The Adventures of Harry Lime

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Episode Inventory

Totals

Total Episodes: 52
Surviving Episodes: 52

• Too Many Crooks
  Episode 01, 3 August 1951
  In Budapest, Harry gets mixed up with a bank robbery attempt where each member of the gang tries to out-doublecross the other.
• See Naples and Live
  Episode 02; 10 August 1951
  In Naples, Harry plans to heist a beautiful emerald locket from a Neapolitan socialite. But, he is harried by a disgruntled former associate.
• Clay Pigeon
  Episode 03; 17 August 1951
  Governor James Hadley offers Harry $15,000 to recover the negatives of some highly scandalous photographs and free him from a blackmail plot.
• A Ticket to Tangier
  Episode 04; 24 August 1951
  In Paris, down on his luck, Harry reads a classified ad in a newspaper directing him to go to Tangier for an unspecified purpose.
• Voodoo
  Episode 05; 31 August 1951
  In Haiti, Harry sells a local religious artifact to an American industrialist, not fully realizing the consequences of his action.
• The Bohemian Star
  Episode 06; 7 September 1951
  In London, Harry's interest in the crown jewels of Bockanovia gets him mixed up with a pair of jewel thieves who aren't in a sharing mood.
• Love Affair
  Episode 07; 14 September 1951
  In Saudi Arabia, Harry is set to make a deal with the government. A rival government wants him to do the same for them instead. Harry finds a murder and a double-cross in oil.
• Rogue's Holiday
  Episode 08; 21 September 1951
  Crossing the Atlantic on the Princess Ann, Harry plans to scam Lady Barbara Follet out of a string of pearls. But, what about her mysterious companion?
• Work of Art
  Episode 09; 28 September 1951
  In Buenos Aires, Harry is hired to swindle an original Rubens from its owner, a German expatriate of dodgy political associations.
• Operation Music Box
  Episode 10; 5 October 1951
  In London, Harry meets a woman buying music boxes and smashing them.
• Golden Fleece
  Episode 11; 12 October 1951
  Harry uses forged papers to get a position as ship's captain on a yacht and learns it is smuggling a very interesting cargo. A story that begins with a bullfight in Spain and ends with a naval engagement in the China Sea!
• Blue Bride
  Episode 12; 19 October 1951
  In Bordeaux, Harry's involved in a scheme to counterfeit 5,000 franc notes.
• Every Frame Has a Silver Lining
  Episode 13; 26 October 1951
  In Tehran, Harry is given a package with $50,000 worth of opium by an old friend. Now he's looking for some suckers he can uses to smuggle the drug into the United States.
• Mexican Hat Trick
  Episode 14; 2 November 1951
  In Mexico City, Harry learns about some affidavits which would prove the innocence of a man who was framed for murder. He attempts to locate them so he can extort some cash from the man's family.
• Art Is Long and Lime Is Fleeting
  Episode 15; 9 November 1951
  In Paris, Harry buys a cheap painting and tries to pass it off as a Renoir to a pair of rich Brazilian women. A former partner, who has been nursing a grudge, arrives to cause him grief.
• In Pursuit of a Ghost
  Episode 16; 16 November 1951
  In the Fall of 1945, Harry gets involved with a Central American revolutionaries he think he is an associate of the man who used to manage their finances, and stole most of the funds!
• Horse Play
  Episode 17; 23 November 1951
  In Paris, Harry uses a "lost wallet" con, pretending to be part of syndicate that fixes horse races. The "fix is in" and a wealthy American sucker is lined up!
• Three Farthings for Your Thoughts
  Episode 18; 30 November 1951
  In Liverpool, Harry's curiosity is piqued when a woman robs everyone in a pub at gunpoint but only takes their farthings. The story of a farthing worth twenty thousand pounds Sterling!
• The Third Woman
  Episode 19; 7 December 1951
  In London, Harry is sent to the Savoy Hotel to find out what happened to a spy who was suppose to obtain information on a German rocket factory but has failed to do so.
• An Old Moorish Custom
  Episode 20; 14 December 1951
  In Algiers, Harry's on the trail of golden cups and gold dust lost since 1504. Harry has just twenty four hours to find the loot! The basic plot was also used for an episode of Hopalong Cassidy, titled "An Old Spanish Custom."
• It's a Knockout
  Episode 21; 21 December 1951
  In Havana, Harry has become J. Harrington Lime, Wall Street financier and Cuban sportsman. He plans to swindle an American businessman with a rigged boxing match.
• Two Is Company
  Episode 22; 28 December 1951
  In Sicily, Harry plans to reunite a woman with her grocery chain executive lover who she's come to consider to be insufficiently romantic, for a considerable profit.
• Cherchez La Gem
  Episode 23; 4 January 1952
  In Hawaii, Harry is after $75,000 in stolen jewels.
• The Hand of Glory
  Episode 24; 11 January 1952
  In a sleepy English village, Harry, hiding out after some shenanigans in Paris, gets entangled in the arcane pursuits of two old men.
• The Double Double Cross
  Episode 25; 18 January 1952
  Harry parachutes into England with smuggled currency and falls victim to the temperamental natures of his partners.
• Five Thousand Pengoes and a Kiss
  Episode 26; 25 January 1952
  In Hungary, Harry is hired to smuggle a beautiful singer out of Budapest.
• Dark Enchantress
  Episode 27; 1 February 1952 In Algiers, Harry notices the curious activities of the teenage daughter of a rich American, which he figures can be turned to his profit.
• Earl on Troubled Waters
  Episode 28; 8 February 1952
  In London, Harry poses as a nobleman to smuggle $30,000 out of the country, but little Lord Randolph himself takes a hand.
• The Dead Candidate
  Episode 29; 15 February 1952
  In the South American banana republic of Milenia, Harry seeks to advance the interests of a soda company. Due to some curious rumormongering, the local dictator believes that Harry is a personal envoy of the U.S. President.
• It's in the Bag
  Episode 30; 22 February 1952
  Aboard the Orient Express, Harry meets a friendly Greek with a bag of black market money. Harry has counterfeit money and hatches a scheme to switch it for the Greek's.
• Hyacinth Patrol
  Episode 3;1 29 February 1952
  In wartime Panama, Harry breaks up a spy ring out to wreck the Panama Canal.
• Turnabout is Foul Play
  Episode 32; 7 March 1952
  In Bern, Harry sets up a German businessman wishing to rebuild his pre-war fortunes by baiting him with some phony U.N. plans for the industrialization of Western Europe.
• Violets, Sweet Violets
  Episode 33; 14 March 1952
  In Nazi-occupied Marseilles, Harry contacts the head of the local black market so that he can get a piece of the action.
• Faith, Lime and Charity
  Episode 34; 21 March 1952
  In India, Harry runs a scam to skim some of the money he's collecting to rebuild an orphanage.
• Pleasure Before Business
  Episode 35; 28 March 1952
  In Venice, Harry enlists a beautiful acquaintance for a jewel robbery. But, she has a few ideas of her own; like love. Script available here.
• Fool's Gold
  Episode 36; 4 April 1952
  In Kuwait, Harry poses as an archaeologist to hijack some smuggled gold. But, he finds his assumed identity more hassle than help.
• Man of Mystery
  Episode 37; 11 April 1952
  Harry is summoned to Antibes by Gregory Arkadin, a wealthy man with amnesia for twenty years. He wants Harry to learn as much as possible about his past life. Welles later used this plot as the basis for his film Mr. Arkadin. Script available here.
• The Painted Smile
  Episode 38; 18 April 1952
  In Sicily, Harry attends a circus performance with one of the clowns, a friend from the underworld. The clown is shocked when his daughter, unaware of either of his professions, runs away from her exclusive private school to meet him.
• Harry Lime Joins The Circus
  Episode 39; 25 April 1952
  In post-war Europe, Harry is working for a traveling circus. He learns that one of the clowns is Hans Hessle, an escaped Nazi being sought by many of his victims for his atrocities during the war.
• Suzie's Cue
  Episode 40; 2 May 1952
  In Vienna, Harry teams up with an impoverished countess to steal a diamond necklace formally owned by Marie Antoinette.
• Vive la Chance
  Episode 41; 9 May 1952
  In Paris, Harry plans to cheat an American named Henry Witherspoon with a scheme involving a treasure in buried gold.
• The Elusive Vermeer
  Episode 42; 16 May 1952
  Horace St. John Windemeer contacts Harry for help disposing of a Vermeer painting he's about to steal.
• Murder on the Riviera
  Episode 43; 23 May 1952
  In post-war France, Harry's smuggling cigarettes. He meets a young a girl called "Stupid" with a corpse and fifteen million francs. She's doing a bad job of disposing of the corpse and Harry decides to help her, for a price!
• The Pearls of Bohemia
  Episode 44; 30 May 1952
  In Italy, Harry answers a curious ad for a multi-lingual agent. He meets Melody Johnson who enlists his aid, ostensibly to win a beauty contest in Egypt, but really to smuggle pearls into Egypt.
• A Night in a Harem
  Episode 45; 6 June 1952
  In a Middle East kingdom, Harry, a sharpie named Sam, and a real Arabian princess are set up for a $100,000,000 oil concession pushover.
• Blackmail Is a Nasty Word
  Episode 46; 13 June 1952
  In Marseilles, a dying crook gives Harry a name to share with an official in the post-War French government. Doing so makes the official very cooperative, though Harry hasn't a clue why.
• The Professor Regrets
  Episode 47; 20 June 1952
  Harry helps a fellow con artist expose a famous atomic scientist disloyal to America.
• The Hard Way
  Episode 48; 27 June 1952
  Harry starts a charter airline business, using an old smuggling airplane. He meets the strange Mr. Butterboy, wanting to fly to Zurich and finds his old reputation is not so easily left behind.
• Paris Is Not the Same
  Episode 49; 4 July 1952
  In Paris, Harry Lime meets an old wartime flame. He soon uses a "Third Man" to work a perfume swindle.
• Honeymoon
  Episode 50; 11 July 1952
  Harry and a Countess try to smuggle a most wanted bandit out of Sicily.
• The Blue Caribou
  Episode 51; 18 July 1952
  In Italy, Harry is hired by a beautiful American to help her recover a valuable antique piece of pottery and gets entangled in the doings of a retired Mafia boss.
• Greek Meets Greek
  Episode 52; 25 July 1952
  In Greece, Harry contends with the measles, a dead body, and a mysterious woman with a gun claiming someone is trying to kill her. Her story, however, does not make sense.