A dying man staggers into Boonesborough stockade with a valuable pearl necklace and a story of how a man will be wrongfully hanged for a crime the former committed. Daniel starts on a journey to New Orleans to right things, flanked by settlers with less noble motives.
What starts out as a dramatic beat-the-clock episode quickly morphs into a slapstick comedy chase akin to 1963's "Its a Mad Mad Mad Mad World" with some danger elements thrown in. Competing with Dan for the necklace are a Mutt and Jeff pair (Laurie Main and James Griffith) and a somewhat more formidable townsman played by Philip Carey (longtime soap patriarch Asa Buchanan on "All My Children). But, the situations presented would have been a better venue for Mingo to deploy his talents.
It's hard to develop any kind of chase narrative in a 45-minute teleplay, and the hour dawdles right out of the gate. In one odd sequence Dan apparently eludes pursuers by paddling a canoe half a block, then doubles back to save the above-mentioned trio from a burning shack.
The old Davy Crockett staple of predatory river pirates makes its way into the narrative, and we are rewarded for our trouble with a brief flintlock fight - alas, filmed not very effectively in the dark. Historically the episode is completely off the rails; New Orleans is presented as French-ruled and a conduit of French aid to the Revolution. The Revolution is unmentioned for almost the entire hour, and New Orleans was Spanish-ruled during the period.
The outing fails to develop the chase, the murder's background and resolution, the comedic aspect, or the political subplots, and ineffectively divides its efforts among them all. Moving the action straight to New Orleans would have proved more engaging.