The Wonderful World of Disney
Season 6 Episode 4 - The Birth of the Swamp Fox
One of producer Walt Disney's more blatant efforts to duplicate the success of his early TV miniseries Davy Crockett, the 8-part Swamp Fox featured another flamboyant frontiersman hero who wore coonskin-style headgear and whose adventures were introduced with a catchy, memorable theme song. Based on a book by Dr. Robert D. Bass, The Swamp Fox stars Leslie Nielsen as real-life American patriot Francis Marion, a wealthy landowner who during the Revolutionary War led a hardy band of guerilla fighters against the Redcoats and pro-British tories in his native South Carolina. The villain of the piece (at least in the first few episodes) was another actual historical figure, the ruthless Banastre Tarleton (John Sutton), an officer in the British Green Dragoons (Marion and Tarleton later served as the models for the hero and villain, respectively, of the 1999 Mel Gibson film Patriot). In the first episode, Marion is prevailed upon by his friends and neighbors to help free South Carolina from t
Episodes in Season 6
Moochie of the Little League: A Diamond Is a Boy's Best Friend
60 min
Moochie of the Little League: Wrong Way Moochie
60 min
Killers of the High Country
60 min
The Birth of the Swamp Fox
60 min
Swamp Fox: Brother Against Brother
60 min
Perilous Assignment
60 min
Elfago Baca: Move Along, Mustangers
60 min
Elfago Baca: Mustang Man, Mustang Maid
60 min
A Storm Called Maria
60 min
Texas John Slaughter: The Robber Stallion
60 min
Texas John Slaughter: Wild Horse Revenge
60 min
Texas John Slaughter: Range War at Tombstone
60 min
Swamp Fox: Tory Vengeance
60 min
Swamp Fox: Day of Reckoning
60 min
Swamp Fox: Redcoat Strategy
60 min
Swamp Fox: A Case of Treason
60 min
Wild Burro of the West
60 min
Two Happy Amigos
60 min
Texas John Slaughter: Desperado from Tombstone
60 min
Texas John Slaughter: Apache Friendship
60 min
Texas John Slaughter: Kentucky Gunslick
60 min
Texas John Slaughter: Geronimo's Revenge
60 min
This is Your Life, Donald Duck
60 min
Elfago Baca: Friendly Enemies at Law
60 min
Elfago Baca: Gus Tomlin is Dead
60 min
The Mad Hermit of Chimney Butte
60 min
