Het seizoen 1 van Whispering Smith begon op NBC op lundi 8 mai 1961, dit is het huidige seizoen, het bevat op dit moment 26 afleveringen.
One of the rarest and most sought after of all television westerns, Whispering Smith features Audie Murphy, America's most decorated soldier in WWII, as a detective in the Old West. Many of the episodes were based on actual Denver police cases, and Smith has to use all his wits, as well as his skill with a Colt .45 to bring justice to the Colorado frontier.