I Led 3 Lives: Episode list

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.

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

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.

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.

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

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

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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

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.

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

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?
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.
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.
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.
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.
A reluctant comrade is forced to film secret radar-tube designs.
Philbrick is raising funds for a new youth center. However, the comrades plan to infiltrate both the center and its bank account.
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?
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
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.
Comrade John has a plan to cripple US communications systems by sabotaging radio stations. Philbrick must find a way to tip off the FBI.
Philbrick discovers that the comrades are planning to take over a labor union.
Philbrick tries to protect an important comrade who is called before a state committee.
Philbrick tries to protect an important comrade who is called before a state committee.
Two comrades become suspicious of Philbrick.
Philbrick is offered a party promotion. The problem is that acceptance would make his communications with the FBI far more difficult.
Philbrick is put to a frightening test of loyalty.
Philbrick must denounce a party member whose loyalty is waning.
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.
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.
Philbrick's colleague Paul is depressed that his girlfriend Margaret has become a Communist. How can she be cured of this dreadful "sickness?"
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.
Philbrick discovers the comrades are collecting surplus metal. The FBI want to know why.
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.
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.
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.
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.
Congressman Tom Leahy is delivering a series of radio broadcasts denouncing Communism. Comrade Taylor decides to assassinate him.
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.
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).
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.
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.
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.
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?
The comrades book Philbrick into a rest home for tired businessmen who are being drugged into revealing company secrets.
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.
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?
Comrade Myra Houk creates an organization called Sweethearts for Servicemen. Pretty girl commies are assigned to befriend US military personnel to collect useful information.
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.
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.
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.
Philbrick manages to film the proceedings at a Communist party meeting. From the developed film the FBI spot a major person of interest.
Comrade Nyby, a comic strip artist doing propaganda work for the party, tries to resign. But the comrades have other ideas.
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?
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?
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.
Communist speculator Robert Faulk devises a scheme to manipulate the US stock market to boost party funds.
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.
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.
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.
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.
Cell boss Comrade Mitch sends Philbrick on a train ride to Woodland City where a vital government project must be sabotaged.
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.
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.
Philbrick types a report for the FBI, but carelessly lets a neighborhood kid make it into a paper airplane. Where did it fly to?
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.
Comrade Arthur is gravely ill. Philbrick is asked to take over the dying commie's fraudulent fund raising.
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.
Philbrick's wife and fellow counterspy Eva is called in by their cell comrades for a key propaganda mission.
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.
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.
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.
A former Nazi joins the Communist Party and brings with him the black arts of his previous regime.
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.
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.
Philbrick is asked by his cell to persuade a lawyer friend to defend Comrade Zack who is accused of assaulting a union official.
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.
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.
Philbrick is tested by a suspicious comrade who creates a false assassination scenario involving a visiting Latin American official.
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.
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.
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.
Philbrick is assigned to train Soviet propaganda experts.
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.
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.
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?
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.
The party send Philbrick to the Central American Republic of Panagua where he will be expected to help Communist guerrillas overthrow the democratic government.