8.2/1045 votes#1 - 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 H. Juran
Writer: N/A
8.0/1034 votes#2 - The Road to Freedom
Season 6 Episode 2 - Aired 10/2/1969
A runaway slave and his son are on the run from three bounty hunters. When the father breaks his leg the son continues on and turns to Israel and Ben for help.
Director: N/A
Writer: N/A
7.6/1035 votes#3 - Benvenuto... Who?
Season 6 Episode 3 - Aired 10/9/1969
Visiting New Orleans to sell the furs they've trapped, Daniel and Josh become mixed up with a beautiful French jewel thief who is attempting to double-cross the rest of her gang. The gullible Josh falls for the scheming woman's charms, which allows her to hide the stolen bauble inside his guitar.
Director: N/A
Writer: N/A
7.8/1033 votes#4 - The Man
Season 6 Episode 4 - Aired 10/16/1969
A former slave, now a chief of the Tuscarora, helps Daniel lead a ragtag group of soldiers on an operation against the British.
Director: Nathan H. Juran
Writer: N/A
7.8/1039 votes#5 - The Printing Press
Season 6 Episode 5 - Aired 10/23/1969
Daniel and Israel Boone visit Benjamin Franklin at his home in Philadelphia. While there, they are forced to match wits with the British Army.
Director: N/A
Writer: N/A
8.2/1037 votes#6 - 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 H. Juran
Writer: N/A
7.4/1031 votes#7 - The Grand Alliance
Season 6 Episode 7 - Aired 11/13/1969
Josh and Gabe are captured by a Spanish officer who tells them another Spanish officer is secretly building a base from which he intends to invade the U.S. He asks them to infiltrate the fort and steal his plans to prevent another war.
Director: Nathan H. Juran
Writer: N/A
7.5/1043 votes#8 - Target Boone
Season 6 Episode 8 - Aired 11/20/1969
Daniel and his family find themselves being continually terrorized by an old man and his sons. The old man blames Boone for the death of his wife and for leaving him crippled, even though Daniel has no memory of ever meeting him.
Director: N/A
Writer: N/A
7.6/1038 votes#9 - A Bearskin for Jamie Blue
Season 6 Episode 9 - Aired 11/27/1969
While trading furs Daniel acquires an indentured servant who was born in prison and has never been free. Daniel intends to release him from service but the young man has trouble adjusting to his new life.
Director: N/A
Writer: N/A
7.6/1034 votes#10 - The Cache
Season 6 Episode 10 - Aired 12/4/1969
When a trapper is murdered Josh is fingered as the killer. Daniel encourages him to surrender with the idea that the real killers will be easier to catch once he is in custody. But will Josh be hanged before they're caught?
Director: Nathan H. Juran
Writer: N/A
7.0/1037 votes#11 - The Terrible Tarbots
Season 6 Episode 11 - Aired 12/11/1969
While transporting a box filled with gold for the Continental army, Daniel is beset upon by thieves. Complicating matters is that Israel is taken hostage as protection from Daniel while they lug the gold over the mountains.
Director: Nathan H. Juran
Writer: N/A
7.6/1040 votes#12 - Hannah Comes Home
Season 6 Episode 12 - Aired 12/25/1969
A woman long thought dead is discovered by Daniel living with the Chickasaw. Daniel tells her her husband is still alive and that she should come back. She does, but her husband has trouble accepting her Indian son.
Director: Fess Parker
Writer: N/A
6.7/1038 votes#13 - An Angel Cried
Season 6 Episode 13 - Aired 1/8/1970
Josh discovers that an Indian party has burned down a mission with the only surviving nun hiding in a root cellar. They struggle to elude the Indians until help can finally arrive and save them.
Director: Fess Parker
Writer: N/A
8.5/1037 votes#14 - 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 H. Juran
Writer: N/A
7.4/1034 votes#15 - The Sunshine Patriots
Season 6 Episode 15 - Aired 1/22/1970
Josh and Gabe are sent to Yorktown to intercept the arrival of Sir Peacham, an eccentric inventor, who is employed by the British but secretly sympathetic to the Americans. Josh and Gabe's mission is complicated by his daughter's intrigues.
Director: N/A
Writer: N/A
8.6/1051 votes#16 - 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
7.4/1040 votes#17 - Before the Tall Man
Season 6 Episode 17 - Aired 2/12/1970
Rebecca decides to play matchmaker to Tom and Nancy, two people Daniel doesn't think go together. Considering how much they fight each other he might be right. But Rebecca thinks she knows better.
Director: George Marshall
Writer: N/A
7.2/1028 votes#18 - Run for the Money
Season 6 Episode 18 - Aired 2/19/1970
Cincinnatus thinks he has found the fastest runner around and brings him to Boonesborough for a big race. His dream for success is complicated when another unknown runner enters the race and that the runners have a scheme of their own.
Director: Christian Nyby
Writer: N/A
7.9/1041 votes#19 - A Matter of Vengeance
Season 6 Episode 19 - Aired 2/26/1970
A man who lost his parents years before blames a scarred stranger.
Director: Nathan H. Juran
Writer: N/A
8.3/1034 votes#20 - 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
8.2/1035 votes#21 - 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
7.2/1039 votes#22 - Noblesse Oblige
Season 6 Episode 22 - Aired 3/26/1970
A cook posing as a French prince falls in love in Boonesborough;
Director: Nathan H. Juran
Writer: David Duncan
7.3/1032 votes#23 - L'Épreuve d'Israël Boone
Season 6 Episode 23 - Aired 4/9/1970
Israel befriends an elderly Indian plotting revenge for his tribe s near-extinction.
Director: Nathan H. Juran
Writer: N/A
8.0/1048 votes#24 - Bringing Up Josh
Season 6 Episode 24 - Aired 4/16/1970
While in New Orleans with Daniel, Josh 'inherits' two abandoned children from a poor widow. Unwilling to leave them to become orphans, he takes them with him back home only to find caring for two kids is a lot harder than he thought.
Director: William Wiard
Writer: N/A
7.6/1041 votes#25 - How to Become a Goddess
Season 6 Episode 25 - Aired 4/30/1970
Two inept brothers stumble into the middle of an Indian religious ceremony. Desperate to save their lives, they promise to bring back a woman whose hair is like fire, a description that conveniently describes Rebecca Boone.
Director: N/A
Writer: N/A
The Best Episodes of Daniel Boone Season 6
Every episode of Daniel Boone Season 6 ranked from best to worst. Discover the Best Episodes of Daniel Boone Season 6!
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Season 6 Ratings Summary
"A Very Small Rifle" is the best rated episode of "Daniel Boone" season 6. It scored 8.2/10 based on 45 votes. Directed by Nathan H. Juran and written by N/A, it aired on 9/18/1969. This episode is rated 0.2 points higher than the second-best, "The Road to Freedom".