Daniel Boone (TV series)

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Television series
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

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

Commons : Daniel Boone  - collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. Daniel Boone. In: synchronkartei.de. German synchronous file , accessed on May 22, 2014 .