60 minSeason 6 • Episode 26
LatestIsrael finds first love with the daughter of a flamboyant woodcarver.
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.
Acting
Fess Parker's impossibly warm screen presence — Disney's greatest weapon.
Production
"Living color" marketing that made green forests revolutionary television.
Costume
That hat. You know the hat. Everyone wanted that hat.
Creator
Borden Chase
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
Fess Parker leveraged his Davy Crockett fame into this role, essentially franchising himself as America's wholesome frontiersman.
Ed Ames' Mingo was so popular NBC gave him his own variety special where he famously threw a tomahawk and accidentally hit a target in a very unfortunate place.
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