Daniel Boone (1964 TV series)
Daniel Boone is an American action-adventure television series, starring Fess Parker as the frontiersman Daniel Boone, that aired from September 24, 1964, to May 7, 1970, on NBC for 165 episodes, and was produced by 20th Century Fox Television, Arcola Enterprises, and Fespar Corp. 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. 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. The show was highly fictionalized with very little historical accuracy.
| Daniel Boone | |
|---|---|
Title card | |
| Genre | Action-adventure |
| Starring | Fess Parker Patricia Blair Albert Salmi (season 1) Ed Ames (seasons 1-4) Rosey Grier (season 6) Jimmy Dean (seasons 3-6) Darby Hinton Veronica Cartwright (seasons 1-2) Robert Logan (season 2) |
| Theme music composer | Lionel Newman Ken Darby |
| Composers | Lionel Newman Alexander Courage Herman Stein Joseph Mullendore |
| Country of origin | United States |
| Original language | English |
| No. of seasons | 6 |
| No. of episodes | 165 (list of episodes) |
| Production | |
| Executive producer | Aaron Rosenberg |
| Producers | Barney Rosenzweig Ted Schilz George Sherman Joseph Silver |
| Running time | 60 minutes |
| Production companies | 20th Century-Fox Television Arcola Pictures Corp. Fespar Enterprises, Inc., in association with NBC-TV |
| Original release | |
| Network | NBC |
| Release | September 24, 1964 – May 7, 1970 |
An earlier television series based on Daniel Boone appeared on the Walt Disney Presents anthology in 1960, with Dewey Martin as Boone.