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A favorite episode in the Disney series on Davey Crockett was a show off, one ups man shoot in a general store. Maybe in Mike Fink and the River Boat Men. Davey sets up a series of cast iron skillets around the store at different angles and puts a round ball unseen (except to the audience) into his mouth before shooting at one skillet. You hear the ball ricocheting around the room and after it bounces off the last skillet he jumps up to "catch" the round ball now shown grasped between his teeth. That had to be a challenging and fun scene to set up and film. Readers" disclaimer: don't try this at home. Somewhere on line there is an article with pictures of several muzzle loaders used by Fess Parker in both Davey Crockett and Daniel Boone. I have an old black and white print of him holding a flintlock rifle with the rear sight way forward of the breech. His knife in the cheesey sheath appears to be a Kabar style.
 
RanchRoper said:
Anytime I was at a Disney theme park....head for Frontierland! Don't know if they even have it anymore.
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My maternal grandparents used to take me over to Disneyland just about every summer during the mid and late '70s. We'd load up their car and drive from Phoenix to Anaheim, spend the weekend, then drive back. Frontierland was one of my favorites too. Tom Sawyer's Island, the Twain riverboat, the sailing ship, etc. Wonderful times and wonderful memories.
 
I have early memories of those days when the Disney Davy Crockett series became a big hit and my older brothers went banana's watching it! I was still in diapers so didn't quite get so enthused at the time! The boys got these Davy Crockett iron on patches that our mom put on sweat shirts along with coonskin caps that were fake fur or maybe rabbit with real coon tails.
 
I remember that my wife had her POLLY CROCKETT COON / RABBIT SKIN FUR CAP. any one else remember them?
 
I grew up watching Fess Parker as Dan’l Boone. He was my hero and is responsible for my love of flintlock rifles.
I even tried to convince my parents to change my name to Daniel Boone.
One of our local tv stations played the reruns for a year or two. I didn’t miss a one.
 
Darto said:
Nick Cravet (Busted Luck a Comanche tribesman), Fess Parker (Crockett), Buddy Ebson (Georgie Russel).

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Cravet (5' 4") teamed up with Burt Lancaster (6' 1") for 8 years in a circus acrobatic act before Lancaster became a Hollywood super star.

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Cravet was also the little Gremlin in the William Shatner Twilight Zone feature Nightmare at 20,000 feet.

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Saw an episode of Kung Fu (David Carradine) where Shatner was a bad guy and took a beating from Carradine.
(1974)
 
beardedhorse said:
A favorite episode in the Disney series on Davey Crockett was a show off, one ups man shoot in a general store. Maybe in Mike Fink and the River Boat Men. Davey sets up a series of cast iron skillets around the store at different angles and puts a round ball unseen (except to the audience) into his mouth before shooting at one skillet. You hear the ball ricocheting around the room and after it bounces off the last skillet he jumps up to "catch" the round ball now shown grasped between his teeth. That had to be a challenging and fun scene to set up and film. Readers" disclaimer: don't try this at home. Somewhere on line there is an article with pictures of several muzzle loaders used by Fess Parker in both Davey Crockett and Daniel Boone. I have an old black and white print of him holding a flintlock rifle with the rear sight way forward of the breech. His knife in the cheesey sheath appears to be a Kabar style.
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I recall that. Nowadays, there'd be a legal disclaimer regarding dangers of Lead exposure, and an insert stating that he only used a non-toxic, prop bullet. A lot of the old props wouldn't stand up to examination, such as we see in modern films like "Mohicans", etc.
 
Captjoel said:
I have early memories of those days when the Disney Davy Crockett series became a big hit and my older brothers went banana's watching it! I was still in diapers so didn't quite get so enthused at the time! The boys got these Davy Crockett iron on patches that our mom put on sweat shirts along with coonskin caps that were fake fur or maybe rabbit with real coon tails.
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There were neat spin-off products you'd find at the five-and-dime. Like a card with a ring and several keys, touted as The Keys To The Alamo! I was shocked when Davy and Georgie Russell got "killed" at the Alamo!
 
The Davy Crockett TV shows were so popular that the brand new elementary school that was being built 1/2 mile from where I lived back in 1955 was named Davy Crockett Elementary School.

Since the "Name purists" haven't gotten to it yet, it is still named Davy Crockett Elementary School today. :)

No. I didn't get to go to it. We moved to a different neighborhood the year it opened.
 
I recently read somewhere that during his life, David Crockett never went by Davy, always David. That nickname didn't come about until the dime novels and theater plays started.
 

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