It Takes a Thief

The adventures of suave cat burglar Alexander Mundy, who plies his trade for the U.S. Government.

Cast:Robert Wagner , Fred Astaire , Malachi Throne , Murray Pollack , Edward Binns , Joseph La Cava , Joseph Cotten , Susan Saint James , John Russell , George Murdock , Than Wyenn , James McEachin , John Van Dreelen , Fernando Lamas , Sharon Acker , Gavin MacLeod , Mario Alcalde , Don Knight

1Season 1

S1.E1 ∙ A Thief Is a Thief

Mon, Aug 5, 1968

Master thief Alexander Mundy is paroled from prison by SIA special agent Noah Bain in order to steal for the United States government on special occasions.

2Season 1

S1.E2 ∙ It Takes One to Know One

Tue, Jan 16, 1968

Mundy is tasked with going to a small European state who's only source of income is its casino. Soviet infiltrators are attempting to steal the states crown jewels as a way of forcing the casino to close. Mundy must try and stop the robbery from happening

3Season 1

S1.E3 ∙ When Boy Meets Girl

Tue, Jan 30, 1968

Mundy needs all of his skills and talents to get a female defector safely out of enemy territory.

4Season 1

S1.E4 ∙ A Very Warm Reception

Tue, Feb 6, 1968

Mundy is tasked with infiltrating an embassy of a nation unfriendly to the United States. His job is to recover a list of enemy spies, unfortunately the Embassy staff know they are a high value target and have taken steps to stop an intrusion.

5Season 1

S1.E5 ∙ One Illegal Angel

Tue, Feb 13, 1968

Mundy steals a famous Da Vinci painting, and arranges a buyer. To maximize his profits he arranges for a counterfeiter to produce a copy of the painting.

6Season 1

S1.E6 ∙ Totally by Design

Fri, Oct 3, 1969

Mundy must infiltrate a small Middle Eastern nation that is taking agricultural equipment supplied by the State department and reselling it for weapons. Once in, Mundy has to figure out a way the short circuit the deal.

7Season 1

S1.E7 ∙ When Thieves Fall In

Tue, Feb 27, 1968

Mundy has to find a way to steal a shipment of Baltic furs that have valuable information about ICBM designs sown into them.

8Season 1

S1.E8 ∙ A Spot of Trouble

Tue, Mar 5, 1968

Sensitive plans for a new weapon are stolen, and after the best agents in the government fail to locate them back Mundy is called. What seems like an easy job becomes complicated when it is realized the plans have been micro dotted

9Season 1

S1.E9 ∙ When Good Friends Get Together

Tue, Mar 12, 1968

The Prince of an Asian country is visiting the US. There are concerns that an assassination attempt could happen. Mundy is asked to join the prince's house hold and try and spot any potential threats

10Season 1

S1.E10 ∙ Birds of a Feather

Tue, Mar 19, 1968

Mundy's mission to retrieve a microfilm capsule leads him from an eccentric spy in a communist prison to a beautiful ambassador's wife with a cameo ring marked confidential.

11Season 1

S1.E11 ∙ To Steal a Battleship

Tue, Mar 26, 1968

A U.N diplomat is suspected of stealing NATO plans and trying to sell them. Mundy must search the man's extensive house and try to recover the documents.

12Season 1

S1.E12 ∙ Turnabout

Tue, Apr 2, 1968

Mundy is briefed to attempt to steal a new generation of optical lens from a Soviet science institute. At the last moment he is injured and Noah has to step into his shoes, with Mundys coaching.

13Season 1

S1.E13 ∙ The Radomir Miniature

Tue, Apr 9, 1968

While escaping across the border with his family, the ten year-old daughter of a scientist is captured, and being held against him for his return. Al Mundy to the rescue.

14Season 1

S1.E14 ∙ Locked in the Cradle of the Keep

Tue, Apr 16, 1968

The SIA stages an elaborate ruse to perpetrate Al's 'defection' to the Eastern Bloc; he is tasked to steal something, but doesn't know what; It takes his deductive talents to figure that out, before he can successfully pull off the job.

15Season 1

S1.E15 ∙ A Matter of Royal Larceny

Tue, Apr 23, 1968

Noah orders Alexander Mundy to return a royal orb after a rich and beautiful jet-setter lifts it from its display case on a drunken whim. Little does anyone know that the orb holds an explosive surprise.

16Season 1

S1.E16 ∙ The Lay of the Land

Tue, Apr 30, 1968

Noah sends Al to break into a duchess's villa, not to steal her jewels, but the manuscript of her memoir.

1Season 2

S2.E1 ∙ One Night on Soledade

Tue, Sep 24, 1968

Pierre Dushon, son of the Soledade dictator, has been poisoned. The SIA fears the dictator will wrongly blame neighboring Casturo, friendly to the US. Al must steal the body, hidden by the superstitious people in the catacombs.

2Season 2

S2.E2 ∙ A Sour Note

Tue, Oct 1, 1968

The SIA wants proof Nazi war criminal Karl Muller has a new identify. It is in the safe of Luigi Dimontelli, son of a Fascist Italy bureaucrat. Luigi loves opera. The SIA persuades a diva to perform for him. Al poses as her manager.

3Season 2

S2.E3 ∙ The Bill Is in Committee

Tue, Oct 8, 1968

Al impersonates a magician and, accompanied by the magician's assistant, goes to a European principality to steal the negatives of compromising photos of a US Congressman, who is being blackmailed into supporting the country.

4Season 2

S2.E4 ∙ The Thingamabob Heist

Tue, Oct 15, 1968

Al must steal a sample of a revolutionary new type of jet fuel, the only trouble is he doesn't know what to look for.

5Season 2

S2.E5 ∙ Get Me to the Revolution on Time

Tue, Oct 22, 1968

Al must pose as a cocktail mixologist to gain access to a safe which can only be opened with multiple electronic keys, each emitting a different tonal pitch.

6Season 2

S2.E6 ∙ The Packager

Tue, Oct 29, 1968

A millionaire blackmails Al into doing a job by threatening to expose his involvement with SIA.

7Season 2

S2.E7 ∙ Hans Across the Border: Part 1

Tue, Nov 12, 1968

Al's simple task this time involves the recovery of a set of papers from a wall safe but, the safe is in a house located somewhere behind the Berlin Wall. Breaking in is the first trick, breaking back out again is the real challenge.

8Season 2

S2.E8 ∙ Hans Across the Border: Part 2

Tue, Nov 19, 1968

In Part 2 of this Cold War plot, Al reluctantly returns to the home of the East German general from whom he has stolen a set of papers, in order to plant disinformation about another character, in the safe.

9Season 2

S2.E9 ∙ A Case of Red Turnips

Tue, Nov 26, 1968

Mundy is ordered to attend a foreign film festival and steal the only copy of an avant-garde motion picture. The movie's director accidentally filmed eleven American spies making a drop at a location behind the Iron Curtain and if the film is premiered the agents will all soon be captured or dead.

10Season 2

S2.E10 ∙ The Galloping Skin Game

Tue, Dec 3, 1968

Al must steal a document hidden in a scientific paper at a conference in Rome. The SIA doesn't know which of the 100 papers contains the document. Al deduces that the paper will be handled by a high-value fence, Grobo, and schemes to get on his good side by stealing the Kimberly Diamond and having Grobo fence it for him. Al comes up with a unique solution to obtain the key paper before it's delivered to Grobo, while also keeping the diamond (that the SIA returns).

11Season 2

S2.E11 ∙ Glass Riddle

Tue, Dec 17, 1968

Al makes a withdrawal from a safety deposit box (not his).

12Season 2

S2.E12 ∙ To Catch a Roaring Lion

Tue, Dec 31, 1968

Al returns a stolen item, rather than stealing it.

13Season 2

S2.E13 ∙ Guess Who's Coming to Rio

Tue, Jan 7, 1969

Al takes a vacation. Or at least, tries to take one.

14Season 2

S2.E14 ∙ The Artist Is for Framing

Tue, Jan 21, 1969

Al is being expertly framed for several jewelry heist. But by who?

15Season 2

S2.E15 ∙ The Naked Billionaire

Tue, Jan 28, 1969

Daniel Ryder's electronics firm has won a defense contract, but the SIA suspects the reclusive billionaire is being impersonated. Al's old flame Nina Gray is involved with the firm. Can Al trust her help and will she be in danger?

16Season 2

S2.E16 ∙ A Matter of Grey Matter: Part 1

Tue, Feb 4, 1969

Dodie Dubois is a terrible actress with a reclusive rich elderly boyfriend financing her movie career. He is also developing missile technology with countries hostile to the US. Al poses as a distribution agent to find and stop Wolfgang.

17Season 2

S2.E17 ∙ A Matter of Grey Matter: Part 2

Tue, Feb 11, 1969

Dodie's genius little brother Herbie is pressured by Wolfgang to produce from memory a math formula for new rocket fuel. Will Al find Herbie and Wolfgang in time ?

18Season 2

S2.E18 ∙ Catspaw

Tue, Feb 18, 1969

The brother of the ruler of La Monica has stolen the crown jewels. They are on Clayton Hewitt's moat surrounded estate. The SIA wants to recover them, but Al gets injured. He and Noah hoodwink Al's protégé into doing the heist for them.

19Season 2

S2.E19 ∙ Boom at the Top

Tue, Feb 25, 1969

The SIA orders Mundy to give a Washington, D.C., party in hopes he can nab the pickpocket who recently invaded a similar event in order to find a microdot. Complications arise when an acquaintance arrives with a bomb strapped to him in hopes that Mundy can disarm it.

20Season 2

S2.E20 ∙ The Funeral Is on Mundy

Tue, Mar 11, 1969

While on a mission to discredit a crack thief of an adversarial spy group, Mundy discovers the thief murdered during assignment and learns that he is an additional target of the other thief's mysterious assassin.

21Season 2

S2.E21 ∙ The Baranoff Timetable

Tue, Mar 18, 1969

Costa d'Oro secretary Ortega plans a Communist coup in the region and commits it to a paper the SIA wants. Al arouses the suspicions of locals loyal to El Presidente, and must deal with his unreliable contact, palace guest Laurie Brooks.

22Season 2

S2.E22 ∙ Rock-Bye, Bye, Baby

Tue, Mar 25, 1969

The SIA wants a notebook in the old 1920's era safe of Domino Club owner Manny Grayson. Al wants old San Jobel pal Rocky to help. Noah alludes to Frankenstein's Monster and warns Al of trouble if Rocky gets involved.

23Season 2

S2.E23 ∙ The Family

Tue, Apr 1, 1969

Al gets quarantined in the highly secure household of a reclusive elderly oil magnate, to find out who is behind his oil sales to Iron Curtain countries.

24Season 2

S2.E24 ∙ 38-23-36

Tue, Apr 8, 1969

Al poses as a fashion photographer at an international beauty pageant. He knows only the measurements of the girl who is a dangerous enemy spy, and what a set of figures.

25Season 2

S2.E25 ∙ The Great Chess Gambit

Tue, Apr 15, 1969

A SAC bomber with three nuclear weapons aboard crashes. The bombs are recovered but the 3311 "Black Box", a failsafe device that receives the plane's "Go Order" direct from the President, is missing and being held for ransom. Al Mundy must outbid the Russians and retrieve the device.

26Season 2

S2.E26 ∙ Mad in Japan

Tue, Apr 22, 1969

After receiving the message "Dangerous Weapon Inside: Code 409" from two S.I.A. agents in the Far East, who may be have been killed, Noah sends Al and Dr. Hopkins to Japan to retrieve the prototype for a portable, hand-held laser gun.

1Season 3

S3.E1 ∙ Saturday Night in Venice

Thu, Sep 25, 1969

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.

2Season 3

S3.E2 ∙ Who'll Bid Two Million Dollars?

Thu, Oct 2, 1969

Al is sent to Porto Ercolle to recover stolen Plutonium, and is mistaken for someone named George.

3Season 3

S3.E3 ∙ The Beautiful People

Thu, Oct 9, 1969

The enemy agent impersonates the captured SIA chief to trick Mundy into locating a defecting Soviet.

4Season 3

S3.E4 ∙ The Great Casino Caper

Thu, Oct 16, 1969

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.

5Season 3

S3.E5 ∙ Flowers from Alexander

Thu, Oct 23, 1969

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.

6Season 3

S3.E6 ∙ The Blue, Blue Danube

Thu, Oct 30, 1969

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.

7Season 3

S3.E7 ∙ The Three Virgins of Rome

Thu, Nov 6, 1969

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,

8Season 3

S3.E8 ∙ Payoff in the Piazza

Thu, Nov 13, 1969

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?

9Season 3

S3.E9 ∙ The King of Thieves

Thu, Nov 20, 1969

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.

10Season 3

S3.E10 ∙ A Friend in Deed

Thu, Nov 27, 1969

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.

11Season 3

S3.E11 ∙ The Second Time Around

Thu, Dec 4, 1969

Al and his dad take on Eric the Red for the last time.

12Season 3

S3.E12 ∙ The Old Who Came in from the Spy

Thu, Dec 11, 1969

Mundy and a retired British spy team up to smuggle a microdot out of an East Berlin museum.

13Season 3

S3.E13 ∙ To Lure a Man

Thu, Dec 18, 1969

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.

14Season 3

S3.E14 ∙ The Scorpio Drop

Thu, Dec 25, 1969

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.

15Season 3

S3.E15 ∙ Nice Girls Marry Stockbrokers

Thu, Jan 15, 1970

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 fiancé and helps him find Paul's secret codebook.

16Season 3

S3.E16 ∙ The Steal-Driving Man

Mon, Jan 19, 1970

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.

17Season 3

S3.E17 ∙ Touch of Magic

Mon, Jan 26, 1970

Al's old Friend, Bessie, has fallen on hard times, Al helps her recover her belief in herself as a thief.

18Season 3

S3.E18 ∙ Fortune City

Mon, Feb 2, 1970

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.

19Season 3

S3.E19 ∙ Situation Red

Mon, Feb 9, 1970

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.

20Season 3

S3.E20 ∙ To Sing a Song of Murder

Mon, Feb 23, 1970

Musicians (Marilyn McCoo, Billy Davis Jr, Florence LaRue, Ron Townson, and LaMonte McLemore--The 5th Dimension) become involved in a devious political plot.

21Season 3

S3.E21 ∙ The Suzie Simone Caper

Mon, Mar 2, 1970

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.

22Season 3

S3.E22 ∙ An Evening with Alistair Mundy

Mon, Mar 9, 1970

At the kings request Al and his dad try to steal his daughter.

23Season 3

S3.E23 ∙ Beyond a Treasonable Doubt

Mon, Mar 16, 1970

Al is accused of treason, and he must determine who is behind the frame job while under a shoot-to-kill order.

24Season 3

S3.E24 ∙ Project "X"

Mon, Mar 23, 1970

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.