It Takes A Thief - A Thief Is A Thief (Magnificent Thief) - Pilot (1968)

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Tagline for the television show: "We don't want you to spy...we want you to steal!"

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"It Takes a Thief" is an American action-adventure television series that aired on ABC for two and a half seasons between January 9, 1968 to March 24, 1970. It was among the last of the 1960s spy television genre, although Mission: Impossible continued for several years. It Takes A Thief was inspired by, though not based upon, the 1955 Cary Grant motion picture To Catch a Thief, directed by Alfred Hitchcock; both of their titles stem from the English proverb "It takes a thief to catch a thief."

It Takes a Thief featured the adventures of cat burglar, pickpocket, and thief Alexander Mundy (Robert Wagner) who steals to finance his life as a polished playboy and sophisticate. He is in prison when the U.S. government's SIA (secret intelligence agency) proposes a deal to Mundy: steal for the government in exchange for his freedom. His new SIA boss, Noah Bain (Malachi Throne), uses the catch phrase, "Hey, look, Al, I'm not asking you to spy, I'm just asking you to steal." The pilot was a 1968 television film called A Thief is a Thief or The Magnificent Thief.

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