Daniel Boone (Season 3)

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 NBC for 165 episodes, and was made by 20th Century Fox Television. Ed Ames co-starred as Mingo, Boone's Cherokee friend, for the first four seasons of the series. Albert Salmi portrayed Boone's companion Yadkin in season one only. Dallas McKennon portrayed innkeeper Cincinnatus. Country Western singer-actor Jimmy Dean was a featured actor as Josh Clements during the 1968–1970 seasons. Actor and former NFL football player Rosey Grier made regular appearances as Gabe Cooper in the 1969 to 1970 season. The show was broadcast "in living color" beginning in fall 1965, the second season, and was shot entirely in California and Kanab, Utah.

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    Dan'l Boone Shot a B'ar (Episode 1)

    Air date: 1966-09-15

    Runtime: 60 min

    Overview: Boone faces a killer bear and the man who has sworn vengeance on the animal.

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    The Allegiances (Episode 2)

    Writer: David Duncan

    Air date: 1966-09-22

    Runtime: 60 min

    Overview: Mingo struggles with his divided heritage when an Indian council announces the British will help recapture Indian land.

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    Goliath (Episode 3)

    Air date: 1966-09-29

    Runtime: 60 min

    Overview: Fearing three vengeful brothers, Otis spends money given to him for draft horses on a husky slave.

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    Grizzly (Episode 4)

    Air date: 1966-10-06

    Runtime: 60 min

    Overview: Israel helps clear a wild-looking mountain man accused of murdering a man who refused to pay a debt.

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    First in War, First in Peace (Episode 5)

    Air date: 1966-10-13

    Runtime: 60 min

    Overview: Washington visits in answer to a letter from Boone, who never wrote to him.

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    Run a Crooked Mile (Episode 6)

    Air date: 1966-10-20

    Runtime: 60 min

    Overview: Israel is taken captive so Boone will help steal a war hero s body and then extort money from the family.

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    The Matchmaker (Episode 7) 1.0

    Air date: 1966-10-27

    Runtime: 60 min

    Overview: Boone and Mingo agree to transport an unwilling Creek princess to an arranged wedding with a Shawnee.

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    Onatha (Episode 8)

    Air date: 1966-11-03

    Runtime: 60 min

    Overview: Boone employs a mastodon s skeleton to fight two slave traders seeking runaway slaves.

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    The Loser's Race (Episode 9)

    Air date: 1966-11-10

    Runtime: 60 min

    Overview: Daniel and the other settlers in Boonesborough will lose their land if they do not pay a new tax of one shilling per acre within two weeks. As Daniel is about to take the money to Williamsburg an old friend shows up offering to help.

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    The Enchanted Gun (Episode 10)

    Air date: 1966-11-17

    Runtime: 60 min

    Overview: A Shawnee faces danger when he believes in the magic of a gun given to him by Boone for saving Israel s life.

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    Requiem for Craw Green (Episode 11)

    Air date: 1966-12-01

    Runtime: 60 min

    Overview: Mingo masquerades as white to help an Indian boy condemned by the bigoted head of a settlement.

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    The Lost Colony (Episode 12)

    Air date: 1966-12-08

    Runtime: 60 min

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

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    River Passage (Episode 13)

    Air date: 1966-12-15

    Runtime: 60 min

    Overview: Boone fights a dishonest boatman and Shawnee to deliver gunpowder to Boonesborough.

  • Poster for When a King Is a Pawn

    When a King Is a Pawn (Episode 14)

    Air date: 1966-12-22

    Runtime: 60 min

    Overview: Boone and Israel foil a plot to grab a French prince and send him back to a revolutionary tribunal.

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    The Symbol (Episode 15)

    Air date: 1966-12-29

    Runtime: 60 min

    Overview: An impoverished nobleman acquires the Liberty Bell and decides to sell it to the British.

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    The Williamsburg Cannon (1) (Episode 16)

    Air date: 1967-01-12

    Runtime: 60 min

    Overview: Virginia's governor, Patrick Henry, assigns Daniel to escort a somewhat nervous artillery captain and his cannon through hostile territory, and the fact that the cannon is large and hard to maneuver is making the journey more difficult.

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    The Williamsburg Cannon (2) (Episode 17)

    Air date: 1967-01-19

    Runtime: 60 min

    Overview: Virginia's governor Patrick Henry assigns Daniel to escort a somewhat nervous artillery captain and his cannon through hostile territory, and the fact that the cannon is large and hard to maneuver is making the journey more difficult.

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    The Wolf Man (Episode 18)

    Air date: 1967-01-26

    Runtime: 60 min

    Overview: As Boonesborough awaits a slavery vote, a frontiersman struggles to protect his pet wolf from townspeople.

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    The Jasper Ledbedder Story (Episode 19)

    Air date: 1967-02-02

    Runtime: 60 min

    Overview: Daniel and Mingo find an old colonist named Jasper Ledbedder who claims that Native Americans abducted his wife and child after his party had a massacre. They agree to help him, even though they suspect his story is not entirely true.

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    When I Became a Man, I Put Away Childish Things (Episode 20)

    Air date: 1967-02-09

    Runtime: 60 min

    Overview: Israel runs away with his pet fawn when Boone says the destructive animal, too tame to set free, must be killed.

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    The Long Way Home (Episode 21)

    Air date: 1967-02-16

    Runtime: 60 min

    Overview: Boone sets out to recapture a prisoner, an educated black accused of murdering an Indian chief.

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    The Young Ones (Episode 22)

    Air date: 1967-02-23

    Runtime: 60 min

    Overview: An orphan, determined to keep his family together, causes trouble for rescuer Boone.

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    Delo Jones (Episode 23)

    Air date: 1967-03-02

    Runtime: 60 min

    Overview: 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.

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    The Necklace (Episode 24)

    Air date: 1967-03-09

    Runtime: 60 min

    Overview: A dying man confesses to murder and theft, producing a pearl necklace as proof, and tells of the innocent man to be hanged for his crimes. Against townsfolks' wishes, Daniel takes the necklace to New Orleans to secure the freedom of the accused man.

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    Fort West Point (Episode 25)

    Air date: 1967-03-23

    Runtime: 60 min

    Overview: Boone and Mingo try to stop the commandant of West Point from selling the fort to the British.

  • Poster for Bitter Mission

    Bitter Mission (Episode 26)

    Air date: 1967-03-30

    Runtime: 60 min

    Overview: A traitor's plan to profit from war with the Spanish backfires.

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    Take the Southbound Stage (Episode 27)

    Air date: 1967-04-06

    Runtime: 60 min

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

  • Poster for The Fallow Land

    The Fallow Land (Episode 28)

    Air date: 1967-04-13

    Runtime: 60 min

    Overview: After fur-trappers break a treaty, a Cherokee chief s hotheaded son tries to start a war.

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