Reception
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. (The show had seven regular characters, each of whom corresponded directly to a Gilligan character.) Normally, retreading an old format should not mean an early demise of a series, unless the show being emulated is a rerun icon like 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 (Gilligan's Island). 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".
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