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It Takes a Thief - Episode Guide

Season 1

A Thief is a Thief (a.k.a. Magnificent Thief)

Episode: 1x01 | Airdate: Jan 9, 1968 (90 min)

A Thief is a Thief (a.k.a. Magnificent Thief)

The newest recruit, a paroled master thief, is sent by the S.I.A. to steal a briefcase with unknown documents from a Middle Eastern courier. The contents may help to stop an information leak that is causing their top agents to be killed.

It Takes One to Know One

Episode: 1x02 | Airdate: Jan 16, 1968

It Takes One to Know One

The SIA orders Mundy to infiltrate a gang planning to steal a small, vulnerable nation's crown jewels.

When Boy Meets Girl

Episode: 1x03 | Airdate: Jan 30, 1968

When Boy Meets Girl

Unexpected problems plague Mundy's mission to smuggle a defecting British scientist out of an Iron Curtain nation.

A Very Warm Reception

Episode: 1x04 | Airdate: Feb 6, 1968

A Very Warm Reception

Mundy uses various disguises to enter a foreign embassy and assess obstacles to stealing a list of agents.

One Illegal Angel

Episode: 1x05 | Airdate: Feb 13, 1968

One Illegal Angel

Mundy places a bugged Da Vinci forgery in a dictator's palace. 

Totally By Design

Episode: 1x06 | Airdate: Feb 20, 1968

Totally By Design

Mundy must steal a Swiss bank-account passbook to prevent a Middle East tyrant from financing a takeover of a neighboring state.

When Thieves Fall In

Episode: 1x07 | Airdate: Feb 27, 1968

When Thieves Fall In

Mundy has a thief friend paroled so she can help him steal a sable coat that could destroy a trade treaty.

A Spot of Trouble

Episode: 1x08 | Airdate: Mar 5, 1968

A Spot of Trouble

An island abounding with girls and champagne is Mundy's hunting ground for a microdot. 

When Good Friends Get Together

Episode: 1x09 | Airdate: Mar 12, 1968

When Good Friends Get Together

Mundy poses as a government official to foil a prince's plan to turn his royal nephew against the United States.

Birds of a Feather

Episode: 1x10 | Airdate: Mar 19, 1968

Birds of a Feather

Al Mundy is assigned to obtain top-secret microfilm which may be in the gold tooth of an imprisoned SIA agent.

To Steal a Battleship

Episode: 1x11 | Airdate: Mar 26, 1968

To Steal a Battleship

Al Mundy is assigned to recover NATO defense plans from a woman who is offering them for sale to the wrong people.

Turnabout

Episode: 1x12 | Airdate: Apr 2, 1968

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.

The Radomir Miniature

Episode: 1x13 | Airdate: Apr 9, 1968

The Radomir Miniature

Mundy travels to Bulgaria to rescue the child of a scientist who defected. 

Locked in the Cradle of the Keep

Episode: 1x14 | Airdate: Apr 16, 1968

Locked in the Cradle of the Keep

After an agent is killed during a theft attempt, Mundy must finish the man's mission -- as soon as he knows what to steal.

A Matter of Royal Larceny

Episode: 1x15 | Airdate: Apr 23, 1968

A Matter of Royal Larceny

Mundy returns a stolen jeweled globe in time for a coronation but learns his act could result in murder.

The Lay of the Land

Episode: 1x16 | Airdate: Apr 30, 1968

The Lay of the Land

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

Season 2

One Night on Soledade

Episode: 2x01 | Airdate: Sep 24, 1968

One Night on Soledade

Al Mundy is assigned to steal the dead body of the son of a Caribbean dictator and return it after an autopsy has been performed.

A Sour Note

Episode: 2x02 | Airdate: Oct 1, 1968

A Sour Note

A temperamental opera singer helps Mundy steal a blackmailer's documents which could expose a fugitive Nazi.

The Bill is in Committee

Episode: 2x03 | Airdate: Oct 8, 1968

The Bill is in Committee

As a magician, Mundy enters a Latin American dictator's palace for negatives used in a blackmail plot.

The Thingamabob Heist

Episode: 2x04 | Airdate: Oct 15, 1968

The Thingamabob Heist

Al Mundy is assigned to steal a stolen sample of a revolutionary jet fuel from an international fence.

Get Me to the Revolution on Time

Episode: 2x05 | Airdate: Oct 22, 1968

Get Me to the Revolution on Time

Mundy poses as a hotel bartender in a plan to carry out his next theft, a contract between a major cartel and a revolutionary.

The Packager

Episode: 2x06 | Airdate: Oct 29, 1968

The Packager

Mundy has evidence on a wealthy traitor, but the culprit threatens to expose Mundy's SIA connection.

Hans Across the Border (1)

Episode: 2x07 | Airdate: Nov 12, 1968

Hans Across the Border (1)

Mundy gets himself arrested in East Germany as a spy so he can be traded for a double agent.

Hans Across the Border (2)

Episode: 2x08 | Airdate: Nov 19, 1968

Hans Across the Border (2)

Papers planted by Mundy lead Heinrich to accuse a Soviet general of spying for the United States.

A Case of Red Turnips

Episode: 2x09 | Airdate: Nov 26, 1968

A Case of Red Turnips

To protect identities of SIA agents, Mundy must steal the only print of an avant-garde film.

The Galloping Skin Game

Episode: 2x10 | Airdate: Dec 3, 1968

The Galloping Skin Game

A successful mission to get a stolen treaty may cost the life of Mundy's friend.

Glass Riddle

Episode: 2x11 | Airdate: Dec 17, 1968

Glass Riddle

Mundy is assigned to rob a bank safe enclosed in glass in full view of a busy city street.

To Catch a Roaring Lion

Episode: 2x12 | Airdate: Dec 31, 1968

To Catch a Roaring Lion

An African government may collapse if Mundy cannot recover stolen relics.

Guess Who's Coming to Rio

Episode: 2x13 | Airdate: Jan 9, 1969

Guess Who's Coming to Rio

In Rio de Janeiro, Mundy is nearly bombed, threatened, kidnapped and finally arrested for murder.

The Artist is for Framing

Episode: 2x14 | Airdate: Jan 21, 1969

The Artist is for Framing

Fingerprints and other evidence leading to Al's arrest for jewel thefts convince even Noah.

The Naked Billionaire

Episode: 2x15 | Airdate: Jan 28, 1969

The Naked Billionaire

The government wants a reclusive tycoon to build an anti-missile complex -- as soon as Mundy discovers whether the man is alive.

A Matter of Grey Matter (1)

Episode: 2x16 | Airdate: Feb 4, 1969

A Matter of Grey Matter (1)

Mundy must steal a missile-fuel formula from a recluse before it falls into enemy hands.

A Matter of Grey Matter (2)

Episode: 2x17 | Airdate: Feb 11, 1969

A Matter of Grey Matter (2)

Mundy begins to think Dodie's precocious young brother invented the stolen formula.

Catspaw

Episode: 2x18 | Airdate: Feb 18, 1969

Catspaw

Injured Mundy enlists a former protege to recover crown jewels from a castle.

Boom at the Top

Episode: 2x19 | Airdate: Feb 25, 1969

Boom at the Top

The SIA orders Mundy to give a Washington, D.C., party in hopes he can nab the pickpocket who recently invaded a similar event.

The Funeral is on Mundy

Episode: 2x20 | Airdate: Mar 11, 1969

The Funeral is on Mundy

Learning he is the target of a professional assassin, Mundy hides in Noah's apartment.

The Baranoff Timetable

Episode: 2x21 | Airdate: Mar 18, 1969

The Baranoff Timetable

A jet-setter helps Mundy obtain a document detailing a Communist takeover of South America.

Rock-Bye, Bye, Baby

Episode: 2x22 | Airdate: Mar 25, 1969

Rock-Bye, Bye, Baby

Mundy hires a hard-drinking safecracker to help steal information from a nightclub belonging to a crime boss.

The Family

Episode: 2x23 | Airdate: Apr 1, 1969

The Family

Mundy arranges to be quarantined with a wealthy clan to learn why its patriarch sells oil behind the Iron Curtain.

38-23-36

Episode: 2x24 | Airdate: Apr 8, 1969

38-23-36

Al Mundy tries to find a vital microdot supposedly in the possession of one of a group of international beauty contest winners.

The Great Chess Gambit

Episode: 2x25 | Airdate: Apr 15, 1969

The Great Chess Gambit

The crash of a SAC bomber in Spain sends Mundy on a mission to retrieve a top-secret device that disappeared from the wreckage.

Mad In Japan

Episode: 2x26 | Airdate: Apr 22, 1969

Mad In Japan

A traitorous SIA agent obstructs Al Mundy's attempts to track down a laser gun being developed by the Chinese.

Season 3

Saturday Night in Venice

Episode: 3x01 | Airdate: Sep 25, 1969

Saturday Night in Venice

Al Mundy is poisoned by a Red agent and has little time to trade a decoding device he has stolen for the antidote.

Who'll Bid Two Million Dollars?

Episode: 3x02 | Airdate: Oct 2, 1969

Who'll Bid Two Million Dollars?

Three foreign agents trying to buy a legendary spy's plutonium confuse Mundy with their quarry.

The Beautiful People

Episode: 3x03 | Airdate: Oct 9, 1969

The Beautiful People

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

The Great Casino Caper

Episode: 3x04 | Airdate: Oct 16, 1969

The Great Casino Caper

Al Mundy and his father set out to loot the vault of a casino in Venice and sell the lira to a counterfeiter.

Flowers From Alexander

Episode: 3x05 | Airdate: Oct 23, 1969

Flowers From Alexander

Mundy's seaside vacation in Italy is rudely interrupted when enemy agents following an SIA courier assume Al is her accomplice.

The Blue, Blue Danube

Episode: 3x06 | Airdate: Oct 30, 1969

The Blue, Blue Danube

Mundy poses as a reporter to rescue an SIA chief kidnapped by a Hungarian agent.

The Three Virgins of Rome

Episode: 3x07 | Airdate: Nov 6, 1969

The Three Virgins of Rome

When Al Mundy is assigned to protect three priceless paintings, he finds that his father wants to steal them.

Payoff in the Piazza

Episode: 3x08 | Airdate: Nov 13, 1969

Payoff in the Piazza

The larcenous plans of Mundy's pal Charlie Brown hamper his efforts to find a widowed queen.

The King of Thieves

Episode: 3x09 | Airdate: Nov 20, 1969

The King of Thieves

An embarrassing kidnap case -- the victim is the daughter of a U.S. senatorial candidate whose press secretary is smearing the S.I.A. 

A Friend in Deed

Episode: 3x10 | Airdate: Nov 27, 1969

A Friend in Deed

A good friend of Al Mundy names him as the thief who stole a file containing the names of the dreaded Italian Brotherhood.

The Second Time Around

Episode: 3x11 | Airdate: Dec 4, 1969

The Second Time Around

Al Mundy and his father thwart communist execution attempts and set out to prevent a financial disaster.

To Lure a Man

Episode: 3x13 | Airdate: Dec 18, 1969

To Lure a Man

Mundy struggles to outwit an enemy intelligence chief who is forcing him to lead the S.I.A.'s top man into a trap. 

The Scorpio Drop

Episode: 3x14 | Airdate: Dec 25, 1969

The Scorpio Drop

Mundy poses as an astrologer to infiltrate an occult society; his assumed name makes him an assassination target.

Nice Girls Marry Stockbrokers

Episode: 3x15 | Airdate: Jan 15, 1970

Nice Girls Marry Stockbrokers

A fashion photographer insists on taking the place of her deceased roommate to retrieve an S.I.A. code book in Paris.

The Steal-Driving Man

Episode: 3x16 | Airdate: Jan 19, 1970

The Steal-Driving Man

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. 

Touch of Magic

Episode: 3x17 | Airdate: Jan 26, 1970

Touch of Magic

Mundy helps an arthritic ex-thief by inventing a caper, but the escapade interferes with the S.I.A.

Fortune City

Episode: 3x18 | Airdate: Feb 2, 1970

Fortune City

A dazed Mundy awakens after a car accident in a ghost town, minus his beautiful companion.

Situation Red

Episode: 3x19 | Airdate: Feb 9, 1970

Situation Red

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.

The Suzie Simone Caper

Episode: 3x21 | Airdate: Mar 2, 1970

The Suzie Simone Caper

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.

An Evening With Alister Mundy

Episode: 3x22 | Airdate: Mar 9, 1970

An Evening With Alister Mundy

Alister and Al pose as clowns to get close to a king threatened by a scheming General.

Beyond a Treasonable Doubt

Episode: 3x23 | Airdate: Mar 16, 1970

Beyond a Treasonable Doubt

Accusations of treason plunge Mundy into a nightmarish ordeal where friends and enemies become indistinguishable.

Project "X"

Episode: 3x24 | Airdate: Mar 23, 1970

Project "X"

Mundy and a stewardess seek a device killing scientists aboard a plane headed for Melbourne.

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