Theater of the Mind

The Lives of Harry Lime

52 episodes · 1951–1952 · Syndicated · Adventure

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Orson Welles brought back Harry Lime, the charming crook he played in the 1949 film The Third Man, in a series produced in Britain by Harry Alan Towers, with Anton Karas's zither theme. Each story is set before Lime's death in Vienna.

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Episodes

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195122 episodes

Too Many Crooks August 3, 1951 · Syndicated · 29 min
A banker in Budapest wires Harry for help with a bank robbery that hasn't happened yet.
See Naples and Live August 10, 1951 · Syndicated · 29 min
Harry plans to lift an emerald locket from a Naples socialite.
Clay Pigeon August 17, 1951 · Syndicated · 29 min
In New York, a governor offers Harry $15,000 to get him out of a blackmail plot.
A Ticket to Tangier August 24, 1951 · Syndicated · 28 min
Broke in Paris, Harry answers a newspaper ad that leads to Morocco.
Voodoo August 31, 1951 · Syndicated · 29 min
In Haiti, Harry teams up with a lady con artist to fleece a loudmouthed American.
The Bohemian Star September 7, 1951 · Syndicated · 29 min
London, 1938: a diamond as big as a duck's egg from a small kingdom's crown jewels.
Love Affair September 14, 1951 · Syndicated · 29 min
In a remote Arabian town, Harry holds oil rights, two foreign agents want them, and there's murder.
Rogue's Holiday September 21, 1951 · Syndicated · 29 min
Crossing the Atlantic, Harry plans to swindle a titled lady, but her lovely companion complicates things.
Work of Art September 28, 1951 · Syndicated · 28 min
Buenos Aires, 1944: Harry is hired to swindle a Rubens from its beautiful owner.
Operation Music Box October 5, 1951 · Syndicated · 28 min
In London, Harry breaks three music boxes and ends up founding an orphanage.
The Golden Fleece October 12, 1951 · Syndicated · 28 min
A story that starts at a bullfight in Spain and ends with a sea battle in the China Sea.
Blue Bride October 19, 1951 · Syndicated · 28 min
A counterfeiting scheme in Bordeaux.
Every Frame Has a Silver Lining October 26, 1951 · Syndicated · 28 min
An old friend hands Harry $50,000 worth of opium on a street in Tehran.
Mexican Hat Trick November 2, 1951 · Syndicated · 29 min
Down to his last cigarette in Mexico City, Harry is put on the trail of an innocent man convicted of murder.
Art Is Long and Lime Is Fleeting November 9, 1951 · Syndicated · 28 min
In Paris, Harry buys a cheap painting and tries to pass it off as a Renoir.
In Pursuit of a Ghost November 16, 1951 · Syndicated · 30 min
Autumn 1945: Harry gets mixed up in a Central American revolution.
Horse Play November 23, 1951 · Syndicated · 29 min
Harry works a lost-wallet con in Paris, posing as a racing expert.
Three Farthings for Your Thoughts November 30, 1951 · Syndicated · 29 min
A farthing worth twenty thousand pounds, starting in a Liverpool pub.
The Third Woman December 7, 1951 · Syndicated · 29 min
During the war, Corporal Lime gets three Savile Row suits and a special assignment at the Savoy.
An Old Moorish Custom December 14, 1951 · Syndicated · 28 min
In Algiers, Harry has 24 hours to find gold cups and gold dust lost since 1504.
It's a Knockout December 21, 1951 · Syndicated · 28 min
Posing as a Wall Street financier, Harry plans to swindle an American with a fixed prizefight.
Two Is Company December 28, 1951 · Syndicated · 29 min
Harry meets a rich man in love in a Sicilian bar.

195230 episodes

Cherchez la Gem January 4, 1952 · Syndicated · 28 min
In Hawaii, Harry goes after $75,000 in stolen jewels.
Hand of Glory January 11, 1952 · 28 min
Jerry Haendiges' Vintage Radio Logs lists the same title on this date.
Double Double-Trouble January 18, 1952 · Syndicated · 29 min
Monte Carlo, 1936, and Harry parachutes into England with smuggled currency.
Five-Thousand Pengoes and a Kiss January 25, 1952 · Syndicated · 29 min
Harry is hired to get a beautiful singer out of Budapest.
The Dark Enchantress February 1, 1952 · Syndicated · 26 min
A young woman in the Algiers casbah needs Harry's help.
Earl on Troubled Waters February 8, 1952 · 28 min
Jerry Haendiges' Vintage Radio Logs lists the same title on this date.
The Dead Candidate February 15, 1952 · Syndicated · 28 min
A comic visit to a small dictatorship.
It's in the Bag February 22, 1952 · Syndicated · 29 min
On the Orient Express, a Greek has black-market money and Harry has counterfeit.
Hyacinth Patrol February 29, 1952 · Syndicated · 29 min
In wartime Panama, Harry breaks up a spy ring out to wreck the canal.
Turnabout Is Fair Play March 7, 1952 · Syndicated · 29 min
Harry plans to cheat an ex-Nazi of $30,000 but is foiled by the man's honest daughter.
Violets, Sweet Violets March 14, 1952 · Syndicated · 27 min
Intrigue in occupied Marseilles.
Faith, Lime and Charity March 21, 1952 · Syndicated · 29 min
Frauds and orphans in need in India, near the Taj Mahal.
Pleasure Before Business March 28, 1952 · Syndicated · 28 min
Harry's partner in a Venice jewel robbery has ideas of her own, like love.
Fool's Gold April 4, 1952 · Syndicated · 29 min
Harry flies a planeload of stolen gold from Kuwait to Karachi to Goa.
Man of Mystery April 11, 1952 · Syndicated · 30 min
A rich man with twenty years of amnesia hires Harry to find out who he really is.
The Painted Smile April 18, 1952 · Syndicated · 28 min
Harry is a clown's guest at a Sicilian circus, and the clown has a beautiful wife.
Harry Lime Joins the Circus April 25, 1952 · Syndicated · 30 min
Working for a circus in central Europe, Harry crosses paths with an escaped Nazi hunted by his victims.
Suzie's Cue May 2, 1952 · Syndicated · 29 min
In Vienna, Harry eyes a necklace that belonged to Marie Antoinette.
Vive La Chance May 9, 1952 · Syndicated · 28 min
In Paris, Harry plans to cheat an American with a story of buried gold.
The Elusive Vermeer May 16, 1952 · Syndicated · 30 min
Harry and a partner plan to sell a Vermeer that's about to be stolen.
Murder on the Riviera May 23, 1952 · Syndicated · 28 min
Smuggling cigarettes in postwar France, Harry meets a girl with a corpse and fifteen million francs.
The Pearls of Bohemia May 30, 1952 · Syndicated · 28 min
A woman enlists Harry's help to win a beauty contest in Egypt, or so she says.
A Night in a Harem June 6, 1952 · Syndicated · 29 min
Harry, a sharpie and a real Arabian princess set up a giant oil-concession swindle.
Blackmail Is a Nasty Word June 13, 1952 · Syndicated · 29 min
Marseilles, 1947: Harry blackmails a blackmailer to pay off another blackmailer.
The Professor Regrets June 20, 1952 · Syndicated · 30 min
Harry helps a fellow con man expose a famous atomic scientist as disloyal.
The Hard Way June 27, 1952 · Syndicated · 30 min
Harry goes into the charter airline business and meets a strange man who wants to fly to Zurich.
Paris Is Not the Same July 4, 1952 · Syndicated · 30 min
Harry Lime meets an old flame from wartime London in Paris, and uses a "third man" for a perfume swindle.
Honeymoon July 11, 1952 · Syndicated · 30 min
Harry and a countess try to smuggle Sicily's most wanted bandit out of the country.
The Blue Caribou July 18, 1952 · Syndicated · 28 min
In Rimini, a beautiful American hires Harry to recover an antique piece of pottery.
Greek Meets Greek July 25, 1952 · Syndicated · 26 min
The last show: Harry in Piraeus with the measles, a body and a woman with a gun.