This series was cancelled before I was born, so the first and only episode I ever saw ran some years later in syndication. Philbrick is given an important assignment by his Communist handlers. He is told to walk down a particular street at a particular time, during which a passerby puts something in his hand: a spring. Philbrick is then told that he will pass the spring on to another courier when the time is right.
What is the spring part of, a secret weapon stolen from a US defense laboratory? No, nothing like that--it's just the recoil spring of a 1911 pistol. The Communists have decided to murder someone in a distant city, and have arrived at the following plan. A pistol has been acquired and disassembled, and dozens of couriers will be diverted from other assignments to transport it piecemeal. When all of the parts arrive at the intended destination, the pistol will be reassembled and used to commit the murder.
I swear to God that was the plot. By comparison, the hilariously contrived plots of Dudley Do-Right were masterpieces of narrative logic. If all episodes of "I Led 3 Lives" had story lines this ridiculous, the 8.1 rating given the series must be for its comedic value only.
What is the spring part of, a secret weapon stolen from a US defense laboratory? No, nothing like that--it's just the recoil spring of a 1911 pistol. The Communists have decided to murder someone in a distant city, and have arrived at the following plan. A pistol has been acquired and disassembled, and dozens of couriers will be diverted from other assignments to transport it piecemeal. When all of the parts arrive at the intended destination, the pistol will be reassembled and used to commit the murder.
I swear to God that was the plot. By comparison, the hilariously contrived plots of Dudley Do-Right were masterpieces of narrative logic. If all episodes of "I Led 3 Lives" had story lines this ridiculous, the 8.1 rating given the series must be for its comedic value only.