Whispering Smith | |
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Genre | Western |
Based on | Whispering Smith by Frank H. Spearman |
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Theme music composer | Richard Shores |
Country of origin | United States |
Original language | English |
No. of seasons | 1 |
No. of episodes | 26 |
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Running time | 30 minutes |
Production company | Whispering Co. Productions Revue Studios |
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Network | NBC |
Release | May 8 October 30, 1961 | –
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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]