I Led 3 Lives Season 2, Episode 13: Fifth Amendment

Counterfeit

30 min

Relatives

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.

30 min

Close Factory

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.

30 min

Martyr

30 min

Homing Station

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.

30 min

Infiltration

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.

30 min

Assassination Plot

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

30 min

The Bomb

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.

30 min

Atomic

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).

30 min

Day Camp

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.

30 min

The Guest

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.

30 min

Narcotics

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.

30 min

Rest Home

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

30 min

Deportation

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.

30 min

The Switch

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?

30 min

Servicemen

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

30 min

Asylum

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.

30 min

Moving

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.

30 min

Minority Control

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.

30 min

Camera

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

30 min

Comic Strip

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

30 min

Goon Squad

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?

30 min

Mailing List

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?

30 min

Convicts

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.

30 min

Investments

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

30 min

The Son

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.

30 min

Vandalism

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.

30 min

Revolt

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 min

Brainwashed

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.

30 min

Boss #2

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

30 min

Mr. and Mrs. Club

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.

30 min

Oilfield

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.

30 min

Lost Report

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

30 min

Church

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.

30 min

Commie Dies

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

30 min

Child Commie

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.

30 min

Comrade Eva

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

30 min

Christmas Charity Bracket

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.

30 min