Obit: Fess Parker: Davy Crockett, Daniel Boone

What's more, Fess Parker and his pal Buddy Ebsen came directly into your living room. You didn't have to go to a crowded movie theater to see them. You could talk about the action during the commercials. And they returned periodically for a whole year, .... (Bobby Driscoll as Jim Hawkins in Disney's "Treasure Island" was the other, and he was about my age, but that was just a movie I saw once. I had Fess for many weeks as Davy and then for many more as Dan'l Boone. ...