Daniel Boone (Season 6)

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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    A Very Small Rifle (Episode 1)

    Air date: 1969-09-18

    Runtime: 60 min

    Overview: 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.

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    The Road to Freedom (Episode 2)

    Air date: 1969-10-02

    Runtime: 60 min

    Overview: 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.

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    Benvenuto... Who? (Episode 3)

    Air date: 1969-10-09

    Runtime: 60 min

    Overview: 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.

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    The Man (Episode 4)

    Air date: 1969-10-16

    Runtime: 60 min

    Overview: A former slave, now a chief of the Tuscarora, helps Daniel lead a ragtag group of soldiers on an operation against the British.

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    The Printing Press (Episode 5)

    Air date: 1969-10-23

    Runtime: 60 min

    Overview: Daniel and Israel Boone visit Benjamin Franklin at his home in Philadelphia. While there, they are forced to match wits with the British Army.

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    The Traitor (Episode 6)

    Air date: 1969-10-30

    Runtime: 60 min

    Overview: 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.

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    The Grand Alliance (Episode 7)

    Air date: 1969-11-13

    Runtime: 60 min

    Overview: 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.

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    Target Boone (Episode 8)

    Air date: 1969-11-20

    Runtime: 60 min

    Overview: 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.

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    A Bearskin for Jamie Blue (Episode 9)

    Air date: 1969-11-27

    Runtime: 60 min

    Overview: 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.

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    The Cache (Episode 10)

    Air date: 1969-12-04

    Runtime: 60 min

    Overview: 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?

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    The Terrible Tarbots (Episode 11)

    Air date: 1969-12-11

    Runtime: 60 min

    Overview: 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.

  • Poster for Hannah Comes Home

    Hannah Comes Home (Episode 12)

    Air date: 1969-12-25

    Runtime: 60 min

    Overview: 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.

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    An Angel Cried (Episode 13)

    Air date: 1970-01-08

    Runtime: 60 min

    Overview: 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.

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    Perilous Passage (Episode 14)

    Air date: 1970-01-15

    Runtime: 60 min

    Overview: 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.

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    The Sunshine Patriots (Episode 15)

    Air date: 1970-01-22

    Runtime: 60 min

    Overview: 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.

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    Mama Cooper (Episode 16)

    Air date: 1970-02-05

    Runtime: 60 min

    Overview: 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.

  • Poster for Before the Tall Man

    Before the Tall Man (Episode 17)

    Air date: 1970-02-12

    Runtime: 60 min

    Overview: 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.

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    Run for the Money (Episode 18)

    Air date: 1970-02-19

    Runtime: 60 min

    Overview: 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.

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    A Matter of Vengeance (Episode 19)

    Air date: 1970-02-26

    Runtime: 60 min

    Overview: A man who lost his parents years before blames a scarred stranger.

  • Poster for The Landlords

    The Landlords (Episode 20)

    Air date: 1970-03-05

    Runtime: 60 min

    Overview: Boone poses as a pirate to outwit a swindler who sold simpleton brothers a deed to Boonesborough

  • Poster for Readin', Ritin', and Revolt

    Readin', Ritin', and Revolt (Episode 21)

    Air date: 1970-03-12

    Runtime: 60 min

    Overview: Israel joins forces with an Indian classmate to force the teaching of a course in Indian culture.

  • Poster for Noblesse Oblige

    Noblesse Oblige (Episode 22)

    Writer: David Duncan

    Air date: 1970-03-26

    Runtime: 60 min

    Overview: A cook posing as a French prince falls in love in Boonesborough;

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    L'Épreuve d'Israël Boone (Episode 23)

    Air date: 1970-04-09

    Runtime: 60 min

    Overview: Israel befriends an elderly Indian plotting revenge for his tribe s near-extinction.

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    Bringing Up Josh (Episode 24)

    Air date: 1970-04-16

    Runtime: 60 min

    Overview: 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.

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    How to Become a Goddess (Episode 25)

    Air date: 1970-04-30

    Runtime: 60 min

    Overview: 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.

  • Poster for Israel and Love

    Israel and Love (Episode 26)

    Air date: 1970-05-07

    Runtime: 60 min

    Overview: Israel finds first love with the daughter of a flamboyant woodcarver.

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