Daniel Boone: Season 3

(1966-1967)

Daniel (Fess Parker); Mingo (Ed Ames)

Original Air Date: 09-15-66

Written by D. D. Beauchamp, from a story by David Chandler
Directed by Alex Nicol
Produced by George Sherman

As Daniel begins his third season, he's confronted by Cletus Mott and the bear that killed Mott's father and brother. Cletus is determined to hunt the bear down -- and he threatens to kill anyone who interferes in his revenge.

Original Air Date: 09-22-66

Written by David Duncan, from a story by Luanna Poole
Directed by Earl Bellamy
Produced by George Sherman

Mingo is torn when he learns that the Cherokee will be part of a British scheme to drive all whites from Indian country, including Daniel and his family.

Original Air Date: 09-29-66

Written by D. D. Beauchamp
Directed by Barry Shear
Produced by George Sherman

Horse trader Otis Cobb is in a bind: robbers have forced him to buy a slave with the settler's money -- and now he must repay them.

Original Air Date: 10-06-66

Written by Raphael Hayes
Directed by William Wiard
Produced by George Sherman

A man is wrongly accused of murder, but Israel clears him after the two share a dangerous experience.

Original Air Date: 10-13-66

Written by D. D. Beauchamp and Frank Moss
Directed by Barry Shear
Produced by George Sherman

Lured to Kentucky by a false invitation, President Washington is the target of an assassination plot.

Original Air Date: 10-20-66

Written by D. D. Beauchamp
Directed by Tony Leader
Produced by George Sherman

With Israel held hostage, Daniel is forced to collect a ransom for a band of body-snatchers.

Original Air Date: 10-27-66

Written by D.D. Beauchamp, from a story by Sam Gilman
Directed by Robert Douglas
Produced by George Sherman

To avert tribal warfare, Daniel and Mingo are given the task of bringing a rebellious Creek princess to wed the son of a Shawnee chief.

Original Air Date: 11-03-66

Written by David Duncan
Directed by Earl Bellamy
Produced by George Sherman

Daniel and Mingo clash with two slave hunters who claim ownership of a small black girl whom Daniel saved from drowning.

Original Air Date: 11-10-66

Written by Judith Barrows and D. D. Beauchamp, from a story by Judith Barrows
Directed by William Wiard
Produced by George Sherman

The settlers tangle with a greedy governor's aide who has given them two weeks to pay a suspicious tax -- or lose their land.

Original Air Date: 11-17-66

Written by David Duncan, William L. Stuart, and Charles O'Neal, from a story by William L. Stuart
Directed by Bud Springsteen
Produced by George Sherman

After giving his rifle to Shawnee warrior, Red Sky, Daniel must prove that the weapon is not enchanted -- or more powerful than the law.

Original Air Date: 12-01-66

Written by Sid Harris and William Driskill, from a story by Sid Harris
Directed by George Sherman
Produced by George Sherman

Mingo's promise to a dying friend takes him to Logan's Fort, a place where Indians are not welcome. He disguises himself as a white trapper, and learns that by driving away or killing all the Indians, Roark Logan owns all the property in the area, with the exception of tract of land for which Mingo now holds the title.

Original Air Date: 12-08-66

Written by Ken Pettus and D. D. Beauchamp, from a story by Ken Pettus
Directed by Alex Nicol
Produced by George Sherman

Daniel and Mingo discover a hidden valley, settled by people who claim to be descendants of the missing Roanoke Island settlers.

Original Air Date: 12-15-66

Written by D. D. Beauchamp
Directed by William Witney
Produced by George Sherman

Daniel fights Indians and a scheming river rat to deliver gunpowder to Boonesborough.

Original Air Date: 12-22-66

Written by David Duncan and Willard S. Davis, Jr., from a story by Willard S. Davis, Jr.
Directed by Lesley Selender
Produced by George Sherman

Daniel, with Israel's help, saves French Prince Charles from being returned to France and certain death.

Original Air Date: 12-29-66

Written by W. J. Voorhees and David Duncan, from a story by W. J. Voorhees
Directed by R. G. Springsteen
Produced by George Sherman

Daniel and Mingo must recover the stolen Liberty Bell

Original Air Date: 01-12-67

Written by D. D. Beauchamp and Raphael Hayes, from a story by Raphael Hayes
Directed by William Witney
Produced by George Sherman

In the first of a two-part story, Daniel and Mingo set out to recruit three fighting backwoodsmen to help an arrogant artillary officer drag a heavy cannon 1000 miles through enemy-infested wilderness.

Original Air Date: 01-19-67

Written by D. D. Beauchamp and Raphael Hayes, from a story by Raphael Hayes
Directed by William Witney
Produced by George Sherman

The British set a trap for Daniel in the conclusion of this two-part story. Daniel and his small band, hauling a heavy cannon to the Continental forces on the Western frontier, have no choice but to force their way through redcoat lines.

Original Air Date: 01-26-67

Written by William Driskill
Directed by Earl Bellamy
Produced by George Sherman

Boonesborough faces the issues of slavery. The decision rests upon the actions of Daniel, a cold-hearted councilman, and a frontiersman with a pet wolf.

Original Air Date: 02-02-67

Written by Martha Wilkerson and Helen McAvity
Directed by William Wiard
Produced by George Sherman

An old man with a sad tale leads Daniel and Mingo on a dangerous chase into hostile Shawnee country. But cagey Jasper Ledbedder's story about the Indians' abducting his family conceals the real object of his search.

Original Air Date: 02-09-67

Written by Jack Guss, from a story by Joel Bernard
Directed by Earl Bellamy
Produced by George Sherman

A pet fawn helps teach Israel the meaning of growing up. When the deer destroys a neighbor's crop, the boy must face the painful prospect of seeing his pet destroyed.

Original Air Date: 02-16-67

Written by D. D. Beauchamp
Directed by Earl Bellamy
Produced by George Sherman

Daniel hunts an escaped Army prisoner who is wanted for murder. The fugitive is Daniel's old friend Birch Kendall, and he may start an Indian uprising: his knife was the weapon that killed an Indian chief.

Original Air Date: 02-23-67

Written by D. D. Beauchamp and Sid Harris, from a story by Sid Harris
Directed by Gerd Oswald
Produced by George Sherman

Three young survivors of an Indian massacre brew up a storm for Daniel. The orphans tell the members of a wagon train that Daniel is their father -- and that he's planning to desert them.

Original Air Date: 03-02-67

Written by Clyde Ware
Directed by Bud Springsteen
Produced by George Sherman

In his TV dramatic debut, country music star Jimmy Dean plays Delo Jones, a woodsman who is fleeing from a murder charge. Delo asks for Daniel's help, certain that the pursuing officer is the real killer.

Original Air Date: 03-09-67

Written by David Duncan
Directed by Earl Bellamy
Produced by George Sherman

Daniel begins a journey to New Orleans, carrying a pearl necklace that will exonerate a wrongly convicted man. His trip is imperiled by three woodsmen who are determined to steal the jewelry.

Original Air Date: 03-23-67

Written by D. D. Beauchamp, from a story by Terence Kinglsey-Smith
Directed by Gerd Oswald
Produced by George Sherman

General Hugh Scott, commander of Fort West Point, plans to turn over his vital post to the British -- but the traitor neglects to consider Daniel's suspicious nature.

Original Air Date: 03-30-67

Written by James Byrnes
Directed by Bud Springsteen
Produced by George Sherman

To prevent war, a badly wounded Daniel begins a long trek with a dangerous traitor as his prisoner. The man is a retired general who is pitting Virginia against Kentucky in the hopes of getting Boonesborough for himself.

Original Air Date: 04-06-67

Written by D. D. Beauchamp, from a story by Terence Kingsley-Smith
Directed by Gerd Oswald
Produced by George Sherman

With Rebecca in pursuit, Daniel undertakes a dangerous secret mission: delivering ransom money for kidnapped President Adams.

Original Air Date: 04-13-67

Written by D. D. Beauchamp, from a story by William Driskill
Directed by William Witney
Produced by George Sherman

Daniel sets out to stop an Indian war instigated by three trappers poaching on Cherokee land.

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