Daniel Boone: Season 2

(1965-1966)

Back Row (left to right): Jericho (Robert Logan); Mingo (Ed Ames); Cincinnatus (Dallas McKennon)
Front Row (left to right): Rebecca (Patricia Blair); Israel (Darby Hinton); Daniel (Fess Parker); Jemima (Veronica Cartwright)

030 Empire of the Lost (#8406)

Original Air Date: 09-16-65

Written by Herman Groves
Directed by Nathan Juran
Produced by George Sherman

Daniel returns from a journey to find Boonesborough evacuated by order of British colonel Marcus Worthing, who says he's battling a rebellion and that he wants Boone to turn over the fort.

Fess Parker	.............	Daniel
Patricia Blair	.............	Rebecca
Veronica Cartwright	.............	Jemima
Darby Hinton	.............	Israel
Dallas McKennon	.............	Cincinnatus
Edward Mulhare	.............	Colonel Marcus Worthing
George Backman	.............	Lt. Stuart Morris
Tom Browne Henry	.............	Chief Antawah
Orville Sherman	.............	Tupper
Abel Fernandez	.............	White Feather
Richard Lapp	.............	Sentry

Original Air Date: 09-23-65

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

Daniel, the fort's best runner, sprains an ankle, which spells bad news for the settlers who have bet on him to win a hotly contested annual foot race with the Indians. Robert Logan (as Jericho Jones) becomes a regular in this episode.

Original Air Date: 09-30-65

Written by Clyde Ware
Directed by Nathan Juran
Produced by George Sherman

Daniel and Mingo intercept a band of Shawnee pursuing a stranger, who is dressed in the regalia of an Aztec chieftain.

Original Air Date: 10-07-65

Written by William Putman and D.D. Beauchamp, from a story by William Putman
Directed by George Sherman
Produced by George Sherman

Daniel goes after an unusual fur thief: a runaway slave who makes a point of telling his victims who he is.

Original Air Date: 10-14-65

Written by Walter Black
Directed by George Marshall
Produced by George Sherman

In rescuing a starving old Indian from a sacred burial cave, Israel unwittingly violates a tribal custom and arouses the wrath of the medicine man -- an old enemy of Boone.

Original Air Date: 10-21-65

Written by Clair Huffaker
Directed by George Sherman
Produced by George Sherman

Daniel goes after the notorious renegade John Benton, a brawling drunkard who sells defective guns to the Indians -- and then burns their villages when they refuse to pay.

Original Air Date: 10-28-65

Written by Raphael Hayes
Directed by Maurice Geraghty
Produced by George Sherman

Former Vice President Aaron Burr arrives in Boonesborough looking for a guide to the mouth of the Cumberland River. When Daniel turns him down, Burr hires impressionable young Jericho Jones.

Original Air Date: 11-04-65

Written by Dick Nelson, M. Finley, and D.D. Beauchamp, from a story by Dick Nelson and M. Finley
Directed by Nathan Juran
Produced by George Sherman

Two land developers hire champion English boxer Thomas Cromwell to dispose of Boone, who has frustrated their efforts to buy Boonesborough property.

Original Air Date: 11-11-65

Written by John and Ward Hawkins
Directed by George Sherman
Produced by George Sherman

Against Daniel's advice, a Scottish clan builds a settlement on the Cherokee's hunting grounds, and the Highlanders refuse to vacate their new home -- despite an Indian war threat.

Original Air Date: 11-25-68

Written by Raphael Hayes, Melvin Levy, and D.D. Beauchamp, from a story by Melvin and Thomas P. Levy
Directed by George Marshall
Produced by George Sherman

As Daniel and Jericho return to Boonesborough for Thanksgiving, a rider brings news that promises a grim holiday -- Choctaw chief Gabriel is on the war path.

Original Air Date: 12-02-65

Written by Raphael Hayes
Directed by John Florea
Produced by George Sherman

Near a burning wagon, Jericho finds a murdered family of three -- with Mingo's knife in one of the victims.

Original Air Date: 12-09-65

Written by Barry Trivers and Raphael Hayes, from a story by Barry Trivers
Directed by John Florea
Produced by George Sherman

Jemima feels the pangs of first love when young David Ellis comes to Boonesborough, apparently looking for work -- but actually casing the fort for his partner in crime.

Original Air Date: 12-16-65

Written by Melvin Levy and D.D. Beauchamp, from a story by D.D. Beauchamp
Directed by John Florea
Produced by George Sherman

Daniel and Rebecca's long-delayed honeymoon is interrupted by an officer of the Continental Army, who is shot by British agents as he gives Daniel a Presidential message to deliver to New Orleans.

Original Air Date: 12-23-65

Written by Stephen Lord
Directed by Maurice Geraghty
Produced by George Sherman

As a blizzard rages, Daniel tries to persuade the settlers to shelter an Indian brave and his pregnant wife.

Original Air Date: 12-30-65

Written by David Duncan and Tom Blackburn, from a story by David Duncan
Directed by James B. Clark
Produced by George Sherman

Daniel is getting ready to negotiate a friendship treaty with the Iroquois Indians -- but Madeline Lorne says the Iroquois are guilty of a massacre of which she is the sole survivor.

Original Air Date: 01-06-66

Written by David Duncan
Directed by Gerd Oswald
Produced by George Sherman

On the way to a French trading post, Daniel and Mingo are captured by a Spanish Army captain who thinks Daniel is Gabriel Lejeune, a French revolutionary wanted by the Spaniards.

Original Air Date: 01-13-66

Written by Stephen Lord
Directed by John Florea
Produced by George Sherman

While scouting in Florida, Daniel and Mingo make the mistake of trespassing on forbidden Seminole territory, where they encounter Fletcher the Flamboyant, an itinerant magician who dazzles the Indians with his tricks.

Original Air Date: 01-20-66

Written by Robert Bloomfield and D.D. Beauchamp, from a story by Robert Bloomfield
Directed by Nathan Juran
Produced by George Sherman

While tracking two Army deserters, bounty hunter Simon Harman finds one of them with Daniel, whom he mistakes for the other fugitive.

Original Air Date: 01-27-66

Written by Lee Loeb and David Duncan, from a story by Lee Loeb
Directed by Bruce Humberstone
Produced by George Sherman

A smallpox epidemic threatens Boonesborough, and an ambitious ex-officer in the Continental Army sees a way to use an enforced quarantine of the Boone cabin to gain power.

Original Air Date: 02-03-66

Written by Raphael Hayes
Directed by Robert Totten
Produced by George Sherman

In Pennsylvania, Boone has a new rifle made and outwits two scoundrels who try to force him to guide them through Indian country.

Original Air Date: 02-10-66

Written by Robert Bloomfield
Directed by John Florea
Produced by George Sherman

Convicted traitor Edward Eliot kidnaps the Boone children to insure Daniel's help in the murder of Colonel Calloway, who commanded the firing squad that executed Eliot's brother.

Original Air Date: 02-17-66

Written by Jack Guss
Directed by George Sherman
Produced by George Sherman

To carry out an urgent military mission for Governor Patrick Henry, Daniel needs safe passage through hostile Tuscarora territory -- which only the tribe's embittered chief can guarantee.

Original Air Date: 02-24-66

Written by Tom Blackburn
Directed by John Florea
Produced by George Sherman

Daniel's efforts to intercede between the Shawnee and road builders who have violated tribal hunting grounds seem doomed after the construction boss accidentally kills an Indian boy.

Original Air Date: 03-03-66

Written by David Duncan
Directed by Harmon Jones
Produced by George Sherman

On his way to market furs in New Orleans, Boone is ambushed and robbed. While tracing his assailant, he becomes involved in a search for pirate gold.

Original Air Date: 03-10-66

Written by Raphael Hayes, from a story by Paul Savage
Directed by John Florea
Produced by George Sherman

A former British officer, now a thief and a renegade, steals a shipment of rifles and plans to trade them to the Shawnee for a tract of land.

Original Air Date: 03-17-66

Written by D. D. Beauchamp
Directed by Gerd Oswald
Produced by George Sherman

Daniel goes after renegades who terrorized his family, looted his house, took Israel hostage, and left Mingo helpless with his foot caught in a bear trap.

Original Air Date: 03-24-66

Written by David Duncan
Directed by John Florea
Produced by George Sherman

A carefully contrived frame-up puts Daniel on the wrong end of a murder charge.

Original Air Date: 03-31-66

Written by Raphael Hayes
Directed by Gerd Oswald
Produced by George Sherman

Half delirious with hunger, old Matty Brenner staggers into Daniel and Mingo's camp -- dragging along a boy who claims to live in Cibola, one of the legendary seven cities of gold.

Original Air Date: 04-14-66

Written by D. D. Beauchamp and Jack Guss
Directed by George Sherman
Produced by George Sherman

In the first of a two-part story tracing {re-writing} Boone's early life, Daniel meets Rebecca Brian, a bonded servant on the wagon train he's taking to Kentucky. Daniel also saves the life of Jim Santee, who decides to join the wagon train after meeting Rebecca.

Original Air Date: 04-21-66

Written by D. D. Beauchamp and Jack Guss
Directed by George Sherman
Produced by George Sherman

In the conclusion of a two-part story, Daniel drives his Boonesborough-bound wagons into a narrow canyon, where he takes a stand against pursuers who want the precious supplies.

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