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It takes a Thief 1968-70
Convicted cat burglar Alexander Mundy gets an offer he can't refuse from the United States government: If he puts his formidable thieving skills to work for them, he'll be released from prison. Alexander's dad, Alister, sometimes comes out of retirement as a thief to help his son on special jobs.
Episodes
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Mad in Japan S2E26
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.
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The Great Chess Gambit S2E25
A SAC bomber with three nuclear weapons aboard crashes.
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38-23-36 S2E24
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.
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The Family S2E23
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.
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Rock-Bye, Bye, Baby S2E22
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.
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The Baranoff Timetable S2E21
Costa d'Oro secretary Ortega plans a Communist coup in the region and commits it to a paper the SIA wants.
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The Funeral Is on Mundy S2E20
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.
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Boom at the Top S2E19
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.
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Catspaw S2E18
The brother of the ruler of La Monica has stolen the crown jewels. They are on Clayton Hewitt's moat surrounded estate.
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A Matter of Grey Matter: Part 2 S2E17
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 ?
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A Matter of Grey Matter: Part 1 S2E16
Dodie Dubois is a terrible actress with a reclusive rich elderly boyfriend financing her movie career.
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The Naked Billionaire S2E15
Daniel Ryder's electronics firm has won a defense contract, but the SIA suspects the reclusive billionaire is being impersonated.
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The Artist Is for Framing S2E14
Al is being expertly framed for several jewelry heist. But by who?
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Guess Who's Coming to Rio S2E13
Al takes a vacation. Or at least, tries to take one.
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To Catch a Roaring Lion S2E12
Al returns a stolen item, rather than stealing it.
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Glass Riddle S2E11
Al makes a withdrawal from a safety deposit box (not his).
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The Galloping Skin Game S2E10
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.
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A Case of Red Turnips S2E9
Mundy is ordered to attend a foreign film festival and steal the only copy of an avant-garde motion picture
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Hans Across the Border: Part 2 S2E8
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.
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Hans Across the Border: Part 1 S2E7
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.
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The Packager S2E6
A millionaire blackmails Al into doing a job by threatening to expose his involvement with SIA.
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Get Me to the Revolution on Time S2E5
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.
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The Thingamabob Heist S2E4
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.
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The Bill Is in Committee S2E3
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.
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A Sour Note S2
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.
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One Night on Soledade S2E1
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.
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The Lay of the Land S1E16
Noah sends Al to break into a duchess's villa, not to steal her jewels, but the manuscript of her memoir.
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E15 A Matter of Royal Larceny
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.
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E14 Locked in the Cradle of the Keep
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.
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E13 The Radomir Miniature
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.
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E12 Turnabout
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.
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E11 To Steal a Battleship
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.
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E10 Birds of a Feather
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.
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E9 When Good Friends Get Together
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
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E8 A Spot of Trouble
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
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E7 When Thieves Fall In
Mundy has to find a way to steal a shipment of Baltic furs that have valuable information about ICBM designs sown into them.
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E6 Totally by Design
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.
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E5 One Illegal Angel
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.
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E4 A Very Warm Reception
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.
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E3 When Boy Meets Girl
Mundy needs all of his skills and talents to get a female defector safely out of enemy territory.
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E2 It Takes One to Know One
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
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E1 A Thief Is a Thief
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.
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Convicted cat burglar Alexander Mundy gets an offer he can't refuse from the United States government: If he puts his formidable thieving skills to work for them, he'll be released from prison. Alexander's dad, Alister, sometimes comes out of retirement as a thief to help his son on special jobs.
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