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{{Short description|American Western TV series}}

{{about|the television series}}

{{Use mdy dates|date=March 2025}}

{{Infobox television

| image = Will Hutchins Sugarfoot 1958.JPG

| image_size = 200

| caption = Will Hutchins as Tom "Sugarfoot" Brewster, 1958.

| alt_name = Tenderfoot (UK name)

| genre = {{Plainlist|

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| creator = Michael Fessier

| director = {{Plainlist|

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| writer = Montgomery Pittman (four episodes)

| developer =

| starring = {{Plainlist|

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| theme_music_composer = {{Plainlist|

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| open_theme =

| endtheme =

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| country = United States

| language = English

| num_seasons = 4

| num_episodes = 69

| list_episodes =

| executive_producer = William T. Orr

| producer = {{Plainlist|

  • Harry Tatelman
  • Caroll Case
  • Burt Dunne
  • Arthur W. Silver
  • Oren W. Haglund (production manager)
  • Gordon Bau (make-up)

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| editor = {{Plainlist|

  • James Moore
  • Carl Pingitore
  • Leo H. Shreve
  • James C. Moore
  • Harold Minter
  • Robert B. Warwick Jr.
  • Robert Watts

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| location = California

| camera = Single-camera

| runtime = 50 mins.

| network = ABC

| company = Warner Bros. Television

| first_aired = {{Start date|1957|09|17}}

| last_aired = {{End date|1961|04|17}}

| related = {{Plainlist|

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Sugarfoot is an American Western television series that aired for 69 episodes on ABC from 1957-1961 on Tuesday nights on a "shared" slot basis – rotating with Cheyenne (first season); Cheyenne and Bronco (both second and fourth seasons); and Bronco (third season). The Warner Bros. production stars Will Hutchins as Tom Brewster, an Easterner who comes to the Oklahoma Territory to become a lawyer. Brewster was a correspondence-school student whose apparent lack of cowboy skills earned him the nickname "Sugarfoot", a designation even below that of a tenderfoot. Sugarfoot was the first comedy western TV series, debuting five days before Maverick.

Hutchins was the only regular on the show. In four episodes, Hutchins also plays the dual role of Abram Thomas, "the Canary Kid", leader of an outlaw gang who is a dead ringer for Brewster. In each of these episodes, Brewster is joined in the fight against the Canary Kid's plans by Christopher Colt—i.e., Wayde Preston crossing over from his role in the simultaneously produced WB series Colt .45. Towards the end of the run, Jack Elam was cast in two of the final five episodes as Brewster's occasional sidekick Toothy Thompson, but the series was cancelled shortly thereafter.

Background

Sugarfoot had no relation to the 1951 Randolph Scott Western film Sugarfoot aside from the studio owning the title (and the theme music), but its pilot episode was a remake of a 1954 Western film called The Boy from Oklahoma starring Will Rogers Jr. as Tom Brewster. The pilot and premiere episode, "Brannigan's Boots", was so similar to The Boy from Oklahoma that Sheb Wooley and Slim Pickens reprised their roles from the film.

As played by Rogers in the film, Brewster carried no gun, disliked firearms in general, and vanquished villains with his roping skills (à la Will Rogers) if friendly persuasion failed. Perhaps for practical reasons, the pilot altered the character slightly and made Brewster more like the typical Western hero—reluctant to use guns (or any other kind of violence), but able and willing to do so if necessary. That remained his stance throughout the series, and the title song mentions that Sugarfoot carries a rifle and a law book.

Whenever he enters a saloon, Sugarfoot refuses liquor and orders sarsaparilla "with a dash of cherry". (Sarsaparilla is a drink similar to root beer, both of which are not alcohol-based.)

Sugarfoot was one of the earliest products of the alliance between ABC and the fledgling Warner Bros. Television Department, chaired by William T. Orr. During the same period, other similar programs appeared, including Maverick, Cheyenne, Bronco, Lawman, and Colt .45. Hutchins appeared as Sugarfoot in crossover episodes of Cheyenne and Maverick, and in an installment of Bronco called "The Yankee Tornado" with Peter Breck as a young Theodore Roosevelt. Jack Kelly appeared as Bart Maverick in the Sugarfoot episode "A Price on His Head". James Garner made an appearance as Bret Maverick at the end of the episode "Misfire".

Cast

=Cast of "Brannigan's Boots"=

=Cast of ''The Boy from Oklahoma'' film (1954)=

=Guest stars=

{{Cast listing|

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Episodes

=Season 1: 1957–1958=

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{{Episode list

|EpisodeNumber = 1

|EpisodeNumber2 = 1

|Title = Brannigan's Boots

|DirectedBy = Leslie H. Martinson

|WrittenBy = {{StoryTeleplay|t=Devery Freeman|ex1label=Based on a screenplay by|ex1=Frank Davis & Winston Miller|ex2label=Original magazine story by|ex2=Michael Fessier}}

|OriginalAirDate={{Start date|1957|09|17}}

|ShortSummary=

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{{Episode list

|EpisodeNumber = 2

|EpisodeNumber2 = 2

|Title = Reluctant Hero

|DirectedBy = Leslie H. Martinson

|WrittenBy = {{StoryTeleplay|t=Dean Riesner |s=S. Omar Barker}}

|OriginalAirDate={{Start date|1957|10|01}}

|ShortSummary= Cade dies in the fire, and Sugarfoot is shot in the attack. Linda takes it upon herself to nurse Sugarfoot back to health. I. Stanford Jolley plays the mysterious "The Nighthawk".

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{{Episode list

|EpisodeNumber = 3

|EpisodeNumber2 = 3

|Title = The Strange Land

|DirectedBy = Leslie H. Martinson

|WrittenBy = {{StoryTeleplay|t=Russell S. Hughes|s=Louis L'Amour}}

|OriginalAirDate={{Start date|1957|10|15}}

|ShortSummary=

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{{Episode list

|EpisodeNumber = 4

|EpisodeNumber2 = 4

|Title = Bunch Quitter

|DirectedBy = Leslie H. Martinson

|WrittenBy = {{StoryTeleplay|t=Wells Root|s=Dee Linford}}

|OriginalAirDate={{Start date|1957|10|29}}

|ShortSummary=

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{{Episode list

|EpisodeNumber = 5

|EpisodeNumber2 = 5

|Title = Trail's End

|DirectedBy = Leslie H. Martinson

|WrittenBy = {{StoryTeleplay|t=James O'Hanlon & Michael Fessier|s=Norman A. Fox}}

|OriginalAirDate={{Start date|1957|11|12}}

|ShortSummary= Sugarfoot comes upon a former childhood sweetheart, Kathy Larsen (Venetia Stevenson), who is managing a dance hall. Chris Alcaide plays the corrupt Clay Horton, who forces Kathy to marry him so that she cannot testify in court in regard to Horton's crimes. Barbara Stuart portrays Muriel, Kathy's business partner. Gordon Jones plays Sugarfoot's lively friend, Wasco Wolters, who has an interest in Muriel. This episode reveals that Tom Brewster spent his childhood in Vermont before coming to the Oklahoma Territory.

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{{Episode list

|EpisodeNumber = 6

|EpisodeNumber2 = 6

|Title = Quicksilver

|DirectedBy = Franklin Adreon

|WrittenBy = {{StoryTeleplay|t=Kay Lenard & Jess Carneol |s=James Gunn}}

|OriginalAirDate={{Start date|1957|11|26}}

|ShortSummary= Sugarfoot investigates the robbery of a silver mine which prevents the owner from meeting his payroll. The episode features Lane Bradford as the cutthroat Ellis; John Litel as Hank Tatum, the owner of the mine, and Fay Spain as Tatum's daughter, Susie, the girlfriend and eventual wife of the local sheriff. Frank Wilcox plays George Beaumont, an unscrupulous businessman who had been rejected years earlier by Hank Tatum's late wife.

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{{Episode list

|EpisodeNumber = 7

|EpisodeNumber2 = 7

|Title = Misfire

|DirectedBy = Franklin Adreon

|WrittenBy = {{StoryTeleplay|t=James O'Hanlon|s=Alan Le May}}

|OriginalAirDate={{Start date|1957|12|10}}

|ShortSummary=

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{{Episode list

|EpisodeNumber = 8

|EpisodeNumber2 = 8

|Title = The Stallion Trail

|DirectedBy = Edward Bernds

|WrittenBy = {{StoryTeleplay|t=Dean Riesner |s=Crane Wilbur}}

|OriginalAirDate={{Start date|1957|12|24}}

|ShortSummary=

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{{Episode list

|EpisodeNumber = 9

|EpisodeNumber2 = 9

|Title = Small War at Custer Junction

|DirectedBy = Franklin Adreon

|WrittenBy = {{StoryTeleplay|t=James O'Hanlon and Jess Carneol & Kay Lenard|s=Jess Carneol & Kay Lenard}}

|OriginalAirDate={{Start date|1958|01|07}}

|ShortSummary=

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{{Episode list

|EpisodeNumber = 10

|EpisodeNumber2 = 10

|Title = Bullet Proof

|DirectedBy = Franklin Adreon

|WrittenBy = Fredric M. Frank

|OriginalAirDate={{Start date|1958|01|21}}

|ShortSummary= Sugarfoot tricks a gang into believing that he knows the location of the loot from their last bank robbery. Gregory Walcott plays Peaches' presumed fiance, Duke McKlintock, and Don "Red" Barry is cast as Tanner. Joi Lansing guest stars as the unsavory but attractive "Peaches", who claims to be a belle from Georgia

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{{Episode list

|EpisodeNumber = 11

|EpisodeNumber2 = 11

|Title = Deadlock

|DirectedBy = Franklin Adreon

|WrittenBy = James O'Hanlon

|OriginalAirDate={{Start date|1958|02|04}}

|ShortSummary=

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{{Episode list

|EpisodeNumber = 12

|EpisodeNumber2 = 12

|Title = Man Wanted

|DirectedBy = Franklin Adreon

|WrittenBy = Sig Herzig

|OriginalAirDate={{Start date|1958|02|18}}

|ShortSummary=

|LineColor=#8B4513

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{{Episode list

|EpisodeNumber = 13

|EpisodeNumber2 = 13

|Title = The Dead Hills

|DirectedBy = Franklin Adreon

|WrittenBy = {{StoryTeleplay|t=Earl Baldwin|ex1label=Adaptation|ex1=Paul Gangelin |s=Louis L'Amour}}

|OriginalAirDate={{Start date|1958|03|04}}

|ShortSummary=

|LineColor=#8B4513

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{{Episode list

|EpisodeNumber = 14

|EpisodeNumber2 = 14

|Title = A Wreath for Charity Lloyd

|DirectedBy = Franklin Adreon

|WrittenBy = Jackson Gillis

|OriginalAirDate={{Start date|1958|03|18}}

|ShortSummary=

|LineColor=#8B4513

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{{Episode list

|EpisodeNumber = 15

|EpisodeNumber2 = 15

|Title = Hideout

|DirectedBy = Montgomery Pittman

|WrittenBy = {{StoryTeleplay|t=Russell S. Hughes |s=Maurita Pittman}}

|OriginalAirDate={{Start date|1958|04|01}}

|ShortSummary=

|LineColor=#8B4513

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{{Episode list

|EpisodeNumber = 16

|EpisodeNumber2 = 16

|Title = Guns for Big Bear

|DirectedBy = Franklin Adreon

|WrittenBy = {{StoryTeleplay|t=Sig Herzig |s=Elliot West}}

|OriginalAirDate={{Start date|1958|04|15}}

|ShortSummary=

|LineColor=#8B4513

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{{Episode list

|EpisodeNumber = 17

|EpisodeNumber2 = 17

|Title = Price on His Head

|DirectedBy = Richard L. Bare

|WrittenBy = {{StoryTeleplay|t=Henry Kuttner & C.L. Moore |s=Pamela Herbert & Leo Guild}}

|OriginalAirDate={{Start date|1958|04|29}}

|ShortSummary=

|LineColor=#8B4513

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{{Episode list

|EpisodeNumber = 18

|EpisodeNumber2 = 18

|Title = Short Range

|DirectedBy = Montgomery Pittman

|WrittenBy = {{StoryTeleplay|t=Montgomery Pittman |s=James Barnett & Steve Goodman}}

|OriginalAirDate={{Start date|1958|05|13}}

|ShortSummary=

|LineColor=#8B4513

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{{Episode list

|EpisodeNumber = 19

|EpisodeNumber2 = 19

|Title = The Bullet and the Cross

|DirectedBy = Lee Sholem

|WrittenBy = Peter R. Brooke

|OriginalAirDate={{Start date|1958|05|27}}

|ShortSummary=

|LineColor=#8B4513

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{{Episode list

|EpisodeNumber = 20

|EpisodeNumber2 = 20

|Title = Mule Team

|DirectedBy = Franklin Adreon

|WrittenBy = {{StoryTeleplay|t=Sig Herzig |s=Kenneth Perkins}}

|OriginalAirDate={{Start date|1958|06|10}}

|ShortSummary=

|LineColor=#8B4513

}}

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=Season 2: 1958–1959=

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{{Episode list

|EpisodeNumber = 21

|EpisodeNumber2 = 1

|Title = Ring of Sand

|DirectedBy = Leslie H. Martinson

|WrittenBy = Raphael Hayes

|OriginalAirDate={{Start date|1958|09|16}}

|ShortSummary=

|LineColor=#8A4627

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{{Episode list

|EpisodeNumber = 22

|EpisodeNumber2 = 2

|Title = Brink of Fear

|DirectedBy = Leslie H. Martinson

|WrittenBy = Harold Medford

|OriginalAirDate={{Start date|1958|09|30}}

|ShortSummary=

|LineColor=#8A4627

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{{Episode list

|EpisodeNumber = 23

|EpisodeNumber2 = 3

|Title = The Wizard

|DirectedBy = Joseph Lejtes

|WrittenBy = C.L. Moore

|OriginalAirDate={{Start date|1958|10|14}}

|ShortSummary=

|LineColor=#8A4627

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{{Episode list

|EpisodeNumber = 24

|EpisodeNumber2 = 4

|Title = The Ghost

|DirectedBy = Lee Sholem

|WrittenBy = C.L. Moore (as Catherine Kuttner)

|OriginalAirDate={{Start date|1958|10|28}}

|ShortSummary=

|LineColor=#8A4627

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{{Episode list

|EpisodeNumber = 25

|EpisodeNumber2 = 5

|Title = The Canary Kid

|DirectedBy = Montgomery Pittman

|WrittenBy = Montgomery Pittman

|OriginalAirDate={{Start date|1958|11|11}}

|ShortSummary=

|LineColor=#8A4627

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{{Episode list

|EpisodeNumber = 26

|EpisodeNumber2 = 6

|Title = The Hunted

|DirectedBy = Joseph Lejtes

|WrittenBy = {{StoryTeleplay|1=Peter R. Brooke|ex1label=

Based on a story from|ex1=True West Magazine}}

|OriginalAirDate={{Start date|1958|11|25}}

|ShortSummary=

|LineColor=#8A4627

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{{Episode list

|EpisodeNumber = 27

|EpisodeNumber2 = 7

|Title = Yampa Crossing

|DirectedBy = Joseph Lejtes

|WrittenBy = Thomas W. Blackburn

|OriginalAirDate={{Start date|1958|12|09}}

|ShortSummary=

|LineColor=#8A4627

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{{Episode list

|EpisodeNumber = 28

|EpisodeNumber2 = 8

|Title = Devil to Pay

|DirectedBy = Lee Sholem

|WrittenBy = Fredric M. Frank

|OriginalAirDate={{Start date|1958|12|23}}

|ShortSummary=

|LineColor=#8A4627

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{{Episode list

|EpisodeNumber = 29

|EpisodeNumber2 = 9

|Title = The Desperadoes

|DirectedBy = Joseph Lejtes

|WrittenBy = Raphael Hayes

|OriginalAirDate={{Start date|1959|01|06}}

|ShortSummary=

|LineColor=#8A4627

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{{Episode list

|EpisodeNumber = 30

|EpisodeNumber2 = 10

|Title = The Extra Hand

|DirectedBy = Lee Sholem

|WrittenBy = Peter R. Brooke

|OriginalAirDate={{Start date|1959|01|20}}

|ShortSummary=

|LineColor=#8A4627

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{{Episode list

|EpisodeNumber = 31

|EpisodeNumber2 = 11

|Title = The Return of the Canary Kid

|DirectedBy = Montgomery Pittman

|WrittenBy = Montgomery Pittman

|OriginalAirDate={{Start date|1959|02|03}}

|ShortSummary=

|LineColor=#8A4627

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{{Episode list

|EpisodeNumber = 32

|EpisodeNumber2 = 12

|Title = The Mysterious Stranger

|DirectedBy = Paul Henreid

|WrittenBy = {{StoryTeleplay|t=Raphael Hayes |s=Jack Emanuel}}

|OriginalAirDate={{Start date|1959|02|17}}

|ShortSummary= Features Adam West (Batman) as Frederick Pulaski

|LineColor=#8A4627

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{{Episode list

|EpisodeNumber = 33

|EpisodeNumber2 = 13

|Title = The Giant Killer

|DirectedBy = Joseph Lejtes

|WrittenBy = Norman Daniels & Harold Medford

|OriginalAirDate={{Start date|1959|03|03}}

|ShortSummary=

|LineColor=#8A4627

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{{Episode list

|EpisodeNumber = 34

|EpisodeNumber2 = 14

|Title = The Royal Raiders

|DirectedBy = Leslie H. Martinson

|WrittenBy = Peter R. Brooke

|OriginalAirDate={{Start date|1959|03|17}}

|ShortSummary=

|LineColor=#8A4627

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{{Episode list

|EpisodeNumber = 35

|EpisodeNumber2 = 15

|Title = The Mountain

|DirectedBy = Joseph Lejtes

|WrittenBy = C.L. Moore (as Catherine Kuttner)

|OriginalAirDate={{Start date|1959|03|31}}

|ShortSummary=

|LineColor=#8A4627

}}

{{Episode list

|EpisodeNumber = 36

|EpisodeNumber2 = 16

|Title = The Twister

|DirectedBy = Joseph Lejtes

|WrittenBy = James Gunn & Ellis St. Joseph

|OriginalAirDate={{Start date|1959|04|14}}

|ShortSummary=

|LineColor=#8A4627

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{{Episode list

|EpisodeNumber = 37

|EpisodeNumber2 = 17

|Title = The Vultures

|DirectedBy = Joseph Lejtes

|WrittenBy = Peter R. Brooke & James Gunn

|OriginalAirDate={{Start date|1959|04|28}}

|ShortSummary=

|LineColor=#8A4627

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{{Episode list

|EpisodeNumber = 38

|EpisodeNumber2 = 18

|Title = The Avengers

|DirectedBy = Joseph Lejtes

|WrittenBy = {{StoryTeleplay|t=Lowell Barrington |s=Jack Emanuel & Montgomery Pittman}}

|OriginalAirDate={{Start date|1959|05|12}}

|ShortSummary=

|LineColor=#8A4627

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{{Episode list

|EpisodeNumber = 39

|EpisodeNumber2 = 19

|Title = Small Hostage

|DirectedBy = Anton Leader

|WrittenBy = Polly James

|OriginalAirDate={{Start date|1959|05|26}}

|ShortSummary=

|LineColor=#8A4627

}}

{{Episode list

|EpisodeNumber = 40

|EpisodeNumber2 = 20

|Title = Wolf

|DirectedBy = Joseph Lejtes

|WrittenBy = {{StoryTeleplay|t=Milton S. Gelman |s=Robert Moore Williams}}

|OriginalAirDate={{Start date|1959|06|09}}

|ShortSummary=

|LineColor=#8A4627

}}

}}

=Season 3: 1959–1960=

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{{Episode list

|EpisodeNumber = 41

|EpisodeNumber2 = 1

|Title = The Trial of the Canary Kid

|DirectedBy = Montgomery Pittman

|WrittenBy = {{StoryTeleplay|t=C.L. Moore (as Catherine Kuttner) |s=Montgomery Pittman}}

|OriginalAirDate={{Start date|1959|09|15}}

|ShortSummary=

|LineColor=#A52A2A

}}

{{Episode list

|EpisodeNumber = 42

|EpisodeNumber2 = 2

|Title = The Wild Bunch

|DirectedBy = Leslie Goodwins

|WrittenBy = Dean Riesner

|OriginalAirDate={{Start date|1959|09|29}}

|ShortSummary=

|LineColor=#A52A2A

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{{Episode list

|EpisodeNumber = 43

|EpisodeNumber2 = 3

|Title = MacBrewster the Bold

|DirectedBy = Leslie Goodwins

|WrittenBy = Dean Riesner

|OriginalAirDate={{Start date|1959|10|13}}

|ShortSummary=

|LineColor=#A52A2A

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{{Episode list

|EpisodeNumber = 44

|EpisodeNumber2 = 4

|Title = The Gitanos

|DirectedBy = Leslie Goodwins

|WrittenBy = Edmund Morris

|OriginalAirDate={{Start date|1959|10|27}}

|ShortSummary=

|LineColor=#A52A2A

}}

{{Episode list

|EpisodeNumber = 45

|EpisodeNumber2 = 5

|Title = The Canary Kid, Inc.

|DirectedBy = Leslie Goodwins

|WrittenBy = Samuel Roeca

|OriginalAirDate={{Start date|1959|11|10}}

|ShortSummary=

|LineColor=#A52A2A

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{{Episode list

|EpisodeNumber = 46

|EpisodeNumber2 = 6

|Title = Outlaw Island

|DirectedBy = Reginald Le Borg

|WrittenBy = Lowell Barrington

|OriginalAirDate={{Start date|1959|11|24}}

|ShortSummary=

|LineColor=#A52A2A

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{{Episode list

|EpisodeNumber = 47

|EpisodeNumber2 = 7

|Title = Apollo with a Gun

|DirectedBy = Robert Altman

|WrittenBy = Warren Douglas

|OriginalAirDate={{Start date|1959|12|08}}

|ShortSummary=

|LineColor=#A52A2A

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{{Episode list

|EpisodeNumber = 48

|EpisodeNumber2 = 8

|Title = The Gaucho

|DirectedBy = Paul Guilfoyle

|WrittenBy = Edmund Morris

|OriginalAirDate={{Start date|1959|12|22}}

|ShortSummary=

|LineColor=#A52A2A

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{{Episode list

|EpisodeNumber = 49

|EpisodeNumber2 = 9

|Title = Journey to Provision

|DirectedBy = James V. Kern

|WrittenBy = Edmund Morris

|OriginalAirDate={{Start date|1960|01|05}}

|ShortSummary=

|LineColor=#A52A2A

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{{Episode list

|EpisodeNumber = 50

|EpisodeNumber2 = 10

|Title = The Highbinder

|DirectedBy = Robert Altman

|WrittenBy = Warren Douglas

|OriginalAirDate={{Start date|1960|01|19}}

|ShortSummary=

|LineColor=#A52A2A

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{{Episode list

|EpisodeNumber = 51

|EpisodeNumber2 = 11

|Title = Wolfpack

|DirectedBy = Leslie Goodwins

|WrittenBy = {{StoryTeleplay|t=William L. Stuart |s=Dick Nelson}}

|OriginalAirDate={{Start date|1960|02|02}}

|ShortSummary=

|LineColor=#A52A2A

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{{Episode list

|EpisodeNumber = 52

|EpisodeNumber2 = 12

|Title = Fernando

|DirectedBy = H. Bruce Humberstone

|WrittenBy = Dean Riesner

|OriginalAirDate={{Start date|1960|02|16}}

|ShortSummary=

|LineColor=#A52A2A

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{{Episode list

|EpisodeNumber = 53

|EpisodeNumber2 = 13

|Title = Blackwater Swamp

|DirectedBy = Leslie Goodwins

|WrittenBy = {{StoryTeleplay|t=Warren Douglas |s=Jim Barnett}}

|OriginalAirDate={{Start date|1960|03|01}}

|ShortSummary=

|LineColor=#A52A2A

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{{Episode list

|EpisodeNumber = 54

|EpisodeNumber2 = 14

|Title = Return to Boot Hill

|DirectedBy = Lee Sholem

|WrittenBy = Warren Douglas

|OriginalAirDate={{Start date|1960|03|15}}

|ShortSummary=

|LineColor=#A52A2A

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{{Episode list

|EpisodeNumber = 55

|EpisodeNumber2 = 15

|Title = Vinegarroon

|DirectedBy = William J. Hole, Jr.

|WrittenBy = Warren Douglas

|OriginalAirDate={{Start date|1960|03|29}}

|ShortSummary=

|LineColor=#A52A2A

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{{Episode list

|EpisodeNumber = 56

|EpisodeNumber2 = 16

|Title = The Corsican

|DirectedBy = William J. Hole, Jr.

|WrittenBy = Ric Hardman

|OriginalAirDate={{Start date|1960|04|12}}

|ShortSummary=

|LineColor=#A52A2A

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{{Episode list

|EpisodeNumber = 57

|EpisodeNumber2 = 17

|Title = Blue Bonnet Stray

|DirectedBy = Leslie Goodwins

|WrittenBy = Warren Douglas

|OriginalAirDate={{Start date|1960|04|26}}

|ShortSummary=

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{{Episode list

|EpisodeNumber = 58

|EpisodeNumber2 = 18

|Title = The Long Dry

|DirectedBy = Lew Landers

|WrittenBy = {{StoryTeleplay|t=Buckley Angell |s=Jim Barnett (as Iain MacCormick)}}

|OriginalAirDate={{Start date|1960|05|10}}

|ShortSummary=

|LineColor=#A52A2A

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{{Episode list

|EpisodeNumber = 59

|EpisodeNumber2 = 19

|Title = Funeral at Forty Mile

|DirectedBy = Leslie Goodwins

|WrittenBy = {{StoryTeleplay|t=Dick Nelson |s=Hugh Benson and Dick Nelson}}

|OriginalAirDate={{Start date|1960|05|24}}

|ShortSummary=

|LineColor=#A52A2A

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{{Episode list

|EpisodeNumber = 60

|EpisodeNumber2 = 20

|Title = The Captive Locomotive

|DirectedBy = Leslie Goodwins

|WrittenBy = Irwin Winehouse & A. Sanford Wolfe

|OriginalAirDate={{Start date|1960|06|07}}

|ShortSummary=

|LineColor=#A52A2A

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=Season 4: 1960–1961=

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{{Episode list

|EpisodeNumber = 61

|EpisodeNumber2 = 1

|Title = Shadow Catcher

|DirectedBy = Leslie Goodwins

|WrittenBy = Warren Douglas

|OriginalAirDate={{Start date|1960|09|26}}

|ShortSummary=

|LineColor=#800000

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{{Episode list

|EpisodeNumber = 62

|EpisodeNumber2 = 2

|Title = A Noose for Nora

|DirectedBy = Lee Sholem

|WrittenBy = Lester Fuller & Lee Loeb

|OriginalAirDate={{Start date|1960|10|24}}

|ShortSummary=

|LineColor=#800000

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{{Episode list

|EpisodeNumber = 63

|EpisodeNumber2 = 3

|Title = Man from Medora

|DirectedBy = Leslie Goodwins

|WrittenBy = Warren Douglas

|OriginalAirDate={{Start date|1960|11|21}}

|ShortSummary=

|LineColor=#800000

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{{Episode list

|EpisodeNumber = 64

|EpisodeNumber2 = 4

|Title = Welcome Enemy

|DirectedBy = Leslie Goodwins

|WrittenBy = W. Hermanos

|OriginalAirDate={{Start date|1960|12|26}}

|ShortSummary=

|LineColor=#800000

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{{Episode list

|EpisodeNumber = 65

|EpisodeNumber2 = 5

|Title = Toothy Thompson

|DirectedBy = Lee Sholem

|WrittenBy = Howard Browne & Warren Douglas

|OriginalAirDate={{Start date|1961|01|16}}

|ShortSummary=

|LineColor=#800000

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{{Episode list

|EpisodeNumber = 66

|EpisodeNumber2 = 6

|Title = Shepherd with a Gun

|DirectedBy = Lew Landers

|WrittenBy = Warren Douglas

|OriginalAirDate={{Start date|1961|02|06}}

|ShortSummary=

|LineColor=#800000

}}

{{Episode list

|EpisodeNumber = 67

|EpisodeNumber2 = 7

|Title = Angel

|DirectedBy = Lee Sholem

|WrittenBy = Warren Douglas

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|Title = Stranger in Town

|DirectedBy = Lew Landers

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|Title = Trouble at Sand Springs

|DirectedBy = Herbert L. Strock

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Background and production

After several episodes aired in the second season, a disappointed Hutchins complained in a letter to executive director William T. Orr that the scripts were written so that the lead character Sugarfoot was not particularly needed in many of the episodes.{{cite web|url=http://brightlightsfilm.com/70/70pittman_desmond.php|title=Somewhat Forgotten Figure to Some Extent Remembered: Notes on Television Director, Script Writer, and Occasional Actor Montgomery Pittman|date=November 2010|publisher=brightlightsfilm.com|access-date=January 13, 2014}}

File:Sugarfoot Tommy Rettig Will Hutchins 1958.jpg with Will Hutchins in Sugarfoot (1958).]]

Wayde Preston, who played Christopher Colt on the ABC Western Colt .45, appeared four times in that same role on Sugarfoot in the episodes dealing with "The Canary Kid," a role also played by Will Hutchins.

Reception

Sugarfoot finished at #24 in the Nielsen ratings for the 1957-1958 season and #21 for 1958-1959.{{cite web|url=https://classictvguide.com/tvratings/index.htm |title=TV Ratings |publisher=ClassicTVguide.com |date= |accessdate=2023-05-06}}

Release

=Home media=

Warner Bros. has released all four seasons on MOD (manufacture on demand) DVD-R's in Region 1 via their Warner Archive Collection.[http://www.tvshowsondvd.com/news/Sugarfoot-Season-1/18698 'The Complete 1st Season' Now Available from Warner Archive] {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130718073817/http://www.tvshowsondvd.com/news/Sugarfoot-Season-1/18698 |date=2013-07-18 }}[http://www.tvshowsondvd.com/news/Sugarfoot-Season-2/19088 'The Complete 2nd Season' Announced: Date, Cost, Autographed Box] {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20131019054321/http://www.tvshowsondvd.com/news/Sugarfoot-Season-2/19088 |date=2013-10-19 }}[http://www.tvshowsondvd.com/news/Sugarfoot-Season-3/19875 Warner Archive Announces 'The Complete 3rd Season': Date, Cost, Box] {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140609053737/http://www.tvshowsondvd.com/news/Sugarfoot-Season-3/19875 |date=2014-06-09 }}[http://www.tvshowsondvd.com/news/Sugarfoot-Season-4/20423 The Last Stories are Upon Us, with 'The Complete 4th Season'] {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20141028015226/http://tvshowsondvd.com/news/Sugarfoot-Season-4/20423 |date=2014-10-28 }}

In popular culture

  • In an episode of Arrested Development titled "Spring Breakout", Sugarfoot is mentioned and the theme song is presented.
  • The series debuted in 1958 in the United Kingdom but only in the Midlands area.TV Times, midlands edition, week commencing September 14, 1958. In 1960, it was aired nationally in the UK by the BBC,Radio Times, week commencing September 4, 1960. at which point it was renamed Tenderfoot despite the fact that it kept the theme song which refers to the character as "Sugarfoot". After 1964, the series returned to ITV, this time not just restricted to the Midlands, where it was once again billed under its original name.

References

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External links

  • {{IMDb title|id=0050063|title=Sugarfoot}}
  • [http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=-6229765142472313878&q=Roy+Huggins&total=20&start=10&num=10&so=0&type=search&plindex=5 Roy Huggins' Archive of American Television Interview] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20080226005034/http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=-6229765142472313878&q=Roy+Huggins&total=20&start=10&num=10&so=0&type=search&plindex=5 |date=2008-02-26 }}

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