WHISPERING SMITH – THE COMPLETE SERIES + BONUS (NBC 1961) HARD TO FIND!!! Audie Murphy, Sam Buffington, Guy Mitchell

One of the rarest and most sought after of all television westerns, Whispering Smith featured Audie Murphy, America's most decorated soldier in WWII, as a Denver-based railroad private eye in the Old West. Many of the episodes were based on actual Denver police cases, and Smith must use all his wits, as well as his skill with a Colt .45 to bring justice to those who would defraud the railroad. “Dragnet on horseback.” That’s how star Audie Murphy described Whispering Smith when the series debuted on NBC in 1961. It is an appropriate analogy. Many of the episodes in this post-Civil War police procedural set in Denver are based on real cases, and Murphy narrates them Joe Friday-style. His superior John Richards was played by Sam Buffington, his partner George Romack by Guy Mitchell. The show had a great cast of guest stars, including Dallas patriarch Jim Davis, Gilligan’s Island Skipper Alan Hale Jr., James Best (Rosco on The Dukes of Hazzard), and Get Smart’s “Chief” Edward Platt playing