Season 5 Episodes (1968-69)
114 "Be Thankful for the Fickleness of Women" (#3003)
Original Air Date: 09-18-68
Written by Don Balluck
Directed by William Wiard
Produced by Barney Rosenzweig
Josh Clements is faced with the task of finding a husband for the pretty bondservant he bought by mistake -- or marrying her himself.
Fess Parker | ............. | Daniel |
Patricia Blair | ............. | Rebecca |
Darby Hinton | ............. | Israel |
Dallas McKennon | ............. | Cincinnatus |
Jimmy Dean | ............. | Josh Clements |
Brooke Bundy | ............. | Sarah |
Sean McClory | ............. | Ephron Marsh |
James Davidson | ............. | Bart Cooley |
Tom Fadden | ............. | Sam Cooley |
John Goddard | ............. | Simon |
Peter Canon | ............. | Mathew |
Jack Garner | ............. | Friend |
Ollie O'Toole | ............. | Auctioneer |
Pete Logan | ............. | 1st Bidder |
James Kline | ............. | 2nd Bidder |
George Berkeley | ............. | 1st Man |

115 "The Blackbirder" (#3005)
Original Air Date: 10-03-68
Written by D. D. Beauchamp
Directed by William Wiard
Produced by Barney Rosenzweig
A bounty hunter captures Daniel's friend, Gideon, mistaking him for an escaped slave. The situation worsens when Mason Pruitt, a seaman who is wanted for desertion from a slave ship, falsely identifies Gideon as being the escaped slave.
Fess Parker | ............. | Daniel |
Dallas McKennon | ............. | Cincinnatus |
Don Pedro Colley | ............. | Gideon |
Jim McMullan | ............. | Mason Pruitt |
Timothy Carey | ............. | Lute Purdy |

116 "The Dandy" (#3009)
Original Air Date: 10-10-68
Written by Merwin Gerard
Directed by William Wiard
Produced by Barney Rosenzweig
As a favor to an old friend, Daniel takes on the responsibility of educating a young dandy in the ways of a woodsman.
Fess Parker | ............. | Daniel |
Patricia Blair | ............. | Rebecca |
Darby Hinton | ............. | Israel |
David Watson | ............. | David Grosvener Scott |
Johnny Cardos | ............. | Longknife |
Saundra Gayle | ............. | Calf Eye |
Olan Soule | ............. | Clerk |
Sheldon Allman | ............. | Scott |
Ken Endoso | ............. | Black Fox |
Nina Offer | ............. | Girl #1 |
Adele Wynn | ............. | Girl #2 |

117 "The Fleeing Nuns" (#3005)
Original Air Date: 10-24-68
Written by Irve Tunick, from a story by Patricia
Falkenhagen
Directed by William Wiard
Produced by Barney Rosenzweig
Daniel, Josh, and Mason become involved in helping a French royal and her maid who are disguised as Catholic nuns. The two women are fleeting to escape from revolutionaries who intend to kill them.
Fess Parker | ............. | Daniel |
Jimmy Dean | ............. | Josh Clements |
Jim McMullan | ............. | Mason Pruitt |
Kathleen Freeman | ............. | Berthe |
Brioni Farrell | ............. | Louise |
Maurice Marsac | ............. | |
Marcel Hillaire | ............. | Pelletier |
Richard Angarola | ............. | Monet |

118 "The Plague that Came to Ford's Run" (#3004)
Original Air Date: 10-31-68
Written by Harold Medford
Directed by Fess Parker
Produced by Barney Rosenzweig
Fess Parker | ............. | Daniel |
Patricia Blair | ............. | Rebecca |
Darby Hinton | ............. | Israel |
Jimmy Dean | ............. | Josh Clements |
Charles Drake | ............. | Andy Wharton |
Gail Kobe | ............. | Amanda Wharton |
Ted White | ............. | |
Kevin Hagen | ............. | Stokes |
Richard Devon | ............. | Archer |
Pete Logan | ............. | |
Todd Roberts | ............. | Tim |

119 "The Bait" (#3008)
Original Air Date: 11-07-68
Written by Raphael Hayes
Directed by Nathan Juran
Produced by Barney Rosenzweig
Fess Parker | ............. | Daniel |
Skip Ward | ............. | Davey |
Lois Nettleton | ............. | Sulie |
James Daris | ............. | Matt |
Robert Adler | ............. | Driver |
Hank Patterson | ............. | Fiddler |
Pera Malouf | ............. | Squaw |
Kelly Thordson | ............. | Blackstone |
Med Flory | ............. | Jubal |

120 "Big, Black and Out There" (#3011)
Original Air Date: 11-14-68
Written by Harry Basch
Directed by William Wiard
Produced by Barney Rosenzweig
Gideon has conflicting loyalties as he and Daniel track a runaway slave, dressed as an Indian, who has been stealing from the settlers.
Fess Parker | ............. | Daniel |
Patricia Blair | ............. | Rebecca |
Darby Hinton | ............. | Israel |
Dallas McKennon | ............. | Cincinnatus |
Don Pedro Colley | ............. | Gideon |
Ezekial Williams | ............. | Little Dan'l |
Yaphet Kotto | ............. | Luke |
Harry Basch | ............. | Jesse Watts |
Claude Johnson | ............. | Joe |
Tom Drury | ............. | Lem |
Art Jenoff | ............. | Charlie Bates |

121 "A Flag of Truce" (#3001)
Original Air Date: 11-21-68
Written by Irve Tunick
Directed by William Wiard
Produced by Barney Rosenzweig
Daniel works to arrange a treaty between the Wyandot and the Army, not suspecting that General Grosscup plans arrest and hang the Wyandot Chief, who is a friend of Daniel's.
Fess Parker | ............. | Daniel |
Mort Mills | ............. | General Grosscup |
William Smith | ............. | Chief Campuits |
H.M. Wynant | ............. | Major Howerton |
Pilar Del Rey | ............. | Moranta |
Mark Miranda | ............. | Towanga |
Russ Conway | ............. | Secretary of War |
Joe Jenckes | ............. | Lieutenant Wilson |
David Farrow | ............. | Sentry |

122 "The Valley of the Sun" (#3006)
Original Air Date:
Written by David Duncan, from a story by James
Raker
Directed by Nathan Juran
Produced by Barney Rosenzweig
When Daniel and Josh go their separate ways on a deer hunt, Josh is captured by a mad Englishman, posing as a butterfly collector, who will stop at nothing to protect his hoard of Aztec gold.
Fess Parker | ............. | Daniel |
Jimmy Dean | ............. | Josh Clements |
Mariette Hartley | ............. | Millie Boyd |
Severn Darden | ............. | Sir Hubert Spencer |

123 "The Patriot" (#3002)
Original Air Date: 12-05-68
Written by Melvin Levy
Directed by Fess Parker
Produced by Barney Rosenzweig
When a former Royalist returns from exhile in Canada, his right to live in Boonesborough is challenged by his own son, who fought against the British.
Fess Parker | ............. | Daniel |
Patricia Blair | ............. | Rebecca |
Darby Hinton | ............. | Israel |
Dallas McKennon | ............. | Cincinnatus |
Ford Rainey | ............. | John Gist |
Teddy Eccles | ............. | Hal |
Tom Lowell | ............. | Davy |
John Anthony Epper | ............. | Charley Pete |
Scott Perry | ............. | Sam |
David Wendel | ............. | Morgan |

124 "The Return of Sidewinder" (#3012)
Original Air Date: 12-12-68
Written by Melvin Levy
Directed by Nathan Juran
Produced by Barney Rosenzweig
Daniel's old river pirate friend, Joe Snag, has fallen on hard times and has taken to robbing freight wagons. Daniel must stop the robberies without betraying his friend to the King's Marshal.
Fess Parker | ............. | Daniel |
Patricia Blair | ............. | Rebecca |
Dallas McKennon | ............. | Cincinnatus |
Forrest Tucker | ............. | Joe Snag |
Rex Holman | ............. | Davy Rock |
Charles Dierkop | ............. | Dumas |
Charles Picerni | ............. | Beetle |
Bill Coontz | ............. | Pottle |
Robert Cornthwaite | ............. | Sir Ives Wallace |
Frederic Downs | ............. | Dewey |
Joseph Perry | ............. | Kinch |
Jackie Kahane | ............. | Doble |
Bob Adler | ............. | Equerry |

125 "Minnow for a Shark" (#3015)
Original Air Date: 01-02-69
Written by Nathan Juran
Directed by Nathan Juran
Produced by Barney Rosenzweig
While Daniel and Israel are in Virginia, Israel becomes involved in the theft of the King's dispatch box.
Fess Parker | ............. | Daniel |
Patricia Blair | ............. | Rebecca |
Darby Hinton | ............. | Israel |
Henry Jones | ............. | Jonas Morgan |
Ivor Barry | ............. | Commodore Morrison |
George Keymas | ............. | Portugee |
Jack Bannon | ............. | Corporal |
Morry Ogden | ............. | Sentry #1 |
Orwin Harvey | ............. | Sentry #2 |

126 "To Slay a Giant" (#3010)
Original Air Date: 01-09-69
Written by Arthur Browne, Jr.
Directed by Nathan Juran
Produced by Barney Rosenzweig
Daniel must clear Gideon of murder charges before the settlers turn into a lynch mob.
Fess Parker | ............. | Daniel |
Patricia Blair | ............. | Rebecca |
Darby Hinton | ............. | Israel |
Dallas McKennon | ............. | Cincinnatus |
Don Pedro Colley | ............. | Gideon |
Torin Thatcher | ............. | Cyrus and Enoch Black |
Lee Jay Lambert | ............. | Hemit |
Hy Chase | ............. | Hank |
Chuck Bail | ............. | Luke |
Ezekial Williams | ............. | Little Dan'l |

127 "A Tall Tale of Prater Beasely" (#3014)
Original Air Date: 01-16-69
Written by Melvin Levy
Directed by George Marshall
Produced by Barney Rosenzweig
A teller of tall tales and his invisible bear help a young crippled boy learn self-reliance.
Fess Parker | ............. | Daniel |
Patricia Blair | ............. | Rebecca |
Darby Hinton | ............. | Israel |
Dallas McKennon | ............. | Cincinnatus |
Burl Ives | ............. | Prater Beasely |
Rory Stevens | ............. | Joe Montgomery |
Lyle Bettger | ............. | Joseph Montgomery |
Jeff Donnell | ............. | Varna Montgomery |
Willis Bouchey | ............. | Diben Rowley |
John Spina | ............. | Kaw-Te-Gay-Be |

128 "Copperhead Izzy" (#3013)
Original Air Date: 01-30-69
Written by David Duncan
Directed by William Wiard
Produced by Barney Rosenzweig
While visiting Uncle Brian in Williamsburg, Israel becomes involved with a group of orphans who are forced to steal for their living.
Fess Parker | ............. | Daniel |
Patricia Blair | ............. | Rebecca |
Darby Hinton | ............. | Israel |
Vincent Price | ............. | Dr. Thadeus Morton |
Elena Verdugo | ............. | Violet Morton |
J. Pat O'Malley | ............. | Uncle Brian |
Sheldon Collins | ............. | Hoot Owl Tom |
Butch Patrick | ............. | Black Cat Jack |
Olan Soule | ............. | Silversmith |
Randy Lane | ............. | Chicken Leg Pete |
Natalie Core | ............. | Miss Hinch |
Tom Drury | ............. | Station Agent |
Danny Rees | ............. | Juggler |

129 "Three Score and Ten" (#3016)
Original Air Date: 02-06-69
Written by Raphael Hayes
Directed by George Marshall
Produced by Barney Rosenzweig
An old gunsmith proves to himself and to his younger friends, that he can still be a productive and useful person.
Fess Parker | ............. | Daniel |
Patricia Blair | ............. | Rebecca |
Darby Hinton | ............. | Israel |
Dallas McKennon | ............. | Cincinnatus |
Burgess Meredith | ............. | Alex |
James Wainwright | ............. | Cully |
Paul Fix | ............. | Chief Great Bear |
Warren Vanders | ............. | Ben |
John McCann | ............. | Jesse |
Luanne Roberts | ............. | Beulah |
Clint Ritchie | ............. | Two Feathers |

130 "Jonah" (#3018)
Original Air Date: 02-13-69
Written by D. D. Beauchamp
Directed by William Wiard
Produced by Barney Rosenzweig
Josh receives an inheritance from an uncle whose wishes for Josh to give up his care-free ways are made manifest in the will. He leaves Josh the title to a piece of land near Boonesborough and the ownership papers of one slave, an educated body servant, who has orders to make a respectable landowner out of his new master.
Fess Parker | ............. | Daniel |
Dallas McKennon | ............. | Cincinnatus |
Jimmy Dean | ............. | Josh Clements |
Yaphet Kotto | ............. | Jonah |
Booth Colman | ............. | Whitmore |
Sean McClory | ............. | Bartender |
Warren Vanders | ............. | Ben |
Joseph Perry | ............. | Tolliver |
Sidney Clute | ............. | Homer |
Michael Lane | ............. | Bear |

131 "Bickford's Bridge" (#3017)
Original Air Date: 02-20-69
Written by Al Ramrus, John Shaner, and
D.D.Beauchamp, from a story by Al Ramrus and John Shaner
Directed by Nathan Juran
Produced by Barney Rosenzweig
Daniel's orders from the Continental Army are to destroy all the bridges in the path of the advancing the British Army. But James Bickford and his sons have rebuilt their bridge and refuse to let it be destroyed again.
Fess Parker | ............. | Daniel |
Simon Oakland | ............. | Bickford |
Kurt Russell | ............. | Paul |
Peter Jason | ............. | Clint |
John Orchard | ............. | Sergeant Malcolm |
Joe Jenckes | ............. | Corporal Barnes |
Glen Wilder | ............. | Hawks |
Bob Bass | ............. | Carpenter |
Dick Butler | ............. | Sentry #1 |
Frank Orsatti | ............. | Sentry #2 |

132 "A Touch of Charity" (#3020)
Original Air Date: 02-27-69
Written by Judith Barrows
Directed by William Wiard
Produced by Barney Rosenzweig
With help from Daniel, Jimmy McGill works to win the hand of the woman he loves.
Fess Parker | ............. | Daniel |
Patricia Blair | ............. | Rebecca |
Darby Hinton | ............. | Israel |
Dallas McKennon | ............. | Cincinnatus |
John Davidson | ............. | Jimmy McGill |
Shelley Fabares | ............. | Charity |
Donald Barry | ............. | Amos |
Richard Peabody | ............. | Samuel Stone |
Warren Vanders | ............. | Ben |
Nelson Olmsted | ............. | Thaddeus King |
Ollie O'Toole | ............. | Minister |

133 "For Want of a Hero" (#3021)
Original Air Date: 03-06-69
Written by George F. Slavin and Stanley Adams
Directed by Lee Philips
Produced by Barney Rosenzweig
Five soldiers, survivors of an Indian attack on Fort Howard, involve the Boones in a crooked scheme to steal the Army payroll.
Fess Parker | ............. | Daniel |
Patricia Blair | ............. | Rebecca |
Darby Hinton | ............. | Israel |
Richard Anderson | ............. | Sergeant Tim Rafferty |
Arch Johnson | ............. | Private Hanks |

134 "Love and Equity" (#3022)
Original Air Date: 03-13-69
Written by Melvin Levy
Directed by William Wiard
Produced by Barney Rosenzweig
Prater Beasely returns to help rid Boonesborough of a plague of groundsquirrels, but ends up defending himself against charges of witchcraft.
Fess Parker | ............. | Daniel |
Patricia Blair | ............. | Rebecca |
Darby Hinton | ............. | Israel |
Dallas McKennon | ............. | Cincinnatus |
Burl Ives | ............. | Prater Beasely |
Med Flory | ............. | Bingen |
Victor French | ............. | Ess |
Natalie Core | ............. | Mrs. Grace Cowles |
Fran Ryan | ............. | Mrs. Jones |
Liam Sullivan | ............. | Patrick Henry |
Jimmy Bracken | ............. | Tab |
Deborah Newman | ............. | Miss Favour |
Ted White | ............. | Morse |
Wilbur Plauger | ............. | Carl Cowles |

135 "The Allies" (#3019)
Original Air Date: 03-27-69
Written by D.D. Beauchamp
Directed by George Marshall
Produced by Barney Rosenzweig
Daniel, Cully and Mason must destroy the bridge that spans Frenchman's Gorge before the British arrive with a shipment of guns for their Indian allies.
Fess Parker | ............. | Daniel |
Dallas McKennon | ............. | Cincinnatus |
Jim McMullan | ............. | Mason Pruitt |
James Wainwright | ............. | Cully |
Ben Archibek | ............. | Ethan Doggett |
Ronne Troup | ............. | Ellie Doggett |
Greg Mullavey | ............. | Latham Green |
Glen Wilder | ............. | Lieutenant |
Dick Foran | ............. | Simon Doggett |
Peter Bromilow | ............. | Colonel Hamilton |
Rico Alaniz | ............. | Crooked Hand |

136 "A Man Before His Time" (#3024)
Original Air Date: 04-03-69
Written by Dan Balluck
Directed by William Wiard
Produced by Barney Rosenzweig
Daniel, Ben,and Cully are tracking Enoch Slatter, a man who is wanted for theft and murder, intending to bring him back alive to stand trial for his crimes. When Ben is forced to kill him in self-defense, Enoch's young son, Luke, swears to avenge his father's death.
Fess Parker | ............. | Daniel |
Patricia Blair | ............. | Rebecca |
Darby Hinton | ............. | Israel |
Dallas McKennon | ............. | Cincinnatus |
Ronny Howard | ............. | Luke |
Warren Vanders | ............. | Ben |
James Wainwright | ............. | Cully |
Joel Davison | ............. | Sam |
Joey Coons | ............. | John |
Kevin Tate | ............. | Ethan |
Claire Wilcox | ............. | Mary |
Stafford Morgan | ............. | Redcoat |

137 "For a Few Rifles" (#3023)
Original Air Date: 04-10-69
Written by Judith Barrows
Directed by John Newland
Produced by Barney Rosenzweig
Israel is held hostage by Indians who want twenty rifles in exchange for his freedom.
Fess Parker | ............. | Daniel |
Patricia Blair | ............. | Rebecca |
Darby Hinton | ............. | Israel |
Dallas McKennon | ............. | Cincinnatus |
Michael Dante | ............. | Akari |
Donald Losby | ............. | Niska |
Ted De Corsia | ............. | Chief Wamakah |
Myron Healey | ............. | James Burns |
Ken Renard | ............. | Guardian |

138 "Sweet Molly Malone" (#3025)
Original Air Date: 04-17-69
Written by Patricia Falkenhagen and Jack Guss
Directed by William Wiard
Produced by Barney Rosenzweig
Daniel and Rebecca act as matchmakers to Molly Malone, a retired Continental Army Sergeant, and Herman Bloedel, a tinker.
Fess Parker | ............. | Daniel |
Patricia Blair | ............. | Rebecca |
Darby Hinton | ............. | Israel |
Dallas McKennon | ............. | Cincinnatus |
Barbara Bel Geddes | ............. | Molly Malone |
Jack Kruschen | ............. | Herman Bloedel |
Jack Garner | ............. | Townsman |
Tom Drury | ............. | Henry Carter |
Stafford Morgan | ............. | Isaac |

139 "A Pinch of Salt" (#3026)
Original Air Date: 05-01-69
Written by Merwin Gerard
Directed by William Wiard
Produced by Barney Rosenzweig
On a land survey, Daniel and a young artist are swept into a wild love spat between a rifle-wielding woman and a proud, domineering man.
Fess Parker | ............. | Daniel |
David Watson | ............. | David Scott |
Joan Hackett | ............. | Theodora Liggett |
Donna Baccala | ............. | Leslie Liggett |
Bo Svenson | ............. | Haskins |
