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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. Background image for The Secret Code
    8.7/10(68 votes)

    #1 - The Secret Code

    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:Unknown
  2. Background image for Flag of Truce
    8.7/10(47 votes)

    #2 - Flag of Truce

    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:Unknown
    Writer:Unknown
  3. Background image for Chief Mingo
    8.6/10(44 votes)

    #3 - Chief Mingo

    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:Unknown
  4. Background image for The Bait
    8.5/10(48 votes)

    #4 - The Bait

    S5:E6

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

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    Director:Nathan Juran
    Writer:Unknown
  5. Background image for The King's Shilling
    8.4/10(44 votes)

    #5 - The King's Shilling

    S4:E6

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

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    Director:Ida Lupino
  6. Background image for Bickford's Bridge
    8.4/10(51 votes)

    #6 - Bickford's Bridge

    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:Unknown
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  8. Background image for The Spanish Fort
    8.3/10(40 votes)

    #7 - The Spanish Fort

    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:Unknown
    Writer:Unknown
  9. Background image for Tekawitha McLeod
    8.2/10(70 votes)

    #8 - Tekawitha McLeod

    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:Unknown
  10. Background image for The Choosing
    8.2/10(59 votes)

    #9 - The Choosing

    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:Unknown
  11. Background image for Pompey
    8.2/10(61 votes)

    #10 - Pompey

    S1:E10

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

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    Writer:Unknown
  12. Background image for Crisis by Fire
    8.2/10(51 votes)

    #11 - Crisis by Fire

    S2:E19

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

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  13. Background image for The Ballad of Sidewinder and the Cherokee
    8.2/10(49 votes)

    #12 - The Ballad of Sidewinder and the Cherokee

    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:Unknown
  14. Background image for The Ordeal of Israel Boone
    8.2/10(44 votes)

    #13 - The Ordeal of Israel Boone

    S4:E2

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

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  15. Background image for The Imposter
    8.2/10(44 votes)

    #14 - The Imposter

    S4:E16

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

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    Director:Unknown
    Writer:Unknown
  16. Background image for For a Few Rifles
    8.2/10(41 votes)

    #15 - For a Few Rifles

    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:Unknown
  17. Background image for The Sound of Fear
    8.1/10(51 votes)

    #16 - The Sound of Fear

    S1:E18

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

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    Director:Harry Harris
    Writer:Unknown
  18. Background image for The Flaming Rocks
    8.1/10(39 votes)

    #17 - The Flaming Rocks

    S4:E18

    Daniel, Mingo, and Jeremiah encounter the Garth family, whose patriarch is forcing the local Indians to mine coal. The chief of the Tuscarora threatens to kill them all if Daniel doesn't intervene and stop him.

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    Director:Nathan Juran
  19. Background image for Be Thankful for the Fickleness of Women
    8.1/10(43 votes)

    #18 - Be Thankful for the Fickleness of Women

    S5:E1

    Josh buys a pretty bondservant, then may have to marry her when she falls for him.

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    Director:William Wiard
    Writer:Unknown
  20. Background image for For Want of a Hero
    8.1/10(35 votes)

    #19 - For Want of a Hero

    S5:E20

    On their way back home Daniel and his family plan to stop at a fort for the night. When they arrive they find it has been destroyed by Indians with only a few survivors. The surviving soldiers seem to be hiding some kind of secret.

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    Director:Lee Philips
    Writer:Unknown
  21. Background image for Ken-Tuck-E
    8.0/10(91 votes)

    #20 - Ken-Tuck-E

    S1:E1

    George Washington sends Daniel and Yadkin into Ken-Tuck-E, the dark and bloody hunting ground of four Indian nations, to find a site for a fort.

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  22. Background image for My Brother's Keeper
    8.0/10(64 votes)

    #21 - My Brother's Keeper

    S1:E3

    Mingo, wanted DEAD! Daniel Boone must capture his friend Mingo and bring him to justice before all Kentucky erupts in war. Daniel's friend Yadkin is a trusted friend to all in Booneborough and among the Cherokee. Yadkin had canoed up river and while meeting with a Cherokee trading party when they were ambushed by a Creek war party. Yadkin was found floating down river by Daniel's son Israel. With Cincinnatus removing the slug(bullet) and Rebecca Boone nursing him, he began to pull through....

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    Director:John English
    Writer:Unknown
  23. Background image for The Hostages
    8.0/10(55 votes)

    #22 - The Hostages

    S1:E13

    Rumors circulate that the British are employing Indians to fight for them. Daniel becomes personally involved when he gets word his wife Rebecca has been taken by an Indian raiding party.

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    Writer:Unknown
  24. Background image for The Quietists
    8.0/10(53 votes)

    #23 - The Quietists

    S1:E20

    A Quaker family refuses to fight until Indians kidnap a daughter.

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    Writer:Unknown
  25. Background image for The Christmas Story
    8.0/10(65 votes)

    #24 - The Christmas Story

    S2:E14

    On a cold Christmas Eve, hungry Boonesborough awaits the birth of an Indian child who could reconcile two tribes.

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    Director:Unknown
    Writer:Unknown
  26. Background image for The Fifth Man
    8.0/10(48 votes)

    #25 - The Fifth Man

    S2:E22

    Boone and his party endure hardship to blow up a bridge between the advancing British and Fort Wayne.

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    Writer:Unknown

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 Unknown 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".