​Whispering Smith

Summary: American Western series airing through 1961 (only one season), starring Audie Murphy as Tom “Whispering” Smith, a police detective in Denver, Colorado in the 1870s.

Bloch: “I wrote “Poet and Peasant” to showcase one of my longtime favorite actors, Alan Mowbray, as a character very similar to Oscar but not quite so Wilde.”

Episode:

• Poet and Peasant Case (Season 1, episode 17; airdate: Aug 28, 1961); an original teleplay by Bloch.

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