The Daniel Boone episode I watched this weeked was titled The Tamarack Massacre Affair. That year, season, a new show premiered and became a hit, The Man From U.N.C.L.E., and all of their episodes were titled things like The This Affair or The That Affair and I wondered if that's why they might have titled this Daniel Boone episode like they did.
It guest starred Dina Merrill and Robert Lansing. He was the lead in the 12 O'Clock High TV series that premiered the previous year, when higher ups wanted to recast the lead to someone more, let's says, younger or appealing for the second season and they, in effect, fired him. I can't imagine how one would feel about that. He was replaced by Paul Burke, a veteran of other TV series. He was, in fact, nearly the same age as Lansing. I don't mind either of them in the role, but Lansing was more like the character Gregory Peck played in the movie, more cerebral, and I'd have to say the better actor. Burke was more like a movie star personality and that also has it's appeal. Couldn't they both been in the show?
Is that a show you ever watched, Jeff? It was on for three seasons, 1964-1967. The last season in color. It didn't make 100 episodes, only 78, so it wasn't syndicated, but it's popped up a great deal on various retro TV channels which is when I first watched it. It popped up on Amazon Prime for streaming for one year (last year) and then it was removed. It's never been put on DVD or I'd buy it. I watched it all again when it was on Prime, they were the full running times of 50-51 minutes and no commercials.
I never was interested in the WWII shows when they were on in the 1960s, I only saw them decades later. Combat!, which is on DVD, was really good and on for six years. The mid-70s had a show called Baa Baa Black Sheep, retitled The Black Sheep Squadron for the second season. That one starred Robert Conrad and lasted two years, but that is also on DVD. I was not into McHale's Navy. Even for me, it was just too silly. They had too many supporting actors who were crazy--Joe Flynn, Tim Conway, Carl Ballantine--together they were just too much even for me as a kid who loved whacky! Incidentally, I ran into Carl Ballantine when I was visiting a chiropractor for a time for TMJ. I was about to go into the office and the door opened and there he was, coming out! He was still crazy! Said hello and made a joke or something! I did enjoy that.