Daniel Boone (1964)

Adventure · Western

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.

IMDb rating: 7.3 (2,777 votes)
Episode average: 7.9 ↑ +0.6 vs IMDb
Seasons: 6
Language: EN
Type: TV series

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Ratings refreshed Oct 3, 2026 · 6 seasons indexed

Cast

Seasons

Season 1 (1964)

7.85 avg 29 episodes 8.1 → 7.6 60 min avg

Season 1 episodes - IMDb ratings
#	Title	Rating	Votes
1	Ken-Tuck-E	8.1	105
2	Tekawitha McLeod	8.4	83
3	My Brother's Keeper	8.1	74
4	The Family Fluellen	7.9	70
5	The Choosing	8.2	69
6	Lac Duquesne	7.7	60
7	The Sound of Wings	8.0	65
8	A Short Walk to Salem	7.5	66
9	The Sisters O'Hannrahan	7.6	67
10	Pompey	8.2	69
11	Mountain of the Dead	7.7	62
12	Not in Our Stars	7.9	64
13	The Hostages	8.1	66
14	The Returning	7.7	64
15	The Prophet	7.8	64
16	The First Stone	7.5	62
17	A Place of 1000 Spirits	7.5	61
18	The Sound of Fear	8.4	62
19	The Price of Friendship	7.9	65
20	The Quietists	8.2	62
21	The Devil's Four	8.0	55
22	The Reunion	7.8	60
23	The Ben Franklin Encounter	8.0	61
24	Four-Leaf Clover	7.3	61
25	Cain's Birthday: Part 1	7.7	60
26	Cain's Birthday: Part 2	8.0	55
27	Daughter of the Devil	7.2	44
28	Doll of Sorrow	7.6	54
29	The Courtship of Jericho Jones	7.6	56

Season 2 (1965)

7.91 avg 30 episodes 7.9 → 8.0 60 min avg

Season 2 episodes - IMDb ratings
#	Title	Rating	Votes
1	Empire of the Lost	7.9	66
2	The Tortoise and the Hare	7.9	63
3	The Mound Builders	7.4	62
4	My Name Is Rawls	7.6	56
5	The Old Man and the Cave	7.9	63
6	The Trek	8.1	55
7	The Aaron Burr Story	7.6	67
8	Cry of Gold	8.1	60
9	The Peace Tree	7.8	61
10	The Thanksgiving Story	7.8	62
11	A Rope for Mingo	8.1	64
12	The First Beau	7.9	71
13	Perilous Journey	7.8	60
14	The Christmas Story	8.2	84
15	The Tamarack Massacre Affair	7.9	61
16	Gabriel	8.1	55
17	Seminole Territory	7.8	62
18	The Deserter	7.8	52
19	Crisis by Fire	8.4	62
20	The Gun	8.0	52
21	The Prisoner	7.9	54
22	The Fifth Man	8.3	58
23	Gun-Barrel Highway	7.9	54
24	The Search	7.9	57
25	Fifty Rifles	7.8	52
26	The Trap	7.9	55
27	The Accused	7.9	51
28	Cibola	7.5	58
29	The High Cumberland: Part 1	8.0	81
30	The High Cumberland: Part 2	8.0	72

Season 3 (1966)

7.79 avg 28 episodes 6.9 → 7.7 60 min avg

Rollercoaster

Season 3 episodes - IMDb ratings
#	Title	Rating	Votes
1	Dan'l Boone Shot a B'ar	6.9	55
2	The Allegiances	7.3	52
3	Goliath	7.8	42
4	Grizzly	7.9	50
5	First in War, First in Peace	8.2	66
6	Run a Crooked Mile	7.4	50
7	The Matchmaker	7.8	69
8	Onatha	7.9	55
9	The Loser's Race	8.0	50
10	The Enchanted Gun	8.0	60
11	Requiem for Craw Green	8.1	68
12	The Lost Colony	8.3	59
13	River Passage	7.5	50
14	When a King Is a Pawn	8.0	54
15	The Symbol	7.7	58
16	The Williamsburg Cannon: Part 1	8.2	63
17	The Williamsburg Cannon: Part 2	8.2	51
18	The Wolf Man	7.3	52
19	The Jasper Ledbetter Story	7.8	53
20	When I Became a Man, I Put Away Childish Things	7.6	52
21	The Long Way Home	7.9	50
22	The Young Ones	7.5	70
23	Delo Jones	8.3	56
24	The Necklace	7.3	48
25	Fort West Point	7.9	53
26	Bitter Mission	7.4	51
27	Take the Southbound Stage	8.3	57
28	The Fallow Land	7.7	51

Season 4 (1967)

7.99 avg 26 episodes 8.4 → 8.1 60 min avg

Rollercoaster

Season 4 episodes - IMDb ratings
#	Title	Rating	Votes
1	The Ballad of Sidewinder and Cherokee	8.4	59
2	The Ordeal of Israel Boone	8.3	54
3	The Renegade	8.0	52
4	Tanner	7.4	57
5	Beaumarchais	7.0	53
6	The King's Shilling	8.3	59
7	The Inheritance	7.5	57
8	The Traitor	8.0	49
9	The Value of a King	7.9	38
10	The Desperate Raid	8.0	48
11	The Spanish Horse	7.6	46
12	Chief Mingo	8.5	56
13	Secret Code	8.6	60
14	A Matter of Blood	8.2	55
15	The Scrimshaw Ivory Chart	7.7	53
16	The Imposter	8.4	57
17	The Witness	7.7	50
18	The Flaming Rocks	8.1	49
19	Then Who Will They Hang from the Yardarm If Willy Gets Away?	8.2	54
20	The Spanish Fort	8.4	50
21	Hero's Welcome	7.9	59
22	Orlando, the Prophet	7.7	55
23	Far Side of Fury	7.6	45
24	Nightmare	8.1	52
25	Thirty Pieces of Silver	8.2	55
26	Faith's Way	8.1	52

Season 5 (1968)

7.90 avg 26 episodes 8.3 → 7.0 60 min avg

Rollercoaster

Season 5 episodes - IMDb ratings
#	Title	Rating	Votes
1	Be Thankful for the Fickleness of Women	8.3	53
2	The Blackbirder	7.9	49
3	The Dandy	7.9	49
4	The Fleeing Nuns	8.1	54
5	The Plague That Came to Ford's Run	7.5	52
6	The Bait	8.6	55
7	Big, Black and Out There	8.1	51
8	Flag of Truce	8.7	54
9	Valley of the Sun	6.2	50
10	The Patriot	7.9	50
11	The Return of the Sidewinder	7.5	42
12	Minnow for a Shark	7.4	46
13	To Slay a Giant	8.0	49
14	A Tall Tale of Prater Beaseley	7.5	51
15	Copperhead Izzy	7.5	57
16	Three Score and Ten	8.3	54
17	Jonah	8.0	40
18	Bickford's Bridge	8.7	59
19	A Touch of Charity	8.0	55
20	For Want of a Hero	8.2	43
21	Love and Equity	7.9	45
22	The Allies	8.0	49
23	A Man Before His Time	8.0	50
24	For a Few Rifles	8.4	49
25	Sweet Molly Malone	7.8	57
26	A Pinch of Salt	7.0	52

Season 6 (1969)

7.88 avg 26 episodes 8.3 → 8.0 59 min avg

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Season 6 episodes - IMDb ratings
#	Title	Rating	Votes
1	A Very Small Rifle	8.3	60
2	The Road to Freedom	8.2	45
3	Benvenuto... Who?	7.6	49
4	The Man	8.0	45
5	The Printing Press	8.0	50
6	The Traitor	8.4	47
7	The Grand Alliance	7.6	41
8	Target Boone	7.7	55
9	A Bearskin for Jamie Blue	7.9	52
10	The Cache	7.9	44
11	The Terrible Tarbots	7.2	46
12	Hannah Comes Home	7.9	49
13	An Angel Cried	7.0	48
14	Perilous Passage	8.6	50
15	Sunshine Patriots	7.6	44
16	Mamma Cooper	8.6	60
17	Before the Tall Man	7.5	50
18	Run for the Money	7.5	38
19	A Matter of Vengeance	8.1	49
20	The Landlords	8.3	43
21	Readin', Ritin', and Revolt	8.3	43
22	Noblesse Oblige	7.4	47
23	The Homecoming	7.5	40
24	Bringing Up Josh	8.0	59
25	How to Become a Goddess	7.7	51
26	Israel and Love	8.0	58