The run
- Network
- Syndicated
- Years active
- 1951–1952
- Surviving broadcasts
- 53
- Genre
- suspense
The Lives of Harry Lime was a British radio series that was produced in London by Harry Alan Towers. Called The Adventures of Harry Lime when first broadcast in Great Britain, the program featured Orson Welles as the title character, reprising his role from the 1949 cult movie, The Third Man . The radio series was set before that classic film, and depicted Harry Lime's many misadventures as a con-artist. Most of the programs opened with haunting "The Third Man Theme" by Anton Karas being played, followed by a gunshot. Welles would then intone "That was the shot that killed Harry Lime. He died in a sewer…
Source collection
Old Time Radio Researchers Group
Rights
Public domain — no renewed US copyright
Cataloguing
Air dates and notes from the Archive item record
The shape of the run
What survives, year by year
11 dated broadcasts across 2 years on the air. Brightness is transfer quality; empty cells are months lost to time.
Episodes
Start here
Listen to the run in order
Restored broadcasts from 1951, in original transmission order.
- 1. The Lives of Harry Lime Too Many Crooks · 3 Aug 1951
- 2. The Lives of Harry Lime Voodoo · 31 Aug 1951
- 3. The Lives of Harry Lime Operation Music Box · 5 Oct 1951
The Lives of Harry Lime Too Many Crooks
3 Aug 1951 · 28 min
Broadcast 3 August 1951. Public-domain transfer from the Old Time Radio Researchers certified set at the Internet Archive.
The Lives of Harry Lime Voodoo
31 Aug 1951 · 28 min
Broadcast 31 August 1951. Public-domain transfer from the Old Time Radio Researchers certified set at the Internet Archive.
The Lives of Harry Lime Operation Music Box
5 Oct 1951 · 28 min
Broadcast 5 October 1951. Public-domain transfer from the Old Time Radio Researchers certified set at the Internet Archive.
The Lives of Harry Lime Mexican Hat Trick
2 Nov 1951 · 28 min
Broadcast 2 November 1951. Public-domain transfer from the Old Time Radio Researchers certified set at the Internet Archive.
The Lives of Harry Lime The Third Woman
7 Dec 1951 · 29 min
Broadcast 7 December 1951. Public-domain transfer from the Old Time Radio Researchers certified set at the Internet Archive.
The Lives of Harry Lime Hand of Glory
11 Jan 1952 · 28 min
Broadcast 11 January 1952. Public-domain transfer from the Old Time Radio Researchers certified set at the Internet Archive.
The Lives of Harry Lime Earl on Troubled Waters
8 Feb 1952 · 28 min
Broadcast 8 February 1952. Public-domain transfer from the Old Time Radio Researchers certified set at the Internet Archive.
The Lives of Harry Lime Violets, Sweet Violets
14 Mar 1952 · 27 min
Broadcast 14 March 1952. Public-domain transfer from the Old Time Radio Researchers certified set at the Internet Archive.
Also on Syndicated
Syndicated in 1951–1952
Other series the network carried while Lives of Harry Lime was on the air.
Same seasons
suspense on the air then
Series in the same genre whose runs overlapped this one.
What it became
The anthology of dread
A voice, a creaking door, and a self-contained story designed to frighten you in half an hour. Suspense and Lights Out built the grammar every horror anthology still uses.
Lineage is written by our editors, not inferred from listening data.
Descendants
Working in the tradition of Lives of Harry Lime
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