• Air date: 15 Sep '66 28 episodes
      Daniel Boone is an American action-adventure television series starring Fess Parker as Daniel Boone that aired from September 24, 1964 to September 10, 1970 on NBC for 165 episodes, and was made by 20th Century Fox Television. Ed Ames co-starred as Mingo, Boone's Cherokee friend, for the first four seasons of the series. Albert Salmi portrayed Boone's companion Yadkin in season one only. Dallas McKennon portrayed innkeeper Cincinnatus. Country Western singer-actor Jimmy Dean was a featured actor as Josh Clements during the 1968–1970 seasons. Actor and former NFL football player Rosey Grier made regular appearances as Gabe Cooper in the 1969 to 1970 season. The show was broadcast "in living color" beginning in fall 1965, the second season, and was shot entirely in California and Kanab, Utah.
  • List of Episodes (28)
    • 1. Dan'l Boone Shot a B'ar

      15 Sep '66
      Boone faces a killer bear and the man (Slim Pickens) who has sworn vengeance on the animal; guest Dick Foran.
    • 2. The Allegiances

      22 Sep '66
      Mingo struggles with his divided heritage when an Indian council announces the British will help recapture Indian land.
    • 3. Goliath

      29 Sep '66
      Fearing three vengeful brothers, Otis spends money given to him for draft horses on a husky slave (Woody Strode).
    • 4. Grizzly

      06 Oct '66
      Israel helps clear a wild-looking mountain man (Jeff York), accused of murdering a man who refused to pay a debt.
    • 5. First in War, First in Peace

      13 Oct '66
      Washington visits in answer to a letter from Boone, who never wrote to him; guest Michael Rennie.
    • 6. Run a Crooked Mile

      20 Oct '66
      Israel is taken captive so Boone will help steal a war hero s body and then extort money from the family.
    • 7. The Matchmaker

      27 Oct '66
      Boone and Mingo agree to transport an unwilling Creek princess to an arranged wedding with a Shawnee.
    • 8. Onatha

      03 Nov '66
      Boone employs a mastodon s skeleton to fight two slave traders seeking runaway slaves; guest Raymond St. Jacques.
    • 9. The Loser's Race

      10 Nov '66
    • 10. The Enchanted Gun

      17 Nov '66
      A Shawnee faces danger when he believes in the magic of a gun given to him by Boone for saving Israel s life.
    • 11. Requiem for Craw Green

      01 Dec '66
      Mingo masquerades as white to help an Indian boy condemned by the bigoted head (Jeffrey Hunter) of a settlement.
    • 12. The Lost Colony

      08 Dec '66
      A buckskin-clad girl (Kathryn Walsh) leads Boone to a lost colony of settlers in a valley feared by Indians.
    • 13. River Passage

      15 Dec '66
      Boone fights a dishonest boatman (Leif Erickson) and Shawnee to deliver gunpowder to Boonesborough; guest Jim Davis.
    • 14. When a King Is a Pawn

      22 Dec '66
      Boone and Israel foil a plot to grab a French prince and send him back to a revolutionary tribunal.
    • 15. The Symbol

      29 Dec '66
      An impoverished nobleman (Ricardo Montalban) acquires the Liberty Bell and decides to sell it to the British.
    • 16. The Williamsburg Cannon (1)

      12 Jan '67
    • 17. The Williamsburg Cannon (2)

      19 Jan '67
    • 18. The Wolf Man

      26 Jan '67
      As Boonesborough awaits a slavery vote, a frontiersman struggles to protect his pet wolf from townspeople.
    • 19. The Jasper Ledbedder Story

      02 Feb '67
    • 20. When I Became a Man, I Put Away Childish Things

      09 Feb '67
      Israel runs away with his pet fawn when Boone says the destructive animal, too tame to set free, must be killed.
    • 21. The Long Way Home

      16 Feb '67
      Boone sets out to recapture a prisoner, an educated black accused of murdering an Indian chief.
    • 22. The Young Ones

      23 Feb '67
      An orphan (Kurt Russell), determined to keep his family together, causes trouble for rescuer Boone.
    • 23. Delo Jones

      02 Mar '67
    • 24. The Necklace

      09 Mar '67
    • 25. Fort West Point

      23 Mar '67
      Boone and Mingo try to stop the commandant of West Point from selling the fort to the British.