The Third Man (TV series)

The Third Man is a TV series which ran from 1959 to 1965. It was based on the novel and film The Third Man and starred Michael Rennie as Harry Lime. In the TV series, Lime is an international private investigator.

The series was a co-production between the NTA Film Network and the BBC. The first twenty episodes were shot at 20th Century Fox studios in Hollywood. Later episodes were filmed at Shepperton Studios and Associated-British Elstree Studios (Associated British Picture Corporation) in England.

Cast

 * Michael Rennie as Harry Lime
 * Jonathan Harris as Bradford Webster

Archive Status
Out of a total of 77 episodes, 8 episodes are currently missing. Unusually, only one episode produced in 1959 is missing. The other 7 are all between 1960 and 1965:


 * Series 1 Episode 5 30.10.1959 "The Indispensable Man"
 * Series 1 Episode 22 11.03.1960 "A Deal in Oils"
 * Series 1 Episode 23 25.03.1960 "A Man Takes a Trip"
 * Series 1 Episode 25 08.04.1960 "The Man Who Wouldn't Talk"
 * Series 2 Episode 7 06.04.1963 "No Word for Danger"
 * Series 2 Episode 8 13.04.1963 "Lord Bradford"
 * Series 4 Episode 5 13.08.1965 "The Man at the Top"
 * Series 4 Episode 6 20.08.1965 "Proxy Fight"