‘Gilligan’s Island’ Mastermind Sherwood Schwartz Created a Western Knock-Off of Classic Show

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Dusty’s Trail was Gilligan’s Island in the Wild West. The premise and characters are virtually the same. In fact, you could almost take a Gilligan script and turn it into an episode of its successor by just changing the names of the characters.

CBS ordered 30 episodes of Dusty’s Trail for its first season. But they only produced 26 of them before the network canceled the show. The network turned the final four into a two-hour television movie.

The network eventually released a DVD of the show. Though, Most of the episodes are now on YouTube as CBS didn’t copyright the show.