Anybody remember this black and white TV show from the 50’s? It starred herb Philbrick as an FBI double agent, who infiltrated the American Communist party. I remember seeing reruns of this in the early 1970’s-and they were pretty funny!If what I read is true, there were so many FBI agents in the commy party, that they should have opened the meetings with “…comrads and members of the FBI!”.
Anyway, i am waxing nostalgic for the good old days of the evil empire and the communist menace …anybody know if these shows exist on tape or DVD? I’m sure watching them would be pretty funny, given what we now know about the ineptness of the US communist party (that old fart who ran it (the late Gus hall) was a real idiot).
I do know it was based on a book of the same name and while a great deal of it was witch-hunt propaganda as I remember, it was a surprisingly good read.
Of course, the last time I remember seeing the book was in the mid-'70s in a used bookstore in Lawrence, Kansas.