Sugarfoot
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- This article is about the television series. For the film, see Sugarfoot (1951 film). For musician Leroy "Sugarfoot" Bonner, see Ohio Players.
| Sugarfoot | |
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 Will Hutchins staring as Tom "Sugarfoot" Brewster |
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| Also known as | Tenderfoot (UK name) |
| Genre | western legal drama |
| Created by | Michael Fessier[1] |
| Starring | Will Hutchins Jack Elam |
| Theme music composer | Mack David and Jay Livingston |
| Composer(s) | Ray Heindorf Max Steiner |
| Country of origin |  United States |
| Language(s) | English |
| No. of seasons | 4 |
| No. of episodes | 69 |
| Production | |
| Executive producer(s) |
William T. Orr |
| Producer(s) | Harry Tatelman Caroll Case Burt Dunne Arthur W. Silver |
| Editor(s) | James Moore supervisor Carl Pingitore Leo H. Shreve James C. Moore Harold Minter Robert B. Warwick, Jr. Robert Watts |
| Location(s) |  California |
| Running time | 60 mins. |
| Broadcast | |
| Original channel | ABC |
| Picture format | 1.33:1 monochrome |
| Audio format | monaural |
| First shown in | Tuesdays at 7:30 |
| Original run | 17 September 1957 – 17 April 1961 |
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| IMDb profile | |
Sugarfoot is 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 apparent lack of cowboy skills earned him the peculiar nickname "Sugarfoot."
The show had no relation to the 1951 movie "Sugarfoot." But its pilot episode was a remake of an offbeat 1954 Western called "The Boy from Oklahoma," starring Will Rogers Jr. as Tom Brewster. As played by Rogers in the movie, Brewster never used firearms, preferring to vanquish villains with his roping skills (à la Will Rogers Sr.) if friendly persuasion failed. Perhaps for practical reasons, the pilot altered the character slightly, making Brewster reluctant to use firearms, but able and willing to do so as a last resort. That was the way he remained throughout the series, and the title song even mentioned that he carried a rifle as well as law book.
Sugarfoot was one of the earliest products of the alliance between ABC and the fledgling Warner Brothers Television Department, chaired by William T. Orr. During the same period, other similar shows would appear, 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 and Maverick, and in an installment of Bronco called "The Yankee Tornado" featuring Peter Breck as the young Theodore Roosevelt.
[edit] In popular culture
The TV series Sugarfoot is mentioned, and the theme song is sung, in an episode of Arrested Development titled "Spring Breakout". When shown in the United Kingdom, the show was titled "Tenderfoot." This left British viewers somewhat confused, because the theme song referred to the character as "Sugarfoot."
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