The Lives of Harry Lime — 1952
30 episodes broadcast in 1952.
Harry follows a woman to her family's country house, where her eccentric twin uncles pursue alchemy through the gruesome ritual of a 'hand of glory.'
Monte Carlo, 1936: Harry parachutes into England carrying smuggled currency into a double-cross.
Harry is hired to spirit a beautiful singer out of Budapest.
At a casbah cafe, Harry moves against a blackmailer holding a wealthy family's daughter for ransom.
Harry poses as a nobleman to smuggle $30,000 abroad -- until the real little lord takes a hand.
Peddling a soft drink to the island dictatorship of Mylenia, Harry is mistaken for a visiting diplomat and tangled in a rigged election run on dead voters.
Aboard the Orient Express, Harry's counterfeit bankroll meets a friendly Greek's black-market cash.
In wartime Panama, Harry breaks up a spy ring plotting to sabotage the Canal.
Harry's plan to fleece an ex-Nazi of $30,000 is undone by the man's honest daughter.
Intrigue finds Harry in occupied Marseilles.
In India, Harry meets a beautiful woman running an orphans' charity -- and a fraud.
Harry's alluring accomplice on a Venice jewel robbery has her own agenda: romance.
Harry flies a planeload of stolen gold from Kuwait toward Goa.
The wealthy, amnesiac Gregory Arkadin hires Harry to uncover his own hidden past.
As a clown's guest at a Sicilian circus, Harry is drawn into the performer's troubles.
Harry hunts Hans Hessle, an escaped Nazi hiding among circus folk from those he wronged.
In Vienna, Harry covets a diamond necklace once owned by Marie Antoinette.
In Paris, Harry devises a scheme to fleece a visiting American named Witherspoon.
Harry and a partner plot to fence a Vermeer before it's even stolen.
Smuggling cigarettes on the postwar Riviera, Harry crosses a sharp girl nicknamed 'Stupid.'
A woman enlists Harry -- supposedly to win an Egyptian beauty contest, really for the pearls.
Harry, a hustler named Sam, and an Arabian princess chase a hundred-million-dollar oil concession.
Marseilles, 1947: one blackmailer sets Harry to blackmail a second, to pay off a third.
Harry helps a fellow con artist expose an atomic scientist selling out his country.
In the charter-airline business, Harry takes on the strange Mr. Butterboy's flight to Zurich.
Reunited with a wartime flame in Paris, Harry works a perfume swindle with a hidden 'third man.'
Harry and a countess try to smuggle Sicily's most-wanted bandit to safety.
A beautiful American hires Harry to recover a stolen antique -- a blue caribou figurine.
In Piraeus with the measles, Harry faces a corpse, a gun-toting woman, and a coveted sculpture.
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Other seasons: 1951 ·