Daniel Boone (TV series)
Television series | |
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German title | Daniel Boone |
Original title | Daniel Boone |
Country of production | United States |
original language | English |
Year (s) | 1964-1970 |
length | 60 minutes |
Episodes | 165 in 6 seasons |
genre | Western film |
Theme music | The Imperials - Daniel Boone |
production |
Barney Rosenzweig Ted Schliz George Sherman Joseph Silver |
music |
Vera Matson Lionel Newman |
First broadcast | September 24, 1964 on NBC |
German-language first broadcast |
1971 on DFF 1 |
occupation | |
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Daniel Boone is an American western series that was produced between 1964 and 1970 and is loosely based on the historical character of Daniel Boone .
action
It tells the story of the trapper and Wild West pioneer Daniel Boone, who opened up Kentucky around 1770 . The focus of the series is both the struggle of the settlers against Indians and bandits and his relationship with friends and family. He and his wife Rebecca have two children: Israel and Jemima. Friends include the Cherokee Indian Mingo, Josh Clements and, in later seasons, Cincinnatus and the escaped slave Gabe Cooper.
background
Historically documented Daniel Boone had ten children, not two. The television of the GDR showed 34 episodes of the series in 1971, until October 1989 Sat. 1 showed 108 episodes in the Federal Republic of Germany in a new synchronization. In addition to the year 2000, another 26 of the 165 episodes produced were broadcast on Premiere .
In the 34 episodes broadcast in the GDR, Gerhard Paul Daniel Boone , Karin Reif Becky Boone and Werner Kamenik Cincinnatus had spoken. In the Sat. 1 episodes Daniel Boone was finally spoken by Eberhard Mellies, Becky Boone by Hanna Bechstedt (formerly Hanna Mönig) and Cincinnatus by Hasso Zorn.
Leading actor Fess Parker had already played another Wild West pioneer in the 1950s, Davy Crockett, on the Disney television series Davy Crockett .
DVD release
The first two seasons were released in the United States on September 26, 2006, the 186th anniversary of Boone's death. By 2008, all six seasons appeared on DVD. A German-language publication is still pending, in Great Britain the first three seasons appeared in 2007 in regional code 2 .
Web links
- Daniel Boone in the Internet Movie Database (English)
Individual evidence
- ↑ Daniel Boone. In: synchronkartei.de. German synchronous file , accessed on May 22, 2014 .