Daniel Boone (TV Series) A Matter of Vengeance (1970) User Reviews

Best one of the final season!

[mitchrmp · 10/10 · 5 May 2011]

I must say this was a very good exercise. My favorite part was Israel's witnessing the beating to death...ohmygosh, that one got me! I had no idea what the outcome was going to be...That was DEFINITELY an attention getter, and the "How are you going to tell Becky about this?" made a lot more sense!!!

There are ways to teach lessons, and there are ways. I've a feeling children now days would NEVER get a lesson taught in such a real way!!!

My questions was: were the two men guilty? They certainly acted guilty enough when they were in Boonsboro...

Like I said, the best episode of the season.

Where's Angela Lansbury when you really need her?

[militarymuseu-88399 · 6/10 · 28 August 2023]

Mason (Jim McMullen) is getting married, but the festivities are interrupted when a pair of trappers show up who might have murdered his parents.

The character of Mason is given a big growth spurt here as he goes from sometime Dan (Fess Parker does show up this week) sidekick to more complex individual with his own motivations. By now the production values budget for DB is likely long gone, so to finish out the series more around-the-fort episodes and a whodunnit is easy to do. McMullen looks more like an LBJ-era frat rush chair than a frontiersman, but he does what he can. His romantic interest is Linda Marsh, who would find greater success as a 1980's sitcom producer.

The hour predictably makes Dan the voice of reason, to the point of sheltering the accused in his home from Mason's vengence. More interestingly, Israel is finally written with some stirrings of teen rebellion, calling one of the accused trappers "Cain" and telling Mason " Pa doesn't understand us younger men." But a contrivance obvious to any viewer quickly dials it back and allows the elders once again to demonstrate their infallibility.

No history worth mentioning here, except to note that Mason's tragedy happened in " Shelby" about 15 years prior - Shelby, Ky. Was not founded until 1790, which can serve as the approximate episode date, and Shelby County, Tenn. (Memphis) got underway about 1818.

For the second week in a row a very generic TV Western script is run through the DB production mill, with forgettable results. Unfortunate that the concept of series finale arc was underdeveloped in 1970.