Dusty's Trail E16: Brookhaven USA _ 22min | Comedy, Western | TV Series (1973– )
Brookhaven claims a ghost town for his own, but a series of near accidents leads to a man who already has a claim on the town. Little does the group know that the military is using the town as a test site for a new formulation of gunpowder, and will soon blow it up.
Creators: Elroy Schwartz, Sherwood Schwartz Stars: Bob Denver, Forrest Tucker, Ivor Francis
00:00Let's follow the path of Dusty's Trail. Oh, Dusty's Trail, Dusty's Trail.
00:08A stage and a wagon are heading west. Part of a wagon train lost from the rest.
00:16Dusty's the reason for their plight. Thanks to Dusty, nothing's right.
00:24Only the wagon master's hand keeps them rolling to the promised land.
00:32Oh, the going gets mighty rough, but they don't seem to mind.
00:37It's California, eh, that's the place they must find.
00:43Deserts and rocks are in their way, but they won't stop, come what may.
00:51Mountains and hills that they must scale, but they know they'll make it,
00:56cause they just can't fail on Dusty's Trail.
01:02Sure is a peaceful looking town, huh? Yeah, I wonder why there's nobody here.
01:23I wonder why the people left. I'm sure they had a good reason.
01:29Yeah, even if it was a bad reason, that'd be a good reason, cause any reason for leaving is a good reason, not a bad reason.
01:34That's a good thing. Hey, maybe the saloon will tell us something. Come on, Betsy.
01:41Shall we examine the bank, my dear? Oh, my yes, that's always such great fun.
01:58Hmm. Nobody's been wetting their whistle in here for quite a while.
02:05Carter, look! Carter, look there through the dust.
02:12What do you see, my dear? More dust.
02:18Well, I guess we might as well lay over here for a while, leave it on the trail quite a spell.
02:23Yeah, or even two or three spells. I wonder what the name of this town is.
02:28Must be on the bank, won't it? Let's go have a look.
02:39Huddle Flats. Huddle Flats? What a peculiar name.
02:47Sir, army ordinance reports that everything is ready.
02:50Excellent, Sergeant, excellent. At this time tomorrow, barring any complications, the town of Huddle Flats will be blown off the face of the earth.
03:14Sergeant, the army is depending heavily on the results of the test of this new explosive.
03:18The ordinance feels that it is the most destructive gunpowder they've ever developed.
03:21We'll know by tomorrow night, sir.
03:23A squad of men will ride into Huddle Flats immediately after it's been demolished and report back at once.
03:28Good. It's too bad about that town, Sergeant.
03:31Huddle Flats didn't figure to survive without water anyway, sir.
03:42What's the verdict, Andy? Our water barrels are getting pretty low.
03:46I'm sorry, Mr. Callaghan. This well's as dry as a bone.
03:49No wonder everybody left this town.
03:51Yeah, everybody knows you can't get water from a bone.
03:53You and Daphne will be devastated. We haven't had fresh water for tea in days.
03:59Now, wait a minute, everybody. You know, if I'm not mistaken about these fragments, there is water down there.
04:04What are you talking about?
04:05This is rock shale, Mr. Callaghan. Now, the bottom of the well is merely a shallow substratum formation, easily penetrated and in all likelihood is serving as a temporary shelf above a natural spring.
04:15Wait a minute, Andy. Now, would you start again and give it to us in English?
04:18There's water down there.
04:22Now, if the people who lived in this town had known that, they'd have never left. Water is like gold in these parts.
04:27Like gold?
04:29More valuable than gold, Mr. Brookhaven.
04:31If that is really a deep spring, why, this little town could become the most important crossroads for every wagon train heading west.
04:39Tell me something. How are we going to get the water out from under that fancy rock you've got there?
04:43If we could shatter the outer shell of cohesive rock, we could...
04:46Don't start with that again.
04:48Blow it up.
04:50We'll get a keg of gunpowder off the wagon, all right?
04:53Okay.
05:14Oh, that feels better.
05:21Callaghan, I got it.
05:23Hey, Dusty, look behind you, quick.
05:31Dusty, get rid of the gunpowder.
05:36Get rid of it, Mr. Brookhaven.
05:40Oh, Mr. Callaghan.
05:47That ain't the tip, Pip.
05:55Hurry, Mr. Curtis, hurry.
06:10Water!
06:11Water!
06:12Water!
06:13Water!
06:14Water!
06:17Water!
06:18Water!
06:24Profitable water, my dear, and golden water.
06:28Mr. Callaghan, I want to call an immediate meeting of all people concerned.
06:33Yes, sir. Yes, sir, Mr. Brookhaven.
06:35Look at that water come out of there.
06:36You did it again, Andy boy.
06:40Lucky dog.
06:42So, thanks to Andy's engineering experience,
06:47we have unearthed here an unending supply of water
06:51which will rejuvenate this dry, deserted little town
06:55into a budding metropolis.
06:58Now then, water will bring people.
07:02People will bring a railroad,
07:04and a railroad will bring enormous prosperity.
07:09Hear, hear.
07:11That man should run for public office.
07:14Mr. Brookhaven, weren't we supposed to be going to California?
07:17So we shall, Mr. Callaghan.
07:19So we shall.
07:21Once we have all profited in this little liquid banana.
07:26A liquid banana?
07:28It means like a gold mine.
07:30It's really a very short-term investment
07:33with nothing to lose and everything to gain financially.
07:37Who's with me?
07:38I am, Carter.
07:40I knew I could count on you, my little darling.
07:44What do you think, Cal?
07:46Well, I'm not against making a good investment.
07:48I mean, you know, just like everybody else.
07:50Oh, thank you, Mr. Callaghan.
07:53And once people hear about all this water,
07:55they'll flock here in hordes.
07:58How many people in a horde?
07:59A gaggle.
08:00Oh, a gaggle.
08:01You know, Mr. Brookhaven's right about that.
08:03Puddle Flats could become a big city.
08:05Not Puddle Flats, please.
08:07I've thought of a much better name.
08:10Brookhaven, U.S.A.
08:13Brookhaven, U.S.A.?
08:16Marvelous!
08:18Brookhaven, U.S.A. sounds so patriotic.
08:22It sure beats the heck out of Brookhaven, Italy.
08:24Well, I think it's exciting.
08:25We'll all be in business together.
08:27And we shall all share in the profits.
08:30Equally?
08:33Proportionately.
08:35I shall require a small additional fee for management.
08:39Yeah, well, of course, we all understand that.
08:41Well, I think Mr. Brookhaven deserves it.
08:43I mean, it was his idea.
08:45Well, fair enough.
08:46You can count on Little Lulu.
08:48I'll fix up the saloon.
08:49Yeah, I'll start collecting the well water.
08:51I'll look at the schoolhouse.
08:52I'll go tell Brittney.
08:53Ah, wait a minute.
08:56Well, Mr. Brookhaven, it looks like everybody's got their mind made up.
08:59So I guess you can count on Dusty and me, too.
09:01Thank you, Mr. Callahan.
09:03And as my first official act, I appoint you Sheriff of Brookhaven, U.S.A.
09:09And Dusty is your deputy.
09:11Oh, I don't want to be no sheriff.
09:13Oh, well, that makes me sheriff.
09:15I'll be sheriff.
09:16Oh, dear, I feel ever so much safer.
09:18Oh, Miss Brookhaven, we don't really need a sheriff here.
09:22Nobody here but just us, remember?
09:27Well, my dear, it isn't exactly the Bank of Boston, but it's ours.
09:32All ours.
09:34The sheer ecstasy.
09:36And when Brookhaven, U.S.A. fulfills its promise,
09:40there will be hundreds and hundreds of people
09:42clamoring to deposit and withdraw their money.
09:45Tot, tot, tot, my dear.
09:47Never think withdraw.
09:48Always think deposit.
09:51Deposit.
09:55Oh, withdraw, whatever.
09:56Never mind, my dear.
09:57It was only a loose brick.
09:59Only a loose brick.
10:09How about a drink, Betsy?
10:11Oh, Lulu, you know I don't drink hard liquor.
10:15I know. I was just practicing.
10:17Hey, why don't you come in the saloon business with me?
10:19Oh, no, thank you.
10:20I'm going to start a school.
10:22I'll tell you what.
10:23You come in with me and I'll go in with you.
10:25What could you possibly teach in school?
10:27Oh, how to run a saloon.
10:38There's not even a key to the cell in here.
10:41Hey, where's the gal, Ann?
10:43Look what I found.
10:44The sheriff and his deputy's bed.
10:47You look just like a prisoner.
10:49I am?
10:50You locked me in, little pal.
10:52Now get the keys and get me out of here.
10:54Oh, okay.
11:04Here they are.
11:06Right under my nose the whole time.
11:08You're lucky my fist isn't right under your nose the whole time.
11:13What's that?
11:14What's that? It sounded like a gunshot.
11:16Lulu's Derringer.
11:20All right, all right. What's all the excitement about?
11:25What's going on here?
11:26I didn't know where you were, so I figured you'd come and run in a gunshot.
11:29There's some very strange things going on in this town.
11:32Like what?
11:33Somebody threw a large rock at Carcer and me in front of the bank.
11:37And that picture over there fell and almost killed Lulu and me.
11:40Maybe it was the same one who unplugged the keg of gunpowder.
11:44Sheriff Callahan, we demand your protection.
11:47Now, wait a minute, everybody. Don't get excited.
11:49Let's don't let our imaginations get the best of us.
11:52Just because this is a deserted town does not mean it's a ghost town.
11:55Well, it ain't exactly little New York.
11:58Everybody get your hands up.
12:01I'm sorry, folks.
12:02Nobody leaves Puddle Flats alive.
12:06Latest communique, sergeant.
12:08We blow up Puddle Flats at noon tomorrow.
12:17Hey, come on now, old man. Why don't you put that gun down?
12:20Nobody here is going to hurt you.
12:22You're nothing but a lot of sidewinder and claim jumpers.
12:24What if I told you we were just leaving?
12:26Call you a liar and shoot you right between the eyes.
12:28I better think of something else.
12:30I tried to get all of you to leave, but you wouldn't.
12:33Then you're the man who narrowly missed our heads with that rock.
12:37Shame on you.
12:39You could have killed us by setting fire to that keg of gunpowder.
12:42Sorry about that. Kind of scared me, too.
12:44But I'm glad you threw it in the well.
12:46Hey, look out!
12:51Good work, Mr. Callahan.
12:53Bravo, Mr. Callahan. You captured the villain.
12:56Mrs. Brookhaven, this is not a villain.
12:58This is just an old man with some wrong ideas.
13:00All right, now you ladies take a walk.
13:02We can handle this from here.
13:05Oh, Carter, you're one of the men, too?
13:08Oh, yes, I am.
13:10That's who I am.
13:12Sergeant.
13:15Yes, sir.
13:17Sergeant, you drew up the plans on Puddle Flats.
13:19Exactly where is the gunpowder placed?
13:21To destroy Puddle Flats completely, sir.
13:23The gunpowder has been spread underneath the saloon,
13:26the school, and under the building.
13:29What building is that?
13:31The bank.
13:32I wasn't trying to kill anybody.
13:34Just to scare you off my land.
13:36I have a distinct claim for it, fair and square.
13:38A claim?
13:39You mean to tell me that Brookhaven U.S.
13:41I mean, Puddle Flats is really yours?
13:44You got a paper that says that?
13:46Right here.
13:50Well, it looks to me like he owns Puddle Flats, all right.
13:53How do you do, Mr. Flats?
13:55Or should I say Puddles?
13:57Oh, what a shame.
13:59And I had such get-rich-quick plans for everyone.
14:03This claim hasn't been registered.
14:05It doesn't have the notary seal of the county seat to make it valid.
14:08Oh, I'm terribly sorry, old chap.
14:10I'm really awfully sorry.
14:11Now, wait a minute.
14:12Wait a minute, Mr. Brookhaven.
14:14This old man found this town.
14:16Registration or no registration, I mean, what's fair is fair.
14:19Very well, I shall be fair.
14:21Then the town's mine.
14:22How do you say that?
14:25How much do you want for the nebulous claim that you have to this little town?
14:30Well, let's see.
14:31Shall we take a little stroll outside and discuss the matter?
14:43If I know Mr. Brookhaven, he will have that claim before you can count to ten.
