Daniel Boone season 6 The Terrible Tarbots - Metacritic

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TV-PG
NBC
Dec 11, 1969
1 h

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NBC
Dec 11, 1969
1 h

Daniel Boone

Summary Frontier hero Daniel Boone conducts surveys and expeditions around Boonesborough, running into both friendly and hostile Native Americans, just before, during, and after the Revolutionary War. Aiding him during the run of the series are his lovely wife, Rebecca, precocious son, Israel, Oxford educated half-breed Mingo, former slave Gabe...

Directed By: Nathan Juran

Written By: Harold Medford

TV-PG
NBC
Dec 11, 1969
1 h

TV-PG
NBC
Dec 11, 1969
1 h

S6 • Episode 11

The Terrible Tarbots

Air Date: Dec 11, 1969

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Summary Frontier hero Daniel Boone conducts surveys and expeditions around Boonesborough, running into both friendly and hostile Native Americans, just before, during, and after the Revolutionary War. Aiding him during the run of the series are his lovely wife, Rebecca, precocious son, Israel, Oxford educated half-breed Mingo, former slave Gabe...

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Episode 1 • Sep 18, 1969 • 1 h

A Very Small Rifle

A young Cherokee boy is shot and is near death. Daniel Boone must find out who shot the boy in order to head off the angry Cherokee tribe from retaliating against everyone, killing many innocent people.

Episode 2 • Oct 2, 1969 • 1 h

The Road to Freedom

A runaway slave and his son are on the run from three bounty hunters. When the father breaks his leg the son continues on and turns to Israel and Ben for help.

Episode 3 • Oct 9, 1969 • 26 m

Benvenuto... Who?

Episode 4 • Oct 16, 1969 • 1 h

A former slave, now a chief of the Tuscarora, helps Daniel lead a ragtag group of soldiers on an operation against the British.

Episode 5 • Oct 23, 1969 • 1 h

The Printing Press

Daniel and Israel Boone visit Benjamin Franklin at his home in Philadelphia. While there, they are forced to match wits with the British Army.

Episode 6 • Oct 30, 1969 • 1 h

The British commander of Fort Detroit will turn over the fort's defense plan if the Americans will reunite him with his wife. Daniel and Cully escort her back to him but Daniel doubts the Colonel's willingness to be a traitor.

Episode 7 • Nov 13, 1969 • 1 h

The Grand Alliance

Josh and Gabe are captured by a Spanish officer who tells them another Spanish officer is secretly building a base from which he intends to invade the U.S. He asks them to infiltrate the fort and steal his plans to prevent another war.

Episode 8 • Nov 20, 1969 • 1 h

Daniel and his family find themselves being continually terrorized by an old man and his sons. The old man blames Boone for the death of his wife and for leaving him crippled, even though Daniel has no memory of ever meeting him.

Episode 9 • Nov 27, 1969 • 1 h

A Bearskin for Jamie Blue

While trading furs Daniel acquires an indentured servant who was born in prison and has never been free. Daniel intends to release him from service but the young man has trouble adjusting to his new life.

Episode 10 • Dec 4, 1969 • 1 h

When a trapper is murdered Josh is fingered as the killer. Daniel encourages him to surrender with the idea that the real killers will be easier to catch once he is in custody. But will Josh be hanged before they're caught?

Episode 11 • Dec 11, 1969 • 1 h

The Terrible Tarbots

While transporting a box filled with gold for the Continental army, Daniel is beset upon by thieves. Complicating matters is that Israel is taken hostage as protection from Daniel while they lug the gold over the mountains.

Episode 12 • Dec 25, 1969 • 1 h

Hannah Comes Home

A woman long thought dead is discovered by Daniel living with the Chickasaw. Daniel tells her her husband is still alive and that she should come back. She does, but her husband has trouble accepting her Indian son.

Episode 13 • Jan 8, 1970 • 1 h

Josh discovers that an Indian party has burned down a mission with the only surviving nun hiding in a root cellar. They struggle to elude the Indians until help can finally arrive and save them.

Episode 14 • Jan 15, 1970 • 1 h

Perilous Passage

Daniel and Gabe become prisoners of the British after blowing up an important bridge. After escaping custody with another prisoner, they slowly work their way home through enemy territory. But they may be pawns in a larger plan.

Episode 15 • Jan 22, 1970 • 1 h

Sunshine Patriots

Episode 16 • Feb 5, 1970 • 1 h

Gabe encounters a child with a doll that he believes could have only been made by his mother, whom he hasn't seen since he was a child, and sets out to find her.

Episode 17 • Feb 12, 1970 • 1 h

Before the Tall Man

Rebecca decides to play matchmaker to Tom and Nancy, two people Daniel doesn't think go together. Considering how much they fight each other he might be right. But Rebecca thinks she knows better.

Episode 18 • Feb 19, 1970 • 1 h

Run for the Money

Cincinnatus thinks he has found the fastest runner around and brings him to Boonesborough for a big race. His dream for success is complicated when another unknown runner enters the race and that the runners have a scheme of their own.

Episode 19 • Feb 26, 1970 • 1 h

A Matter of Vengeance

Just before he is due to be married, Mason encounters a man he believes is the same man who destroyed his family's home when he was a child. Daniel tries to show him revenge is not the answer, especially when based upon a boyhood memory.

Episode 20 • Mar 5, 1970 • 1 h

Two goof-balls swipe another man's pelts and then trade them to a con man, who gives them a false land deed to all of the land of Boonesborough. Daniel's plan to set things right is complicated when a Marshall arrives to arrest him.

Episode 21 • Mar 12, 1970 • 1 h

Readin', Ritin', and Revolt

An Indian brave attends the school to learn about the white man's ways. The school kids want the teacher to teach them more about the Indians, but he will have nothing to do with "savages". The kids in return begin a protest movement.

Episode 22 • Mar 26, 1970 • 1 h

Noblesse Oblige

Royalty gets the cook's tour when Prince Louis comes to town. Cincinnatus attempts to establish protocol by setting a pecking order as to the order in which townsfolk greet the Prince.

Episode 23 • Apr 9, 1970 • 1 h

An elderly Indian, the last of his tribe, comes back home to prepare for his end. Befriended by the Boones, he slowly plots acts of revenge against the settlers and eventually kidnaps Israel.

Episode 24 • Apr 16, 1970 • 1 h

Bringing Up Josh

While in New Orleans with Daniel, Josh 'inherits' two abandoned children from a poor widow. Unwilling to leave them to become orphans, he takes them with him back home only to find caring for two kids is a lot harder than he thought.

Episode 25 • Apr 30, 1970 • 1 h

How to Become a Goddess

Two inept brothers stumble into the middle of an Indian religious ceremony. Desperate to save their lives, they promise to bring back a woman whose hair is like fire, a description that conveniently describes Rebecca Boone.

Episode 26 • May 7, 1970 • 1 h

Israel and Love

Israel becomes smitten with the daughter of a sculptor who has become a drunk after personal tragedy. The father is an embarrassment to her and Israel doesn't know how to help her.

6 Seasons

Top Cast

Fess Parker

Daniel Boone

Patricia Blair

Rebecca Boone, Rebecca Brian, Rebecca

Darby Hinton

Israel Boone, Israel

Dal McKennon

Cincinnatus

Ed Ames

Mingo, Taramingo

Veronica Cartwright

Jemima Boone

Albert Salmi

Yadkin

Roosevelt Grier

Gabe Cooper

Jimmy Dean

Josh Clements, Jeremiah, Delo Jones

Ted White

Aweetok, Captain Harper, Carata

Robert Logan

Jericho Jones

Orville Sherman

Tupper, Buckman Tull, Will Camfield

James Wainwright

Cully

William Tannen

Calvin Moss, Clark, Ben Clark, John, Trapper

Harold Goodwin

Grover Hanks, David, Evans, Harper, Loomis, Second Man

Warren Vanders

Ben, Ben Crowley, Pike

Med Flory

Bingen, Dobbs, Joker, Jubal, Luke

Jack Bannon

British Guard, Corporal, Corporal Smythe, Larkin, Lieutenant Parker, Lieutenant Poole, Officer

Charles Horvath

Brave #1, Callaway, Eric Strasser, First Indian, Lonesome Joe, Luther Wills, Pike

Chuck Roberson

Dutch, Dark Panther, Lige Henry, Ruffian, Shawnee Leader

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