The plotline involving communist housewives was so important to General Electric Theater host Ronald Reagan that he made it a two-parter, and this is the conclusion after a tragic ending to part 1. Reagan and wife Jeanne Crain have successfully testified to the existence of subversive groups in their neigjborhood, especially after a confrontation with neighbor and party member Alice Frost. Gifts of garbage and threatening phone calls barrage the family and leaves them unsettled, even the threat against their little girl. Crain is even treated with disdain by her non-Communist Party related women's group for allegedly causing trouble for no reason. The party was barely around in the early 1960's, have been gone from a membership of 75,000 in the late 1940's down to under 5,000 including FBI informants, and even the HUAC which was diminishing in power in the early 1960's.
Frank Grady, of "Green Acres" and "Petticoat Junction" same, appears in this part as the father of a young boy call threw a rock through their window and attacks the family for what occurred. This TV drama with elements between part one and two really seems a decade too late, and with Reagan getting ready to go into politics, truly filled with comical agenda. There were obviously other civil rights issues in the early sixties that needed exploring,, and communism, while still traveling around the world, wasn't an issue that outside of the government, didn't really impact society all that much anymore.
Frank Grady, of "Green Acres" and "Petticoat Junction" same, appears in this part as the father of a young boy call threw a rock through their window and attacks the family for what occurred. This TV drama with elements between part one and two really seems a decade too late, and with Reagan getting ready to go into politics, truly filled with comical agenda. There were obviously other civil rights issues in the early sixties that needed exploring,, and communism, while still traveling around the world, wasn't an issue that outside of the government, didn't really impact society all that much anymore.
