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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 Mama Cooper
    8.5/10(54 votes)

    #5 - Mama Cooper

    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:Unknown
  6. Background image for The King's Shilling
    8.4/10(44 votes)

    #6 - 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
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  8. Background image for Bickford's Bridge
    8.4/10(51 votes)

    #7 - 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
  9. Background image for Perilous Passage
    8.4/10(40 votes)

    #8 - Perilous Passage

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

    #9 - 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
  11. Background image for A Very Small Rifle
    8.3/10(51 votes)

    #10 - A Very Small Rifle

    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:Unknown
  12. Background image for The Landlords
    8.3/10(35 votes)

    #11 - The Landlords

    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:Unknown
  13. Background image for Tekawitha McLeod
    8.2/10(72 votes)

    #12 - 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
  14. Background image for The Choosing
    8.2/10(60 votes)

    #13 - 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
  15. Background image for Pompey
    8.2/10(61 votes)

    #14 - Pompey

    S1:E10

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

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    Writer:Unknown
  16. Background image for The Sound of Fear
    8.2/10(52 votes)

    #15 - 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
  17. Background image for The Ballad of Sidewinder and the Cherokee
    8.2/10(49 votes)

    #16 - 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
  18. Background image for The Ordeal of Israel Boone
    8.2/10(44 votes)

    #17 - 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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  19. Background image for The Imposter
    8.2/10(44 votes)

    #18 - 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
  20. Background image for Readin', Ritin', and Revolt
    8.2/10(37 votes)

    #19 - Readin', Ritin', and Revolt

    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:Unknown
  21. Background image for The Hostages
    8.1/10(59 votes)

    #20 - 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
  22. Background image for The Lost Colony
    8.1/10(49 votes)

    #21 - The Lost Colony

    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:Unknown
  23. Background image for The Williamsburg Cannon (1)
    8.1/10(52 votes)

    #22 - The Williamsburg Cannon (1)

    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:Unknown
  24. Background image for Delo Jones
    8.1/10(46 votes)

    #23 - Delo Jones

    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:Unknown
  25. Background image for Take the Southbound Stage
    8.1/10(48 votes)

    #24 - Take the Southbound Stage

    S3:E27

    Rebecca decides to help Boone rescue President John Adams from kidnappers.

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    Director:Gerd Oswald
    Writer:Unknown
  26. Background image for The Flaming Rocks
    8.1/10(39 votes)

    #25 - 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

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".