Daniel Boone(1964)

series - first aired/released 1964-09-24 - audience 7.0

Action & Adventure, Western

Directed by Alex Nicol, Anton Leader, Arthur H. Nadel, Barry Shear, Christian Nyby, David Butler, Earl Bellamy, Fess Parker, George Marshall, George Sherman, Gerd Oswald, Harmon Jones, Harry Harris, H. Bruce Humberstone, Ida Lupino, James B. Clark, John English, John Florea, John Newland, Joseph H. Lewis, Joseph Sargent, Lee Philips, Lesley Selander, Nathan Juran, R.G. Springsteen, Robert Douglas, Robert D. Webb, Robert Totten, Thomas Carr, William Wiard, William Witney

Daniel Boone is an American action-adventure television series starring Fess Parker as Daniel Boone that aired from September 24, 1964 to September 10, 1970 on NBC for 165 episodes, and was made by 20th Century Fox Television. Ed Ames co-starred as Mingo, Boone's Cherokee friend, for the first four seasons of the series. Albert Salmi portrayed Boone's companion Yadkin in season one only. Dallas McKennon portrayed innkeeper Cincinnatus. Country Western singer-actor Jimmy Dean was a featured actor as Josh Clements during the 1968–1970 seasons. Actor and former NFL football player Rosey Grier made regular appearances as Gabe Cooper in the 1969 to 1970 season. The show was broadcast "in living color" beginning in fall 1965, the second season, and was shot entirely in California and Kanab, Utah.