8.7/1067 votesLoading...#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
8.7/1045 votesLoading...#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
8.6/1047 votesLoading...#3 - 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 Juran
Writer: N/A
8.6/1051 votesLoading...#4 - 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
8.5/1041 votesLoading...#5 - 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
8.5/1047 votesLoading...#6 - 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 Juran
Writer: N/A
8.5/1037 votesLoading...#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 Juran
Writer: N/A
8.4/1042 votesLoading...#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
8.3/1064 votesLoading...#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
8.3/1039 votesLoading...#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
8.3/1039 votesLoading...#11 - 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
8.3/1046 votesLoading...#12 - 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 Juran
Writer: N/A
8.3/1034 votesLoading...#13 - 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
8.2/1053 votesLoading...#14 - 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
8.2/1044 votesLoading...#15 - 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
8.2/1046 votesLoading...#16 - 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
8.2/1043 votesLoading...#17 - 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
8.2/1041 votesLoading...#18 - 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
8.2/1036 votesLoading...#19 - 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 Juran
Writer: David Duncan
8.2/1040 votesLoading...#20 - 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
8.2/1044 votesLoading...#21 - 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
8.2/1033 votesLoading...#22 - For Want of a Hero
Season 5 Episode 20 - Aired 3/6/1969
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.
Director: Lee Philips
Writer: N/A
8.2/1037 votesLoading...#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 Juran
Writer: N/A
8.2/1035 votesLoading...#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
8.1/1056 votesLoading...#25 - 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
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".