The Third Man (TV series) explained

Genre:Mystery
Creator:Graham Greene
Starring:Michael Rennie
Country:United States
United Kingdom
Language:English
Num Seasons:5
Num Episodes:77 (8 missing)
Producer:Felix Jackson
Runtime:30 minutes
Company:National Telefilm Associates
Channel:BBC
Syndication (USA)/NTA Film Network

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.[1]

Cast

Episodes

Season 4 (1965)

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:[2]

External links

Notes and References

  1. News: The Third Man: Harry Lime Will Be Newest TV Hero Harry Lime to Be Hero. Page. Don. Los Angeles Times . 7 June 1959. G8.
  2. Web site: The Third Man. . TV Brain.