Daniel Boone: the Television Series Season 5

1st Time on DVD!

Fess Parker stars as Daniel Boone in this timeless classic series. Daniel Boone, America's classic frontier hero, begins his journey right here with the Season 5 box set on DVD. Digitally restored and re-mastered from its original television presentation in 1968 in brilliant color. Set in and around Kentucky and Virginia during the colonial period preceding the American Revolution, Daniel Boone takes us on suspenseful action adventures with his fellow frontiersman and women, Yadkin (played by Albert Salmi), Mingo (Ed Ames), Rebecca (Patricia Blair), Jemima (Veronica Cartwright), and Israel (Darby Hinton) with guest stars Burl Ives, Victor French, Roosevelt Grier, Shelley Fabares, Ted Eccles, and Jimmy Dean. Product Description

good old TV

Very nice TV show, the quality of the DVD's is great; I bought seasons 1, 2 and 3 in Spain and the copy was quite bad. This release amazed me because I can choose the Spanish audio, that's the 1960's original southamerican synchronising, the one I watched on TV when I was a kid. August 15, 2008

A Top Favorite

Being a Kentuckian, I am especially partial to Daniel. Love the series. Wish I could get the rest!!! May 26, 2008

Daniel Boone Season 5

We love watching Daniel Boone. This season is good but not as good as the first four seasons. We were disappointed to see that Mingo isn't in the show anymore. Now Josh (Jimmy Dean) is now Daniel's sidekick. April 20, 2008

The American Frontier As Seen By "The Great Society"

The 165 one-hour episodes (45 in B&W, 120 in color) of the frontier western "Daniel Boone" originally aired on NBC from 1964-1970. So this DVD set is the fifth of six seasons of this extremely popular baby boomer show. The episode titles and their original air dates from Season Five are listed below.

The show itself may seem a little odd today due to an uncharacteristic emphasis on racial/ethnic diversity (insert Ed Ames as Mingo and NFL lineman Rosey Grier as Gabe Cooper). But the times were a-changing as the country tried to turn itself into LBJ's "Great Society" and network executives smelled an opportunity to cash in on the baby boomer's budding social awareness.

The series moved between a domestic focus on Boone's family (Patricia Blair as wife Rebecca, Veronica Cartwright as daughter Jemima, and Darby Hinton as his son Israel) to "one-with-the-wilderness"/"the British are evil" themes. The series focused on Boone after he had moved to Kentucky.

Daniel was played by Fess Parker who already had an established coonskin cap franchise from his mid-1950's Disney TV portrayal of Davy Crockett. Boone is played as an even tempered peaceful man who likes to chum around in the woods with Oxford educated Indians and runaway black slaves (see above), your basic 1770's flower child. Other than his confrontations with "the man" (represented by those nasty Redcoats) there is very little messy violence and lots of "Little House on the Prairie" moments.

Cartwright, the most talented of the ensemble, is frustratingly underutilized. Particularly given that the most celebrated event in the real Daniel Boone's life was the rescue of his daughter and her two friends from Indian kidnappers.

Cartwright and Ames are not in the episodes on this DVD set as she bailed out after season two and he after season four. Budding sausage king Jimmy Dean was added as Josh Clements, a character in the tradition of Chester and Festus from "Gunsmoke".

Then again, what do I know? I'm only a child.

Be Thankful for the Fickleness of Women: 19 September 1968, The Blackbirder: 3 October 1968, The Dandy: 10 October 1968, The Fleeing Nuns: 24 October 1968, The Plague That Came to Ford's Run: 31 October 1968, The Bait: 7 November 1968; Big, Black and Out There: 14 November 1968, Flag of Truce: 21 November 1968, Valley of the Sun: 28 November 1968, The Patriot: 5 December 1968, The Return of the Sidewinder: 12 December 1968, Minnow for a Shark: 2 January 1969, To Slay a Giant: 9 January 1969, A Tall Tale of Prater Beasley: 16 January 1969, Copperhead Izzy: 30 January 1969, Three Score and Ten: 6 February 1969, Jonah: 13 February 1969, Bickford's Bridge: 20 February 1969, A Touch of Charity: 27 February 1969, For Want of a Hero: 6 March 1969, Love and Equity: 13 March 1969, The Allies: 27 March 1969, A Man Before His Time: 3 April 1969, For a Few Rifles: 10 April 1969, Sweet Molly Malone: 17 April 1969, A Pinch of Salt: 1 May 1969 February 29, 2008

Daniel Boone Season 5

I'm a kid again as I watch the 5th season of Daniel Boone from the 1960's. I love the special features and Liberation has done a wonderful job restoring the shows! If you want a good story (though not historically accurate) with solid family values introduce yourself and your family to Daniel Boone - it's timeless! October 3, 2007

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