Daniel Boone - Season Four
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Movie Reviews of Daniel Boone - Season Four
Movie Review: Fans of Dan'l will appreciate . . .
Summary: 4 Stars
Fans of Dan'l will appreciate this, the 4th season. With the exception of his wife, Rebecca who is, as usual, dumber than a box of rocks and should never have been offered a speaking part. Or, any part for that matter. Still scratchin' my head over the purpose of her character in the series series. But, ol' Dan'l redeems the season with his usual passel of fist fights and firing off tick licker. You'll be amazed he's still got all his teeth after he stops all those fists with his face!Movie Review: Wonderful Series.
Summary: 4 Stars
Wonderful Series.
Done of except a book, with data on the history of this it magnifies series.
Correct presentation.
Perfect image.
Wonderful color.
Movie Review: The American Frontier As Seen By "The Great Society"
Summary: 3 Stars
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.
Movie Review: Not as good as previous seasons
Summary: 3 Stars
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.
Movie Review: So begins the downward spiral
Summary: 3 Stars
This season is not the best. There is no more Mingo, and Jimmy Dean well .... Let's just say he wasn't the best replacement for Mingo. The show still is innocent but the plots have taken a downward turn. Most of them are pretty dumb. So if you are looking for a G show this is a good pick, but if you're after a good show get season three or earlier.