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Originally Posted by jswinden
I wasn't born when Fess Parker and Buddy Epsen filmed the Disney Davy Crocket series of movies/TV shows. I saw them in the 1960s though. But I do remember Fess and Ed Ames in the Daniel Boone TV series in the 1960s. As I recall Ed Ames and his brothers were talented singers too. I remember that Daniel Boone toys were all the rage back then too--for about 15 minutes.
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I was and I remember watching the episodes on TV. Of course, I had a coonskin cap and a rifle so I could be just like him. I preferred watching Davy Crockett over Daniel Boone.
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Davy Crockett is a five-part serial which aired on ABC from 1954-1955 in one-hour episodes, on the Disneyland series. The series stars Fess Parker as real-life frontiersman Davy Crockett and Buddy Ebsen as his friend, George Russel.
The first three episodes of the serial were edited together as the theatrical film Davy Crockett, King of the Wild Frontier (1955) and rebroadcast in color in the 1960s, when the Disney program went to NBC. This series and film are known for the catchy theme song, "The Ballad of Davy Crockett". It was filmed in color at the Great Smoky Mountains National Park at the Mountain Farm Museum adjacent to the visitor center at Oconaluftee, near Qualla Reservation's entrance and Janss Conejo Ranch, California.
The final two episodes were edited together as the theatrical film Davy Crockett and the River Pirates (1956). It was filmed in Cave-In-Rock, Illinois.
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