Whispering Smith (TV series)

Whispering Smith
Guy Mitchell (left) and Audie Murphy in the series
Genre	Western
Based on	Whispering Smith by Frank H. Spearman
Written by	Lawrence Menkin Tom Seller
Directed by	Herbert Coleman Edward Ludlum Pete Lyons Christian Nyby
Starring	Audie Murphy Guy Mitchell Sam Buffington
Theme music composer	Richard Shores
Country of origin	United States
Original language	English
No. of seasons	1
No. of episodes	26
Production
Producers	Herbert Coleman Richard Lewis Joseph Hoffman
Running time	30 minutes
Production company	Whispering Co. Productions Revue Studios
Original release
Network	NBC
Release	May 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]