R.I.P. Sugarfoot

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Will Hutchins, Star of ABC’s ‘Sugarfoot,’ Dies at 94

In 1958 and ’59, eight of the top 10 shows on TV were westerns. The best known included “Cheyenne” and “Maverick.” Mr. Hutchins was part of the stampede: “Sugarfoot” premiered on ABC in 1957 and ran for four seasons.

I loved those TV westerns when I was about 9 or 10: Cheyenne, Wyatt Earp, Maverick, Bat Masterson, Yancy Derringer, Have Gun Will Travel, Rawhide, Jim Bowie, The Restless Gun, The Rebel, Trackdown, Texas John Slaughter, Jim Bowie, Broken Arrow, Wanted: Dead or Alive, Bronco, The Deputy, Sugarfoot. They even had a few on Saturday morning amid the cartoons – Tales of Texas Rangers and the Lone Ranger (which had been around forever) come immediately to mind.

Many big stars appeared in those shows. Henry Fonda was already a star when he donned the spurs and badge to play a marshal in The Deputy, which was quite a casting coup for that show, but the era was mostly noteworthy for the future TV and movie stars it launched. Jim Garner was one of the Maverick brothers and Roger Moore was his English cousin. Steve McQueen was a bounty hunter in Wanted: Dead or Alive. Clint Eastwood played a major character on Rawhide. Tom Tryon was Texas John Slaughter. Robert Culp starred in Trackdown.

For some reason I never got into the really successful shows like Wagon Train, Gunsmoke and Bonanza. They seemed like shows for old people. But I remember all of the ones I listed above, and can still sing the theme songs, although I can’t explain how I could have had enough free time to watch so many.

Sugarfoot was one of my top five favorites because it had a lighter tone than most, and the affable character portrayed by Will Hutchins was original, sometimes funny, and far more charming than the steely-eyed tough-guy heroes.

Hutchins is not the last man standing. Some of the other cowboy stars from the late 50s are still alive. You all know Clint Eastwood, of course. The other I can immediately recall is Robert Fuller, who starred in Laramie after having guested in several of the shows mentioned above.

Wendy Schumacher in Fist of Doom (1998)

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Great title.

The movie? No so much.

It’s another quickie from Fred Olen Ray, and it has been known by other titles as well: The Capitol Conspiracy and The Prophet. Ray has directed countless TV projects and 70 indie films in just about any genre you can think of. His specialty now is Christmas movies!

Note that Johnny Moronic has this misidentified.


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Annie Wersching – rear nudity in season one of Bosch

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Starting as an Amazon original, Bosch was an excellent crime show that ran forever by modern standards – seven seasons as Bosch and three more under the title of Bosch Legacy. The Legacy series just aired its finale, but it seems that Harry Bosch and some other characters will live on in another spin-off set in the Bosch universe. The new series will presumably be titled Renee Ballard, and will star Maggie Q in the title role.

There was some nudity in the first two seasons of Bosch, but nothing of significance in the later years. The major nude scene in season one featured Annie Wersching. You may not know her name, but you’ve probably seen her cute, freckled face in several series. To the best of my knowledge, this was her only screen nudity, and we won’t see more because her life was cut tragically short. She was only 45 when she succumbed to cancer in 2023.


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There was also some brief season one nudity in episode eight from stunt performer Kym Stys as a murder victim.


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