Season 1 • Episode 5
LatestAfter their adventures from the keelboat race in the previous episode, Mike Fink decides it's best to become friends with Davy. Davy and Mike team up with Georgie to catch some pirates that are posing as Indians.
Davy Crockett is a five-part serial which aired on ABC 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 1955 theatrical film Davy Crockett, King of the Wild Frontier, 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 1956 theatrical film Davy Crockett and the River Pirates. It was filmed in Cave-In-Rock, Illinois.
Score
That earworm theme song will haunt your dreams.
Acting
Fess Parker's effortless charm defined American heroism.
Production
Shot on location—rare for 1954 TV Disney magic.
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
This serial sparked a nationwide coonskin cap craze in 1955, selling $100 million in merchandise and briefly making frontier fashion a genuine economic force.
Fess Parker was so synonymous with Davy Crockett that Walt Disney cast him as Daniel Boone next—essentially playing the same guy twice because America couldn't get enough.
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