Matches in DBpedia 2016-04 for { ?s ?p "Whispering Smith is an American Western series that aired on NBC. Using the same title as a 1948 movie about a railroad policeman named Luke \"Whispering\" Smith in frontier-era Wyoming, pursuing a gang of train robbers loosely modeled on the Hole in the Wall Gang, and the novel by Frank H. Spearman from which that film derived. In the series Audie Murphy stars as Tom \"Whispering\" Smith, and, in this incarnation, is a police detective in Denver, Colorado rather than a special agent of the railroad. 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 setting of the series is unique, it is otherwise a standard detective program."@en }
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- Whispering_Smith_(TV_series) abstract "Whispering Smith is an American Western series that aired on NBC. Using the same title as a 1948 movie about a railroad policeman named Luke \"Whispering\" Smith in frontier-era Wyoming, pursuing a gang of train robbers loosely modeled on the Hole in the Wall Gang, and the novel by Frank H. Spearman from which that film derived. In the series Audie Murphy stars as Tom \"Whispering\" Smith, and, in this incarnation, is a police detective in Denver, Colorado rather than a special agent of the railroad. 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 setting of the series is unique, it is otherwise a standard detective program.".