It Takes a Thief
(1968)
Run Time: 60 min
Color: Color
Aspect Ratio: 1.33 : 1
Sound: Mono
Producer: American Broadcasting Corporation
Genre
- Action
- Adventure
- Crime
- Drama
Seasons: 3
Episodes: 66
Overview
Debonair burglar Alexander Mundy is released from jail when he agrees to work for a U.S. agency in this genial adventure. In the second season, he occasionally enlisted the help of his light-fingered father (memorably played by Fred Astaire).
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1.
Saturday Night in Venice
Guest stars: Delia Boccardo and John Russell. NOTE: Malachi Throne was no longer a regular cast member by this time, and his Noah Bain was no longer a regular character; Edward Binns's Wallie Powers had become Alexander Mundy's boss.*In Venice, Al is poisoned by a beautiful Soviet agent, and she tells him he has less than 48 hours to return the item he stole or he won't get the antidote.
2.
Who'll Bid Two Million Dollars?
Guest stars: Edward Binns, Nicoletta Machiavelli and Paola Pitagora*Al is sent to Porto Ercolle to recover stolen Plutonium, and is mistaken for someone named George.
3.
The Beautiful People
Guest stars: Teri Garr and John Van Dreelen*The enemy agent impersonates the captured SIA chief to trick Mundy into locating a defecting Soviet.
4.
The Great Casino Caper
Guest stars: Fred Astaire and Adolfo Celi*Alex's latest assignment is to rob a casino that is passing counterfeit money. But he doesn't think he can do it on his own. He says he needs the help of the best thief of all time, his father. So he has to try and convince his father to do so.
5.
Flowers from Alexander
Guest star: Senta Berger*Beautiful SIA agent Lorrie James is in trouble and running for her life. She holds documents of vital importance that must be delivered to Rome within two days. While shopping in a market, Al and Lorrie meet and she passes the information to him without him understanding what she has given him. Later they meet and she explains her situation and the urgency of her mission. She begs Al to help her. In spite of Al's complaints and concerns, Lorrie convinces him to help her get the documents to Rome.
6.
The Blue, Blue Danube
Guest stars: Martine Beswick and John Russell*Mundy is sent in to bring back William Dover, an SIA executive, so the SIA won't have to kill him. So, Al goes undercover as a ballet expert, seeking to break a catatonic Dover out of the hospital, but the bad guys are on to him.
7.
The Three Virgins of Rome
Guest stars: Karin Dor and Edmund Purdom*Al Mundy is sent to foil the heist of some very public paintings when he runs into that other Mundy, a well-known art thief. For spice, add one beautiful agent, one crooked benefactor, and one very smart cop,
8.
Payoff in the Piazza
Guest stars: David Opatoshu, Rudy Solari, Carla Borelli and John Russell*Al's mission is interrupted by a mysterious group of royal Asian refugees fleeing a coup. Beautiful, pesky Charlie Brown keeps trying to get a piece of the action. Can Al save the queen, foil the coup, and get the girl?
9.
The King of Thieves
Guest stars: Martha Hyer, Edward Binns and Lionel Stander*On a romantic evening with Al, a US senator's daughter is kidnapped in Rome and Al is slugged, resulting in Al's foggy memory of the event.
10.
A Friend in Deed
Guest stars: Henry Silva, Frankie Avalon, Thomas Gomez and John Russell*Al's friend Guido fingers him as the one who stole the Ceresian file, which contains records of the Italian brotherhood. Guido stole it to trade for US citizenship and needs Al to get him out of a tight spot.
11.
The Second Time Around
Guest stars: Adolfo Celi, Edward Binns and Alice Ghostley*Al and his dad take on Eric the Red for the last time.
12.
The Old Who Came in from the Spy
Guest stars: Elsa Lanchester, Edward Binns, Francis Lederer and Richard Haydn*Mundy and a retired British spy team up to smuggle a microdot out of an East Berlin museum.
13.
To Lure a Man
Guest stars: Wilfrid Hyde-White and Tina Sinatra*Al and his date are held hostage in his apartment by enemy foreign agents who want to abduct SIA chief Jacks. Devon has to decipher the clue Al drops on the phone.
14.
The Scorpio Drop
Guest stars: Gale Sondergaard and Eduard Franz*A computer micro module stolen from the U.S. Department of Defense has landed in the hands of a group practicing astrological occultism. Al poses as a practitioner and gets invited to the group's home for their solstice festivities.
15.
Nice Girls Marry Stockbrokers
Guest stars: Michele Carey and Geoffrey Holder*SIA agent Yvonne works at Paul Trion's fashion house. Trion is involved in espionage. Yvonne's roommate Sharon meets Al at the airport. Yvonne is murdered at work. Sharon has Al pose as her fianc? and helps him find Paul's secret codebook.
16.
The Steal-Driving Man
Guest stars: Dick Smothers, Felicia Farr, Edward Binns and Mario Andretti*Al Mundy has to learn how to drive a Formula I car in a day to enter a Grand Prix as a rookie in order to provide cover to steal incriminating documents.
17.
Touch of Magic
Guest stars: Bette Davis and Edward Binns*Al's old Friend, Bessie, has fallen on hard times, Al helps her recover her belief in herself as a thief.
18.
Fortune City
Guest stars: Stefanie Powers and Timothy Carey*Al and Mona, driving from Vegas to Los Angeles, are involved in a minor accident. When Al awakens with a minor head injury, he finds himself in an abandoned Old-West town and Mona is nowhere to be seen. Harvey, apparently the town's only resident, tries to convince Al he was alone in the car.
19.
Situation Red
Guest star: Earl Holliman*An Air Force Major, the chief of security, has an 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.
20.
To Sing a Song of Murder
Guest stars: Joseph Cotten, Will Kuluva and Beah Richards, Special appearance by: The 5th Dimension*Musicians (Marilyn McCoo, Billy Davis Jr, Florence LaRue, Ron Townson, and LaMonte McLemore--The 5th Dimension) become involved in a devious political plot.
21.
The Suzie Simone Caper
Guest stars: Susan Saint James and Edward Binns*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.
22.
An Evening with Alister Mundy
Guest stars: Edward Binns, Francesco Mule and Gavin MacLeod*At the kings request Al and his dad try to steal his daughter.
23.
Beyond a Treasonable Doubt
Guest stars: Ahna Capri and Joseph Cotton, Cesar Romero (special guest star)*Al is accused of treason, and he must determine who is behind the frame job while under a shoot-to-kill order.
24.
Project X
Guest stars: Tina Sinatra, Kate Woodville, Edward Binns, Wally Cox (special guest star)*Alex's latest assignment is to escort a scientist who is traveling with four other scientists to an important conference. It seems like the scientist asked for Alex to accompany him because he thinks that Alex's skills could be useful. But while they're in flight some of the scientists and the crew are being killed off. That's when a film is played that says they're going to try and save the planet for man destroying it. So Alex, the scientist and a flight attendant he knows tries to find out how they are doing this and how to stop them.