Daniel Boone
Frontier hero Daniel Boone conducts surveys and expeditions around Boonesborough, running into both friendly and hostile Indians, before, during, and even after the Revolutionary War.
- 1964-1970
- 6 seasons
- NBC
- Action & Adventure
- TV-PG
Frontier hero Daniel Boone conducts surveys and expeditions around Boonesborough, running into both friendly and hostile Indians, before, during, and even after the Revolutionary War.
Season 3 Episode Guide
28 Episodes 1966 - 1967
Episode 1
Dan'l Boone Shot a B'ar
Thu, Sep 15, 1966 60 mins
Cletus and Wilse Mott have been tracking a bear ever since it killed their pappy three years ago, but after it kills Wilse, Cletus' obsession becomes a mania. Daniel and Mingo decide the bear must be killed when it threatens Boonesborough, but Mott warns them off saying the bear is his. When Daniel kills the bear to save Mott's life, he turns on him.
Episode 2
The Allegiances
Thu, Sep 22, 1966 60 mins
Mingo hears of a British organized uprising of Indian tribes in western Kentucky. He fights the other chiefs in allowing this uprising to occur, because failure to either support the uprising or warn the settlers and Daniel of the danger is a betrayal he can not live with.
Episode 3
Goliath
Thu, Sep 29, 1966 60 mins
Boonesboro gives $100 to Otis Cobb for an errand, but he ends up spending it, under curious circumstances, on a slave, Goliath. The town wants Otis to work off the debt for fifty cents a day, but when a wrestler and his manager come to town seeking to fight for money, Goliath ends up fighting to pay off the debt.
Episode 4
Grizzly
Thu, Oct 6, 1966 60 mins
Big Zack, a bear hunter, comes to Boonesborough to trade a prime grizzly pelt for supplies. Unbeknown to him, a band of Shawnee led by a man bent on avenging his brother's death at the hands of Zack is tracking him.
Episode 5
First in War, First in Peace
Thu, Oct 13, 1966 60 mins
Daniel is puzzled when he received a letter from President Washington replying to a letter Daniel never wrote. The letter requests Daniel to come to the capital, but both he and Mingo suspect a trap.
Episode 6
Run a Crooked Mile
Thu, Oct 20, 1966 60 mins
Daniel and Israel ride on a stagecoach that becomes hijacked. Daniel ends up going to fetch a ransom for something on the stage, while Israel and the stage driver wait with the highwaymen. Will Daniel return in time?
Episode 7
The Matchmaker
Thu, Oct 27, 1966 60 mins
Daniel and Mingo are entrusted with an Indian princess and asked to escort her to her betrothed in order to unite the two tribes and avert war. The young princess does not want the arranged marriage and fights them every step of the way.
Episode 8
Onatha
Thu, Nov 3, 1966 60 mins
After Daniel rescues a young black girl from a river, he and Mingo have their hands full returning her to her mother, who is part of a group of slaves heading to Canada and freedom.
Episode 9
The Loser's Race
Thu, Nov 10, 1966 60 mins
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.
Episode 10
The Enchanted Gun
Thu, Nov 17, 1966 60 mins
Red Sky, a Shawnee brave, thinks he is invincible after Daniel gives him his rifle for saving Israel's life. When several white men kill some braves, Daniel wants them brought to trial but Red Sky is determined to mete out Shawnee justice, which could start a war.
Episode 11
Requiem for Craw Green
Thu, Dec 1, 1966 60 mins
An Indian, Craw Green, was captured by bigoted settlers at Logan's Fort. Mingo goes undercover as a white trapper to locate and help him.
Episode 12
The Lost Colony
Thu, Dec 8, 1966 60 mins
The puzzling discoveries of a hundred-year-old grave marker and a mysterious young woman set Daniel and Mingo on a course that leads to the descendants of the lost colony at Cape Fear.
Episode 13
River Passage
Thu, Dec 15, 1966 60 mins
The government gives 1000 pounds of gunpowder to Boonesborough, and Daniel has to pick it up and bring it back by boat. There's only one man, Bill Sedley, that he wants to hire to help him with the boating, but Sedley is as un-trustworthy as he is tough.
Episode 14
When a King Is a Pawn
Thu, Dec 22, 1966 60 mins
A young boy, the future king of France, is kidnapped in New Orleans by agents of the new French republican government. Daniel is hired to guide them to a secret rendezvous point but soon realizes the boy is hiding a secret.
Episode 15
The Symbol
Thu, Dec 29, 1966 60 mins
Count Alfonso De Borba is looking to curry favor from the British and offers to give them the Liberty Bell, which he has managed to capture. The British are interested but insist that he also deliver Daniel Boone with the Bell.
Episode 16
The Williamsburg Cannon: Part 1
Thu, Jan 12, 1967 60 mins
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.
Episode 17
The Williamsburg Cannon: Part 2
Thu, Jan 19, 1967 60 mins
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.
Episode 18
The Wolf Man
Thu, Jan 26, 1967 60 mins
A wolf plays a role in an important decision by the settlers of Boonesborough. A vote for Taggart, who just bought two slaves, is a vote to officially legalize slavery; a vote for Daniel is to outlaw slavery and free the young men.
Episode 19
The Jasper Ledbetter Story
Thu, Feb 2, 1967 60 mins
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.
Episode 20
When I Became a Man, I Put Away Childish Things
Thu, Feb 9, 1967 60 mins
Israel's pet fawn Rosebud is growing up. She destroys the new pastor's crops. Israel builds a pen but she escapes. Daniel says she is too tame to set free but too wild for a pet. Israel has trouble accepting this and runs away with Rosebud.
Episode 21
The Long Way Home
Thu, Feb 16, 1967 60 mins
Birch Kendall, widely known as an Indian hater and accused of killing a chief traveling to a treaty council, is about to be tried and most likely sentenced to be hanged. When he escapes, Daniel, an old friend, sets out to bring him to justice and prevent an Indian war.
Episode 22
The Young Ones
Thu, Feb 23, 1967 60 mins
Daniel comes across three children whose parents have just been killed by Indians and decides to take them to Boonesborough. The eldests theft of their only horse is just the first of the problems the children cause for Daniel.
Episode 23
Delo Jones
Thu, Mar 2, 1967 60 mins
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.
Episode 24
The Necklace
Thu, Mar 9, 1967 60 mins
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.
Episode 25
Fort West Point
Thu, Mar 23, 1967 60 mins
The commanding general of Fort West Point tries turning the fort over to the British, as Daniel Boone tries preventing such a treasonous action.
Episode 26
Bitter Mission
Thu, Mar 30, 1967 60 mins
After a retired general attempts to kill Boone to cause a war between Kentucky and Virginia to gain Kentucky land from the Spanish, a badly wounded Boone takes the general captive and forces him on a trek to stop the war.
Episode 27
Take the Southbound Stage
Thu, Apr 6, 1967 60 mins
Mrs. Abigail Adams entrusts Daniel Boone with a satchel containing $100,000, which is the ransom demanded to release her kidnapped husband, President John Adams.
Episode 28
The Fallow Land
Thu, Apr 13, 1967 60 mins
Ignoring Daniel's warning, three trappers violate the peace treaty a second time by encroaching on Cherokee land and wounding Chief Nefromo. Canuda, Nefromo's son, kidnaps Rebecca and Israel and then gives the settlers one day to leave or be driven out. To avert a war Daniel must fight, and beat, Canuda.
