Whispering Smith (TV series)

Whispering Smith
Guy Mitchell (left) and Audie Murphy in the series
GenreWestern
Based onWhispering Smith
by Frank H. Spearman
Written by
  • Lawrence Menkin
  • Tom Seller
Directed by
Starring
Theme music composerRichard Shores
Country of originUnited States
Original languageEnglish
No. of seasons1
No. of episodes26
Production
Producers
  • Herbert Coleman
  • Richard Lewis
  • Joseph Hoffman
Running time30 minutes
Production companyWhispering Co. Productions Revue Studios
Original release
NetworkNBC
ReleaseMay 8 (1961-05-08) –
October 30, 1961 (1961-10-30)
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Whispering Smith is an American Western television series that originally aired on NBC. It has the same ultimate source material as the 1948 film of the same name (and some other films), but differs in some significant respects.

In the series, Audie Murphy stars as Tom "Whispering" Smith, a 19th-century police detective in Denver, Colorado. Filming of the series began in 1959, but the program did not air until May 8, 1961, because of unexpected production problems.

Whispering Smith combines elements of CBS's Have Gun  – Will Travel starring Richard Boone, NBC's Tales of Wells Fargo starring Dale Robertson, the syndicated Shotgun Slade with Scott Brady, and ABC's The Man From Blackhawk, a Stirling Silliphant production starring Robert Rockwell. While the Western setting of the series is unique,[citation needed] it is otherwise a standard detective program.[1]

  1. ^ "Whispering Smith: Created by Frank H. Spearman (1859-1950)". ThrillingDetective.com. Retrieved February 24, 2009.