re: They went thataway, so let's go thisaway: the TV Western thread

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Will Hutchins, the eccentric actor who portrayed the wholesome sharpshooter and frontier lawyer Tom Brewster on the 1957-61 ABC Western Sugarfoot, has died. He was 94. 

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A contract player at Warner Bros., the easygoing Hutchins shot to sudden fame as Brewster, who starts out on his series as the naïve new sheriff of Bluerock. In the first episode, he’s derisively called a sugarfoot, “someone who’s trying to work his way up to tenderfoot.”

As the show moves along, Brewster takes correspondence-school courses to become an attorney, and the title song notes that his character carries “a rifle and a volume of the law.”

Hutchins also had fun playing Brewster’s evil cousin, The Canary Kid, on three episodes.

“I got the dual role, I got to be the sweet, sarsaparilla-chugging-with-a-dash-of-cherry Sugarfoot and the whiskey-of-out-the-bottle Canary Kid,” he told Word on Westerns host Rob Word in a 2021 interview. “And I got to wear Humphrey Bogart’s pants [out of the wardrobe department], that was a thrill!”

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Will, Ty Hardin, & Clint Walker on the set of Cheyenne



This essentially leaves Clint & Robert Fuller as the only surviving stars of '50s westerns.