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September 1953 (USA)
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Philbrick is a Boston advertising executive used by the U.S. government to spy on the Communist Party USA...
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Nominated for 2 Primetime Emmys.
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Campy? Maybe not.
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(Series Cast Summary - 3 of 9)| Richard Carlson | ... | Herbert A. Philbrick (13 episodes, 1953-1956) | |
| John Zaremba | ... | Agent Jerry Dressler (8 episodes, 1953-1955) | |
| Virginia Stefan | ... | Eva Philbrick (8 episodes, 1953-1955) |
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I Led Three Lives (USA) (alternative spelling)
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According to the PBS special _"Who Was Lee Harvey Oswald?" (1992) (mini)_, this was Lee Harvey Oswald's favorite TV show.
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Featured in "Frontline: Who Was Lee Harvey Oswald? (#11.20)" (1993)
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I watched this show at first out of curiosity and I laughed just as many of my generation probably have . . .or will. Then I started researching that era and now I know they were deadly serious when they made that series! This was the sort of thing that Americans were truly fearful of, a Communist takeover. This was just as serious in the 50's as a Chinese invasion was in the late 1930's. Okay so maybe they dramatised things but they did that in "Dragnet" too, right? This was American propaganda made to make Mr and Mrs. Average American believe that Commies were around every conner trying to subvert the mentality of Post (Korean) War America. This could have been what led to people building fallout shelters instead of swimming pools and schools teaching kids to "duck and cover".
Okay, so maybe I got a little heavy handed in that last paragraph but watching the adventures of Mr. Philbrick led me to wonder just how much of it was Hollywood and how much was real? A certain Mr. Kruschev did promise "We will bury you without firing a shot!" so I really began to wonder and started watching the episodes with a less cynical eye. The one about vacuum cleaners that were really missile launchers smacked of the gadgetry that proliferated the James Bond movies of the 1960's but then, where did they get that idea? The one about taking over an American newsreel company and making propaganda movies seems unreal too but then, remember wasn't the US Government doing the same thing at the same time too?
Today watching "I Led Three Lives" gives me a chill. Everything they were talking about might really have happened. Perhaps all that paranoia was not unfounded. Mr. Herbert Philbrick, wherever you are, thank you.