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 - 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.
#2 - Noblesse Oblige
Season 6 - Episode 22 - Aired 3/26/1970
A cook (Philip Proctor) posing as a French prince falls in love in Boonesborough;
#3 - 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.
#4 - A Matter of Vengeance
Season 6 - Episode 19 - Aired 2/26/1970
A man who lost his parents years before blames a scarred stranger.
#5 - 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.
#6 - 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.
#7 - 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).
#8 - 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.
#9 - 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.
#10 - 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.
#11 - 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.
#12 - 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.
#13 - 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.
#14 - 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.
#15 - 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.
#16 - 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.
#17 - Take the Southbound Stage
Season 3 - Episode 27 - Aired 4/6/1967
Rebecca decides to help Boone rescue President John Adams from kidnappers.
#18 - 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.
#19 - 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.
#20 - The Thanksgiving Story
Season 2 - Episode 10 - Aired 11/25/1965
Boone s eccentric father-in-law (John McIntire) concocts a Thanksgiving Day plan to prevent a Choctaw attack.
#21 - Run a Crooked Mile
Season 3 - Episode 6 - Aired 10/20/1966
Israel is taken captive so Boone will help steal a war hero s body and then extort money from the family.
#22 - The First Beau
Season 2 - Episode 12 - Aired 12/9/1965
Feelings for Jemima make a dashing young outlaw (Fabian) consider reforming.
#23 - The Ben Franklin Encounter
Season 1 - Episode 23 - Aired 3/18/1965
After returning from a trip to Virginia, Daniel and Mingo tell via flashback how they met the legendary Benjamin Franklin and almost got themselves shanghaied to England in the process.
#24 - The Renegade
Season 4 - Episode 3 - Aired 9/28/1967
An Indian jailed for murder escapes and comes to take revenge on witness Boone and recover his son from settlers.
#25 - The Man
Season 6 - Episode 4 - Aired 10/16/1969
Daniel must disable a British cannon which threatens to sink a Patriot detachment coming up river. His only help comes from two assclowns, a British POW, and Gabe Cooper, an escaped slave who's now a Tuscarora chief.