The Adventures of Harry Lime later expanded by him and served as the basic plot for his film "Mr. Arkadin". A recording of the 1951 "A Ticket to Tangiers" episode of "The Lives of Harry Lime" series is available on the Criterion Collection DVD edition of "The Third Man". In addition, recordings of the 1952 episodes "Man of Mystery", "Murder on the Riviera" and "Blackmail is a Nasty Word" are included on the Criterion Collection DVD "The Complete Mr. Arkadin". Fifteen episodes were adapted into a short story collection, "The Lives of Harry Lime", published in the United Kingdom by Pocket Books in 1952. The
Lime Grove Studios success in the United States (where it was distributed by Universal Pictures). The studios prospered under Gaumont-British, and in 1941 were bought by the Rank Organisation. By then Rank had a substantial interest in Gainsborough Pictures, and "The Wicked Lady" (1945), among other Gainsborough melodramas, was shot at Lime Grove. In 1949 the BBC bought Lime Grove Studios as a "temporary measure"—because they were to build Television Centre at nearby White City—and began converting them from film to television use, reopening them on 21 May 1950. Lime Grove would be used for many BBC Television programmes over the next forty-two