Sugarfoot

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Sugarfoot was the title of a TV western that aired from 1957 to 1961. The series featured Will Hutchins as fledgling frontier lawyer Tom Brewster and Jack Elam as sidekick Toothy Thompson. Brewster was a correspondence school graduate whose lack of skills earned him the extremely peculiar nickname "Sugarfoot." Produced by Warner Bros. and broadcast on the ABC network, Sugarfoot was one of several such western TV series being filmed by Warner Bros. during the same period, including Maverick with James Garner and Jack Kelly, Cheyenne with Clint Walker, Bronco with Ty Hardin, Lawman with John Russell, and Colt .45 with Wayde Preston. Hutchins appeared as Sugarfoot in crossover episodes of Cheyenne, Maverick, and in an installment of Bronco called "The Yankee Tornado" featuring Peter Breck as the young Theodore Roosevelt.

[edit] Randolph Scott as Sugarfoot

Sugarfoot was also a 1951 western movie featuring Randolph Scott as Sugarfoot. The film had nothing to do with the later TV series except for the name itself, which was the name of Scott's character as well as the title of the film. The movie Sugarfoot was directed by Edwin L. Marin and co-starred Raymond Massey.