Popularity
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.
The copyrights on all of the Dusty's Trail episodes eventually lapsed without any effort at renewal, making the series one of the last television series to enter the public domain before the Copyright Act of 1976 (and its much longer copyright terms) took effect. Because of this, the show became widely available in reruns and on discount DVDs.
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—Edgar Allan Poe (1809–1845)
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