For reasons that are probably inexplicable at this remove, the TV shows from which this move was made set off a national craze for all things Crockett. The plot was completely ridiculous at times—like when Davy tried to kill a bear, and then an Indian, by grinning at it. Other times it tried to make a political statement. At then it got dramatic in the (woefully unimpressive) Alamo scene.

Fess Parker's corn pone accent and hillbilly speech kept slipping in and out. The fight scenes were blood-free (of course, in a movie made for children) but also rather lazy and unconvincing. Crockett's character isn't really developed—he's just this down-home guy who keeps finding himself in the position to be a hero.

I know I'm not the target audience, but it's hard to see how this led to a nationwide fad.