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I'm really enjoying watching Audie Murphy play Whispering Smith. This is one of the best Westerns that was on tv. I read that Audie himself didn't like his experience doing this tv series much, mostly because of the rushed, cheap nature of shooting a tv show. The book, No Name on the Bullet by Don Graham, discusses this series in a few pages.
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The TV series was based on the adventures of the first police detective to bring modern methods of analysis, tracing technique, and apprehension to the practice of law enforcement in the West. Denver police detective Tom Smith (Murphy), better known by his nickname “Whispering”, was this pioneer Western criminologist.
Audie Murphy played Tom "Whispering" Smith, a Denver police detective. The time frame was set in the 1870's. The series co-starred Guy Mitchell who played George Romack, Audie's side-kick. Also co-starring was Sam Buffington who played Audie's police commander, John Richards. In a TV GUIDE interview published July 29, 1961, Audie called it ...
Mon, Sep 11, 1961. A match race between two feuding family's prize horses ends in tragedy when one of the jockeys is shot from the saddle by an unknown assailant. Whispering Smith declares the race a draw but the two parties insist on running the race again, betting their ranches on the result.
Whispering Smith (TV Series 1961) cast and crew credits, including actors, actresses, directors, writers and more.
So saddle up and enjoy some surprising facts about this underrated Western series and the real-life hero who was its star. 1. Audie Murphy was a child of the West. Murphy was born in 1925 in rural Kingston, Texas, the seventh of twelve children. When his sharecropper father deserted the family in the late ‘30s, Audie dropped out of school and ...
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 ...
