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Overview

Daniel Boone is a classic 1960s American television series that loosely chronicles the adventures of the legendary frontiersman during the early settlement of Kentucky. Starring Fess Parker (already iconic as Davy Crockett), the series ran for six seasons and became a staple of family-friendly frontier television, blending history, action, and morality tales in a picturesque but often wildly inaccurate portrayal of 18th-century America.

Strengths

Fess Parker's performance as Boone is steady and likable-he brings the same folksy, earnest energy that made him a star.

Ed Ames as Mingo, Boone's Oxford-educated Cherokee companion, adds a unique and memorable presence, even if the character is fictional.

The show features solid production values for its time: expansive outdoor scenes, colorful costumes, and reasonably engaging frontier plots.

It avoids excessive violence, making it suitable for family viewing, and often promotes themes like justice, perseverance, and peace between cultures.

Weaknesses & Timeline Issues

The show's biggest flaw-especially through a modern lens-is its historical inconsistency and complete disregard for chronological logic.

The timeline jumps erratically between the 1770s and the early 1800s, sometimes referencing events decades apart-such as the Revolutionary War in one episode, and the War of 1812 in another-with no passage of time reflected in the characters.

Characters never age: Boone, his wife Rebecca, and especially his son Israel remain visually unchanged across what should have been more than 30 years.

Real historical events and figures (like George Washington and Lafayette) are used selectively and out of context to fit individual episode plots.

The disappearance of Jemima Boone (played by Veronica Cartwright) after season 2-without any explanation-underscores the show's loose approach to continuity.

These inconsistencies suggest the show-runners prioritized episodic adventure over narrative coherence. While not uncommon for its era, this can be jarring for viewers expecting a grounded historical drama.

The story is fairly basic. Four young women are kayaking to an island for a holiday.

Having enjoying themselves on the journey, they find that they are being stalked by a large shark.

To survive, they need to banned together and find for their lives.

Although some scenes were predictable, many others caught you by surprise and scared the hell out of you.

At some points, it reminded me a little of "Jaws", with even some of the music sounding similar.

The characters were well acted, and the shark being very realistic.

A great scary movie, that reinforces my resolve not to swim in the ocean.

This movie set out to be an action packed drama, centered around Air Force One (with the US president & family onboard), on a collision course with a commercial airline plane. All hell breaks loose as onboard computers go crazy, and anything that could happen on a plane, happens. My spouse and I have never laughed so much at the antics of all characters involved. It was such a funny movie - a pity as it was not supposed to be funny. The icing on the cake was when Reginald VelJohnson as air traffic controller Bob Abbot, casually strolls around during the time sensitive emergency. Very sad indeed.