Original title
Sugarfoot
Released
9/17/1957
Origin country
US
Genre
Western
Status
Ended
Number of seasons
4
Number of episodes
69
Sugarfoot is an American western television series that aired on ABC from 1957 to 1961. The series stars Will Hutchins as Tom Brewster, an Easterner who comes to the Oklahoma Territory to become a lawyer. Jack Elam is cast in occasional episodes as sidekick Toothy Thompson. 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.
Crooked politicians in Bluerock appoint Tom sheriff after noting his poor shooting aim. Tom, however, takes the job seriously, and in the sheriffs office he dons a pair of boots standing against the wall. A pretty girl who is watching him says he's not man enough to fill her father's boots and, to prove her wrong, Tom sets out to find her father's killer.
Sugarfoot takes a job with a rancher, unaware that his new employer is involved in a range war. Then he learns that the owner of the rival ranch is an attractive young lady.
An elderly rancher, bitter at the world, uses a gunman as a means of avenging himself. Sugarfoot attempts to stop the gunman's reign of terror, but first must talk to the old man.
When a trail boss is shot by outlaws, Sugarfoot is appointed to lead a cattle drive to a secret destination. The cattle-owner's daughter reveals this destination to a charming cowboy who then joins the rustlers in an ambush.
Reunited with his childhood sweetheart, Sugarfoot is disappointed to learn that she is now a dance-hall queen. She tells Sugarfoot that she is trying to break away from this life, but a ruthless cattle baron intends to force her to marry him.
Sugarfoot comes to the aid of a silver-mine owner who can't meet his payroll because he has been robbed.
Mercy Preston schemes to use Sugarfoot to dispose of two men who stand between her and the possession of a rich mine. Her sister Patience attempts to help Sugarfoot.
While out in the mountains Sugarfoot captures a wild horse. Later the horse is stolen from him and sold to a rancher. Sugarfoot takes a job as a stablehand in order to take care of the animal and to expose the horse thief.
Sugarfoot rescues a girl after claim jumpers kill her miner father.
In an attempt to trap the robbers, Sugarfoot pretends to know the whereabouts of a haul made in a bank robbery.
Sugarfoot, who has been studying law by correspondence, is tricked into serving as a juror in a crime case in which his own employer is the plaintiff. As the trial progresses, Sugarfoot comes to the realization that some of the evidence being presented is phony.
A friend of Sugarfoot's decides to write to Sweden for a mail-order bride. Convinced that he isn't good-looking enough to attract a young lady, he sends along Sugarfoot's picture instead of his own.
Sugarfoot's boss, Lucy Barron, tells him that there is a large sum of money owing on her ranch and that it's threatened with foreclosure. Sugarfoot determines to protect his employer's interest.
Sugarfoot, as acting sheriff, is asked to help find a woman's missing husband. When he finds the man, he realizes that he is a wanted outlaw who must be taken into custody.
A group of teenagers decide to become bandits. Sugarfoot tries to help the sister of one of the youngsters who wants to keep her brother from a life of crime.
A pretty Indian girl guides Sugarfoot as he drives a wagonload of supplies to a Pawnee village. But he doesn't realize just what cargo he's carrying.
when four stagecoach passengers are kidnapped by masked bandits, Sugarfoot is dispatched to raise the ransom money.
Sugarfoot is on the trail of a renegade who is selling guns to the Indians. Learning that his quarry is connected with a traveling puppet show, Sugarfoot joins the show.
After a mine cave-in, Sugarfoot is trapped with a half-breed Indian who has been accused of murder. The man tells Sugarfoot that he has been wrongly accused and that he hid in the mine to escape from the lawmen hunting him.
When Sugarfoot inherits a mine and a mule team he is hard put to realize any value from them. He begins to build a railroad spur to work the mine but is blocked by a man who wants to gain control of the mine.
After outlaws murder Job Turner's son, the old frontiersman wants to leave them to die in the desert.
Sugarfoot vouches for an old friend, an ex-con who then proceeds to rob the bank.
A traveling magician, who is also an accomplished hypnotist, hypnotizes his assistant and orders her to set fire and to name Sugarfoot as the arsonist. After the fire the irate townspeople, hearing Sugarfoot is responsible for the blaze, decide to lynch him.
Sugarfoot is given the assignment of taking a teenager to Missouri to collect the boy's inheritance. Enroute, Sugarfoot learns that the boy is violent and is also suspected of a murder.
A notorious gunman learns that he and Sugarfoot are almost doubles. He kidnaps Sugarfoot and prepares to impersonate him in order to carry out a bank robbery.
Sugarfoot makes friends with a wounded soldier, unaware the man is mentally unbalanced and sought by lawmen as a killer.
Sugarfoot sets out to find a notorious outlaw whose signature is wanted by a Kansas City law firm. Sugarfoot finds the outlaw, but soon learns that there are other men in the area who want to capture him for the price on his head.
Sugarfoot's life is threatened when he discovers the secret behind a strange Indian ritual.
While visiting his friend Padre John at a mission school in Texas, Sugarfoot learns of a plot to kill Mexico's President Benito Juarez.
In exchange for a horse and provisions, Sugarfoot agrees to travel with Alex Sharlakov, a former Russian seaman. After reaching Kansas, Sharlakov takes Sugarfoot to a ghost mining town, where the Russian looks for two men who had attempted to kill him.
Tom Brewster and Christopher Colt join forces to capture a gang of outlaws. Brewster disguises himself as the infamous Canary Kid and makes contact with the outlaws; then the real Kid escapes from prison and heads for the gang's hideout.
Tom realizes that the mine where he is working as a clerk is being swindled.
A young widow, angered by a rumor which links her to the town's political boss, threatens to blow up a hotel. Sugarfoot tries to disprove the rumors in order to save the hotel and its occupants.
Attractive French emissary Yvette Marveux entrusts Sugarfoot with a fortune in diamonds. Traveling by train, the two find their trip interrupted by a group of European military men after the jewels.
Tom Brewster searches for Vic Bradley and his Indian wife, who are hiding out in a mountain area that is supposed to be haunted. Brewster has evidence which may clear Bradley of a murder charge.
Bank robber Sid Garvin has forced his brother, a schoolteacher, to hold money he has stolen. When Garvin comes to collect his money, he holds Sugarfoot and three schoolchildren as hostages.
Along the trail, Sugarfoot comes upon a young woman wandering in a daze and takes her to a nearby fort. Sugarfoot finds that the fort has recently been attacked by Indians and its sole inhabitant is an officer who had been jailed on charges of desertion.
Tom Brewster and a convicted murderer called Pike are passengers on the same stagecoach when a sudden storm forces the travelers to take shelter. While the travelers wait in a deserted cathedral, Pike's guard is shot. Sugarfoot traces the sniper to an abandoned mine shaft.
Sugarfoot travels with Col. Cyrus Craig toward Mexico, where they are to claim the corpse of the colonel's son. En route, they are stopped by a gang of blackmailers.
Sugarfoot is working as a ranch foreman for a widow. When some of the cattle are stolen and evidence point to Wolf Wilkes, Tom comes to Wolf's defense.
Tom sets out to free his identical cousin, the Canary Kid, who is on trial for murder.
Sugarfoot rides into Morgan's Ford, a seemingly quiet and friendly town, and takes a job as schoolteacher. He soon learns that the townspeople are fighting over water rights and living in fear of a gang of young toughs who are his pupils.
The same day citizens of a rough frontier town appoint Tom Brewster as sheriff, three of Tom's relatives arrive to heap another honor on the unsuspecting cowboy. Dougal, Angus and Wee Rabbie MacBrewster have traveled from Scotland to proclaim Tom chief of their clan. When Ben Cadigan and his gang attempt to hold up the bank, Sugarfoot's visiting relatives come to the aid of the chief.
Tom Brewster rescues a Gypsy girl and soon finds that the young lady has marriage on her mind. The Gypsy chief looks on Tom with disfavor and the cowboy must contend with a vengeful Gypsy rival.
Government agent Chris Colt suspects that recent prison breaks have been supervised by the Canary Kid, an imprisoned outlaw. Colt asks Sugarfoot to take the Kid's place in prison.
Tom Brewster wants to free Sally Ormand, who is a prisoner of the Baron, ruler of an island. Learning that the islanders are ready to revolt, Tom sparks the uprising.
Tom Brewster is caught between a famous actress' request that he find her lost stallion, and a killer's promise of death if he does.
Tom Brewster meets Curro Santiago, who is romancing Ellen Conway, despite her brother's opposition. When Santiago is held for a murder that he didn't commit, Tom tries to help his new friend.
A mayor and a sheriff offer Tom Brewster a bribe to leave town. Tom, realizing that he has been taken for a government investigator, attempts to discover what the two men are so eager to hide.
An elderly Chinese masn asks Tom Brewster to help him deliver an urn containing his son's ashes to San Francisco. But the urn holds more than ashes—the map of a gold mine is hidden inside.
A pack of wolves kill three people, one of them a friend of Tom Brewster's. Perplexed by the incident, Tom moves in with his dead friend's family.
If he defeats the boxing champ, Fernando will use his winnings to save an old mission. But Fernando and his trainer find they~ve taken on more than just a bout—a local gambler is after the land the mission is built on.
Tom Brewster tries to bring an estranged father and son together. His efforts, however, are undermined by the father's new wife, who is willing to commit murder to get control of her husband's property.
Mayor Plummer agrees to help Tom Brewster clear a young man of a murder charge. But Tom gets suspicious when he learns about the mayor's connection with the defendant's sister.
Townsfolk welcome Tom Brewster to town by charging him with murder and sentencing him to the gallows. But Judge Roy Bean is a fan of actress Lily Langtry, and Tom tries to take advantage of this to save his neck.
Tom Brewster helps a New Englander and his daughter take a wounded Corsican to the trading post for help. But there is no assistance waiting—only a warlike band of Sioux.
As the train pulls out, Tom Brewster notices that an infant is on board, but its mother is still in the station. He returns the child, unaware that he is bringing it closer to death.
Jericho Dooley's town is plagued by drought. But he is determined to float off in his ark, taking Tom Brewster and Anne Carmody with him.
After Tom Brewster arrives in town to help his cousin run for office, strange things start happening: the local hanging tree is struck by lightning, and an empty coffin is left in the middle of the street.
As Sugarfoot comes on the scene, a railroad is gobbling up land in a Western valley, forcing out the landowners.
Sugarfoot becomes involved with an army officer who is trying to provoke a war with the Indians to get land that is rich in gold.
Tom Brewster sees Nora Sutton shoot down a wealthy landowner. But Judge Lawson names Brewster to be her defense attorney.
When Jake Sloane can't take the measure of a dude named Theodore in a barbershop brawl, Sugarfoot decides to find out more about the dude. One thing he finds out is that his last name is Roosevelt.
Chief Red Wing of the Sioux Indians is on his way to Chicago for a conference with President Grant. Sugarfoot has been hired to accompany the chief to see that he doesn't get assassinated.
John Brice is in town to investigate charges of corruption. When someone tries to murder Brice, Toothy Thompson, a long-time troublemaker, is jailed as a suspect.
Greed rancher John Peel tries to use grazing land belonging to a shepherd named Joachin. The shepherd can't defend his property, but his son Pablo can, and he's got a gun to help him.
Sugarfoot and his pal Toothy Thompson don't mind helping out Sheriff Boyce with a gang of killers, but they would like to know just who the leader of the gang is.
Sugarfoot loads the bodies of two murderers onto a horse and brings them into town. Although the killers shot each other, the townspeople are convinced that Sugarfoot is the fast gun who got them both.
Jimmy and Rance Benbow are accused of murder, and Sugarfoot is appointed their defense counsel. He knows he has got a tough case when he sees that the prosecuting attorney is Rhonda Rigsby, the daughter of the murdered man.
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