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ABC · Ended

It Takes a Thief

Action, Adventure · 1968

Last aired: S3 E24, Project "X" · 1970-03-23

Alexander Mundy was a cat burglar and professional thief who had style, class and talent. He made only one mistake—getting caught. While serving a sentence in San Jobel Prison, he was contacted by representatives of the US Government spy agency, SIA. They offered to get him out if he would put his talents to work stealing for the government. Accepting the offer, he worked closely with an SIA department head, Noah Bain, who was his boss, aide, associate, friend and watchdog. During the second season he was now a free agent and his new SIA contact was Wallie Powers. Alexander's dad Alister became a semi-regular who was also a retired thief, from whom he had learned all his skills, and who occasionally teamed with his son on special jobs.

Cast

Season 3

Season 1Season 2Season 3
E1 Saturday Night in Venice 1969-09-25 · 60 min Al Mundy is poisoned by a Red agent and has little time to trade a decoding device he has stolen for the antidote.
E2 Who'll Bid Two Million Dollars? 1969-10-02 · 60 min Three foreign agents trying to buy a legendary spy's plutonium confuse Mundy with their quarry.
E3 The Beautiful People 1969-10-09 · 60 min An enemy agent impersonates the captured SIA chief to trick Mundy into locating a defecting Soviet.
E4 The Great Casino Caper 1969-10-16 · 60 min Al Mundy and his father set out to loot the vault of a casino in Venice and sell the lira to a counterfeiter.
E5 Flowers From Alexander 1969-10-23 · 60 min Mundy's seaside vacation in Italy is rudely interrupted when enemy agents following an SIA courier assume Al is her accomplice.
E6 The Blue, Blue Danube 1969-10-30 · 60 min Mundy poses as a reporter to rescue an SIA chief kidnapped by a Hungarian agent.
E7 The Three Virgins of Rome 1969-11-06 · 60 min When Al Mundy is assigned to protect three priceless paintings, he finds that his father wants to steal them.
E8 Payoff in the Piazza 1969-11-13 · 60 min The larcenous plans of Mundy's pal Charlie Brown hamper his efforts to find a widowed queen.
E9 The King of Thieves 1969-11-20 · 60 min An embarrassing kidnap case -- the victim is the daughter of a U.S. senatorial candidate whose press secretary is smearing the S.I.A.
E10 A Friend in Deed 1969-11-27 · 60 min A good friend of Al Mundy names him as the thief who stole a file containing the names of the dreaded Italian Brotherhood.
E11 The Second Time Around 1969-12-04 · 60 min Al Mundy and his father thwart communist execution attempts and set out to prevent a financial disaster.
E12 The Old Who Came in From the Spy 1969-12-11 · 60 min A rusty British operative helps Mundy steal a microdot from an East Berlin museum.
E13 To Lure a Man 1969-12-18 · 60 min Mundy struggles to outwit an enemy intelligence chief who is forcing him to lead the S.I.A.'s top man into a trap.
E14 The Scorpio Drop 1969-12-25 · 60 min Mundy poses as an astrologer to infiltrate an occult society; his assumed name makes him an assassination target.
E15 Nice Girls Marry Stockbrokers 1970-01-15 · 60 min A fashion photographer insists on taking the place of her deceased roommate to retrieve an S.I.A. code book in Paris.
E16 The Steal-Driving Man 1970-01-19 · 60 min Wally Powers induces Al Mundy to drive in a Formula I car race in Cordona where the SIA suspects the Russians are building Cuba-type missile bases and where vice-president Paulo Monteggo plans to topple the government. Al, using the cover name of Paul Stratford, is confronted by Corie Laughton of the credentials committee, but convinces her to go along with his fanciful excuse for anonymity.
E17 Touch of Magic 1970-01-26 · 60 min Mundy helps an arthritic ex-thief by inventing a caper, but the escapade interferes with the S.I.A.
E18 Fortune City 1970-02-02 · 60 min A dazed Mundy awakens after a car accident in a ghost town, minus his beautiful companion.
E19 Situation Red 1970-02-09 · 60 min An Air Force Major has a paranoid reaction to a prescription drug and takes over the Command Center during a bomber drill. Al is called in to extract him from the locked President's bunker before he starts World War III.
E20 To Sing a Song of Murder 1970-02-23 · 60 min Musicians become involved in a political plot.
E21 The Suzie Simone Caper 1970-03-02 · 60 min A Nazi diary reveals that a painting by Matisse has a hidden list of Nazi war criminals. Wally calls Al to steal the painting, which is protected by a sophisticated security system.
E22 An Evening With Alister Mundy 1970-03-09 · 60 min Alister and Al pose as clowns to get close to a king threatened by a scheming General.
E23 Beyond a Treasonable Doubt 1970-03-16 · 60 min Accusations of treason plunge Mundy into a nightmarish ordeal where friends and enemies become indistinguishable.
E24 Project "X" 1970-03-23 · 60 min Mundy and a stewardess seek a device killing scientists aboard a plane headed for Melbourne.

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