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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!

Best episode
S5E8 Flag of Truce
8.855 votes
Worst episode
S5E9 The Valley of the Sun
6.351 votes
Top season
Season 4
8.0avg
Binge time
6d 21h
165 episodes
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Episode Rankings

  1. #1 Fan Favorite
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    Daniel Boone Season 5 Episode 8 - Flag of Truce
    8.8/10(55 votes)

    S5:E8

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

    Director:Unknown
    Writer:Unknown

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  2. Daniel Boone Season 5 Episode 18 - Bickford's Bridge
    8.7/10(59 votes)

    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.

    Director:Nathan Juran
    Writer:Unknown

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  3. Daniel Boone Season 4 Episode 13 - The Secret Code
    8.6/10(60 votes)

    S4:E13

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

    Director:Unknown
    Writer:Joel Oliansky

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  4. Daniel Boone Season 6 Episode 16 - Mama Cooper
    8.6/10(60 votes)

    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.

    Director:William Wiard
    Writer:Unknown

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  5. Daniel Boone Season 5 Episode 6 - The Bait
    8.6/10(57 votes)

    S5:E6

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

    Director:Nathan Juran
    Writer:Unknown

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  6. Daniel Boone Season 6 Episode 14 - Perilous Passage
    8.6/10(50 votes)

    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.

    Director:Nathan Juran
    Writer:Unknown

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  7. Daniel Boone Season 4 Episode 12 - Chief Mingo
    8.5/10(56 votes)

    S4:E12

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

    Director:Gerd Oswald
    Writer:Unknown

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  8. Daniel Boone Season 1 Episode 2 - Tekawitha McLeod
    8.4/10(83 votes)

    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.

    Director:Thomas Carr
    Writer:Unknown

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  9. Daniel Boone Season 1 Episode 18 - The Sound of Fear
    8.4/10(63 votes)

    S1:E18

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

    Director:Harry Harris
    Writer:Unknown

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  10. Daniel Boone Season 2 Episode 19 - Crisis by Fire
    8.4/10(62 votes)

    S2:E19

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

    Director:H. Bruce Humberstone
    Writers:David Duncan, Lee Loeb

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  11. Daniel Boone Season 4 Episode 1 - The Ballad of Sidewinder and the Cherokee
    8.4/10(59 votes)

    S4:E1

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

    Director:Gerd Oswald
    Writer:Unknown

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  12. Daniel Boone Season 4 Episode 16 - The Imposter
    8.4/10(57 votes)

    S4:E16

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

    Director:Unknown
    Writer:Unknown

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  13. Daniel Boone Season 5 Episode 16 - Three Score and Ten
    8.4/10(55 votes)

    S5:E16

    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:Unknown

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  14. Daniel Boone Season 4 Episode 20 - The Spanish Fort
    8.4/10(51 votes)

    S4:E20

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

    Director:Unknown
    Writer:Unknown

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  15. Daniel Boone Season 5 Episode 24 - For a Few Rifles
    8.4/10(49 votes)

    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.

    Director:John Newland
    Writer:Unknown

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  16. Daniel Boone Season 6 Episode 6 - The Traitor
    8.4/10(47 votes)

    S6:E6

    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:Unknown

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  17. Daniel Boone Season 6 Episode 1 - A Very Small Rifle
    8.3/10(60 votes)

    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.

    Director:Nathan Juran
    Writer:Unknown

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  18. Daniel Boone Season 3 Episode 12 - The Lost Colony
    8.3/10(59 votes)

    S3:E12

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

    Director:Alex Nicol
    Writer:Unknown

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  19. Daniel Boone Season 4 Episode 6 - The King's Shilling
    8.3/10(59 votes)

    S4:E6

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

    Director:Ida Lupino
    Writer:Joel Oliansky

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  20. Daniel Boone Season 2 Episode 22 - The Fifth Man
    8.3/10(58 votes)

    S2:E22

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

    Director:George Sherman
    Writer:Unknown

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  21. Daniel Boone Season 3 Episode 27 - Take the Southbound Stage
    8.3/10(57 votes)

    S3:E27

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

    Director:Gerd Oswald
    Writer:Unknown

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  22. Daniel Boone Season 3 Episode 23 - Delo Jones
    8.3/10(56 votes)

    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.

    Director:R.G. Springsteen
    Writer:Unknown

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  23. Daniel Boone Season 4 Episode 2 - The Ordeal of Israel Boone
    8.3/10(54 votes)

    S4:E2

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

    Director:James B. Clark
    Writer:Paul Playdon

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  24. Daniel Boone Season 5 Episode 1 - Be Thankful for the Fickleness of Women
    8.3/10(53 votes)

    S5:E1

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

    Director:William Wiard
    Writer:Unknown

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  25. Daniel Boone Season 6 Episode 20 - The Landlords
    8.3/10(43 votes)

    S6:E20

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

    Director:William Wiard
    Writer:Unknown

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Best Episodes Summary

"Flag of Truce" is the best rated episode of Daniel Boone. It scored 8.8/10 from 55 votes. Written and directed by Unknown, it aired on November 21, 1968. This episode scored 0.1 points higher than the second highest rated, "Bickford's Bridge".

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