Dusty's Trail

1973
Dusty's Trail

Seasons & Episodes

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EP1 Pilot Sep 11, 1973

The search for a dentist to treat Dusty's toothache turns into a skirmish with outlaws.

EP2 There Is Nothing Like a Dame Sep 18, 1973

Two cattle thieves try to rustle up some women.

EP3 Horse of Another Color Sep 25, 1973

This episode starts out with Dusty trying to lasso, he then accidentally ropes a wild Appaloosa horse, and it gets him stuck around a tree. He then asks Mr Callahan if he can keep it. He checks to see if it is branded and the horse is not so he says he can have it. Dusty names the horse Freckles. Dusty tries to tame Freckles and he finally succeeds. That is when a rancher sees his horse and comes to the conclusion that Dusty has stolen it. The rancher says the punishment for horse stealing is to be hung. Mr. Brookhaven tries to bribe the rancher to let Dusty go but he will not take it. They say that they will hang Dusty the next day so they handcuff him. During the night Mr. Callahan frees Dusty by stealing the keys from the rancher while he is asleep, but then Dusty ends up handcuffing himself to Mr Callahan. Dusty frees himself and Mr Callahan finds another horse that was chasing of the ranchers other horses, so Dusty will not be hung.

EP4 Treasure of C. Harry Motley Oct 02, 1973

Dusty is practicing shooting cans when he falls into a hole. While down there he sees a skeleton and a treasure map. He starts running out of the whole to tell Andy and Mr Callahan. They are all excited for him. Mr Brookhaven wants part of the treasure so he makes him his partner. Dusty then decides to make everyone his partner. At night everyone is excited about the treasure so everyone goes looking for it. Mr Callihan wants to find it first so he can give it to Dusty. The next morning Dusty wakes up to find he has been sprayed by a skunk. So he buries his clothes and takes a bath. Betsy sees Dusty clothes after a bear was there and comes to the conclusion that Dusty was killed by a bear. They then give a funeral for Dusty, not knowing that Dusty is right there. The next day Dusty is there and he explains to them his story. He then finds out the map was for a town called Treasure.

EP5 Duel for Daphne Oct 09, 1973

Andy, Dusty, and Mr Callahan are giving out smoke signals so they can cross into Indian territory. Dusty accidentally catches the blanket on fire causing another smoke to go up. Luckily the signal means peace and the Indians let them pass. Mrs. Brookhaven likes the Indian chief's headdress and asks Mr Callahan if he can get it for her to give to Mr Callahan for his birthday. Mr Callahan trades his knife for the headdress and gives the headdress to Mrs Brookhaven. She kisses him because she is so thankful. Unknown to them Dusty is watching. At dinner Mrs Brookhaven is trying to keep the secret of the headdress from Mr Brookhaven. She is talking to Mr Callahan about it and Dusty tries to separate them. Thats when he tells Mr Brookhaven on them. They try explaining him the story but he does not listen. He then challenges Mr Callahan to a duel. Everyone tries talking him out of it but he still insists. Mr Callahan puts only gun powder in his gun so that nobody gets hurt. Dusty does not kno

EP6 Love Means... Bananas Oct 16, 1973

A gorilla that has escaped from a traveling circus invades the camp and captures Betsy. Dusty and Andy and Mr Callahan have to think of ways to get her out of they cave the gorilla has put her in.

EP7 Then There Were Seven Oct 23, 1973

The episode starts out with a man named Hank asking if they can help his friend Rocky. Andy and Betsy visit his friend. They then find Rocky to have a gun. Rocky needs Andy to get a bullet out of him. Back at camp they try looking for them on there telescope. Mr. Callahan decides to go to the town to find them. He puts Dusty in charge of the wagons. When Mr. Callahan reaches the town he finds Andy and Betsy. They can't get the bullet out of Rocky because it is in to deep. He threatens them with a gun if he doesn't leave. Hank then ties up Mr. Callahan. Dusty then decides to go to town. There he sees Andy and Betsy and then he is also tied up. Back at camp Lulu brings the wagon and the Brookhavens to the town. Then they are then tied up. All of them are tied together except for Andy and Betsy and they try to get out. Now if Rocky dies then they all die, so Andy must get the bullet out. Mr. Callahan and Dusty are then set free so Mr. Callahan can get the bullet out. He gets the bullet ou

EP8 Tomahawk Territory Oct 30, 1973

After rescuing a young Indian brave from a bear and finding out he's the Chief's son, the group plans to trade him for safe passage through Hackamaw territory, but instead the Hackamaws go on the warpath and kidnap Betsy.

EP9 Two of a Kind Nov 06, 1973

Seeing a wanted poster with a bearded outlaw who looks just like Callahan, the travelers wonder if he has been hiding a checkered past.

EP10 Half Moon Nov 13, 1973

Seeing Dusty's birthmark, an Indian chief thinks Dusty is his long-lost son and kidnaps him to resume life with the Indians.

EP11 Here Come the Grooms Nov 20, 1973

Two hillbillies kidnap Dusty and Callahan to become husbands for their ugly sisters in a double-barreled shotgun wedding.

EP12 Danger Stranger Nov 27, 1973

While trying to find a pass through mountains, the wagons bump into an murderous outlaw who is on the run.

EP13 Magician Dec 04, 1973

The group encounters a traveling magician who keeps them amused with his tricks while his assistant steals all their valuables.

EP14 Androcles and the Bear Dec 11, 1973

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.

EP15 My Fair Callahan Dec 18, 1973

When they rescue a young woman of high social standing who was lost on the trail, Dusty falls in love with her and tries to transform himself into a gentleman.

EP16 Brookhaven U.S.A. Dec 25, 1973

Dusty and the gang stumble upon the town of Puddle Flats. There Mr Brookhaven finds water and comes up with the idea of turning Puddle Flats into a metropolitan city. He changes the name of Puddle Flats to Brookhaven, USA and appoints Mr Callahan as Sheriff and Dusty as deputy. While all this is going on strange things are happening, a rock almost hits the Brookhaven's, a barrel of gunpowder is lit and other strange things. They then see who has been doing this, a prospector already claimed the town. Mr Brookhaven ends up buying it from him. He sends Mr Callahan to get to a notoriety to get the town legally his. While he is gone Dusty is made as acting Sheriff. He wants to do everything by the book so he sees Betsy taking dirt from Lulu's saloon so he arrests her. He then arrests Lulu for threating him. Next the Brookhaven and then finally Andy. While this is going on Mr Callahan meets up with two men from the army. He tells them about Puddle Flats and they say that the army has been o

EP17 How Dry Was My Valley? Jan 01, 1974

When the group's supply of fresh water runs out, they hope a crackpot professor will be able to make it rain.

EP18 Wizard of Ooze Jan 08, 1974

Two men are testing the water and they think a volcano is going to erupt. Dusty Andy and the Brookhavens then go there. Dusty thinks it smells like rotten eggs. Andy says its sulfur. They then decide to unpack the wagons. Mr Brookhaven decides to turn the water into Brookhavens magical bath. Dusty then See's the two men who were there earlier. They say they are geologists. Virgil one of the men says that there wagon train is on a volcano. Lu Lu and Betsy go into the water hole. On his way back Dusty runs into a tree. Freckles comes back to camp without Dusty so Callahan goes looking for him. Dusty then wakes up but does not know who he is or where he is. Callahan then finds Dusty but Dusty runs away. Dusty then remembers he has to a message to report. Callahan tries to help him remember his name. Andy says Dusty has amnesia. During the night everybody knocks him in the head to try to undo the damage. The next morning Dusty wakes up but still doesn't remember. Andy says he is going to h

EP19 Phony Express Jan 15, 1974

Dusty finds a wounded soldier who claims he is a courier who must get an important pouch to a nearby fort, but was attacked by outlaws.

EP20 Nothing to Crow About Jan 22, 1974

With a terrible storm approaching, the travelers try to find the map to a hidden canyon where they'll be safe, but Dusty seems to have stolen it.

EP21 Not So Magnificent Seven Feb 05, 1974

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EP22 Witch's Trail Feb 12, 1974

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.

EP23 The Cavalry Is Coming Feb 26, 1974

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?

EP24 John J. Callahan Feb 19, 1974

Callahan will win $500 in a boxing match if he can last 5 minutes against the Champ.

EP25 How Not To Be A Good Samaritan Mar 05, 1974

EP26 Pechango Berries Mar 12, 1974

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5.2| 0h30m| NR| en| More Info
Released: 11 September 1973 Ended
Producted By: Redwood Productions
Country: United States of America
Budget: 0
Revenue: 0
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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. The series, set in the latter 19th century, is about a small, diverse cluster of lost travelers, who become separated from their wagon train.

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DKosty123 Some folks remember the Tucker Automobile which was a dud introduced with pretty models and sold less than 200 cars before bankruptcy? This is Sherwood Schwartz equal to it in sitcom land. You have the looker - Laurie Saunders of Petticoat Junction, the actor in Forrest Tucker, and the zany wackier of Bob Denver in a lost western sit com. Only this one makes The Guns of Will Sonnett look like Shakespeare.They forgot to invite the writers into the casting party and the scripts show it. There is a group of full episodes on You Tube now so you can judge it for yourself. In a way I hope the whole show which looks like it ran on ABC - not the Nursery school- gets put on there just to find out if there is a really funny episode. I suspect there is not but that is the only way to find out.
Steve Nyland (Squonkamatic) I love this show, and rank the "Almost Complete Series" box set I found with 17 episodes of the 26 made to be one of the DVD scores of 2006. I grew up in a household led by two intellectuals who forbade their children from watching television lacking substance, and amongst the most often switched off with an admonishment of "SPORTS, PBS OR NOTHING!" comment was Gilligan's Island. Naturally then when leaving the nest one of the first things I did was to get cable TV and catch up on all the decades of crap television I had been denied, and Gilligan's Island earned a special place in the daily schedule. I managed to tape it every day for about three years until my stupid girlfriend said enough was enough, never missed an episode and still managed to get my Master's degree just fine.But somehow I never encountered Dusty's Trail until bringing home a dollar store DVD of it and was instantly hooked before the first episode was even over. Yes it's Gilligan all over again, with the twist being that it's set in the West with cowboys & injuns instead of island natives and holdout Japanese WW2 soldiers. And yes the creators pillaged their own series right down to the characterizations, but they had the foresight to cast two very interesting supporting player regulars in the ultra-cute Laurie Saunders (who would have given Mary Anne a run for the money on the sexiness scale even if cloaked in twice as much clothing) and one of my all-time favorite actors, the always cadaverous Ivor Francis who's bemused expressions of morbid disbelief made so many television shows so much more interesting than they would have been without his presence. Dusty's Trail might be Ivor Francis' finest hour, and the moment when I became hooked on the show was a scene where he sort of gazes off into the distance and begins relating an idea for a hair-brained scheme to keep Dusty and the Wagonmaster (odd name) from having to marry two redneck DELIVERANCE women shotgun-style.It's too bad the series was not picked up by a network because it has some genuinely funny moments -- look for the episode where they park their wagon on top of a volcano that is about to erupt for a particularly potent belly-laughing fit -- and had a sort of odd "Hee-Haw on Acid" approach to it's production design, especially the costuming for the wealthy Brookhavens. Like Gilligan's Island, most of the shows were filmed entirely on soundstages: that's inside, and these are Western episodes set out in the middle of nowhere. There are a few forays onto location sets but for the most part the shows have this surreal, phony look to them that reminds me more than anything else of the more cartoonishly arty Spaghetti Westerns like the Sartana movies of Anthony Ascott, which were all the rage at the time the series would have aired. Art imitating life imitating art, if you will.But I mean look, if you want seriously acted rational television you are wasting your time with stuff like Dusty's Trail, which makes F-Troop look deeply thoughtful by comparison. But it is an interesting cultural artifact, sort of half hip to the times and half wrapped up in the same kind of stupid innocence that made Gilligan so much fun. The depiction of Native Americans is also about as politically sensitive as the Three Stooges, or Gilligan's Island for that matter, and it is strange seeing people smoke on screen the way that they do in this show -- something you never saw on Gilligan's Island even if cigarette ad revenues were an important source of network income. I like how stupid the show is, and how it doesn't require any kind of active thinking on the part of the viewer to enjoy it. There is nothing to figure out, silly laughs, pretty women and guys dressed up in gorilla suits. After five years of The War on Terror it's kind of relaxing to once again have the 11 year old idiot inside of me catered to with one hair-brained scheme after the other. It may not be original but it's still very funny for those in the right frame of mind, and when you come up with a good idea sometimes it pays to go back and milk it for a second run. I'm glad they made the show and will not rest until I have found the other nine episodes as well as the feature-length film version: The TV on DVD fad does have a few useful purposes after all.
jmwintle Well, now, Gilligans Island it is not. But it does grow on you. My four year old watches it all the time. Better than Barney. I have watched it a number of times and found that the characters seem to all be waiting for Dusty to carry them. Of note, is that the additional characters actually seem to be better actors than the regulars. There are some genuinely funny lines and looks. Does make you appreciate Gilligan's Island more. And even Dobbie Gillis. Seems as though the characters were content to get a season's worth of pay. Bad as this was, it was better than the return to Gilligan's Island movies. And yes, it a recycling of the Gilligan's Island characters but only Foster Tucker comes close. Although each of the other characters have their moments. I bought the DVD for a dollar. It was worth that.
playtrombone This show was Gilligan's Island set in the old West. Instead of being shipwrecked on a deserted island, they are a group separated from a wagon train and lost in the wilderness.Every character in Gilligan's Island has a direct counterpart in Dusty's Trail. Of course, the title character is played in both series by Bob Denver. The Skipper is replaced by the wagon master, Forrest Tucker. There is a rich married couple, farm girl, and smart guy in each group. And this series substitutes a saloon hall girl for an actress to round out the group of seven.Just as the castaways in Gilligan's Island spent every episode trying to get off the island, in Dusty's Trail, they try to find their way out of the wilderness, and failing every time. Just the same, the episodes are amusing, although they seem a little watered-down for us Gilligan's Island fanatics. We only watch this series to see Bob Denver in his usual antics.