GE True - Selected Episodes

Selected Episodes

In "Open Season" (January 6, 1963), James Best portrays the courageous Wisconsin game warden Ernie Swift who faces the reprisal of the mob after he tickets gangster Frank MacErlane (David McLean) for illegal fishing.

In "Defendant: Clarence Darrow" (January 13, 1963), Clarence Darrow (Tol Avery), the Chicago lawyer who later clashed with William Jennings Bryan in regard to the theory of evolution, is accused in 1912 of having attempted to bribe a juror. Darrow argues passionately over legal procedures with his own lawyer, Earl Rogers (Robert Vaughn).

In the episode "Firebug" (January 27, 1963), Victor Buono plays Charles Colvin, a barber in Los Angeles, California, who is by night a pyromaniac. The United States Forest Service believes that one arsonist is causing a series of fires. The episode also stars Keith Andes and Arch Johnson.

In "The Moonshiners" (February 24, 1963), Walter Kopek (Gene Evans), an agent of the United States Treasury Department assumes an undercover role to halt a bootlegging operation in Florida, run by the mobster Bill Munger (Robert Emhardt). James Griffith is cast in this episode as Stan Woolman.

In the three-part episode "Security Risk", George Ellsworth, played by Charles Aidman, an official with the United States Embassy in Warsaw, Poland, is in 1960 blackmailed through a romantic affair with a young woman named Erica (Erika Peters) into passing secret information to the communists at the height of the Cold War. He confessed his guilt despite the protection of diplomatic immunity. Karl Swenson and Parley Baer also appear in this episode.

In "A Pattern for Espionage", United States Army Colonel Harvey Madison (Rex Reason), is approached by a former Russian comrade-in-arms to spy for the communists. Instead, he covertly cooperates with the Federal Bureau of Investigation to uncover a spy ring operated by the former Soviet Union. Anthony Eisley and Gregory Walcott also appear in this episode.

In "The Tenth Mona Lisa" (1963), Italian farmer Vincenzo Perugia (Vito Scotti) in 1911 steals the Mona Lisa from the Louvre Museum in Paris but is apprehended by a French detective when he attempts to unload the painting on an art dealer.

In the two-part 1963 episode "Heydrich", two Czech sergeants assassinate the Nazi hangman Reinhard Heydrich; Chancellor of the Third Reich Adolf Hitler takes revenge on an entire village in his search for the sergeants.

In "Five Tickets to Hell", the series finale, John Quigley (Bing Russell), a Chicago mobster travels to Chihuahua, Mexico, where he robs the mint of $500,000 and kills seven men in the commission of the crime. Police Lieutenant Juan Garcia (Carlos Romero) tracks down Quigley and his three accomplices. Barbara Luna appears in this episode as Cotita.