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* ''Literature/FromRussiaWithLove''. While EvilGloating about the plan to fake James Bond's MurderSuicide to embarrass British Intelligence, Red Grant admits the plan has some flaws (what if someone remembers seeing Red with Bond, for instance) but a bit of ''Third Man'' mystery will only help fuel the newsworthy scandal.
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* In the ''Series/StarTrekDeepSpaceNine'' episode "[[Recap/StarTrekDeepSpaceNineS05E18BusinessAsUsual Business as Usual]]", Gaila's speech to Quark about whether Quark should care about some people he doesn't know and will never meet is very similar to Harry Lime's speech.

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* In the ''Series/StarTrekDeepSpaceNine'' episode "[[Recap/StarTrekDeepSpaceNineS05E18BusinessAsUsual Business as Usual]]", Gaila's speech to Quark about whether Quark (working as a ArmsDealer) should care about some people he doesn't know and will never meet is very similar to Harry Lime's speech.
* ''Series/TheProfessionals''. In "A Stirring of Dust", Bodie complains that Cowley's meeting with his KGB opposite number is right out of ''The Third Man''. The episode involves the hunt for an unidentified "Fourth Man" in a defunct KGB spy ring.
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* ''Creator/CarryOnSpying'' parodies the film with the Vienna setting, a man emerging from a sewage manhole and the black-and-white cinematography.

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* ''Creator/CarryOnSpying'' ''Film/CarryOnSpying'' parodies the film with the Vienna setting, a man emerging from a sewage manhole and the black-and-white cinematography.
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!!Comic Books
* In ''ComicBook/TheLeagueOfExtraordinaryGentlemen: The Black Dossier'', M is revealed to be Harry Lime, who has been presumed dead.

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* ''Creator/CarryOnSpying'' parodies the film with the Vienna setting, a man emerging from a sewage manhole and the black-and-white cinematography.
* ''Film/TheLongGoodbye'' contains several allusions. Marlowe, Terry and Eileen have similarities to that film's main characters, some of the plot points are the same, a cat figures into both stories, both films have scores based on variations of one song, and ultimately the ending where Marlowe walks past Eileen parodies and inverts the famous final scene. Here, TheHero walks past and ignores the FemmeFatale and rather than being melancholy and serious, Marlowe is in a good mood.
* ''Film/MillersCrossing'' contains several nods to the film, particularly the ending and many camera angles.
* ''Film/TheDeparted'''s scene in the graveyard has significant visual parallels with the scene where Anna walks past Holly, who stands on one side. Only here she's mourning TheHero rather than the villain.

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* In the ''Series/StarTrekDeepSpaceNine'' episode "[[Recap/StarTrekDeepSpaceNineS05E18BusinessAsUsual Business as Usual]]", Gaila's speech to Quark about whether Quark should care about some people he doesn't know and will never meet is very similar to Harry Lime's speech.

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!!WesternAnimation
* The ''WesternAnimation/PinkyAndTheBrain'' short "The Third Mouse" is a direct parody of the film. It's helped that Creator/MauriceLaMarche based the Brain's voice on Creator/OrsonWelles.
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* Third Man Records, the record label founded by Music/JackWhite, gets its name from this film.
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* The BBC spy-comedy mini-series ''Sleepers'' involves the KGB (among others) trying to find a couple of KGB sleeper agents who have gone on the run. At one point they get hold of a photo of them holding a stuffed toy animal, and the KGB woman says sarcastically, "Maybe that's the Third Man!"
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* The title of ''Literature/TheFourthBear'' is a reference to ''The Third Man''. Like the movie, the book features a suspicious accident that has evidence pointing to a mysterious character who might have been there...

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* The title of ''Literature/TheFourthBear'' is a reference to ''The Third Man''. Like the movie, the book features a suspicious accident that has evidence pointing to a mysterious character who might have been there...there...
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* The title of ''Literature/TheFourthBear'' is a reference to ''The Third Man''. Like the movie, the book features a suspicious accident that has evidence pointing to a mysterious character who might have been there...

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