - The Reunion
Season 1 - Episode 22 - Aired 3/11/1965
Timothy Patrick Bryan shows up in Boonesborough looking for his long lost daughter, Rebecca Boone. Rebecca wants nothing to do with the man because he abandoned her family when she was a child.