Sugarfoot, which
debuted in 1957, was part of the second wave of Warner Brothers westerns along
with Maverick after the initial
success on Cheyenne, which first
aired in 1955. Like Maverick, its
protagonist Tom Brewster is not your conventional hero in his attempt to avoid
violence by using his wits rather than his gun. He is an easterner who
initially moves to Oklahoma and then wanders about the west while attempting to
get a law degree through a correspondence school, and we see him in several
episodes checking with postmasters or hotel clerks when he rides into town to
see if he has any letters from the school with his latest assignment. And while
as a law student he is a firm believer in the rule of law rather than blind
vengeance or other emotion-fueled mob justice, less than half the episodes have
a legal-based plot. His nickname "Sugarfoot" indicates how much of a
neophyte he is in the ways of the west, meaning that he is a step below a
tenderfoot. He emphasizes this milquetoast characterization by frequently
saddling up to the bar and ordering sarsaparilla rather than hard liquor, but
despite his country bumpkin demeanor, he is observant and crafty, much like a
prototype of Sheriff Andy Taylor of The Andy Griffith Show. And yet despite his lack of experience, he is a master
with a sixgun.
The pilot for the show was based on a 1954 Warner Brothers
feature The Boy From Oklahoma
starring Will Rogers, Jr. as a nonviolent sheriff named Tom Brewster who snared
criminals with lasso tricks, much like his father. Will Hutchins has observed that
the producers of Sugarfoot chose him
for the lead because he reminded them of Rogers, Sr., and he has also, like
James Garner, documented Warners' skin-flint approach to television by
recycling scripts between all their shows and films, shooting all the episodes
on sound stages and back lots rather than on location, splicing in stock
footage from their movie archive, and forcing actors under contract to make
numerous public appearances with no reimbursement. There are even instances on Sugarfoot where Hutchins' stunt double
doesn't even have the same hair color, making the substitution painfully
obvious.
Yet despite these shortcuts, the series was popular enough
to run for 4 seasons, though it did so in rotation with Cheyenne and eventually Bronco
so that there were never more than 20 episodes produced per season (the final
season had only 9). It ranked in the top 30 in ratings its first two seasons.
Despite his interest in the law and eventually becoming a
lawyer, Tom Brewster is a nomad, like Cheyenne Bodie, often with no apparent
reason for why he travels where he does. Occasionally an old friend will seek
his help, as in the episode "Wolf-Pack" (February 2, 1960) in which
he is summoned by letter to help his friend Lee Morris, working as a ranch hand
at the Bar B ranch, which has suffered a number of wolf attacks. In fact,
Morris is killed by such an attack the night before Brewster arrives, and he is
left to unravel the mystery of why the attacks keep happening. As with many of
the show's episodes, another greedy landowner is trying to take over the
property via nefarious methods. In "Funeral at Forty Mile" (May 24,
1960) he is summoned by an uncle to help his cousin Sheriff Luke Condon as
campaign manager for his run for county sheriff, only Luke has a skeleton in
the closet when he failed to protect a wrongfully accused man from being
railroaded into a hanging to cover up a murder by the town's mayor.
As with many other westerns of the era, the subject of
racial prejudice and the white man's injustice to Native Americans receive
surprisingly progressive treatment. In "The Highbinder" (January 19,
1960) Brewster comes to the aid of Chinese American Yup Toy, who receives rude
treatment from a racist hotel clerk. In "The Shadow Catcher"
(September 26, 1960) he teams up with Sioux brave Spotted Wolf after the
latter's family is massacred by a greedy renegade army lieutenant who is intent
on mining the Black Hills for gold when the territory has already been granted
to the Sioux for their reservation. In "Welcome Enemy" (December 26,
1960) Brewster is recruited by his friend army Captain McHenry to escort Sioux
chief Red Wing and his daughter White Fawn to an important secret meeting in
Chicago with President Ulysses S. Grant. In this episode Brewster not only
treats the Native Americans as equals, he exchanges a few kisses with White
Fawn when she falls in love with him, while spurning the attention of a blonde
rival daughter of an army general.
This last episode also suggests that in its final season,
the Sugarfoot producers felt the need
to make the show more appealing by adding love interests for Brewster and
inserting historical figures into the plots. In the preceding episode,
"Man From Medora" (November 21, 1960), Brewster entertains the
flirtations of a ranch owner's daughter after teaming up with a
pre-presidential Teddy Roosevelt. By contrast, in Season 3 Brewster is more
likely to play matchmaker, as he does for poor Scottish rancher Simon March and
wealthy landowner Rachel Barnes in "The Captive Locomotive" (June 7,
1960) or for his cousin Luke Condon and caretaker Julie Frazer in the
aforementioned "Funeral at Forty Mile."
However, after more than two seasons of studying the law
Brewster finally gets a chance to apply it towards the end of Season 3 and in
the first half of Season 4. In "Vinegarroon" March 15, 1960, he makes
a visit to legendary Judge Roy Bean and impresses the unorthodox judge so much
that he is appointed interim judge when Bean takes a flyer to Austin, Texas to
catch his dreamgirl Lillie Langtry in performance. In "A Noose for
Nora" (October 24, 1960) he gets to try his first case as a defense
attorney for accused killer Nora Sutton when the only other lawyer in town
besides the prosecutor has come down sick. Not surprisingly, Brewster wins the
case and gets Nora a suspended sentence. His own TV series would not fare as
well, however, lasting only another 7 episodes before being put out to pasture.
The theme song for Sugarfoot
was composed by Ray Heindorf and Max Steiner with lyrics by Paul Francis
Webster, who was profiled in the 1960 post for Maverick. Heindorf was born in Havershaw, New York and grew up in
Mechanicville, where he played piano at the State Theatre while a teenager in
high school. He moved to New York City in 1928 and became friends with composer
Arthur Lange. The next year he and Lange moved to Hollywood and Heindorf found
work with MGM, his first picture being The
Hollywood Revue of 1929. Three years later he moved to Warner Brothers,
where he remained for the duration of his career, becoming in 1948. He was
nominated for 18 Oscars and won three--for the scores for Yankee Doodle Dandy, This Is
the Army, and The Music Man. He
also worked on Judy Garland's A Star Is
Born, A Streetcar Named Desire, No Time for Sergeants, and Damn Yankees. He retired from Warner in
1965 and lived in Los Angeles until his death at age 71 on February 3, 1980.
Austrian-born Maximillian Raoul Steiner has been called
"the father of film music" for his pioneering role in composing
scores in support of action on the screen rather than vague mood music. He was
a child prodigy who conducted his first operetta at age 12 and composed his
first at 15. His grandfather was a famous theater manager, his father an
impresario and producer, and his mother a dancer. His godfather was Richard
Strauss, as a boy he studied piano under Johannes Brahms and later studied
conducting under Gustav Mahler. Due to the success of his first operetta, The
Beautiful Greek Girl, he received offers to conduct in other countries,
eventually landing in London in 1906, where he remained until 1914 when he left
for New York after being interred as an enemy alien during World War I. For the
next 15 years he worked in a number of capacities in conducting, arranging, and
composing for Broadway shows, including those written by George Gershwin,
Jerome Kern, and Vincent Youmans. Harry Tierney was so impressed by Steiner's
work on his production of Rio Rita that he recommended RKO hire him, and
Steiner moved to Hollywood in 1929 to begin his ground-breaking, prolific
career scoring for feature films.At RKO Steiner first worked with producer
David O. Selznick on The Symphony of Six Million. While at RKO Steiner
also composed the score for King Kong, which is believed to have saved
the movie and contributed greatly to its popularity, and he scored John Ford's The
Informer. In 1937 he moved to Warner Brothers, where he remained for the
rest of his career, though he was periodically loaned out for other Selznick
productions, most notably Gone With the Wind in 1939. Steiner was
nominated for 24 Oscars and won 3, for The Informer, Now Voyager,
and Since You Went Away. He also composed the scores for Casablanca,
A Summer Place, Flying Down to Rio, Jezebel, Dark
Victory, The Treasure of the Sierra Madre, Little Women, Sergeant
York, Arsenic and Old Lace, Mildred Pierce, The Big Sleep,
Key Largo, White Heat, The Caine Mutiny, and The
Searchers.He died of congestive heart failure on December 28, 1971 at the
age of 83 and was inducted posthumously into the Songwriters Hall of Fame in
1995.
All four seasons have been released on DVD by Warner Archive.
The Actors
Will Hutchins
Marhsall Lowell Hutchason was born in Los Angeles in 1930
and had his first appearance on film as a child extra in the W.C. Fields
feature Never Give a Sucker an Even Break,
which just happened to be filming in his neighborhood. After graduating from
Pomona College with a degree in Greek drama, he joined the Army during the
Korean War and worked as a cryptographer stationed in Paris, France, decoding
message for General Montgomery, though he claims that he spent a good deal of
time at cafes on the Champs Elysees sipping cage au laits. After two years in
the Army, he returned to civilian life and worked as a mailman until deciding
to enter film studies at UCLA. In 1956 while working one night on a film
editing project for a class, he was persuaded by a friend to go to tryouts for
a live drama anthology series called Matinee
Theatre and wound up being cast in the lead by producer Albert McCleery.
McCleery then called him back for additional episodes and had him bleach his
hair blond for one part in which he played the son of actor Gene Raymond. He
was there spotted by a Warner Brothers talent scout and signed to a contract.
The following year he was cast as the lead in Sugarfoot and by 1958 was also appearing in feature films such as Lafayette Escadrille and No Time for Sergeants. Besides appearing
in his own series, Hutchins made appearances as Tom Brewster on other Warners'
westerns Maverick, Cheyenne, and Bronco as well as playing occasional other parts on Warners' series
77 Sunset Strip, Surfside 6, and The Roaring
'20's. His last work for Warners came in the 1962 feature Merrill's Marauders.
Once cut loose from Warners, Hutchins struggled to find work
and tried to pay the bills with work on the stage. However, he landed another
TV series playing Woody Banner on Hey,
Landlord, which last only a single season from 1966-67. During this time he
also appeared in a pair of Elvis Presley films Spinout and Clambake as
well as the Jack Nicholson western The
Shooting. In 1968 he was cast as Dagwood Bumstead in yet another TV series
based on the comic strip Blondie, but
this also last only a single season. Work in the 1970s was sparse and
demeaning, and Hutchins ended up in pictures like Slumber Party '57 and The
Happy Hooker Goes to Washington. With his acting career basically over in
1980 he moved to Australia and joined the circus as Patches the Clown. When he
returned to the States, he went to work for NBC as a warehouse worker for 12
years before finally semi-retiring to Long Island with his second wife Barbara
Torres in 1995. (He was married to Carol Burnett's sister Chrissie from 1965 to
1969.) He still makes appearances at fan festivals and writes a nearly monthly
post for the western-themed web site Western Clippings.Notable Guest Stars
Season 3, Episode 9, "Journey
to Provision": Mort Mills (Marshal Frank Tallman on Man Without a Gun, Sgt. Ben Landro on Perry Mason, and Sheriff Fred Madden on The Big Valley) plays crooked sheriff Len Gogerty. Malcolm
Atterbury (starred in I Was a Teenage
Werewolf, The Birds, and The Learning Tree and played John Bixby
on Wagon Train and Grandfather Aldon
on Apple's Way) plays postmaster Abel
Crotty. Donald May (shown on the left, played Charles C. Thompson on West
Point, Pat Garrison on The Roaring
'20's, Grant Wheeler on Texas,
Adam Drake, Sr. on The Edge of Night,
Raymond Speer on As the World Turns,
and Earl Foster on All My Children)
plays newspaper publisher Jim Brenan. Ian Wolfe (starred in The Barretts of Wimpole Street, The Magnificent Yankee, and Seven brides for Seven Brothers and
played Hirsch the Butler on WKRP in Cincinnati
and Wizard Traquil on Wizards and
Warriors) plays busybody Horgan. John McCann (Aereth on Flamingo Road) plays Gogerty's deputy
Sam. Doodles Weaver (narrated Spike Jones' horse-racing songs and hosted A Day With Doodles) plays informant
Simon Miller.
Season 3, Episode 10, "The
Highbinder": Don Haggerty (Jeffrey Jones on The Files of Jeffrey Jones, Eddie Drake on The Cases of Eddie Drake, Sheriff Dan Elder on State Trooper, and Marsh Murdock on The Life and Legend of Wyatt Earp) plays syndicate muscle Ben
Reilly. James Hong (shown on the right, played Barry Chan on The New
Adventures of Charlie Chan, Frank Chen on Jigsaw John, and Doctor Chen Ling on Dynasty) plays his compadre The Hatchet Man. Victor Buono (appeared
in Robin and the 7 Hoods, Hush...Hush, Sweet Charlotte, The Greatest Story Ever Told, and The Silencers and played King Tut on Batman and Dr. Schubert on Man From Atlantis) plays a San Francisco
bartender. Lester Fletcher (Mr. Divine on Down
to Earth) plays a hotel clerk. Larry J. Blake (the unnamed jailer on Yancy Derringer and Tom Parnell on Saints and Sinners) plays police Officer
O'Brien.
Season 3, Episode 11, "Wolf-Pack":
Richard Coogan (Marshal Matthew Wayne on The
Californians) plays trapper Judd Mallory. Richard Garland (Clay Horton on Lassie) plays physician Dr. Martin Rain.
Kenneth MacDonald (played the judge 32 times on Perry Mason, played Col.
Parker on Colt .45, and appeared in
several Three Stooges shorts) plays land agent Mr. Smith. Tom London (starred
in Six-Shootin' Sheriff, Song of the Buckaroo, and Riders in the Sky) plays ranch-hand Gil
Wander. Phil Tully (the bartender on The Deputy) plays ranch-hand Tex Andrews.
Season 3, Episode 12, "Fernando":
Harry Bellaver (see the biography section for the 1960 post on Naked City) plays boxing promoter Corky
McCoy. Tim Graham (Homer Ede on National
Velvet) plays bath-house owner Paddy Grogan. Gary Vinson (Chris Higbee on The Roaring '20's, George Christopher on
McHale's Navy, and Sheriff Harold
Skiles on Pistols 'n' Petticoats)
plays his nephew Joey Grogan. Nicky Blair (Charlie de Angelo on Saints and Sinners) plays delinquent
Cople.
Season 3, Episode 13, "Blackwater
Swamp": James Coburn (starred in The
Magnificent Seven, Charade, Our Man Flint, and In Like Flint and who played Jeff Durain on Klondike and Gregg Miles on Acapulco)
plays landowner Rome Morgan. Kevin Hagen (John Colton on Yancy Derringer, Inspector Dobbs Kobick on Land of the Giants, and Dr. Hiram Baker on Little House on the Prairie) plays his sidekick Sam Fields. George
Wallace (starred in Radar Men From the
Moon, Destry, and Forbidden Planet and played Judge Milton
Cole on Hill Street Blues and Grandpa
Hank Hammersmith on Sons and Daughters)
plays landowner John Crain. Kasey Rogers (Julie Anderson on Peyton Place and Louise Tate on Bewitched) plays his wife Myra. Robert
Colbert (Dr. Doug Phillips on The Time
Tunnel) plays his son Ben. Robert Warwick (starred in Alias Jimmy Valentine, The
Supreme Sacrifice, The Heart of a
Hero, and Against All Flags)
plays Ben's grandfather Spotted Horse. William Tannen (Deputy Hal Norton on The Life and Legend of Wyatt Earp) plays
railroad agent Jim Asbury. Chuck Essegian (shown on the right, professional baseball player with
the Los Angeles Dodgers) plays his assistant Bob Fanning. Terry Frost (Sgt.
Moore/Morse/Morris on Highway Patrol)
lays the local sheriff.
Season 3, Episode 14, "Return
to Boothill": Gary Vinson (see "Fernando" above) plays accused
stage robber Jack Guild. Diane McBain (Daphne Dutton on Surfside 6 and Pinky Pinkston on Batman) plays his sister Joan. Alan Hewitt (starred in That Touch of Mink, Days of Wine and Roses, The
Misadventures of Merlin Jones, and The
Computer Wore Tennis Shoes and who played Det. Bill Brennan on My Favorite Martian) plays Alder Gulch
mayor and sheriff Henry Plummer. Ralph Manza (shown on the left, played Al Bonacorsi on The D.A.'s Man, Jay Drury on Banacek, Ambulance Aide Stanke on A.E.S. Hudson, Padre Guardiano on Mama Malone, and Bud on Newhart) plays bartender Glen Hause. Chubby
Johnson (Concho on Temple Houston)
plays stage driver Hank.
Season 3, Episode 15, "Vinegarroon":
Frank Ferguson (Gus Broeberg on My Friend
Flicka, Eli Carson on Peyton Place,
and Dr. Barton Stuart on Petticoat
Junction) plays Judge Roy Bean. Richard Devon (Jody Barker on Yancy Derringer) plays his deputy Steve
Wyatt. Don C. Harvey (Collins on Rawhide)
plays his deputy Doc.
Season 3, Episode 16, "The
Corsican": Paul Picerni (shown on the right, played Agent Lee Hobson on The Untouchables) plays Corsican immigrant Gianpaolo Fregoso. Mala
Powers (starred in Cyrano de Bergerac,
Rose of Cimarron, and Tammy and the Bachelor and played
Rebecca Boone on Walt Disney's Daniel
Boone and Mona on Hazel) plays wagon
traveler Roberta Shipman. Jacques Aubuchon (starred in The Silver Chalice, The Big
Boodle, and The Love God? and
played Urulu on McHale's Navy) plays trading-post
owner Joubert. 
Season 3, Episode 17, "Blue
Bonnet Stray": Janet De Gore (Marsha Spear on The Law and Mr. Jones and Louise Howard on The Real McCoys) plays traveling mother Mary Kirk. Alan Baxter (appeared
in Saboteur, Close-Up, and Paint Your Wagon)
plays her brother-in-law Vance O'Connell. Douglas Kennedy (shown on the left, starred in Adventures of Don Juan, I Was an American Spy, and Jack McCall, Desperado and played
Marshal Steve Donovan on Steve Donovan,
Western Marshal and Sheriff Fred Madden on The Big Valley) plays Salt Wells Sheriff Williams. Harry Harvey (Sheriff
Tom Blodgett on The Roy Rogers Show
and Mayor George Dixon on Man Without a
Gun) plays a train station agent. Phil Tully (see "Wolf-Pack"
above) plays a livery stable owner.
Season 3, Episode 18, "The
Long Dry": Robert Armstrong (starred in King Kong, The Son of Kong,
Framed, Dive Bomber, Blood on the Sun,
and Mighty Joe Young and played
Sheriff Andy Anderson on State Trooper)
plays ranch owner Bill Carmody. Rayford Barnes (see the biography section for
the 1960 post on The Life and Legend of Wyatt Earp) plays his ranch hand Salinas. John McCann (see "Journey to
Provision" above) plays ranch hand Mark Baylor. Arch Johnson (starred in Somebody Up There Likes Me, G.I. Blues, and The Cheyenne Social Club and played Cmdr. Wivenhoe on Camp Runamuck) plays cattle rancher
Turner Evans. C. Lindsey Workman (Dr. Jim Higgins on The Donna Reed Show and Rev. Adams on Here Come the Brides) plays a storekeeper.
Season 3, Episode 19, "Funeral
at Forty Mile": Louise Fletcher (shown on the right, starred in One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest, Exorcist II, and The Cheap
Detective and who played Kai Winn on Star
Trek: Deep Space Nine) plays caretaker Julie Frazer. Kent Taylor (Murietta
on Zorro and Capt. Jim Flagg on The Rough Rider) plays Forty Mile Mayor
Hank Farragut. John Qualen (starred in The
Three Musketeers(1935), His Girl
Friday, The Grapes of Wrath, Angels Over Broadway, Casablanca, Anatomy of a Murder, and A
Patch of Blue) plays storekeeper Jen Jensen. George Kennedy (starred in Charade, The Sons of Katie Elder, The
Dirty Dozen, Cool Hand Luke, and The Naked Gun and played MP Sgt. Kennedy
on The Phil Silvers Show, Father
Samuel Cavanuagh on Sarge, Bumper
Morgan on The Blue Knight, and Carter
McKay on Dallas) plays blacksmith
Ross Kuhn. Donald May (see "Journey to Provision" above) plays Sheriff
Luke Condon. Percy Helton (Homer Cratchit on The Beverly Hillbillies) plays undertaker Doc Lever.
Season 3, Episode 20, "The
Captive Locomotive": Rex Reason (starred in This Island Earth, Lady Godiva
of Coventry, and The Creature Walks
Among Us and played Adam MacLean on Man
Without a Gun and Scott Norris on The
Roaring '20's) plays Scottish rancher Simon March. Bobby Goodwins (son of
director Leslie Goodwins) plays his son Bobby. Steve Goodwins (other son of
director Leslie Goodwins) plays his son Steve. Jeanne Cooper (Grace Douglas on Bracken's World and Katherine Chancellor
Murphy on The Young and the Restless)
plays wealthy landowner Rachel Barnes. Horace McMahon (shown on the left, see the biography
section for the 1960 post on Naked City)
plays railroad agent Cornelius Cameron. Charles Maxwell (Special Agent Joe
Carey on I Led 3 Lives and was the
voice of the radio announcer on Gilligan's
Island) plays his henchman Bromfield. Kenneth MacDonald (see
"Wolf-Pack" above) plays the town mayor. Dan Sheridan (see the
biography section for the 1960 post on Lawman)
plays Marshal Garrison. Phil Tully (see "Wolf-Pack" above) plays
railroad engineer O'Brien.
Season 4, Episode 1, "The Shadow
Catcher": Peter Breck (Clay Culhane on Black
Saddle, Doc Holliday on later seasons of Maverick, and Nick Barkley on The
Big Valley) plays army Lt. John Stickney. Jon Lormer (Harry Tate on Lawman, various autopsy surgeons and
medical examiners in 12 episodes of Perry Mason, and Judge Irwin A. Chester on Peyton
Place) plays Indian agent Paul Loring. Dean Fredericks (Kaseem in Jungle Jim, Komawi in The Adventures of Rin Tin Tin, and Lt.
Col. Steve Canyon in Steve Canyon)
plays Sioux brave Spotted Wolf. Jason Robards, Sr. (father of Jason Robards)
plays his chief Red Tomahawk. Don Haggerty (see "The Highbinder"
above) plays Stickney colleague Sam Booker. Slim Pickens (starred in The Story of Will Rogers, Dr. Strangelove, Blazing Saddles, The Apple
Dumpling Gang, Beyond the Poseidon
Adventure, and The Howling and
played Slim on Outlaws, Slim Walker
on The Wide Country, California Joe
Milner on Custer, and Sgt. Beauregard
Wiley on B.J. & the Bear) plays
stage driver Mark.
Season 4, Episode 2, "A Noose
for Nora": Madlyn Rhue (shown on the right, played Marjorie Grant on Bracken's World, Angela Schwartz on Fame, and Hilary Mason/Madison on Executive Suite) plays murder defendant Nora Sutton. Ronnie Dapo (Flip
Rose on Room for One More and Andy on
The New Phil Silvers Show) plays her
son Grant. Robert Colbert (see "Blackwater Swamp" above) plays murder
victim son Clark Henderson. Tristram Coffin (Lt. Doyle on The Files of Jeffrey Jones and Capt. Tom Rynning on 26 Men) plays prosecuting attorney Mr.
Fennell. Vic Perrin (the narrator on Sergeant
Preston of the Yukon, was the control voice on The Outer Limits, and did voicework on Jonny Quest, Star Trek, Scooby Doo, Where Are You?, and Mission:Impossible!) plays Henderson
employee Bill Smallwood. William Fawcett (Clayton on Duffy's Tavern, Marshal George Higgins on The Adventures of Rin Tin Tin, and Pete Wilkey on Fury) plays Henderson land swindle
victim John Buck.
Season 4, Episode 3, "Man
From Medora": Peter Breck (shown on the left, see "The Shadow Catcher" above) plays
aspiring rancher Theodore Roosevelt. Byron Keith (Lt. Gilmore on 77 Sunset Strip and Mayor Linseed on Batman) plays newspaper reporter Joe Barton.
Jean Blake Fleming (Phyllis Collier on The
Case of the Dangerous Robin) plays rancher's daughter Millie Larson. John
Milford (see the biography section for the 1960 post on Lawman) plays ranch foreman Jed Carter. Mickey Simpson (Boley on Captain David Grief) plays bully Jake
Sloane.
Season 4, Episode 4, "Welcome
Enemy": Glenn Strange (played Frankenstein's monster in House of Frankenstein, House of Dracula, and Abbott and Costello Meet Frankenstein
and played Sam Noonan on Gunsmoke)
plays Sioux chief Red Wing. Suzanne Lloyd (Raquel Toledano on Zorro) plays his daughter White Fawn. Bruce
Gordon (Commander Matson on Behind Closed
Doors, Frank Nitti on The Untouchables, and Gus Chernak on Peyton
Place) plays wealthy landowner Elias Stone. Grady Sutton (Ben Toomey on Lawman and Sturgis on The Phyllis Diller Show) plays a hotel
clerk. Terence De Marney (Case Thomas on Johnny
Ringo and Counsellor Doone on Lorna
Doone) plays a train conductor. Harry Harvey (see "Blue Bonnet
Stray" above) plays the Deadwood postmaster.
