Dusty’s Trail

Generally regarded as a contender for Worst TV Show Ever, this short-lived series exactly mapped Gilligan's Island onto the Wild West.

Watch as much of this episode as you can.

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Posted By: Paul - Thu Oct 07, 2010
Category: Ineptness, Crudity, Talentlessness, Kitsch, and Bad Art | Regionalism | ShowBiz | Television | 1970s

Comments

It made it for a whole season of 27 episodes? That thar's mostly amazin'!

I couldn't take Gilligan's Island either!

Posted by Expat47 in Athens, Greece on 10/07/10 at 11:12 AM

i skipped through it. funny in how bad it is, 27 episodes? did they all air? i never heard of it, so i must have missed it when it was on tv. :down:

Posted by Patty in Ohio, USA on 10/07/10 at 11:35 AM

i was four in 1968. i'd say i must have been watching sesame street but it didn't come on till 1969. yeah, i'm at least neck and neck with those hills sweetie. 😜

Posted by Patty in Ohio, USA on 10/07/10 at 12:25 PM

never thought about it wayne but that is hilarious!!! :lol:

Posted by Patty in Ohio, USA on 10/07/10 at 12:38 PM

FTroop meets Gilligan's Island or was FTroop a spin off?

Posted by MNIceLady on 10/07/10 at 04:32 PM

Spot on, Harvey. I watched it all the way through, and apart from preferring Ginger and Mary-Ann to their Dusty's Trail equivalents, I didn't find it much more or less enjoyable that the average GI episode.

I even laughed a couple of times.

Posted by Dumbfounded on 10/07/10 at 06:31 PM

I did watch this in re-runs in my childhood. I found it ok .. but hey .. back then we had 3-5 on air channels and that was it.

I remember having a birthday sleep over to watch a sequel of the Planet of the Apes movie on our "huge" 22 inch color Motorola TV.

(BD stares at the patty hills :red: )

Posted by ANON in Nowhere on 10/07/10 at 08:06 PM

you can look all you want sweetie! 😉

300-500channels now and there's still nothing on damn it!

Posted by Patty in Ohio, USA on 10/07/10 at 11:57 PM

And with Gilligan's Island .. two sexy single women .. three male bachelors .. hmmmmm ... I don't think that would have lasted in abstinence more than a couple of months considering the three years on the island supposedly.

Posted by ANON in Nowhere on 10/09/10 at 08:01 PM

c'mere lil buddy! :lol:

Posted by Patty in Ohio, USA on 10/09/10 at 11:59 PM

now that you mention it phred, i am suprised that never happened! :lol:

Posted by Patty in Ohio, USA on 10/11/10 at 11:44 AM

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