I Led 3 Lives

1. Secret Call: Part 1

Air Date: 1953-10-01

Philbrick leads three lives: average citizen, Communist Party member and counter spy for the FBI. Tonight he is called to an important meeting at his local Communist cell. Main topic is how to bring about the downfall of the United States.

2. Bess: Part 2

Air Date: 1953-10-11

Philbrick fears his FBI connection has been discovered by his Communist comrades.

3. Dope Photographic

Air Date: 1953-10-18

The FBI requests Philbrick's help to breakup a narcotics ring, whose aim is to gather secret defense plant information in exchange for free drugs. Philbrick's plan to film the illegal transactions from his office window hit a snag when he discovers a recently hired secretary is communist spy sent to keep an eye on his activities.

4. Baited Trap

Air Date: 1953-10-25

Philbrick is ordered by a communist leader to type up a list of non-card carrying communists from a coded document, but he suspects a trap.

5. Railroad Strike Attempt

Air Date: 1953-11-01

Philbrick is ordered to write a leaflet that will trigger a wildcat strike at the local railroad yard.

6. Campus Story

Air Date: 1953-11-08

Philbrick is assigned to supervise a program to recruit likely future communists at a local college, including the son of a prominent college donor.

7. Army Infiltration

Air Date: 1953-11-15

As Educational Director of his district, Philbrick encourages his cell members to send literature to others abroad. A U.S. Army soldier finds himself in hot water when his elderly aunts, members of Philbrick's cell, send him microfilm along with the package of pamphlets.

8. The Spy

Air Date: 1953-11-22

Herb is given an assignment by a high party official to surreptitiously determine the level of loyalty and dedication of a party member who is being considered for a higher-level position within the party.

9. The Jet Engine

Air Date: 1953-11-29

While stuffing envelopes with a fellow cell member, Philbrick learns that the communists have infiltrated a jet engine manufacturing plant that uses top secret production machinery and a shop steward is the head of the spy ring operating on the inside.

10. Helping Hand

Air Date: 1953-12-06

Philbrick receives a special assignment - pick up a man who has been smuggled into the country, obtain false credentials and introduce him to the Hollywood elite. The Communist administration hope that their agent can infiltrate the film and television industry.

11. Parcels for Poland

Air Date: 1953-12-13

The reds have a treacherous plot : they arrange a phony charitable organization that ostensibly allows people in America to donate to the relief of their destitute family members in Poland according to a menu of gift packages. They're wildly overcharged, so the communists get rich and a list those to persecute behind the iron curtain.

12. Captured Congressman

Air Date: 1953-12-20

Philbrick is assisting George Reynolds with his election campaign for the U.S. Congress when he learns that one of Reynolds' primary contributors is giving the candidate money provided by the Communist party. As Reynolds is campaigning on an anti-communism platform it will be profoundly damaging to his chances when the information comes to light on the eve of the election.

13. Purloined Printing Press

Air Date: 1953-12-27

To get out some secretly produced propaganda leaflets, the communists have Philbrick go through an elaborate cloak-and-dagger scheme to secure an offset printing press. It involves a new typewriter, the use of his car, and an eager printer in a hidden location.

14. The Wife

Air Date: 1954-01-03

Philbrick's marriage is threatened when the party demands that wife Eva becomes a member.

15. Civil Defense

Air Date: 1954-01-10

Comrade Ted directs Philbrick and other cell members to enrol with Civil Defense. The plan is to infiltrate and cripple the organization so that it will be unable to respond when the Communists launch an attack.

16. Communist Cop

Air Date: 1954-01-17

Philbrick has to race against time to prevent his cell from eliminating "Comrade Rick" whom they discover to be an undercover policeman.

17. Defense Plant Security

Air Date: 1954-01-24

The Evans Manufacturing Company has won a big defense contract with the US military. Philbrick discovers that fellow cell member Comrade Clyde has a job there. What is he up to?

18. Gun Running

Air Date: 1954-01-31

Comrade Elaine instructs Philbrick to tour the city collecting assorted objects from secret contacts. The bits and pieces will be assembled into untraceable guns which the Communists will use on murder missions.

19. Passports

Air Date: 1954-02-07

Communist special courier Comrade Neil tells Philbrick to liaise with a master passport forger. The party want an American citizen who has a wealth of secrets to slip out of the country and defect to the East.

20. Map of the City

Air Date: 1954-02-14

Philbrick's cell members receive four city map references indicating locations of planned sabotage. Utilities, communications, industrial installations and military targets will all be hit unless Philbrick can tip off the FBI.

21. Caviar

Air Date: 1954-02-21

When the reds instruct Philbrick to find a public place for a meeting, he chooses a golf driving range because he assumed the spy was a golfer because of a pamphlet. It turns out the spy had no use for the sport, and the booklet was in fact a prototype destruction manual for commie agents.

22. The Kid

Air Date: 1954-02-28

A reluctant comrade is forced to film secret radar-tube designs.

23. Youth Movement

Air Date: 1954-03-07

Philbrick is raising funds for a new youth center. However, the comrades plan to infiltrate both the center and its bank account.

24. Infra Red Film

Air Date: 1954-03-14

Philbrick's cell colleague Comrade Ormand claims to have a contact at the FBI who is about to supply a photo list of counter spies. Will Philbrick's name be on the list?

25. The Editor

Air Date: 1954-03-21

Rock Falls newspaper editor Larry Edwards is exposing Communist infiltration at an important power plant. The infiltrator disappears, so the party send Philbrick to Rock Falls to get back the secret plans

26. Confused Comrades

Air Date: 1954-03-28

The FBI ask Philbrick to attend a secret meeting of the Communist policy committee. He manages to disunite the comrades on whether to continue with the phony peace initiative or else escalate their acts of violence.

27. Communication Disruptions

Air Date: 1954-04-04

Comrade John has a plan to cripple US communications systems by sabotaging radio stations. Philbrick must find a way to tip off the FBI.

28. Phantom Labor Leader

Air Date: 1954-04-11

Philbrick discovers that the comrades are planning to take over a labor union.

29. Progressive

Air Date: 1954-04-18

Philbrick tries to protect an important comrade who is called before a state committee.

30. Old Man

Air Date: 1954-04-25

Philbrick tries to protect an important comrade who is called before a state committee.

31. Birthday

Air Date: 1954-05-02

Two comrades become suspicious of Philbrick.

32. Cell Leader

Air Date: 1954-05-09

Philbrick is offered a party promotion. The problem is that acceptance would make his communications with the FBI far more difficult.

33. Dry Run

Air Date: 1954-05-16

Philbrick is put to a frightening test of loyalty.

34. Comrade Wants Out

Air Date: 1954-05-23

Philbrick must denounce a party member whose loyalty is waning.

35. Depression

Air Date: 1954-05-30

The reds plan to launch a major rumor that the US is about to enter economic depression. Only a change to Communism can rescue the situation.

36. The Boss

Air Date: 1954-06-06

Philbrick's office boss notices he's looking tired and distracted of late. Little does the boss know that his employee leads three lives and is about to undergo a mission that could endanger his life.

37. Love Story

Air Date: 1954-06-13

Philbrick's colleague Paul is depressed that his girlfriend Margaret has become a Communist. How can she be cured of this dreadful "sickness?"

38. Unexpected Trip

Air Date: 1954-06-20

The comrades order Philbrick to report to the airport, then fly him to another US city. He arrives at a secret conference where the reds are scheming to infiltrate the US education system, hoping to brainwash kids with Communist ideology.

39. Strategic Material

Air Date: 1954-06-27

Philbrick discovers the comrades are collecting surplus metal. The FBI want to know why.

1. Counterfeit

Air Date: 1954-07-04

2. Relatives

Air Date: 1954-07-11

Comrade Mike asks Philbrick to take over the party fund raising. Main plan involves persuading people to pay big money to have their relatives rescued from East Germany. In reality the relatives have already been killed by the Communists.

3. Close Factory

Air Date: 1954-07-18

The comrades ask Philbrick to help them destroy a ceramics factory belonging to his clients. The factory owners are also campaigning in Europe for freedom from Communism.

4. Martyr

Air Date: 1954-07-25

5. Homing Station

Air Date: 1954-08-01

Comrade Quentin, an old friend of Philbrick's, is now working as electronics engineer for the party. The reds plan to install a series of radio homing stations which will enable radio-controlled missiles to hit the United States.

6. Infiltration

Air Date: 1954-08-08

Comrade Mitchell is gearing up for Project F10, a major plot to burn down chemical plants. But first he tells Philbrick there must be a thorough purge to eliminate FBI infiltrators.

7. Assassination Plot

Air Date: 1954-08-15

Congressman Tom Leahy is delivering a series of radio broadcasts denouncing Communism. Comrade Taylor decides to assassinate him.

8. The Bomb

Air Date: 1954-08-22

Ex-commie Professor Marlowe is to testify at the Washington hearings. The comrades send Philbrick on the same plane to Washington, but his brief case seems to contain a time bomb.

9. Atomic

Air Date: 1954-08-29

The reds are anxious to delay American testing of nuclear weapons. Farmer comrade Roy Owens plans to spread a major rumor among the US farming communities that fall out will poison the land, (with a little help from the Communists).

10. Day Camp

Air Date: 1954-09-05

Comrade Hilda urges Philbrick to enroll his daughters and her school friends at the Poconino day camp where American kids are brainwashed into rejecting the ways of capitalism.

11. The Guest

Air Date: 1954-09-12

Important commie Joe Macklin fails to appear before an anti-Communist committee and goes on the run. The Philbricks are asked to hide him at their home until he can flee the country.

12. Narcotics

Air Date: 1954-09-19

To corrupt the minds of American youngsters, the reds are importing new opium derivatives that are both cheap and effective. Philbrick is horrified to be asked to handle the marketing.

13. Fifth Amendment

Air Date: 1954-09-26

Philbrick's friend and ex-commie Clay Jennings receives a subpoena from the Un-American Activities Committee. Should he name names, or take the Fifth Amendment?

14. Rest Home

Air Date: 1954-10-03

The comrades book Philbrick into a rest home for tired businessmen who are being drugged into revealing company secrets.

15. Deportation

Air Date: 1954-10-10

Elena Moretz, a pretty diplomat from an Iron Curtain country, is being deported from the US. The comrades suspect she is a double agent and ask Philbrick to follow her.

16. The Switch

Air Date: 1954-10-17

Comrade Burt, leader of Philbrick's cell, offers to work for the FBI as counter spy. How can Philbrick tip off the bureau that this is a Communist trick?

17. Servicemen

Air Date: 1954-10-24

Comrade Myra Houk creates an organization called Sweethearts for Servicemen. Pretty girl commies are assigned to befriend US military personnel to collect useful information.

18. Asylum

Air Date: 1954-10-31

Beautiful young Comrade Margaret instructs Philbrick to deliver a wristwatch camera to a Communist agent who is posing as an asylum seeker at a top secret establishment.

19. Moving

Air Date: 1954-11-07

Comrade Norma Baker orders Philbrick and his family to move house to Rexford, a suburb where the party hope he can recruit new members from young, middle-class couples.

20. Minority Control

Air Date: 1954-11-14

Comrade Ferrell comes up with a scheme to infiltrate the Tax Payers Alliance, a respected society of American land owners. The plan is for Philbrick to rig the TPA ballot box so that on election day the minority Communist members will win.

21. Camera

Air Date: 1954-11-21

Philbrick manages to film the proceedings at a Communist party meeting. From the developed film the FBI spot a major person of interest.

22. Comic Strip

Air Date: 1954-11-28

Comrade Nyby, a comic strip artist doing propaganda work for the party, tries to resign. But the comrades have other ideas.

23. Goon Squad

Air Date: 1954-12-05

Members of Philbrick's Communist cell are being attacked by a mysterious masked gang. Could they be the party's own storm troopers trying to enhance public sympathy for the cause?

24. Mailing List

Air Date: 1954-12-12

Comrade Jack Blake plans to infiltrate the labor union of the Brotherhood of Aviation Craftsmen. By coincidence the offices of the BAC are in the same block as Philbrick's. Can he steal their mailing list?

25. Convicts

Air Date: 1954-12-19

The reds try to recruit ex-convicts into the party. Philbrick must tip off the FBI which senior comrade is in charge of the plan.

26. Investments

Air Date: 1954-12-26

Communist speculator Robert Faulk devises a scheme to manipulate the US stock market to boost party funds.

27. The Son

Air Date: 1955-01-02

Pretty young Comrade Lona Nedrick starts a phony romance with Bill Hoffman, son of Dr Heinz Hoffman who is developing jet engines for the military.

28. Vandalism

Air Date: 1955-01-09

Local hooligans are committing acts of vandalism. The comrades ask Philbrick to publish an article blaming capitalism, although in reality the vandals are being sent in by commie agitators.

29. Revolt

Air Date: 1955-01-16

Regional leader Comrade John asks Philbrick to go undercover to investigate a local cell leader who is suspected of plotting an internal revolt. The three lives that Philbrick was leading have now become four.

30. Brainwashed

Air Date: 1955-01-23

James Hillary, a friend of Philbrick's from the Press and Advertising Club, has just returned from two years in prison behind the Iron Curtain. The reds have attempted to brainwash him into preaching the virtues of Communism.

31. Boss #2

Air Date: 1955-01-30

Cell boss Comrade Mitch sends Philbrick on a train ride to Woodland City where a vital government project must be sabotaged.

32. Mr. and Mrs. Club

Air Date: 1955-02-06

Philbrick's neighborhood charity arrange for a couple of displaced persons to come over from Europe. But his local Communist cell tell him to substitute the refugees for two Soviet saboteurs.

33. Oilfield

Air Date: 1955-02-13

Influential comrade Gregory Collins arranges for Philbrick to win a lucrative recruitment contract with the Green Diamond Oil Company. He will engage only party employees and eventually the Communists will isolate the world oil supply.

34. Lost Report

Air Date: 1955-02-20

Philbrick types a report for the FBI, but carelessly lets a neighborhood kid make it into a paper airplane. Where did it fly to?

35. Church

Air Date: 1955-02-27

A number of undercover comrades are instructed to join their local church. The plan is to convert the faithful from their religious beliefs to the better Communist doctrine.

36. Commie Dies

Air Date: 1955-03-06

Comrade Arthur is gravely ill. Philbrick is asked to take over the dying commie's fraudulent fund raising.

37. Child Commie

Air Date: 1955-03-13

A 12 year old girl (Isa Ashdown), who has been brainwashed by her communist father, infiltrates Philbrick's home and attempts to discredit him as a traitor to the communist party.

38. Comrade Eva

Air Date: 1955-03-20

Philbrick's wife and fellow counterspy Eva is called in by their cell comrades for a key propaganda mission.

39. Christmas Charity Bracket

Air Date: 1955-03-27

The Communists do not believe in Christmas, but Comrade Irene Clark organizes a Christmas charity racket that will raise a hundred thousand dollars. Naturally, all the money will go to the party.

1. Housebreaking

Air Date: 1955-04-03

Philbrick returns from vacation to find his house has been burgled. The comrades have broken in to check for any incriminating evidence linking him to the FBI.

2. Attack Area

Air Date: 1955-04-10

Comrade Nycheck delivers a mysterious crate to be hidden in Philbrick's garage. It contains ten packs of TNT that the comrades intend to explode around the city.

3. Rendezvous

Air Date: 1955-04-17

A former Nazi joins the Communist Party and brings with him the black arts of his previous regime.

4. Sacrificed

Air Date: 1955-04-24

Philbrick's cell decide to make a sacrifice. He must turn himself in to the FBI in order to take the heat off more important party member Colonel Paxton.

5. Eva Sick

Air Date: 1955-05-01

While collecting secret papers for the party, Philbrick hears that his wife Eva is sick in hospital. Distracted and concerned, he mislays the papers and so must retrace his steps to recover the documents.

6. Project Athlete

Air Date: 1955-05-08

7. Lawyer

Air Date: 1955-05-15

Philbrick is asked by his cell to persuade a lawyer friend to defend Comrade Zack who is accused of assaulting a union official.

8. Newsreel

Air Date: 1955-05-22

Top commie Marvin Tanner has taken over the Aurora Newsreel Company. His plan is to send standard newsreels out to cinemas, but each one will have phony inserts containing anti-American propaganda.

9. Ex G.I.

Air Date: 1955-05-29

A Russian army friend of Philbrick's from WW2 turns up in America. He is now a top Soviet official who wants to defect, but the comrades think otherwise.

10. Common Denominator

Air Date: 1955-06-05

Philbrick is tested by a suspicious comrade who creates a false assassination scenario involving a visiting Latin American official.

11. Stolen Passport

Air Date: 1955-06-12

Canadian commies in Ottawa send one of their comrades to Los Angeles on a phony passport. He is to spy on a guided missile site and Philbrick is assigned to help.

12. Exchange Student

Air Date: 1955-06-19

In his capacity as committee chairman of the University Club, Philbrick welcomes a group of exchange students from Europe. The comrades, however, have arranged to employ one of the students as secret courier.

13. Prisoner

Air Date: 1955-06-26

Key commie James Swasey is sent to prison for subversive activities. Fearful that he may divulge party secrets to reduce his sentence, the comrades assign Philbrick to arrange his execution.

14. Instructional Camp

Air Date: 1955-07-03

Philbrick is assigned to train Soviet propaganda experts.

15. Second Courier

Air Date: 1955-07-10

Philbrick takes over the courier assignment of a mysterious heavy typewriter case. On the train journey he realizes that it's a napalm bomb that has gone into its countdown.

16. Phony Brother

Air Date: 1955-07-17

Philbrick accompanies refugees from Eastern Europe, Lottie Carp and her brother Peter, on an anti-Communist lecture tour of America. However, the reds have substituted Peter for a lookalike who plans to set up a spy ring.

17. Trapped

Air Date: 1955-07-24

Ruthless Comrade Martha from Berlin tells Philbrick to deliver a bag of counterfeit dollars to a secret address. Whilst spying on the money he is locked in a secret room. How will he get out?

18. Mother in Law

Air Date: 1955-07-31

The party send Philbrick and wife Eva on the midnight train to Davistown, leaving their children at home with Eva's mother. When the mother in law comes across some Communist paperwork, she wonders whether to report her suspicions.

19. Central American Assignment

Air Date: 1955-08-07

The party send Philbrick to the Central American Republic of Panagua where he will be expected to help Communist guerrillas overthrow the democratic government.