When the show opens, Alexander Mundy (Robert Wagner) is in prison after finally being caught and is serving a very long sentence. It Takes a Thief took the lifestyle but tweaked the conceit of the show from being about a spy to instead showcase a master thief whose talents have been co-opted by the U.S. James Bond played a role in bringing in the concept of a suave, debonair agent and his jetset lifestyle and many television shows followed his example. Shows like I Spy changed the way people viewed television with it’s emphasis on location shooting around the world and the new exciting spy genre. The sixties were a good time for television as shows were getting more ambitious and were set on a world stage instead of a dusty western town that had been seen countless times. He also works closely with SIA department head, Noah Bain (‘70s TV mainstay, Malachi Throne), his boss, aide, friend and watchdog. Technically under house arrest, Mundy then travels the world over, performing daring acts of thievery in the name of Uncle Sam. But thievery skills are an asset in the world of espionage, so Mundy is pardoned when he agrees to use his wily ways to help steal for the SIA, an American espionage agency. Stealing to finance his life as a playboy and sophisticate, Alexander Mundy (Robert Wagner) was the world’s greatest cat burglar…until the day he got caught. Fusing the heist and espionage genres, It Takes a Thief was an action-adventure series that was inspired by Hitchcock’s 1955 Cary Grant film, To Catch a Thief, and was among the last of the 1960s spy television genre.
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