Sugarfoot (1957)
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.
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Episode 1 - Ring of Sand
Release Date: 1958-09-16After outlaws murder Job Turner's son, the old frontiersman wants to leave them to die in the desert.
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Episode 2 - Brink of Fear
Release Date: 1958-09-30Sugarfoot vouches for an old friend, an ex-con who then proceeds to rob the bank.
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Episode 3 - The Wizard
Release Date: 1958-10-14A 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.
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Episode 4 - The Ghost
Release Date: 1958-10-28Sugarfoot 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.
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Episode 5 - The Canary Kid
Release Date: 1958-11-11A 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.
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Episode 6 - The Hunted
Release Date: 1958-11-25Sugarfoot makes friends with a wounded soldier, unaware the man is mentally unbalanced and sought by lawmen as a killer.
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Episode 7 - Yampa Crossing
Release Date: 1958-12-09Sugarfoot 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.
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Episode 8 - Devil to Pay
Release Date: 1958-12-23Sugarfoot's life is threatened when he discovers the secret behind a strange Indian ritual.
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Episode 9 - The Desperadoes
Release Date: 1959-01-06While visiting his friend Padre John at a mission school in Texas, Sugarfoot learns of a plot to kill Mexico's President Benito Juarez.
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Episode 10 - The Extra Hand
Release Date: 1958-01-20In 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.
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Episode 11 - The Return of the Canary Kid
Release Date: 1959-02-03Tom 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.
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Episode 12 - The Mysterious Stranger
Release Date: 1959-02-17Tom realizes that the mine where he is working as a clerk is being swindled.
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Episode 13 - The Giant Killer
Release Date: 1959-03-03A 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.
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Episode 14 - The Royal Raiders
Release Date: 1959-03-17Attractive 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.
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Episode 15 - The Mountain
Release Date: 1959-03-31Tom 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.
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Episode 16 - The Twister
Release Date: 1959-04-14Bank 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.
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Episode 17 - The Vultures
Release Date: 1959-04-28Along 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.
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Episode 18 - The Avengers
Release Date: 1959-05-12Tom 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.
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Episode 19 - Small Hostage
Release Date: 1959-05-26Sugarfoot 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.
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Episode 20 - Wolf
Release Date: 1959-06-09Sugarfoot 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.