Episode

Daniel Boone: The Choosing

Name: Daniel Boone: The Choosing
Released: 1964-10-29
Duration: 60 min
Cast: Fess Parker, Ed Ames, Patricia Blair, Darby Hinton, Dal McKennon

Daniel BooneSeason 11964-10-29

Overview

British soldiers and Indians surround Jemima as she tries to help Boone, wounded in the wilderness.

Details

Series: Daniel Boone
Season: Season 1
Episode: Episode 5
Air date: 1964-10-29
Runtime: 60 min

Episode context

The Choosing is Episode 5 in Season 1 of Daniel Boone. It aired on 1964-10-29. The runtime is 60 min.

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Episode 4: The Family Fluellen 1964-10-22 | 60 min Boone invites a widow and her hungry brood to town, but one of the children steals a telescope.

Episode 6: Lac Duquesne 1964-11-05 | 60 min Boone chases a river pirate who plans to sell a load of stolen arms to Shawnees.

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Episode 3: My Brother's Keeper 1964-10-08 | 60 min Mingo, wanted DEAD! Daniel Boone must capture his friend Mingo and bring him to justice before all Kentucky erupts in war. Daniel's friend Yadkin is a trusted friend to all in Booneborough and among the Cherokee. Yadkin had canoed up river and while meeting with a Cherokee trading party when they were ambushed by a Creek war party. Yadkin was found floating down river by Daniel's son Israel. With Cincinnatus removing the slug(bullet) and Rebecca Boone nursing him, he began to pull through....

Episode 7: The Sound of Wings 1964-11-12 | 60 min A British officer captures Boone then impersonates him to win Indian allies.

Episode 2: Tekawitha McLeod 1964-10-01 | 60 min A dance at Fort Boonesborough is interrupted by Flathead Joseph, a halfbreed slave trader. He has a young Indian girl with him whom he claims is a Cherokee Princess...and a white girl. Her name is Tekawitha McLeod and she is the daughter of the Cherokee Chief Menewa. When Daniel confronts Menewa about this he admits she is white and taken from a raiding party but he wants her back. Daniel refuses when he realizes he knew her family. The Indians are determined to fight to get her back and the settlers of Boonesborough are just as determined to fight to keep her.

Episode 8: A Short Walk to Salem 1964-11-19 | 60 min Israel becomes lost in the woods after fur thieves ambush him, Boone and Yadkin.

Episode 1: Ken-Tuck-E 1964-09-24 | 60 min George Washington sends Daniel and Yadkin into Ken-Tuck-E, the dark and bloody hunting ground of four Indian nations, to find a site for a fort.

Episode 9: The Sisters O'Hannrahan 1964-12-03 | 60 min Yadkin's trickery leaves Boone the unexpected, and unwilling, owner of indentured Irish sisters.

Episode 10: Pompey 1964-12-10 | 60 min A bondsman insists on returning a runaway slave unshackled by Boone.

Episode 11: Mountain of the Dead 1964-12-17 | 60 min A dream about a man whom Daniel thought was dead is followed by the appearance of three men at his door demanding that he take them to the site of a bloody Native American massacre.

Episode 12: Not in Our Stars 1964-12-31 | 60 min Mingo plans to do more than protest a new treaty when he and Boone visit Virginia's governor general.

Episode 13: The Hostages 1965-01-07 | 60 min Rumors circulate that the British are employing Indians to fight for them. Daniel becomes personally involved when he gets word his wife Rebecca has been taken by an Indian raiding party.