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Daniel Boone: the Television Series Season 5

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Daniel Boone season 5 is great but no Mingo and the begining has a different soundtrack not as good as the earlier seasons, but other wise it's great dvd set 7 discs

Oh the memories! I have not had this wonderful of a time in many a year. I was transported back to a time of days gone by, and as I watched this show I actually teared up in melancholy remembrance of childhood. Half way through the season, I remembered something that I had not thought of in years, my Coon Skin Cap! I put the DVD on pause, and headed up into the attic. After hours of searching, I finally found it. I then ran, almost like I was a child again, back to the TV room, but this time with my trusty Coon Skin Cap on my head. As I watched the rest of season 5, I thought of all my exciting childhood adventures. I have a bad back now, and am not employed, but that did not stop me from jumping up at one point to let Daniel Boone know someone was sneaking up on him! My mom thought I had gone crazy. This is a must have for any fan of a by gone era.

I'm a kid again as I watch the 5th season of Daniel Boone from the 1960's. I love the special features and Liberation has done a wonderful job restoring the shows! If you want a good story (though not historically accurate) with solid family values introduce yourself and your family to Daniel Boone - it's timeless!

An extraordinary Series.

Perfect color. Remastered again.
Wonderful scripts.
Entertainment guaranteed for all the family.

We waited for with anxiety the next delivery.

A jewel for the collector

Loved the tv series as a child, and I was not disappointed in this purchase. Thoroughly enjoyable!

I am and will be enjoying these DVD's for years to come. They are great, and a bonus is no commercials. I have all the seasons' sets and they are treasures. Thanks! Amazon.com.

The 165 one-hour episodes (45 in B&W, 120 in color) of the frontier western "Daniel Boone" originally aired on NBC from 1964-1970. So this DVD set is the fifth of six seasons of this extremely popular baby boomer show. The episode titles and their original air dates from Season Five are listed below.

The show itself may seem a little odd today due to an uncharacteristic emphasis on racial/ethnic diversity (insert Ed Ames as Mingo and NFL lineman Rosey Grier as Gabe Cooper). But the times were a-changing as the country tried to turn itself into LBJ's "Great Society" and network executives smelled an opportunity to cash in on the baby boomer's budding social awareness.

The series moved between a domestic focus on Boone's family (Patricia Blair as wife Rebecca, Veronica Cartwright as daughter Jemima, and Darby Hinton as his son Israel) to "one-with-the-wilderness"/"the British are evil" themes. The series focused on Boone after he had moved to Kentucky.

Daniel was played by Fess Parker who already had an established coonskin cap franchise from his mid-1950's Disney TV portrayal of Davy Crockett. Boone is played as an even tempered peaceful man who likes to chum around in the woods with Oxford educated Indians and runaway black slaves (see above), your basic 1770's flower child. Other than his confrontations with "the man" (represented by those nasty Redcoats) there is very little messy violence and lots of "Little House on the Prairie" moments.

Cartwright, the most talented of the ensemble, is frustratingly underutilized. Particularly given that the most celebrated event in the real Daniel Boone's life was the rescue of his daughter and her two friends from Indian kidnappers.

Cartwright and Ames are not in the episodes on this DVD set as she bailed out after season two and he after season four. Budding sausage king Jimmy Dean was added as Josh Clements, a character in the tradition of Chester and Festus from "Gunsmoke".

Then again, what do I know? I'm only a child.

Be Thankful for the Fickleness of Women: 19 September 1968, The Blackbirder: 3 October 1968, The Dandy: 10 October 1968, The Fleeing Nuns: 24 October 1968, The Plague That Came to Ford's Run: 31 October 1968, The Bait: 7 November 1968; Big, Black and Out There: 14 November 1968, Flag of Truce: 21 November 1968, Valley of the Sun: 28 November 1968, The Patriot: 5 December 1968, The Return of the Sidewinder: 12 December 1968, Minnow for a Shark: 2 January 1969, To Slay a Giant: 9 January 1969, A Tall Tale of Prater Beasley: 16 January 1969, Copperhead Izzy: 30 January 1969, Three Score and Ten: 6 February 1969, Jonah: 13 February 1969, Bickford's Bridge: 20 February 1969, A Touch of Charity: 27 February 1969, For Want of a Hero: 6 March 1969, Love and Equity: 13 March 1969, The Allies: 27 March 1969, A Man Before His Time: 3 April 1969, For a Few Rifles: 10 April 1969, Sweet Molly Malone: 17 April 1969, A Pinch of Salt: 1 May 1969

We love watching Daniel Boone. This season is good but not as good as the first four seasons. We were disappointed to see that Mingo isn't in the show anymore. Now Josh (Jimmy Dean) is now Daniel's sidekick.

All the Daniel Boone Season's are great. I own them all. Season 5 is no exception. The Daniel Boone Series was on the leading edge of TV in speaking out against social bigotry, injustice and other parts of human nature that exploit society and nature. The series always has a lessons learned conclusion that can help us today learn to get along with our fellow man and nature in a better ways. This is a great series for your children or grandchildren. Role models are important today and character matters. I have to admit that my favorite episodes of Daniel Boone are the episodes done with Mingo (Ed Ames). They were and are the best episodes.

I would give season 5 a higher rating, but it is just not the same without Mingo. The addition of Jimmy Dean to most episodes did not make up for the lack of Mingo. Ironically, Mingo is featured on the DVD main menu! You will notice they changed the opening theme song again (like every season), but this version is strange and disturbing - just my observation :)