8.0/1085 votes#1 - Ken-Tuck-E
Season 1 Episode 1 - Aired 9/24/1964
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.
Director: George Marshall
Writer: Borden Chase
8.3/1063 votes#2 - 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
8.0/1058 votes#3 - My Brother's Keeper
Season 1 Episode 3 - Aired 10/8/1964
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....
Director: John English
Writer: N/A
7.8/1056 votes#4 - The Family Fluellen
Season 1 Episode 4 - Aired 10/22/1964
Boone invites a widow and her hungry brood to town, but one of the children steals a telescope.
Director: N/A
Writer: N/A
8.2/1053 votes#5 - 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
7.7/1047 votes#6 - Lac Duquesne
Season 1 Episode 6 - Aired 11/5/1964
Boone chases a river pirate who plans to sell a load of stolen arms to Shawnees.
Director: Thomas Carr
Writer: Paul Savage
8.0/1051 votes#7 - The Sound of Wings
Season 1 Episode 7 - Aired 11/12/1964
A British officer captures Boone then impersonates him to win Indian allies.
Director: Harry Harris
Writer: N/A
7.4/1051 votes#8 - A Short Walk to Salem
Season 1 Episode 8 - Aired 11/19/1964
Israel becomes lost in the woods after fur thieves ambush him, Boone and Yadkin.
Director: Harry Harris
Writer: N/A
7.4/1052 votes#9 - The Sisters O'Hannrahan
Season 1 Episode 9 - Aired 12/3/1964
Yadkin's trickery leaves Boone the unexpected, and unwilling, owner of indentured Irish sisters.
Director: John English
Writer: David Duncan
8.1/1056 votes#10 - 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
7.5/1047 votes#11 - Mountain of the Dead
Season 1 Episode 11 - Aired 12/17/1964
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.
Director: N/A
Writer: N/A
7.6/1048 votes#12 - Not in Our Stars
Season 1 Episode 12 - Aired 12/31/1964
Mingo plans to do more than protest a new treaty when he and Boone visit Virginia's governor general.
Director: John English
Writer: N/A
7.9/1052 votes#13 - The Hostages
Season 1 Episode 13 - Aired 1/7/1965
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.
Director: George Sherman
Writer: N/A
7.5/1050 votes#14 - The Returning
Season 1 Episode 14 - Aired 1/14/1965
Boone cannot believe a boyhood friend murdered two Cherokee youths.
Director: John English
Writer: N/A
7.8/1050 votes#15 - The Prophet
Season 1 Episode 15 - Aired 1/21/1965
A Shawnee prophet predicts massacre for the settlers of Boonesborough.
Director: Robert D. Webb
Writer: N/A
7.3/1047 votes#16 - The First Stone
Season 1 Episode 16 - Aired 1/28/1965
Boone befriends a mother and son, but learns the woman is accused of witchcraft.
Director: Harry Harris
Writer: N/A
7.5/1048 votes#17 - A Place of 1000 Spirits
Season 1 Episode 17 - Aired 2/4/1965
While hunting, the Boones meet a delirious British officer pursued by vengeful Shawnees.
Director: George Sherman
Writer: N/A
8.1/1049 votes#18 - 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
7.7/1051 votes#19 - The Price of Friendship
Season 1 Episode 19 - Aired 2/18/1965
Boone assists a boy and winds up at the mercy of a larcenous clan.
Director: John English
Writer: N/A
8.0/1051 votes#20 - The Quietists
Season 1 Episode 20 - Aired 2/25/1965
A Quaker family refuses to fight until Indians kidnap a daughter.
Director: George Sherman
Writer: N/A
7.7/1042 votes#21 - The Devil's Four
Season 1 Episode 21 - Aired 3/4/1965
Boone commands four criminals recruited by Yadkin to haul frieght to Boonesborough.
Director: David Butler
Writer: N/A
7.6/1046 votes#22 - The Reunion
Season 1 Episode 22 - Aired 3/11/1965
While out hunting, Daniel and Cincinnatus come upon Timothy who is looking for his abandonded daughter Becky.
Director: George Marshall
Writer: Rita Lakin
7.8/1049 votes#23 - The Ben Franklin Encounter
Season 1 Episode 23 - Aired 3/18/1965
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.
Director: Nathan Juran
Writer: N/A
7.0/1051 votes#24 - Four-Leaf Clover
Season 1 Episode 24 - Aired 3/25/1965
An idealistic schoolteacher incites Boonesborough's wrath by giving gunpowder to the Shawnees.
Director: John English
Writer: N/A
7.4/1047 votes#25 - Cain's Birthday (1)
Season 1 Episode 25 - Aired 4/1/1965
Boone seems guilty of betrayal when he allows Choctaws to capture the town's men
Director: N/A
Writer: N/A
The Best Episodes of Daniel Boone Season 1
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Season 1 Ratings Summary
"Ken-Tuck-E" is the best rated episode of "Daniel Boone" season 1. It scored 8/10 based on 85 votes. Directed by George Marshall and written by Borden Chase, it aired on 9/24/1964. This episode is rated 0.3 points higher than the second-best, "Tekawitha McLeod".