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Created by Elroy SchwartzSherwood Schwartz Written by John Fenton MurrayAustin KalishIrma KalishLarry RhineAl SchwartzElroy SchwartzSherwood Schwartz Directed by Jack ArnoldEarl BellamyBruce BilsonRuss MayberryLeslie H. MartinsonRichard MichaelsOscar Rudolph Starring Bob DenverForrest TuckerIvor FrancisJeannine RileyLori SaundersLynn WoodBill Cort Theme music composer Ross SchwartzSherwood Schwartz Cast | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Dusty s trail not so magnificent seven ep 1 bob denver
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 Gilligan's Island.
Contents
- Dusty s trail not so magnificent seven ep 1 bob denver
- Storyline
- Cast
- Theatrical movie The Wackiest Wagon Train in the West
- Reception and cancellation
- DVD release
- References
The series, set in the latter 19th century, is about a small, diverse cluster of lost travelers who become separated from their wagon train.
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
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. In order, the four episodes are:
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.
Denver professed on several occasions that Dusty's Trail was his favorite show to perform.
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.
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.
DVD release
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.