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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. Sheb Wooley and Slim Pickens reprised their roles from the movie in the pilot, entitled "Brannigan's Boots."

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.

Cast of "Brannigan's Boots" - pilot of Sugarfoot

Will Hutchins ... Tom 'Sugarfoot' Brewster
Merry Anders ... Katie Brannigan
Jack Elam ... Toothy Thompson
Louis Jean Heydt ... Paul Evans
Dennis Hopper ... Billy the Kid
Arthur Hunnicutt ... Pop Purty
Chubby Johnson ... Wally Higgins
Slim Pickens ... Shorty
Ainslie Pryor ... Mayor Barney Turlock
Kurt Russell ... Boy
Sheb Wooley ... Pete

Guest stars

Notable guest stars include Gregg Palmer, who portrayed Captain McKinley in the 1960 episode "Welcome Enemy". Veteran western film star Roscoe Ates appeared in the 1960 segment "The Man from Eudora". Gary Vinson appeared twice in 1960: as Joey Grogan in "Fernando" and as Jack Guild" in "Return to Boot Hill". Russ Conway appeared as a marshal in the 1959 episode "The Giant Killer". Tyler McVey appeared as Slim Jackson in the 1957 episode "Bunch Quitter". Chris Alcaide played Clay Horton in "Trail's End" (1957).

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