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Daniel Boone: Ken Tuck E [VHS]

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As several have said, Fess Parker was a better Daniel Boone than a Davy Crockett. Oh well, he was Davy only four or five times, and Daniel about SIX YEARS. Practice does make perfect. This is a good video for nostalgic reasons and fairly believable acting. If you are a historian who nitpicks about accuracy, then don't watch. It was amazing to see Plains TeePees intermingled with East Coast wigwams. Some of the tribal costume was out of place as well. Oh yes, some of the "Indians" needed a little more berry juice for complexion.
Other than that, this is an excellent video. It is very family oriented(Daniel does not take the Indian wife that is offered to him because Becky is waiting back home), his family always runs to meet him, and gets angry if he has to leave again. He tells stories to his children, and sings to the Missus.
Yes, there is some violence and killing and probably excessive, but Dan'l doesn't kill unless it is to protect someone, and tries avoid it if possible.
These things just are not done in films today, and if they are attempted they just don't have the same spirit.
This video(may there soon be more!!) also gives our children a chanced to see a program that excited us when we were young. everyone has seen all the Peanuts cartoons, and odds and ends of famous sci-fi, but this is a simpler life video.
It is also great to see familiar faces we haven't heard from in years like Ed Ames, and did anyone notice George "Goober Pyle" Lindsay up on the stockade wall during the battle?
AHHHH for the days of clean, if very inaccurrate historical stories. Yes we were very prejudiced in those days, but I think things like this were the beginning of racial acceptance.

This is the very first episode of the highly-acclaimerd, long-running Sixties TV series with former Davy Crockett, Fess Parker. In this episode, he at once gives his viewers a sample of his awesome fighting ability! We also meet the Oxford- educated Mingo, played by Ed Ames.

Television in the 60's was magic. A Hero could still be a Hero. And, if he was Daniel Boone, he could sing, and have a chorus in the background too!

Ken Tuck E is pure enjoyment. We meet the Boone family and friends, and watch Boone make new friends, including his soon to be best friend, Mingo. We're given a history lesson in the early days of the American Revolution.

Return now to the tales of yesterday, before the invention of the anti-hero, when a child could still dream of becoming more than what she/he was and performing great feats of heroic endeavor.

It was great fun to watch this with our sons! This was the pilot episode for the series starring Fess Parker. We would like to purchase all of the episodes for the years the series ran (but have only found this one episode available so far). We would like to see these available on DVD.

Too long absent from the TV screen, Fess Parker's Daniel Boone is back! This high-quality video of the premiere episode is welcomed with great jubilation by the many, many fans who been asking, pleading, begging for the series to be released to video. I love it, my kids love it, their friends love it.

One episode out of 165 is just the beginning! More! More!

One of the best TV Shows of the 60's. I hope more Fess Parker Daniel Boone shows will be available.This was pure entertainment.I have wondered for years why this program was not out on tape. During those years we watched it every week. Those were heroes you could cheer for. I would like to own all the Daniel Boone TV shows.I hope Amazon.com will be able to offer more of these. Harry at Vidayo did a top notch job getting the tape to us.

I agree with the other reviewers, this is great family entertainment that you aren't ashamed of letting your kids and family see. I think all the baby boomers and even some of the kids of today would enjoy seeing this series on DVD or at least VHS.

Please pass this on to the ones who decide what is coming out next on video.

simply one of the best tv shows of the 60s down to earth and very entertaining. i have been in search of i think a disney daniel boone when he was not married to rebbeca but was on his way to discover ken-tuck.i seen it on tv in the mid.60s but that was it. so far iam unable to fine.it stared fess parker and ed ames.

This episode of Daniel Boone contained a mix of almost everything - humor, drama, song, action, adventure, and even a few bloopers. And doesn't contain foul language, excessive violence, sex, or immorality. For 50 minutes, I was transfixed as I watched then rewound the tape and watched it again. Our hero, Daniel Boone, out-thinks, out-smarts, and out-does the troublesome redcoat and a would-be Indian chief but not without a few obstacles to overcome. Although this episode is not historically accurate, it does tell an excellent tale. I can think of no one finer to portray Daniel Boone than Fess Parker. He lends a special charm to this famous American hero.

Like thousands of others, I grew up on "Daniel Boone." In this premiere episode the viewer is introduced to Daniel, Rebecca, his children (remember the precocious Israel?), and Ed Ames as Boone's Cherokee friend, Mingo. Boone is sent on a secret mission to establish a fort in "Ken-Tuck-E" by none other than George Washington, who warns him that war with the British is imminent. Daniel narrowly escapes scrapes with his wife, the Red Coats and of course, the Natives who claim Kentucky as their own. Although it probably wouldn't pass the test for political correctness by today's standards, taken in context, this is an inoffensive, entertaining, and thoroughly delightful trip down memory lane. I look forward to more installments in the series.