The original post: /r/television by /u/dav_oid on 2025-01-17 10:32:14.
I’m a bit of IMDb nerd and I keep finding TV series (inspired by movies) that I’ve never heard of.
I’ve seen ‘The Third Man’ movie a few times, and most people agree its a classic.
It won Best Picture at the British Academy Film Awards, and also the Palme d’Or at Cannes.
But I’d never heard of a spin off TV series.
‘The Third Man’ series ran for 5 seasons from 1959 to 1965 for a total of 77 episodes.
It was a US/UK co-production starring Michael Rennie as Harry Lime, who is an ‘international private investigator’ (WikiPedia).
Not sure how much it has to do with the movie, as Harry Lime wasn’t a P.I. and was more of a criminal.
I found the TV series on IMDb when I was looking up Michael Rennie as I saw him in an Alfred Hitchcock Presents episode called ‘The Foghorn’, and he looked familiar.
Rennie played Klaatu in "The Day the Earth Stood Still’, the classic science fiction movie.