Daniel Boone (Season 4)

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.

  • Poster for The Ballad of Sidewinder and the Cherokee

    The Ballad of Sidewinder and the Cherokee (Episode 1)

    Air date: 1967-09-14

    Runtime: 60 min

    Overview: Boone and wounded Mingo ask a river pirate to help retrieve furs from a thief.

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    The Ordeal of Israel Boone (Episode 2)

    Writer: Paul Playdon

    Air date: 1967-09-21

    Runtime: 60 min

    Overview: Israel must call upon all he has learned to save Boone from a rattlesnake bite.

  • Poster for The Renegade

    The Renegade (Episode 3)

    Air date: 1967-09-28

    Runtime: 60 min

    Overview: An Indian jailed for murder escapes and comes to take revenge on witness Boone and recover his son from settlers.

  • Poster for Tanner

    Tanner (Episode 4)

    Air date: 1967-10-05

    Runtime: 60 min

    Overview: Israel helps a starving outcast who is haunted by memories of the Shawnee murdering his parents.

  • Poster for Beaumarchais

    Beaumarchais (Episode 5)

    Air date: 1967-10-12

    Runtime: 60 min

    Overview: Boone guides a French ally, masquerading as an actor, who is traveling to Roanoke to buy guns for the Continental Army.

  • Poster for The King's Shilling

    The King's Shilling (Episode 6)

    Writer: Joel Oliansky

    Air date: 1967-10-19

    Runtime: 60 min

    Overview: A father takes a soldier hostage to force British troops to free his rebel son.

  • Poster for The Inheritance

    The Inheritance (Episode 7)

    Writer: David Duncan

    Air date: 1967-10-26

    Runtime: 60 min

    Overview: Strange happenings greet Rebecca and Israel when they visit a seaside house left to Rebecca by her uncle.

  • Poster for The Traitor

    The Traitor (Episode 8)

    Air date: 1967-11-02

    Runtime: 60 min

    Overview: Sentenced to death by the British, Boone will be spared if he rescues a colonel s daughter from Shawnee.

  • Poster for The Value of a King

    The Value of a King (Episode 9)

    Air date: 1967-11-09

    Runtime: 60 min

    Overview: A slavehunter chains Boone with a group of escaped slaves then is attacked by Shawnee.

  • Poster for The Desperate Raid

    The Desperate Raid (Episode 10)

    Air date: 1967-11-16

    Runtime: 60 min

    Overview: Boone teaches a lieutenant about backwoods fighting during an attack on a British cannon installation.

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    The Spanish Horse (Episode 11)

    Air date: 1967-11-23

    Runtime: 60 min

    Overview: A boy, whose father was killed by Indians, faces the loss of his beloved horse.

  • Poster for Chief Mingo

    Chief Mingo (Episode 12)

    Air date: 1967-12-07

    Runtime: 60 min

    Overview: The murder of a Cherokee chief, perhaps by a bigoted trapper, makes Mingo temporary head of the tribe.

  • Poster for The Secret Code

    The Secret Code (Episode 13)

    Writer: Joel Oliansky

    Air date: 1967-12-14

    Runtime: 60 min

    Overview: Ottawas capture Boone while he is trying to free a code expert from the British, then plan to torture him to death.

  • Poster for A Matter of Blood

    A Matter of Blood (Episode 14)

    Air date: 1967-12-28

    Runtime: 60 min

    Overview: A Delaware, raised by a white planter, must prove herself a worthy tribal leader.

  • Poster for The Scrimshaw Ivory Chart

    The Scrimshaw Ivory Chart (Episode 15)

    Air date: 1968-01-04

    Runtime: 60 min

    Overview: A crow switches a rock for Israel s silver coin and leads him to a pirate seeking treasure.

  • Poster for The Imposter

    The Imposter (Episode 16)

    Air date: 1968-01-18

    Runtime: 60 min

    Overview: Mingo masquerades as a British major to steal a shipment of rapid-firing rifles.

  • Poster for The Witnesses

    The Witnesses (Episode 17)

    Air date: 1968-01-25

    Runtime: 60 min

    Overview: A killer terrorizes witnesses Israel and friends into silence.

  • Poster for The Flaming Rocks

    The Flaming Rocks (Episode 18)

    Writer: David Duncan

    Air date: 1968-02-01

    Runtime: 60 min

    Overview: Daniel, Mingo, and Jeremiah encounter the Garth family, whose patriarch is forcing the local Indians to mine coal. The chief of the Tuscarora threatens to kill them all if Daniel doesn't intervene and stop him.

  • Poster for Then Who Will They Hang from the Yardarm If Willy Gets Away?

    Then Who Will They Hang from the Yardarm If Willy Gets Away? (Episode 19)

    Air date: 1968-02-08

    Runtime: 60 min

    Overview: Israel befriends an accused British mutineer pursued by a shipmate sought for two murders.

  • Poster for The Spanish Fort

    The Spanish Fort (Episode 20)

    Air date: 1968-02-15

    Runtime: 60 min

    Overview: Boone lets the Spanish capture him as part of a plan to blow up a partially completed Virginia fort.

  • Poster for Hero's Welcome

    Hero's Welcome (Episode 21)

    Air date: 1968-02-22

    Runtime: 60 min

    Overview: Boone helps an old friend who lost his son because his neighbors think him a coward.

  • Poster for Orlando, the Prophet

    Orlando, the Prophet (Episode 22)

    Air date: 1968-02-29

    Runtime: 60 min

    Overview: The Boones befriend a scheming medicine man's Gypsy bond-servant.

  • Poster for The Far Side of Fury

    The Far Side of Fury (Episode 23)

    Air date: 1968-03-07

    Runtime: 60 min

    Overview: Believing his son dead, Gideon takes revenge on Boone by stealing Israel.

  • Poster for Nightmare

    Nightmare (Episode 24)

    Writer: Paul Playdon

    Air date: 1968-03-14

    Runtime: 60 min

    Overview: The Boone family is on the trail when they are beset by a rogue group of hostile Indians. When Daniel is captured Israel must find a way to rescue him.

  • Poster for Thirty Pieces of Silver

    Thirty Pieces of Silver (Episode 25)

    Air date: 1968-03-28

    Runtime: 60 min

    Overview: A wagon load of guns is headed for Boonesborough with Daniel and Mingo in charge. An outlaw named Dekker plans to steal the wagon using information bought from Amos Fargo. Unknown to Fargo, his sister is traveling with Boone.

  • Poster for Faith's Way

    Faith's Way (Episode 26)

    Air date: 1968-04-04

    Runtime: 60 min

    Overview: A local woman is looked upon suspiciously by the townspeople because of her "different" ways.

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