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Season 2

Season 2 • 1954

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Episodes

1. Counterfeit

1954-07-0430 min

2. 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.

1954-07-1130 min

3. 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.

1954-07-1830 min

4. Martyr

1954-07-2530 min

5. 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.

1954-08-0130 min

6. 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.

1954-08-0830 min

7. Assassination Plot

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

1954-08-1530 min

8. 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.

1954-08-2230 min

9. 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).

1954-08-2930 min

10. 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.

1954-09-0530 min

11. 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.

1954-09-1230 min

12. 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.

1954-09-1930 min

13. Fifth Amendment

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?

1954-09-2630 min

14. Rest Home

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

1954-10-0330 min

15. 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.

1954-10-1030 min

16. 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?

1954-10-1730 min

17. 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.

1954-10-2430 min

18. 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.

1954-10-3130 min

19. 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.

1954-11-0730 min

20. 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.

1954-11-1430 min

21. Camera

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

1954-11-2130 min

22. Comic Strip

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

1954-11-2830 min

23. 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?

1954-12-0530 min

24. 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?

1954-12-1230 min

25. 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.

1954-12-1930 min

26. Investments

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

1954-12-2630 min

27. 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.

1955-01-0230 min

28. 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.

1955-01-0930 min

29. 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.

1955-01-1630 min

30. 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.

1955-01-2330 min

31. Boss #2

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

1955-01-3030 min

32. 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.

1955-02-0630 min

33. 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.

1955-02-1330 min

34. 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?

1955-02-2030 min

35. 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.

1955-02-2730 min

36. Commie Dies

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

1955-03-0630 min

37. 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.

1955-03-1330 min

38. Comrade Eva

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

1955-03-2030 min

39. 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.

1955-03-2730 min