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The Best Episodes of Daniel Boone

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The Best Episodes of Daniel Boone

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...

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  1. 8.7/10(68 votes)

    #1 - The Secret Code

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    S4:E13

    Ottawas capture Boone while he is trying to free a code expert from the British, then plan to torture him to death.

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    Director:N/A
  2. 8.7/10(47 votes)

    #2 - Flag of Truce

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    S5:E8

    An Army general plans to use Boone as bait in a trap for the frontiersman s friend, a Wyandot chief.

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    Director:N/A
    Writer:N/A
  3. 8.6/10(44 votes)

    #3 - Chief Mingo

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    S4:E12

    The murder of a Cherokee chief, perhaps by a bigoted trapper, makes Mingo temporary head of the tribe.

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    Director:Gerd Oswald
    Writer:N/A
  4. 8.6/10(53 votes)

    #4 - Mama Cooper

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    S6:E16

    Gabe encounters a child with a doll that he believes could have only been made by his mother, whom he hasn't seen since he was a child, and sets out to find her.

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    Director:William Wiard
    Writer:N/A
  5. 8.5/10(48 votes)

    #5 - The Bait

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    S5:E6

    A woman and her boyfriend rob Boone's stagecoach and steal his tax money.

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    Director:Nathan Juran
    Writer:N/A
  6. 8.5/10(49 votes)

    #6 - Bickford's Bridge

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    S5:E18

    Boone has orders from the Army to blow up bridges along the western frontier to prevent a British attack. When he reaches the last bridge he is blocked by a farmer who must keep it open in order to transport his autumn harvest.

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    Director:Nathan Juran
    Writer:N/A
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  8. 8.5/10(39 votes)

    #7 - Perilous Passage

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    S6:E14

    Daniel and Gabe become prisoners of the British after blowing up an important bridge. After escaping custody with another prisoner, they slowly work their way home through enemy territory. But they may be pawns in a larger plan.

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    Director:Nathan Juran
    Writer:N/A
  9. 8.4/10(44 votes)

    #8 - The King's Shilling

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    S4:E6

    A father takes a soldier hostage to force British troops to free his rebel son.

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    Director:Ida Lupino
  10. 8.3/10(67 votes)

    #9 - Tekawitha McLeod

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    S1:E2

    A dance at Fort Boonesborough is interrupted by Flathead Joseph, a halfbreed slave trader. He has a young Indian girl with him whom he claims is a Cherokee Princess...and a white girl. Her name is Tekawitha McLeod and she is the daughter of the Cherokee Chief Menewa. When Daniel confronts Menewa about this he admits she is white and taken from a raiding party but he wants her back. Daniel refuses when he realizes he knew her family. The Indians are determined to fight to get her back and the settlers of Boonesborough are just as determined to fight to keep her.

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    Director:Thomas Carr
    Writer:N/A
  11. 8.3/10(40 votes)

    #10 - The Spanish Fort

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    S4:E20

    Boone lets the Spanish capture him as part of a plan to blow up a partially completed Virginia fort.

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    Director:N/A
    Writer:N/A
  12. 8.3/10(49 votes)

    #11 - A Very Small Rifle

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    S6:E1

    A young Cherokee boy is shot and is near death. Daniel Boone must find out who shot the boy in order to head off the angry Cherokee tribe from retaliating against everyone, killing many innocent people.

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    Director:Nathan Juran
    Writer:N/A
  13. 8.3/10(35 votes)

    #12 - The Landlords

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    S6:E20

    Boone poses as a pirate to outwit a swindler who sold simpleton brothers a deed to Boonesborough

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    Director:William Wiard
    Writer:N/A
  14. 8.2/10(51 votes)

    #13 - Crisis by Fire

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    S2:E19

    A former Continental Army officer uses a smallpox threat to raise troops against Indians.

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  15. 8.2/10(48 votes)

    #14 - The Lost Colony

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    S3:E12

    A buckskin-clad girl leads Boone to a lost colony of settlers in a valley feared by Indians.

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    Director:Alex Nicol
    Writer:N/A
  16. 8.2/10(45 votes)

    #15 - Delo Jones

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    S3:E23

    A fugitive from Virginia, Delo Jones, comes to Boonesborough ahead of a British contingent determined to arrest him for a murder. Daniel believes he may be innocent and plans a trap to catch the real killer.

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    Writer:N/A
  17. 8.2/10(48 votes)

    #16 - The Ballad of Sidewinder and the Cherokee

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    S4:E1

    Boone and wounded Mingo ask a river pirate to help retrieve furs from a thief.

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    Director:Gerd Oswald
    Writer:N/A
  18. 8.2/10(44 votes)

    #17 - The Ordeal of Israel Boone

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    S4:E2

    Israel must call upon all he has learned to save Boone from a rattlesnake bite.

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  19. 8.2/10(44 votes)

    #18 - The Imposter

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    S4:E16

    Mingo masquerades as a British major to steal a shipment of rapid-firing rifles.

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    Director:N/A
    Writer:N/A
  20. 8.2/10(41 votes)

    #19 - For a Few Rifles

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    S5:E24

    A man believes he has purchased land in Shawnee territory, but Daniel is certain that the Shawnee did not have anything to do with selling the land. When they go to meet the chief to try to work something out, he says he will give the man the land if the tribe gets twenty rifles. When Daniel refuses this offer, he finds out that Israel has been taken hostage in exchange for the rifles. While being held Israel meets a crippled and bitter Shawnee youth.

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    Director:John Newland
    Writer:N/A
  21. 8.2/10(37 votes)

    #20 - Readin', Ritin', and Revolt

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    S6:E21

    Israel joins forces with an Indian classmate to force the teaching of a course in Indian culture.

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    Director:William Wiard
    Writer:N/A
  22. 8.1/10(57 votes)

    #21 - The Choosing

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    S1:E5

    British soldiers and Indians surround Jemima as she tries to help Boone, wounded in the wilderness.

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    Director:Thomas Carr
    Writer:N/A
  23. 8.1/10(58 votes)

    #22 - Pompey

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    S1:E10

    A bondsman insists on returning a runaway slave unshackled by Boone.

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  24. 8.1/10(51 votes)

    #23 - The Sound of Fear

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    S1:E18

    A condemned bounty hunter who escaped from a military convoy takes the Boones hostage.

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    Director:Harry Harris
    Writer:N/A
  25. 8.1/10(46 votes)

    #24 - The Enchanted Gun

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    S3:E10

    A Shawnee faces danger when he believes in the magic of a gun given to him by Boone for saving Israel s life.

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    Writer:N/A
  26. 8.1/10(51 votes)

    #25 - The Williamsburg Cannon (1)

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    S3:E16

    Virginia's governor, Patrick Henry, assigns Daniel to escort a somewhat nervous artillery captain and his cannon through hostile territory, and the fact that the cannon is large and hard to maneuver is making the journey more difficult.

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    Writer:N/A

Best Episodes Summary

"The Secret Code" is the best rated episode of "Daniel Boone". It scored 8.7/10 based on 68 votes. Directed by N/A and written by Joel Oliansky, it aired on 12/14/1967. This episode scored 0.0 points higher than the second highest rated, "Flag of Truce".