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 - 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.
#2 - 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.
#3 - 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.
#4 - 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.
#5 - 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.
#6 - 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.
#7 - The Value of a King
Season 4 - Episode 9 - Aired 11/9/1967
A slavehunter (James Gregory) chains Boone with a group of escaped slaves then is attacked by Shawnee.
#8 - The Desperate Raid
Season 4 - Episode 10 - Aired 11/16/1967
Boone teaches a lieutenant about backwoods fighting during an attack on a British cannon installation.
#9 - 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.
#10 - The Mound Builders
Season 2 - Episode 3 - Aired 9/30/1965
A chief (Henry Silva) of a long-dead Aztec tribe enters the Shawnees Valley of Death; guest Simon Oakland.
#11 - 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.
#12 - 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.
#13 - 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.
#14 - 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.
#15 - 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.
#16 - 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.
#17 - 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.
#18 - Empire of the Lost
Season 2 - Episode 1 - Aired 9/16/1965
Daniel receives a major surprise upon his return from a journey when British Colonel Worthing orders Boonesborough to be evacuated. He says it's because he's battling a Native American rebellion but Daniel suspects otherwise.
#19 - 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.
#20 - The Returning
Season 1 - Episode 14 - Aired 1/14/1965
Boone cannot believe a boyhood friend (Pat Hingle) murdered three Cherokee youths.
#21 - Dan'l Boone Shot a B'ar
Season 3 - Episode 1 - Aired 9/15/1966
Boone faces a killer bear and the man (Slim Pickens) who has sworn vengeance on the animal; guest Dick Foran.
#22 - 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).
#23 - 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.
#24 - 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.
#25 - 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.
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