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The Best Episodes of Daniel Boone

Every episode of Daniel Boone ranked from best to worst. Let's dive into 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...
Genres:Action & AdventureWestern
Network:NBC

Best Episodes Summary

"The Secret Code" is the best rated episode of "Daniel Boone". It scored 8.7/10 based on 67 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".

  • The Secret Code
    8.7/1067 votes
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    #1 - The Secret Code

    Season 4 Episode 13 - Aired 12/14/1967

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

    Director: N/A

    Writer: Joel Oliansky

  • Flag of Truce
    8.7/1045 votes
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    #2 - Flag of Truce

    Season 5 Episode 8 - Aired 11/21/1968

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

    Director: N/A

    Writer: N/A

  • Mama Cooper
    8.6/1051 votes
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    #3 - Mama Cooper

    Season 6 Episode 16 - Aired 2/5/1970

    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.

    Director: William Wiard

    Writer: N/A

  • Chief Mingo
    8.5/1041 votes
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    #4 - Chief Mingo

    Season 4 Episode 12 - Aired 12/7/1967

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

    Director: Gerd Oswald

    Writer: N/A

  • The Bait
    8.5/1047 votes
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    #5 - The Bait

    Season 5 Episode 6 - Aired 11/7/1968

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

    Director: Nathan H. Juran

    Writer: N/A

  • Bickford's Bridge
    8.5/1046 votes
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    #6 - Bickford's Bridge

    Season 5 Episode 18 - Aired 2/20/1969

    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.

    Director: Nathan H. Juran

    Writer: N/A

  • Perilous Passage
    8.5/1037 votes
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    #7 - Perilous Passage

    Season 6 Episode 14 - Aired 1/15/1970

    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.

    Director: Nathan H. Juran

    Writer: N/A

  • The King's Shilling
    8.4/1042 votes
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    #8 - The King's Shilling

    Season 4 Episode 6 - Aired 10/19/1967

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

    Director: Ida Lupino

    Writer: Joel Oliansky

  • Tekawitha McLeod
    8.3/1063 votes
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    #9 - Tekawitha McLeod

    Season 1 Episode 2 - Aired 10/1/1964

    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.

    Director: Thomas Carr

    Writer: N/A

  • The Spanish Fort
    8.3/1038 votes
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    #10 - The Spanish Fort

    Season 4 Episode 20 - Aired 2/15/1968

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

    Director: N/A

    Writer: N/A

  • The Landlords
    8.3/1034 votes
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    #11 - The Landlords

    Season 6 Episode 20 - Aired 3/5/1970

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

    Director: William Wiard

    Writer: N/A

  • The Choosing
    8.2/1053 votes
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    #12 - 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.

    Director: Thomas Carr

    Writer: N/A

  • Pompey
    8.2/1055 votes
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    #13 - Pompey

    Season 1 Episode 10 - Aired 12/10/1964

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

    Director: Joseph H. Lewis

    Writer: N/A

  • Delo Jones
    8.2/1044 votes
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    #14 - Delo Jones

    Season 3 Episode 23 - Aired 3/2/1967

    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.

    Director: R.G. Springsteen

    Writer: N/A

  • The Ballad of Sidewinder and the Cherokee
    8.2/1046 votes
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    #15 - The Ballad of Sidewinder and the Cherokee

    Season 4 Episode 1 - Aired 9/14/1967

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

    Director: Gerd Oswald

    Writer: N/A

  • The Ordeal of Israel Boone
    8.2/1043 votes
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    #16 - The Ordeal of Israel Boone

    Season 4 Episode 2 - Aired 9/21/1967

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

    Director: James B. Clark

    Writer: Paul Playdon

  • The Imposter
    8.2/1041 votes
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    #17 - The Imposter

    Season 4 Episode 16 - Aired 1/18/1968

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

    Director: N/A

    Writer: N/A

  • The Flaming Rocks
    8.2/1036 votes
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    #18 - The Flaming Rocks

    Season 4 Episode 18 - Aired 2/1/1968

    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.

    Director: Nathan H. Juran

    Writer: David Duncan

  • Be Thankful for the Fickleness of Women
    8.2/1040 votes
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    #19 - Be Thankful for the Fickleness of Women

    Season 5 Episode 1 - Aired 9/19/1968

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

    Director: William Wiard

    Writer: N/A

  • Three Score and Ten
    8.2/1044 votes
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    #20 - Three Score and Ten

    Season 5 Episode 16 - Aired 2/6/1969

    An elderly man, who has worn out his welcome in town with his tall tales, takes up residence with the Shawnee, who enjoy his stories immensely. However, they are more interested in his wagonload of rifle parts and have plans for their use.

    Director: George Marshall

    Writer: N/A

  • For a Few Rifles
    8.2/1038 votes
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    #21 - For a Few Rifles

    Season 5 Episode 24 - Aired 4/10/1969

    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.

    Director: John Newland

    Writer: N/A

  • A Very Small Rifle
    8.2/1045 votes
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    #22 - A Very Small Rifle

    Season 6 Episode 1 - Aired 9/18/1969

    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.

    Director: Nathan H. Juran

    Writer: N/A

  • The Traitor
    8.2/1037 votes
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    #23 - The Traitor

    Season 6 Episode 6 - Aired 10/30/1969

    The British commander of Fort Detroit will turn over the fort's defense plan if the Americans will reunite him with his wife. Daniel and Cully escort her back to him but Daniel doubts the Colonel's willingness to be a traitor.

    Director: Nathan H. Juran

    Writer: N/A

  • Readin', Ritin', and Revolt
    8.2/1035 votes
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    #24 - Readin', Ritin', and Revolt

    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.

    Director: William Wiard

    Writer: N/A

  • The Sound of Fear
    8.1/1048 votes
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    #25 - The Sound of Fear

    Season 1 Episode 18 - Aired 2/11/1965

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

    Director: Harry Harris

    Writer: N/A