I came across what appear to be the three episodes (or is it just two) of "The Tenderfoot" spliced together (with no input by Walt Disney himself) on YouTube.
We start off with a small group of inexperienced civilians, including Jim Tevis - "the tenderfoot" - heading for Tucson, only to be ambushed by Apaches (in a novel way that I've never seen before in a Western) and rescued by the US Cavalry.
Back at Fort Buchanan, Jim is taken under the wing of veteran scout Mose Carson (brother of Kit) and is appointed "junior scout". In his next engagement with the Apaches, Jim's pistol won't fire and he becomes detached from the soldiers, finding his way to Tucson and a fist fight with a town rowdy.
In what was possibly the second episode Mose and Jim are part of a small group of civilians rounding up wild horses, including a magnificent white stallion that eludes his hunters - who loose their own mounts to Apaches. Mose and Jim set off on foot for the fort and have a stand-off with several Apaches (probably the best scenes in the series).
The YouTube offering ends weakly and features a skilled pianist (not that I found his performances at all rewarding) who proves to be a hapless recruit to the US Cavalry and is chucked off an army post by his commanding officer and flees to Mexico, taking the CO's prized horse with him. Mose and Jim are charged with retrieving the horse in what amounts to a light-hearted caper. This episode is the only one that features women, not that they have much if any dialogue.
Two dependables, Brian Keith and James Whitmore, hold the episodes together. And the white stallion is excellent!
It's difficult to say in which decade the series is set. I would guess that it's meant to be the 1850s, but the uniforms aren't correct.
There were a couple of jarring lapses when it came to night-time sentries. Just two marching up and down the frontage of the fort and none at all when the horse-hunters were camped in hostile territory.
The YouTube program did not include the treasure-hunt featuring Nehemiah Persoff noted on Wikipedia, so I guess that might have been another episode. Certainly what I've described above seemed to have three different segments.
We start off with a small group of inexperienced civilians, including Jim Tevis - "the tenderfoot" - heading for Tucson, only to be ambushed by Apaches (in a novel way that I've never seen before in a Western) and rescued by the US Cavalry.
Back at Fort Buchanan, Jim is taken under the wing of veteran scout Mose Carson (brother of Kit) and is appointed "junior scout". In his next engagement with the Apaches, Jim's pistol won't fire and he becomes detached from the soldiers, finding his way to Tucson and a fist fight with a town rowdy.
In what was possibly the second episode Mose and Jim are part of a small group of civilians rounding up wild horses, including a magnificent white stallion that eludes his hunters - who loose their own mounts to Apaches. Mose and Jim set off on foot for the fort and have a stand-off with several Apaches (probably the best scenes in the series).
The YouTube offering ends weakly and features a skilled pianist (not that I found his performances at all rewarding) who proves to be a hapless recruit to the US Cavalry and is chucked off an army post by his commanding officer and flees to Mexico, taking the CO's prized horse with him. Mose and Jim are charged with retrieving the horse in what amounts to a light-hearted caper. This episode is the only one that features women, not that they have much if any dialogue.
Two dependables, Brian Keith and James Whitmore, hold the episodes together. And the white stallion is excellent!
It's difficult to say in which decade the series is set. I would guess that it's meant to be the 1850s, but the uniforms aren't correct.
There were a couple of jarring lapses when it came to night-time sentries. Just two marching up and down the frontage of the fort and none at all when the horse-hunters were camped in hostile territory.
The YouTube program did not include the treasure-hunt featuring Nehemiah Persoff noted on Wikipedia, so I guess that might have been another episode. Certainly what I've described above seemed to have three different segments.
