Daniel Boone: Season 4

(1967-1968)

Daniel (Fess Parker); Gideon (Don Pedro Colley)

088 The Ballad of Sidewinder and Cherokee (#1409)

Original Air Date: 09-14-67

Written by Melvin Levy
Directed by Gerd Oswald
Produced by Barney Rosenzweig

Daniel and Mingo pit one river pirate against another in order to recover the furs which were stolen from them. Ed Ames (Mingo) sings an original ballad.

Fess Parker	.............	Daniel
Ed Ames	.............	Mingo
Forrest Tucker	.............	Joe Snag
Victor Buono	.............	Milo Quaife
Richard Hoyt	.............	Davy Rock
Victor French	.............	Blue Belly Sangster
Vito Scotti	.............	Priest

Original Air Date: 09-21-67

Written by Paul Playdon
Directed by James B. Clark
Produced by Barney Rosenzweig

Wild animals and hostile Indians plague Israel as he desperately seeks help for Daniel, who has been bitten by a rattler.

Original Air Date: 09-28-67

Written by Merwin Gerard, Melvin Levy, and Rick Husky, from a story by Rick Husky
Directed by William Wiard
Produced by Barney Rosenzweig

Daniel and Mingo shield a couple and their adopted son from the boy's father, a renegade who is determined to reclaim the child.

Original Air Date: 10-06-67

Written by Raphael Hayes
Directed by John Newland
Produced by Barney Rosenzweig

An act of friendship leads to a night of terror for Israel, who is seized by a frightened outcast he has befriended.

Original Air Date: 10-12-67

Written by Richard Collins and Merwin Gerard, from a story by Terence Kingsley-Smith
Directed by Arthur Nadel
Produced by Barney Rosenzweig

Shakespearean actor Maurice Evans appears as a French novelist who poses as the head of a traveling troupe to smuggle gold through British lines.

Original Air Date: 10-19-67

Written by Joel Oliansky
Directed by Ida Lupino
Produced by Barney Rosenzweig

As unrest boils in the Colonies, Daniel moves to prevent two executions that could trigger open warfare.

Original Air Date: 10-26-67

Written by David Duncan
Directed by Nathan Juran
Produced by Barney Rosenzweig

A forbidding old mansion holds unpleasant surprises for Rebecca, who has inherited the supposedly haunted house.

{Note: This is the first of two different episodes with the same title.
The second is episode #145, production #5004}

Original Air Date: 11-02-67

Written by Jack Sowards
Directed by Bill Wiard
Produced by Barney Rosenzweig

To escape execution as a traitor, Daniel volunteers to save a British colonel's daughter from her Shawnee captors. The task entails teaching the art of Indian fighting to the tradition-bound Redcoats.

Original Air Date: 11-09-67

Written by Judith and Robert Guy Barrows
Directed by John Newland
Produced by Barney Rosenzweig

Daniel battles distrust, a determined slaver and marauding Indians to secure freedom for a band of runaway slaves who are holding Israel hostage.

Original Air Date: 11-16-67

Written by Harold Medford
Directed by Nathan Juran
Produced by Barney Rosenzweig

Daniel and an inexperienced Army lieutenant hire escaped convicts and wharf rats to help deliver supplies to a besieged fort.

Original Air Date: 11-23-67

Written by Tom Blackburn and D. D. Beauchamp, from a story by D. D. Beauchamp
Directed by William Wiard
Produced by Barney Rosenzweig

Daniel lends a helping hand to Cal Trevor, whose dying father left him with a lamed thoroughbred.

Original Air Date: 12-07-67

Written by James Byrnes
Directed by Gerd Oswald
Produced by Barney Rosenzweig

Daniel and Mingo clash over whether the alleged murderer of a Cherokee chief should be tried by Indians or white men.

Original Air Date: 12-14-67

Written by Joel Oliansky
Directed by William Wiard
Produced by Barney Rosenzweig

Daniel is ordered to rescue the Continental Army's top code expert -- or kill him before the Redcoats' Indian allies can make him talk.

Original Air Date: 12-28-67

Written by Judith and Robert Guy Barrows
Directed by Nathan Juran
Produced by Barney Rosenzweig

An Indian princess reared by whites faces a major challenge as she tries to prove herself worthy to become queen of the Delaware.

Original Air Date: 01-04-68

Written by Melvin Levy, from a story by Melvin and Thomas P. Levy
Directed by George Marshall
Produced by Barney Rosenzweig

Jim Backus portrays Scatway, an amiable pirate who involves the Boones in a dangerous quest for buried treasure.

Original Air Date: 01-18-68

Written by Merwin Gerard
Directed by Bill Wiard
Produced by Barney Rosenzweig

A backwoodsman (Jimmy Dean) poses as a British major's orderly to prevent the Redcoats from gaining access to a new rapid-firing rifle.

Original Air Date: 01-25-68

Written by Rick Husky
Directed by William Wiard
Produced by Barney Rosenzweig

A frightened Israel is in a terrible quandary: no one believes that he and his two friends witnessed a killing -- except the killer.

Original Air Date: 02-01-68

Written by Lee Karson and David Duncan
Directed by Nathan Juran
Produced by Barney Rosenzweig

Daniel, Mingo, and Jeremiah intercede to prevent Indian reprisals when a hardheaded Welsh immigrant seizes Tuscarora land for coal mining.

Original Air Date: 02-08-68

Written by Martha Wilkerson
Directed by Fess Parker
Produced by Barney Rosenzweig

George Perkins, a wily old salt looking for a meal ticket, blackmails a young sailor being sought as a mutineer.

Original Air Date: 02-15-68

Written by Raphael Hayes
Directed by William Wiard
Produced by Barney Rosenzweig

An informer plagues Daniel as he goes undercover on a dangerous mission to sabotage a Spanish fort being built on American soil.

Original Air Date: 02-22-68

Written by Joel Oliansky, from a story by Erich Faust
Directed by Nathan Juran
Produced by Barney Rosenzweig

Daniel and Mingo help a friend prove that he's not the coward his friends and family believe him to be.

Original Air Date: 02-29-68

Written by Melvin Levy, from a story by Patricia Bouchard
Directed by William Wiard
Produced by Barney Rosenzweig

Mingo and Israel help a young Gypsy bondservant to win his freedom from his master, a medicine showman.

Original Air Date: 03-07-68

Written by Judith Barrows
Directed by William Wiard
Produced by Barney Rosenzweig

When Gideon's son, Little Dan'l, is kidnapped by Indians while in Daniel's care, and when his tracks lead to the edge of a waterfall, Gideon becomes mad with grief and decides to punish Daniel by killing Israel.

Original Air Date: 03-14-68

Written by Paul Playdon
Directed by George Marshall
Produced by Barney Rosenzweig

Movie pioneer George Marshall directed this tale of Daniel and Israel's efforts to elude bloodthirsty Shawnee.

Original Air Date: 03-28-68

Written by D. D. Beauchamp and James Byrnes, from a story by Richard Collins
Directed by Nathan Juran
Produced by Barney Rosenzweig

Daniel and Mingo's secret mission to deliver guns to the settlement is compromised by another man's plans to buy the freedom of his bonded sister by acting as an informant to renegades who are after the guns.

Original Air Date: 04-04-68

Written by Martha Wilkerson
Directed by Joel Oliansky
Produced by Barney Rosenzweig

Julie Harris plays a schoolteacher blessed -- and cursed -- with a strange ability to communicate with animals. She faces death from Indians who believe she is a witch, responsible for the forays of a killer panther.

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