Sugarfoot

- Season 2

(1958)

Tom rides out to Job Turner's desert house to deliver the old man a letter from his son, telling him that he'll be arriving on the next stage. But then a group of outlaws arrives, one of them wounded. The outlaws force Tom and Job to lead them through the desert to the border and keep the wounded man alive, not knowing that both men have learned that the outlaws killed Job's son during a stage robbery, and that Job has no intention of leading them to anything but death.

Tom persuades the people in the town he's working in to give another chance to Cully Abbott, an old friend of his from his childhood, who's just been paroled after serving time in prison. All goes well until two outlaws recognize Cully and decide to pressure him into taking part in a robbery with them.

During a professed clairvoyant's séance act, his beautiful assistant predicts misfortune for two men---a judge, and Tom Brewster. When the prediction comes true for the judge, Tom tries to find out if the girl was in fact directly responsible---and if he's going to be next.

Tom has been assigned by a court to bring a teenage boy back to claim his inheritance. The boy has been the ward of a tonic peddler who has been abusive toward him, causing him to develop a violent streak. The boy is also the prime suspect in the murder of the town sheriff, who was killed in a house everyone believes to be haunted. Tom hopes to prove the boy innocent and get him away from the peddler.

When Tom rides into town to visit Judge Hall and his daughter Mary John two men take a suspicious interest in him. Later, they abduct him and take him to a deserted town where he meets their boss...The Canary Kid...who is a dead ringer for Tom. The kid takes his place as part of a plan to rob the town bank.

Tom finds a wounded man on the trail and brings him back to health. But big, simple-minded John Allman is actually a former cavalryman who is being hunted for robbery and murder by a group of bounty hunters called the Outlaw Exterminators. Tom sees his impulsive and violent streak, but still hopes to bring him in alive so he can get as fair a trial as possible. This episode is loosely based on historical fact.

Tom meets up with Galt Kimberly at a river crossing. He has been sent by a law firm to bring Kimberly back to testify that he is the father of a young boy so that the boy can claim his inheritance, but Kimberly doesn't want to come and denies he has a son. Soon three other men meet up with Tom and Kimberly, all hoping to cross the river which is raging too hard for anyone to safely cross. While waiting for the river to recede greed begins to come between some of the men.

Tom learns that the owner of an Indian trading post, whom he was supposed to collect money from, is now dead. Tom volunteers to conduct an inventory of the post, despite finding an Arapaho "devil doll" in his backpack which is apparently meant as a warning and a curse. The owner of another trading post wants to buy the dead man's post himself, though it was willed to the owner's Indian stepdaughter and she has no plans to sell it.

Tom discovers a plot to assassinate Mexican President Benito Juarez.

Tom answers an ad for a traveling companion from a Russian seaman who is very secretive and difficult to get along with. The man is plagued by nightmares about the shark attack which took his left arm, and is planning to meet with the two unfriendly partners in his silver mine whom he blames for the incident.

Working with Christopher Colt (Wayde Preston, crossing over in his "Colt .45" role), Tom poses as his lookalike, the Canary Kid, and agrees to allow the Kid's outlaw gang to break him off of the train on which Colt is transporting him to prison. The plan is to find out the hiding place of the gang, which has been engaged in cattle rustling. But a complication develops when the real Canary Kid breaks out of the army fort he was being held in and makes his way to the hideout himself.

Tom has come to deeply respect the local attorney who's been teaching him about the law. But he is disturbed to find out that the man may be in part responsible for the oppression of the town's Polish workers, which has even escalated into murder. The trouble escalates when a young Polish pianist arrives and begins rallying the workers, and courting the daughter of a landowner whom the attorney had hoped would marry Tom.

A woman who's husband recently committed suicide threatens to blow up a hotel with dynamite unless Tom brings the town boss she blames for her husband's death to her.

On a train, a French woman asks Tom to hide her bag containing a fortune in diamonds. Just after he does this, the train is stopped by a troop of Maximilian's soldiers, who demand that the diamonds be given to them before the train be allowed to move, knowing that a second train will soon be coming up upon them.

Tom comes to a sacred mountain where fugitive Vic Bradley is hiding with his Indian wife. He tells Bradley that he has been granted a new trial, but Bradley is too fearful of being locked up for even a short time to come back with him, and in a fight with him Tom falls into the cave. Will Bradley have the courage to help him get out?

An outlaw holds Tom, a teacher, and three children hostage in a school while he waits for his schoolteacher brother, whom he claims is holding the money from one of his robberies. Meanwhile, there is another threat: ominous signs that a tornado is forming in the area.

Tom comes across a woman who is in an apparent state of shock. He takes her to the nearby Army fort, where he finds that the Indians have killed all inside, except for a captain in the barracks who was charged with desertion by the woman's husband, the fort's colonel. The captain appears to have some kind of relationship with the colonel's wife. When the colonel returns with a general and some other soldiers, Tom asks to act as the captain's defense counsel, as he feels nobody has told the truth yet about what really occurred.

The stagecoach Tom is riding on stops in the ghost town of Antonio Gulch during a heavy rainstorm. Strange things occur which make the passengers believe tales that the town is haunted. Searching around, Tom finds a strange girl and an old man who have been living there and may be causing the occurrences. He also has to deal with one of his fellow passengers, a convicted killer on his way to the gallows, who claims his brothers are coming to free him.

Tom accompanies a colonel to a Mexican town to retrieve the casket of his son, who was killed by Apaches along with five other men. Out of sympathy for the colonel, the town's mayor and his daughter decide to convince the colonel that an orphaned boy, the son of one of the six killed, is really his grandson. But the colonel and the boy have gotten off to a bad start and don't like each other. Meanwhile, the mayor also plans to remove guns he's been holding in the cemetery for President Juarez, but has to prevent his bandit cousin and his gang from finding out and ...

A poor old homesteader with a large brood is suspected of rustling cattle. Most of the town, including the lady rancher who hired Tom, believe he is harmless, but one rancher wants to see him hung. When the homesteader's eldest son, a gunslinger, returns home, it makes the situation potentially much worse.