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The Best Episodes of Daniel Boone Season 1

Every episode of Daniel Boone Season 1 ranked from best to worst. Discover 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...
Genres:Action & AdventureWestern
Network:NBC

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".

  • Ken-Tuck-E
    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

  • Tekawitha McLeod
    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

  • My Brother's Keeper
    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

  • The Family Fluellen
    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

  • The Choosing
    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

  • Lac Duquesne
    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

  • The Sound of Wings
    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

  • A Short Walk to Salem
    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

  • The Sisters O'Hannrahan
    7.4/1051 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

  • Pompey
    8.2/1055 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

  • Mountain of the Dead
    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

  • Not in Our Stars
    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

  • The Hostages
    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

  • The Returning
    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

  • The Prophet
    7.8/1049 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

  • The First Stone
    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

  • A Place of 1000 Spirits
    7.6/1047 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

  • The Sound of Fear
    8.1/1048 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

  • The Price of Friendship
    7.7/1050 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

  • The Quietists
    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

  • The Devil's Four
    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

  • The Reunion
    7.6/1045 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

  • The Ben Franklin Encounter
    7.8/1048 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 H. Juran

    Writer: N/A

  • Four-Leaf Clover
    7.1/1050 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

  • Cain's Birthday (1)
    7.4/1046 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