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The Best Episodes of Daniel Boone Season 1

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The Best Episodes of Daniel Boone Season 1

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. 8.3/10(67 votes)

    #1 - Tekawitha McLeod

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    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:N/A
  2. 8.1/10(57 votes)

    #2 - The Choosing

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    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:N/A
  3. 8.1/10(58 votes)

    #3 - Pompey

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    S1:E10

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

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    Writer:N/A
  4. 8.1/10(51 votes)

    #4 - The Sound of Fear

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    S1:E18

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

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    Director:Harry Harris
    Writer:N/A
  5. 8.0/10(90 votes)

    #5 - Ken-Tuck-E

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    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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  6. 8.0/10(55 votes)

    #6 - The Hostages

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    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:N/A
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  8. 8.0/10(53 votes)

    #7 - The Quietists

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    S1:E20

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

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    Writer:N/A
  9. 7.9/10(62 votes)

    #8 - My Brother's Keeper

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    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:N/A
  10. 7.9/10(55 votes)

    #9 - The Sound of Wings

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    S1:E7

    A British officer captures Boone then impersonates him to win Indian allies.

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    Director:Harry Harris
    Writer:N/A
  11. 7.8/10(58 votes)

    #10 - The Family Fluellen

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    S1:E4

    Boone invites a widow and her hungry brood to town, but one of the children steals a telescope.

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    Director:N/A
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  12. 7.8/10(52 votes)

    #11 - The Prophet

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    S1:E15

    A Shawnee prophet predicts massacre for the settlers of Boonesborough.

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  13. 7.8/10(51 votes)

    #12 - The Ben Franklin Encounter

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    S1:E23

    Boone and Mingo travel East and get caught up in a confrontation between Benjamin Franklin and British Admiral Lord Clydesdale, who threatens to hang them all for treason.

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    Director:Nathan Juran
    Writer:N/A
  14. 7.7/10(44 votes)

    #13 - The Devil's Four

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    S1:E21

    Boone commands four criminals recruited by Yadkin to haul frieght to Boonesborough.

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    Director:David Butler
    Writer:N/A
  15. 7.7/10(45 votes)

    #14 - Cain's Birthday (2)

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    S1:E26

    Lacking water and powder, the women and children of Boonesborough seem easy prey for attacking Choctaws.

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    Director:N/A
    Writer:N/A
  16. 7.7/10(44 votes)

    #15 - The Courtship of Jericho Jones

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    S1:E29

    Jericho and Sumah, the daughter of the Indian chief, want to marry. Daniel proposes a trial engagement. For a month Jericho will live with the Indians and Sumah will live with Boone's family and see if each can adapt to the other culture.

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    Director:Nathan Juran
    Writer:N/A
  17. 7.6/10(51 votes)

    #16 - Lac Duquesne

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    S1:E6

    Boone chases a river pirate who plans to sell a load of stolen arms to Shawnees.

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    Director:Thomas Carr
  18. 7.6/10(51 votes)

    #17 - Not in Our Stars

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    S1:E12

    Mingo plans to do more than protest a new treaty when he and Boone visit Virginia's governor general.

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    Director:John English
    Writer:N/A
  19. 7.6/10(53 votes)

    #18 - The Price of Friendship

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    S1:E19

    Boone assists a boy and winds up at the mercy of a larcenous clan.

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    Director:John English
    Writer:N/A
  20. 7.6/10(48 votes)

    #19 - The Reunion

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    S1:E22

    While out hunting, Daniel and Cincinnatus come upon Timothy who is looking for his abandonded daughter Becky.

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  21. 7.5/10(57 votes)

    #20 - The Sisters O'Hannrahan

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    S1:E9

    Yadkin's trickery leaves Boone the unexpected, and unwilling, owner of indentured Irish sisters.

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    Director:John English
  22. 7.5/10(50 votes)

    #21 - Mountain of the Dead

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    S1:E11

    A dream about a man whom Daniel thought was dead is followed by the appearance of three men at his door demanding that he take them to the site of a bloody Native American massacre.

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    Director:N/A
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  23. 7.5/10(52 votes)

    #22 - The Returning

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    S1:E14

    Boone cannot believe a boyhood friend murdered two Cherokee youths.

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    Director:John English
    Writer:N/A
  24. 7.4/10(49 votes)

    #23 - Cain's Birthday (1)

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    S1:E25

    Boone seems guilty of betrayal when he allows Choctaws to capture the town's men

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    Director:N/A
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  25. 7.3/10(55 votes)

    #24 - A Short Walk to Salem

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    S1:E8

    Israel becomes lost in the woods after fur thieves ambush him, Boone and Yadkin.

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    Director:Harry Harris
    Writer:N/A
  26. 7.3/10(50 votes)

    #25 - The First Stone

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    S1:E16

    Boone befriends a mother and son, but learns the woman is accused of witchcraft.

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    Director:Harry Harris
    Writer:N/A

Season 1 Ratings Summary

"Tekawitha McLeod" is the best rated episode of "Daniel Boone" season 1. It scored 8.3/10 based on 67 votes. Directed by Thomas Carr and written by N/A, it aired on 10/1/1964. This episode is rated 0.2 points higher than the second-best, "The Choosing".