Line #39 Series/DustysTrail


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2	[[caption-width-right:266:[[Series/GilligansIsland "Skipper!"]] [[Series/FTroop "Agarn!"]] ]]
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4	''Dusty's Trail'' was a 1973-1974 series, starring Creator/BobDenver and Forrest Tucker about a stagecoach and wagon lost from their train en route to California. Many have interpreted it as basically ''Series/GilligansIsland'' in the Old West, and both shows were created by Creator/SherwoodSchwartz.
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6	Ranked by ''[[Literature/WhatWereTheyThinkingThe100DumbestEventsInTelevisionHistory What Were They Thinking? The 100 Dumbest Events in Television History]]'' as the 59th worst event.
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8	A number of the episodes are in the public domain. The original negatives to all episodes are currently owned by Creator/{{Disney}} through Creator/TwentiethCenturyStudios (successor to Metromedia Producers Corporation, which originally produced the series).
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10	!!This show includes examples of:
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12	%%* AttendingYourOwnFuneral: This happened to Dusty in one episode.
13	%%* BlondeBrunetteRedhead:
14	%%** Lulu: Blonde
15	%%** Betsy: Brunette
16	%%** Mrs. Brookhaven: Redhead
17	* TheBoxingEpisode: In "John J. Callahan", Callahan will win $500 in a boxing match if he can last 5 minutes against the Champ. But the Champ has kidnapped Mrs. Brookhaven.
18	* CompilationMovie: ''The Wackiest Wagon Train in the West'', which was merely ''Dusty's Trail'' composed of four separate TV episodes with four separate storylines, nowadays found on inexpensive public domain DVD's.
19	%%* CriminalDoppelganger: Apparently Mr. Callahan has one.
20	* DamselInDistress: Betsy, who was kidnapped no less than ''three'' times over the course of twenty-six episodes.
21	%%* TheDitz
22	%%* EveryoneMeetsEveryone
23	%%* ExpositoryThemeSong: "A stage and a wagon a headin' west; part of a wagon train lost from the rest."
24	* GhostTown: When Dusty and the gang stumble upon an apparent ghost town in "Brookhaven, U.S.A", Mr. Brookhaven decides to rename it and turn it into a real town again.
25	%%* GirlNextDoor: Betsy.
26	%%* HappilyMarried: The Brookhavens.
27	%%* HotTeacher: Betsy.
28	* JustEatGilligan: It's said in the theme song "Dusty's the reason for their plight. Thanks to Dusty, nothing's right."
29	* KillerGorilla: In "Love Means Not Having to Say You're Bananas", 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.
30	%%* LaughTrack
31	%%* TheMillstone
32	%%* PublicSecretMessage: Used in "Then There Were Seven."
33	* RecycledInSpace: Series/GilligansIsland in the Old West, with the wagon crew and passengers as Old West versions of the castaways.
34	* RecycledPremise: What happens when you take [[Series/GilligansIsland Gilligan and the castaways]] and put them in a Wild West setting with a stagecoach, trying to find their way back to civilization?
35	%%* SobbinWomen: In "Here Come the Brides, There Go the Grooms", two hillbillies kidnap Dusty and Callahan to become husbands for their ugly sisters in a double-barreled shotgun wedding.
36	%%* SuperstitionEpisode: "Witch's Trail."
37	%%* TheWestern: Parodied.

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