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Dusty's Trail

释义

Storyline
Cast
Episodes
Theatrical movie: The Wackiest Wagon Train in the West
Reception and cancellation
Home media
References
External links

{{Infobox television
| show_name = Dusty's Trail
| image = Dusty's Trail.jpg
| caption =
| genre = Comedy/Western
| creator = Elroy Schwartz
Sherwood Schwartz
| writer = John Fenton Murray
Austin Kalish
Irma Kalish
Larry Rhine
Al Schwartz
Elroy Schwartz
Sherwood Schwartz
| director = Jack Arnold
Earl Bellamy
Bruce Bilson
Russ Mayberry
Leslie H. Martinson
Richard Michaels
Oscar Rudolph
| starring = Bob Denver
Forrest Tucker
Ivor Francis
Jeannine Riley
Lori Saunders
Lynn Wood
Bill Cort
| theme_music_composer = Ross Schwartz
Sherwood Schwartz
| opentheme =
| composer = Frank De Vol
Jack Pleis
| country = United States
| language = English
| num_seasons = 1
| num_episodes = 26
| list_episodes =
| executive_producer = Sherwood Schwartz
| producer = Elroy Schwartz
| editor =
| cinematography = Alan Stensvold
| camera = Single-camera
| runtime = 24 mins.
| company = Metromedia Producers Corporation
Redwood Productions
Writer First Productions
| distributor =
| channel = Syndication
| picture_format =
| audio_format = Monaural
| first_aired = {{start date|1973|09|11}}
| last_aired = {{end date|1974|03|12}}
| followed_by = The Wackiest Wagon Train in the West
}}

Dusty's Trail is an American Western/comedy series that aired in syndication from September 1973 to March 1974 starring Bob Denver and Forrest Tucker. The series is a western-themed reworking of Denver's previous (and more well known) series Gilligan's Island.

The series, set in the latter 19th century, is about a small, diverse cluster of lost travelers who become separated from their wagon train. Country music singer Mel Street sang the theme song.

Storyline

Two coachmen and five passengers of a wagon and stagecoach become separated from their wagon train on the way to California in the early 1870s. The group includes wagonmaster Mr. Callahan and his shotgun lookout Dusty, Mr. and Mrs. Brookhaven (a wealthy Eastern banker and his wife), book-smarts thinker Andy, dance-hall girl Lulu McQueen, and farm girl Betsy. The show follows their adventures while they attempt to return to their wagon train. According to the theme song, "...Dusty's the reason for their plight, thanks to Dusty – nothing's right".

Cast

Bob Denver as Dusty
Forrest Tucker as Mr Callahan
Ivor Francis as Carson Brookhaven
Jeannine Riley as Lulu McQueen
Lori Saunders as Betsy McGuire
Lynn Wood as Daphne Brookhaven
Bill Cort as Andy Boone

Episodes

No.	Title	Directed by	Written by	Original air date{{Episode list	EpisodeNumber=1	Title=The Not So Magnificent Seven	DirectedBy=Earl Bellamy	WrittenBy=Sherwood Schwartz Elroy Schwartz	1973\|9\|11}}	ShortSummary=The wagoners stumble upon a ghost town. While they try to find out the reason for the abandonment, one of the wagoners believes the residents were forced to leave. This proves all too correct, as they then encounter three gunmen who held the town for hostage.	LineColor=500050 }}{{Episode list	EpisodeNumber=2	Title=There Is Nothing Like a Dame	DirectedBy=Bruce Bilson	WrittenBy=Howard Ostroff	1973\|9\|18}}	ShortSummary=Two cattle thieves try to rustle up some women.	LineColor=500050 }}{{Episode list	EpisodeNumber=3	Title=Horse of Another Color	DirectedBy=Oscar Rudolph	WrittenBy=Brad Radnitz	1973\|9\|25}}	ShortSummary=Dusty catches a wild horse and tries to tame it, but then the horse's owner shows up with a marshal, ready to hang him as a horse thief.	LineColor=500050 }}{{Episode list	EpisodeNumber=4	Title=Treasure of C. Harry Motley	DirectedBy=Bruce Bilson	WrittenBy=David P. Harmon	1973\|10\|2}}	ShortSummary=Dusty's discovery of a treasure map brings out everyone's greed.	LineColor=500050 }}{{Episode list	EpisodeNumber=5	Title=Duel for Daphne	DirectedBy=Leslie H. Martinson	WrittenBy=Larry Rhine, Al Schwartz	1973\|10\|9}}	ShortSummary=Dusty and an Indian headdress cause a misunderstanding that leads Mr. Brookhaven to challenge Callahan to a duel over Mrs. Brookhaven's affections.	LineColor=500050 }}{{Episode list	EpisodeNumber=6	Title=Love Means Not Having to Say You're Bananas	DirectedBy=Leslie H. Martinson	WrittenBy=Ron Friedman	1973\|10\|16}}	ShortSummary=A gorilla that has escaped from a traveling circus invades the camp and captures Betsy. Dusty, Andy, and Mr. Callahan try to think of some way to get her out of the cave the gorilla has put her in.	LineColor=500050 }}{{Episode list	EpisodeNumber=7	Title=Then There Were Seven	DirectedBy=Oscar Rudolph	WrittenBy=Larry Rhine, Al Schwartz	1973\|10\|23}}	ShortSummary=Andy and Betsy are tricked into giving medical aid to a wounded outlaw, which results in the entire group being held hostage while they try to surgically remove a bullet.	LineColor=500050 }}{{Episode list	EpisodeNumber=8	Title=Tomahawk Territory	DirectedBy=Jack Arnold	WrittenBy=Elroy Schwartz, Sherwood Schwartz	1973\|10\|30}}	ShortSummary=After rescuing a young Indian brave from a bear and finding out he's the Chief's son, the group hopes to trade being Good Samaritans for safe passage through Hackamaw territory, but instead the Hackamaws go on the warpath and kidnap Betsy.	LineColor=500050}{{Episode list	EpisodeNumber=9	Title=Two of a Kind	DirectedBy=(Unknown)	WrittenBy=(Unknown)	1973\|11\|6}}	ShortSummary=Seeing a "Wanted" poster with a bearded outlaw who looks just like Callahan, the travelers wonder if he has been hiding a checkered past.	LineColor=500050 }}{{Episode list	EpisodeNumber=10	Title=Half Moon	DirectedBy=Earl Bellamy	WrittenBy=Austin Kalish, Irma Kalish	1973\|11\|13}}	ShortSummary=Seeing Dusty's birthmark, an Indian chief thinks Dusty is his long-lost son and kidnaps him to resume life with the Indians.	LineColor=500050 }}{{Episode list	EpisodeNumber=11	Title=Here Come the Brides, There Go the Grooms	DirectedBy=Russ Mayberry	WrittenBy=Bill Freedman, Ben Gershman	1973\|11\|20}}	ShortSummary=Two hillbillies kidnap Dusty and Callahan to become husbands for their ugly sisters in a double-barreled shotgun wedding.	LineColor=500050 }}{{Episode list	EpisodeNumber=12	Title=Danger Stranger	DirectedBy=Bruce Bilson	WrittenBy=Bruce Howard	1973\|11\|27}}	ShortSummary=While trying to find a pass through the mountains, the wagoners bump into a murderous outlaw who is on the run.	LineColor=500050 }}{{Episode list	EpisodeNumber=13	Title=The Magician	DirectedBy=Bruce Bilson	WrittenBy=John Fenton Murray	1973\|12\|4}}	ShortSummary=The group encounters a traveling magician who keeps them amused with his tricks while his assistant steals all their valuables.	LineColor=500050 }}{{Episode list	EpisodeNumber=14	Title=Androcles and the Bear	DirectedBy=John Florea	WrittenBy=John Fenton Murray	1973\|12\|11}}	ShortSummary=A grizzly bear follows Dusty back to camp after he pulls a thorn from its foot, but the others drive it away, right into the path of some hunters.	LineColor=500050 }}{{Episode list	EpisodeNumber=15	Title=My Fair Callahan	DirectedBy=Bruce Bilson	WrittenBy=Bruce Howard	1973\|12\|18}}	ShortSummary=When they rescue a young woman of high social standing who was lost on the trail, Callahan falls in love with her and tries to transform himself into a gentleman.	LineColor=500050 }}{{Episode list	EpisodeNumber=16	Title=Brookhaven U.S.A.	DirectedBy=Richard Michaels	WrittenBy=Bruce Howard, Marc Mandel, Elroy Schwartz	1973\|12\|25}}	ShortSummary=When Dusty and the gang stumble upon an apparent ghost town, Mr. Brookhaven decides to rename it and turn it into a real town again.	LineColor=500050 }}{{Episode list	EpisodeNumber=17	Title=How Dry Was My Valley	DirectedBy=(Unknown)	WrittenBy=(Unknown)	1974\|1\|1}}	ShortSummary=When the group's supply of fresh water runs out, they hope a crackpot professor will be able to make it rain.	LineColor=500050 }}{{Episode list	EpisodeNumber=18	Title=The Wizard of Ooze	DirectedBy=Bruce Bilson	WrittenBy=Skip Webster	1974\|1\|8}}	ShortSummary=Dusty learns that the wagon train is parked on a volcano, but on the way to warn the others he hits his head and gets amnesia.	LineColor=500050 }}{{Episode list	EpisodeNumber=19	Title=Phony Express	DirectedBy=Robert Jones	WrittenBy=Howard Ostroff	1974\|1\|15}}	ShortSummary=A wounded soldier clamps a pouch onto Dusty's wrist, tells him to deliver it to Ford Hood, and to protect it with his life. Bad guy Bates shows up at the camp demanding the pouch, but its empty. Everyone makes up a story of how they swiped the contents to keep Bates from shooting them.	LineColor=500050 }}{{Episode list	EpisodeNumber=20	Title=Nothing to Crow About	DirectedBy=Russ Mayberry	WrittenBy=Rick Mittleman	1974\|1\|22}}	ShortSummary=With a terrible storm approaching, the travelers try to find the map to a hidden canyon where they'll be safe, but it has gone missing, as have several other valuable items around camp. Dusty is suspected of being a kleptomaniac.	LineColor=500050 }}{{Episode list	EpisodeNumber=21	Title=From Here to Maternity	DirectedBy=Earl Bellamy	WrittenBy=(Unknown)	1974\|2\|5}}	ShortSummary=Encountering a pregnant Indian woman, Callahan tries using smoke signals to contact her husband, but he's a member of an enemy tribe, and the smoke signals bring her angry father.	LineColor=500050 }}{{Episode list	EpisodeNumber=22	Title=Witch's Trail	DirectedBy=Bruce Bilson	WrittenBy=Gene Thompson	1974\|2\|12}}	ShortSummary=Dusty and Callahan find a girl on the trail and bring her back to camp, but when strange things start to happen they think she must be a witch.	LineColor=500050 }}{{Episode list	EpisodeNumber=23	Title=The Cavalry Is Coming	DirectedBy=Richard Michaels	WrittenBy=Austin Kalish, Irma Kalish	1974\|2\|19}}	ShortSummary=A Cavalry officer arrives, claiming that Andy is a deserter who stole an army payroll. After he arrests Andy, Dusty, and Callahan, who is left to save them?	LineColor=500050 }}{{Episode list	EpisodeNumber=24	Title=John J. Callahan	DirectedBy=John Florea	WrittenBy=Rick Mittleman	1974\|2\|26}}	ShortSummary=Callahan will win $500 in a boxing match if he can last 5 minutes against the Champ. But the Champ has kidnapped Mrs. Brookhaven.	LineColor=500050 }}{{Episode list	EpisodeNumber=25	Title=Day at the Races	DirectedBy=(Unknown)	WrittenBy=(Unknown)	1974\|3\|5}}	ShortSummary=The wagoners are forced into a horse race to win safe passage through Indian territory.	LineColor=500050 }}{{Episode list	EpisodeNumber=26	Title=Pechango Berries	DirectedBy=(Unknown)	WrittenBy=(Unknown)	1974\|3\|12}}	ShortSummary=Dusty comes back to camp after eating some berries and is suddenly changed from an incompetent bumbler to someone brimming with easy confidence. The trouble is, the berries are also going to kill him.	LineColor=500050 }}

Theatrical movie: The Wackiest Wagon Train in the West

Four episodes of the series were edited together into a theatrical film and released in movie theaters in August 1976.^[1] In order, the four episodes are:

"Tomahawk Territory"
"Horse of Another Color"
"There Is Nothing Like a Dame"
"The Not So Magnificent Seven"

Reception and cancellation

The show was created for Denver by Sherwood Schwartz, who had also created its progenitor, Gilligan's Island. According to U.S. television researchers Tim Brooks and Earle Marsh, the reason for the show's failure was that it was too derivative of Gilligan's Island.{{fact|date=April 2016}}

Denver professed on several occasions that Dusty's Trail was his favorite show to perform. {{blockquote|At that time I still had some animus at how CBS threw us in the dumper. Herb Edelman and I'd done The Good Guys- but sour critics said it should have been just called 'Guys'. Gilligan repeats were on the tube more than Cronkite, and its royalties about kaput. I told myself to just enjoy the ride, and if it (Dusty's Trail) hit paydirt, super, if not, then it wasn't in the cards. It was my best year in front of a camera.^[2]}}

During its run in the 1973–1974 season, it was reported Dusty's Trail barely made the top 50 shows, a fairly respectable showing for a first-run syndicated program. It nonetheless was canceled after its lone season, with 26 episodes produced out of an originally planned 30.

Home media

Several Dusty's Trail episodes, for reasons not entirely clear, were not properly copyrighted; these were among some of the last episodes of a regular TV series (in order of production) to lapse into the public domain, and some of the few to do so that were produced after 1963. Because of this, the show became widely available in reruns and on discount DVDs.

On October 12, 2004, Brentwood Home Video released 17 episodes of the series on Region 1 DVD in the United States.^[3]

References

1. ^Leszczak, Bob Single Season Sitcoms, 1948-1979: A Complete Guide p. 42
2. ^KDKA radio interview May 12, 1989
3. ^{{cite web|url=https://www.amazon.com/Dustys-Trail-Almost-Complete-Season/dp/B00062IZEK|title=Dusty's Trail - The Almost Complete First (And Only) Season (1973)|publisher=amazon.com|accessdate=17 March 2011}}

External links

{{IMDb title|0069577|Dusty's Trail}}
{{tv.com show|dustys-trail|Dusty's Trail}}
{{epguides|id=DustysTrail}}
[https://archive.org/search.php?query=dusty%27s%20trail Dusty's Trail episodes at the Internet Archive]

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