Episode
Daniel Boone: The Blackbirder
Overview
A bounty hunter seeking a naval deserter is tricked into capturing Boone s friend Gideon as an escaped slave.
Details
- Series
- Daniel Boone
- Season
- Season 5
- Episode
- Episode 2
- Air date
- 1968-10-03
- Runtime
- 60 min
Episode context
The Blackbirder is Episode 2 in Season 5 of Daniel Boone. It aired on 1968-10-03. The runtime is 60 min.
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Episode 1: Be Thankful for the Fickleness of Women
Josh buys a pretty bondservant, then may have to marry her when she falls for him.
Episode 3: The Dandy
Daniel agrees to a request of a friend to take his son, whom he regards as spoiled and irresponsible, and teach him the ways of the wilderness and learn something more manly than the painting the young man seems most interested in. Daniel and the young man both get more than they were bargaining for in the process.
More episodes from this season
Episode 4: The Fleeing Nuns
On the way to New Orleans, Boone and a friend help two nuns, then learn one is an aristocrat fleeing the French Revolution.
Episode 5: The Plague That Came to Ford's Run
Josh returns to his hometown to visit a friend but finds the community a wreck and his friend missing.
Episode 6: The Bait
A woman and her boyfriend rob Boone's stagecoach and steal his tax money.
Episode 7: Big, Black and Out There
A former slave, adopted by Indians, terrorizes and robs Boonesborough.
Episode 8: Flag of Truce
An Army general plans to use Boone as bait in a trap for the frontiersman s friend, a Wyandot chief.
Episode 9: The Valley of the Sun
While on a hunting trip with Daniel, Josh Clements meets mad collector Sir Hubert and is then held prisoner in a cavern filled with treasures of the Aztec sun god.
Episode 10: The Patriot
John Gist had gone to Canada rather than fight the British. Now, after American independence, he wants to come back and live again on his land. Daniel is caught in the middle trying to help his friend against those who see him as a traitor.
Episode 11: The Return of Sidewinder
Highwaymen - known as "buckaroos" - are robbing people around Boonesborough. After the British offer a rich reward for their capture, Daniel discovers the man responsible is an old adversary from a time when he and Mingo were robbed.
Episode 12: Minnow for a Shark
Israel finds himself in the middle of a plot by a British Commodore to use a box of gold to find a thief, who may or may not be his friend, the one-armed Capt. Jack.
Episode 13: To Slay a Giant
Gideon is accused of murdering Cyrus Blake and his revenge minded brother, Enoch, is determined to hang him now rather than wait for a trial.