Nevada Smith is a 1975 American Western television film starring Cliff Potts, Adam West and Lorne Greene, based on the 1966 feature film Nevada Smith.This was a pilot for an unsold Western series. These characters were first introduced in the theatrical feature of the same title in 1966, and before that in 1964's The Carpetbaggers. Potts and Greene had the roles played earlier by Steve McQueen and Brian Keith (in the namesake movie) and by Alan Ladd and Leif Erickson in The Carpetbaggers.