Starring: Fess Parker, Ed Ames, Patricia Blair, Darby Hinton, Dallas McKennon Average Rating: Aspect Ratio: 1.33:1 Audience Rating: NR (Not Rated) Binding: DVD Format: Box set, Color, Dolby, DVD-Video, Original recording remastered, Widescreen, NTSC Label: Goldhill Home Media Number of Items: 7 Region Code: 1 Release Date: June 19, 2007 Running Time: 1320 minutes Theatrical Release Date: September 24, 1964
Description: Wholesome fun for the entire family! Daniel Boone Season 4
Fess Parker stars as Daniel Boone, in this timeless classic series. Daniel Boone, America's classic frontier hero, continues his adventures right here with Season 4 - now on DVD. Digitally restored and re-mastered from its original television presentation in 1967 - in brilliant color!
Daniel Boone-Season 4 This series lives up to all the others. We would like to know what happened to Gemima. None of the shows, tell what happened they just never have her on or mention her.
Not as good as previous seasons I love this series! However, while I give Seasons 2 and 3 Five Stars (Season 1 had not yet hit a stride), this Season (4) has some problems:
1) The writing just isn't as good as the previous 2 seasons. Too much Israel Boone, and too much of the same type of story with the British, and too many "unbelievable" situations. Sometimes Boone is made to look like a weakling while Israel saves his life! Give me a break. 2) The audio is out of sync on these episodes sometimes. Funny because on one of the Bonus Features they talk about how much care the put into cleaning up the audio and video. As someone in the industry I can tell you that there is no excuse for not having the audio sync up, it's just sloppiness. Someone did not do their job correctly and no one supervised to check and fix it. 3) Jemimah Boone just disappears with no explanation. No great loss, but kind of annoying when people just disappear. 4) Mingo is not in enough episodes.
#1 above is the MAIN problem, though - the others are just minor problems.
I would recommend this season only if you're a completist and want to have the entire collection. If you're only buying one or two sets, buy season 2 and season 3.
I don't know how Seasons after this are, I haven't seen them. Hopefully it does not go further downhill, but usually once a series begins to "jump the shark", there is no going back... And I'd say it jumped the shark in Season 4.
The American Frontier As Seen By "The Great Society" 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 fourth of six seasons for this extremely popular baby boomer show. 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. This (Season #4) was the last year that Ames was part of the series.
Cartwright is not on this DVD set. She had bailed out after season two and been replaced by budding sausage king Jimmy Dean as Josh Clements, in the tradition Chester and Festus from "Gunsmoke".
Then again, what do I know? I'm only a child.
Great Show/Great Lessons/Great Man With 4 children under the age of 9 and with the memory of Fess Parker as Daniel Boone and Davy Crockett still etched in my head from the 'golden years' growing up, I can tell you that my children loved every minute of the suspense of this movie (save for each of them biting their nails)! The lessons and morals taught are invaluable and at such contrast to the mindless movies and programming children today are subjected to. I met Fess Parker in person in 2/08 at his hotel in Santa Barabara and I assure you that he's still bigger than life at 6' 5" tall, handsome and a with a great voice and a charitable disposition. Buy his film legacy, they're not making any more of him (at least right now).
Fess Parker Daniel Boone Season four This was a great series when I was a kid and now has become a great journey down memory lane. Liberation Entertainment has done a wonderful job of recreating this series. I didn't realize it as a kid, but with each season the acting the scenery and overall quality gets better. If you enjoyed this series as a kid, I know that you will enjoy watching them again. In my mind, Fess Parker will never grow old and the life lessons and morals come through with each episode that I watch. It's too bad that kids today do not have this quality of television entertainment. If they did, perhaps there would be less violence, crime and a better America! I would highly reccomend this to anyone.
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