Young Dan'l Boone was a short-lived TV series broadcast on CBS

CBS

CBS Broadcasting Inc. is a major US commercial broadcasting television network, which started as a radio network. The name is derived from the initials of the network's former name, Columbia Broadcasting System. The network is sometimes referred to as the "Eye Network" in reference to the shape of...

 for only four episodes from September 12 to October 10, 1977. The series followed Daniel Boone

Daniel Boone

Daniel Boone was an American pioneer, explorer, and frontiersman whose frontier exploits mad']'e him one of the first folk heroes of the United States. Boone is most famous for his exploration and settlement of what is now the Commonwealth of Kentucky, which was then beyond the western borders of...

 on his adventures before he was married. His 3 companions were Peter Dawes, a 12-year-old English boy, a runaway slave named Hawk, and a Cherokee

Cherokee

The Cherokee are a Native American people historically settled in the Southeastern United States . Linguistically, they are part of the Iroquoian language family...

 Indian named Tsiskwa. Meanwhile, Rebecca Bryan

Rebecca Boone

Rebecca Ann Boone was an American pioneer and the wife of famed frontiersman Daniel Boone. No contemporary portrait of her exists, but people who knew her said that when she met her future husband she was nearly as tall as he and very attractive with black hair and dark eyes.She was born near...

 waits at home hoping she and Daniel would marry someday.

Cast

• Daniel Boone-Rick Moses
  Rick Moses
  Rick Moses is an American actor and singer/songwriter.-Early life:Moses was born in Washington, District of Columbia. He is the oldest son of advertising executive Richard Cantrell Moses and Marian McCargo . Moses has three siblings; brothers Graham, Harry and Billy...
  
  
• Rebecca Bryan-Devon Ericson
• Peter Dawes-John Joseph Thomas
• Hawk-Tu Cumbuka
• Tsiskwa-Elroy Phil Casados

Guest stars included Cal Bellini

Cal Bellini

Cal Bellini is a former actor, a Malay originally from Singapore, who was cast in roles of mostly foreigners, American Indians, or ethnic minorities, primarily on American television between 1960 and 1986....

, Victor Jory

Victor Jory

Victor Jory was a Canadian actor.-Biography:Born in Dawson City, Yukon, Jory was the boxing and wrestling champion of the Coast Guard during his military service, and he kept his burly physique. He toured with theater troupes and appeared on Broadway, before making his Hollywood debut in 1930...

, Jeremy Brett, Kurt Kasznar, Clive Revill, Richard Kiel, and Paul Shenar. Several actors from the nearby University of Tennessee

University of Tennessee

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theater department played recurring Native Americans.