While on a hunting trip in Shawnee country (which inevitably provokes the requisite ire and attack by the tribesmen), Daniel and Mingo run across a tombstone far removed from any white settlement, and are followed home to Boonesborough by a young woman reluctant to share her home or origins. Daniel and the Boonesborough residents attempt to solve the mystery.
Every series encounters a point where the writers' room runs out of ideas, and DB is no exception. Lost woman Elizabeth Corbett is played by Katherine Walsh (a native Kentuckian!), but her backstory takes forever to set up and she is given little beyond a damsel in distress assignment. Walsh is another DB guest star whose career ended early in tragedy when she passed away from a drug overdose in 1973. Another 60's actor with a brief tv career, Joseph Hoover, is given a one-episode tryout as Elizabeth's love interest and Daniel's youth-interest sidekick. Nice to see Cincinatus back behind the tavern bar, but overall its an assembly-line episode with little drama.
In case the title has not made it obvious, the story is a loosely based offshoot of the North Carolina Lost Colony story, in which the first English settlement in North America - the Roanoke Colony - fell out of contact with the mother country and was "lost." Founded in 1587 in the Cape Fear region by John White, the struggling colony was left to its own devices while England met the Spanish Armada in 1588. When a resupply mission led by Sir Richard Grenville finally arrived in 1590, the settlement was abandoned with only a cryptic message carved on a tree. Present day archaeological evidence indicates the settlers left to live with area tribes due to a dwindling food supply.
In this episode, the Lost Colony's founding is dated well into the mid-17th century, well past the founding of Jamestown and Plymouth and also well removed from the possibility of being "lost." And suffice it to say the DB version rather unimaginatively places the refugee colonists trekking all the way from coastal North Carolina into the Appalachians, there to take up residence akin to Old Testament Israelites in a hollow perpetually shrouded in fog.
Since 1937 a summer-stock theatrical presentation, "The Lost Colony," has been staged on the colony site near Manteo, NC. NC native Andy Griffith was in the company for a time, and its educational qualities likely stand far above this hour of television.
Another DB filler episode, but better ones are on the way.
Every series encounters a point where the writers' room runs out of ideas, and DB is no exception. Lost woman Elizabeth Corbett is played by Katherine Walsh (a native Kentuckian!), but her backstory takes forever to set up and she is given little beyond a damsel in distress assignment. Walsh is another DB guest star whose career ended early in tragedy when she passed away from a drug overdose in 1973. Another 60's actor with a brief tv career, Joseph Hoover, is given a one-episode tryout as Elizabeth's love interest and Daniel's youth-interest sidekick. Nice to see Cincinatus back behind the tavern bar, but overall its an assembly-line episode with little drama.
In case the title has not made it obvious, the story is a loosely based offshoot of the North Carolina Lost Colony story, in which the first English settlement in North America - the Roanoke Colony - fell out of contact with the mother country and was "lost." Founded in 1587 in the Cape Fear region by John White, the struggling colony was left to its own devices while England met the Spanish Armada in 1588. When a resupply mission led by Sir Richard Grenville finally arrived in 1590, the settlement was abandoned with only a cryptic message carved on a tree. Present day archaeological evidence indicates the settlers left to live with area tribes due to a dwindling food supply.
In this episode, the Lost Colony's founding is dated well into the mid-17th century, well past the founding of Jamestown and Plymouth and also well removed from the possibility of being "lost." And suffice it to say the DB version rather unimaginatively places the refugee colonists trekking all the way from coastal North Carolina into the Appalachians, there to take up residence akin to Old Testament Israelites in a hollow perpetually shrouded in fog.
Since 1937 a summer-stock theatrical presentation, "The Lost Colony," has been staged on the colony site near Manteo, NC. NC native Andy Griffith was in the company for a time, and its educational qualities likely stand far above this hour of television.
Another DB filler episode, but better ones are on the way.
