A boon for 'Daniel Boone' on DVD

Star-Trib ^ | Sep 22 06 | Randy Salas

[churchillbuff]

The frontier TV series "Daniel Boone" was big in its day, but that was more than 40 years ago. No matter. The show's first two seasons, which come out Tuesday on DVD, are among the top 10 sellers for this week's releases at Amazon.

Fess Parker, who starred as the famous historical figure, knows why the 1964-70 series remains popular. "The show has lots of adventure and deals with groundbreaking themes that still attract audiences," said the actor, now 82. "The writing and acting was always superb, and when you do a show that good, it always resonates with old and new fans alike."

[nmh]

I loved his shows as a kid.

More and more I find myself look at OLDER movies to entertain kids. I don't like the leftist slant and potty talk or innuendos they routinely slip in.

[nmh]

Thanks for posting.

If Netflix has it we'll rent it from them. We find Netflix as a very good alternative to T.V..

[BallyBill]

TV Land has been showing the episodes lately. I remember it as a child, but it doesn't seem to hold up so well. I enjoy seeing a young Veronica Cartwright though.

[P-40]

More and more I find myself look at OLDER movies to entertain kids.

I'm surprised at how popular these older movies are with kids. I was at a friend's house once and the kids were watching The Three Stooges. He said all the kids in the neighborhood watch those old shows.

[Cicero]

[Renfield]

I grew up just a few miles from Boonesboro. I was always annoyed that the scenery on the show looked a lot more the Sierra Nevada mountains in California, than Central Kentucky.

[churchillbuff]

Didn't I read that, not long ago, they renamed a "Daniel Boone Highway" for some local, current congressman? Pretty disgusting, if true.

[youthgonewild]

Geriatric power!

[The Ghost of FReepers Past]

Beware of the promos on some of these DVD sets. Be sure to check them out before you let the kids control the remote. Brokeback Mountain was advertised on the Leave It To Beaver DVD set. It was also on the PG rated movie, Pride and Prejudice.

[Renfield]

The highway formerly known as the Daniel Boone Parkway connects London and Hazard in southeastern Kentucky. Like Kentucky’s other parkways, it was conceived as a toll road and operated as such from its opening in 1974 until June 1, 2003 when tolls were lifted. In early 2003, U.S. Representative Hal Rogers used his chairman position on a house appropriations subcommittee to have money to pay off the remaining bonds on the parkway included in the federal budget. To thank Rogers for this and other contributions to Kentucky, then-Governor Paul Patton issued an executive renaming the parkway the Hal Rogers Parkway.

Gov. Patton’s move to rename the parkway generated a great deal of controversy among Kentucky residents and descendants of Daniel Boone who were offended that name of Kentucky’s most famous early pioneer was to be removed and replaced with the name of a sitting congressman. The Associated Press picked up the story of the renaming and the subsequent outrage, and soon the story was being reported in newspapers as far away as the United Kingdom and was mentioned on the CNN show Crossfire.

After the tolls were removed, the transportation cabinet was quick to dismantle the three toll booths and replace the old Daniel Boone Parkway signs with new Hal Rogers Parkway signs. The toll booths at exits 34 and 44 were converted into at-grade T-intersections. There was no cross route at the London toll booth, so after the toll booth was dismantled it became little more than a bump in the road.

Unlike Kentucky’s other parkways, this parkway is almost entirely two lanes. Between the intersection with KY 192 in London and the intersection with KY 80 near Hazard, the parkway is a two-lane undivided highway. There are occasional passing and hill climbing lanes. Except for the at-grade intersections at the former toll booth locations, the highway is fully graded separated: this two-lane freeway configuration is known as a super-two . As an added safety feature, the parkway has rumble strips along the center line to help alert drivers who may be drifting into the oncoming lane.

Between the western terminus of the parkway at US 25 and the KY 192 intersection near the four mile mark, the parkway is four-lane surface street with a continuous left turn lane. Similarly, the parkway is a four-lane surface street with a continuous left turn lane for its last mile or so before its eastern terminus at the interchange with KY 80 and KY 15 near Hazard.

(from: http://www.kentuckyroads.com/daniel_boone_parkway/ )

[HHFi]

I'm surprised at how popular these older movies are with kids. I was at a friend's house once and the kids were watching The Three Stooges. He said all the kids in the neighborhood watch those old shows.

I grew up in the early '60s and always watched the Three Stooges (I especially loved Curly, and still do). I also loved Abbott & Costello. It never dawned on me that they were filmed in the '30s and '40s respectively. I just thought they were funny and accepted them as being just like anything else on TV. Of course, it helped that in those days, everything on our TV was black and white, so the age was less noticeable. Today's kids might refuse to watch anything that hasn't been colorized by Ted Turner. If so, I suggest beating them severely. Ted, too, just on general principle.

[P-40]

Brokeback Mountain was advertised on the Leave It To Beaver DVD set.

I'm not going to comment on that one....

[Cagey]

Break out the DVD.

[Phsstpok]

Daniel Boone was not quite the ground breaking explorer that legend has made out. The town he founded, Booneville, was built on land surveyed and owned by my ancestor and sold to Boone some 30 years later. The entire tract, of which Booneville was a small part, was known as "Beall's Folly."

Dan'l was a late comer with a good press agent. ;^>

[VOA]

I'm surprised at how popular these older movies are with kids.

I took a chance with an "old cartoons" DVD for $5 at Wal-Mart.
It had Popeye and Felix The Cat cartoons in addition to others.
Some of the Popeye cartoons are so old (1937) that they are in black-and-white.

My 4-year-old niece can't be pried away from the DVD. We have to call a
halt when she's watched "Spree Lunch" (Popeye and Bluto compete over
Wimpy as a customer at their diners) about six times in a row.

[bboop]

The Davy Crockett DVD was GREAT!!! Mike Fink too. We might watch them again tonight -- after the NDU game.

[GailA]

Wal-Mart has Superman too. I picked up the full 26 episodes of Victory at Sea last week from Wal-Mart for $5.50. They are great. For all you WWII buffs this would make a great addition to your collection. The History Channel is selling them for many times the $5.50 that Wal-Mart is asking for them.

[Ciexyz]

I remember watching those old Daniel Boone eps in the 60's, so I'll be checking out these DVD's.

FYI, several seasons of "Have Gun, Will Travel" are also available, I found those DVD's quite enjoyable.

[GailA]

Gun Smoke was one of my favorites. I've been watching some of the older John Wayne movies, again a great Wal-Mart $5.50 find. I think they also have Roy Rogers too.