It Takes a Thief

  • Premiered: Jan 1968
  • Episodes: 66
  • Followers: 6
  • Ended
  • ABC (US)
  • Daily at 20
  • Action Adventure Crime Drama

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Season 2
2x1
One Night on Soledade
Episode overview
Air date
Sep 24, 1968
The son of a dictator is dead, poisoning is suspected and Al is sent to steal the body, so the S.I.A. can be ready for any political situation that may arise from the truth.
2x2
A Sour Note
Episode overview
Air date
Oct 01, 1968
Al must travel to Italy, with an egotistical opera singer supplying his cover. The mission is to break into a theft-proof type safe that contains documents that may prove that a millionaire industrialist is a Nazi war criminal.
2x3
The Bill is in Committee
Episode overview
Air date
Oct 08, 1968
Al goes undercover as a magician to retrieve incriminating proof that is being used the dictator of a small country to bribe a member of Congress to keep aid coming. His cover is blown immediately and he must make a deal to protect it.
2x4
The Thingamabob Heist
Episode overview
Air date
Oct 15, 1968
Al must retrieve a new jet fuel called ""Palium"", a compound that can take any shape. Its inventor has been killed and no one knows what form the fuel has taken. The Palium is on a .. show full overview
2x5
Get Me to the Revolution on Time
Episode overview
Air date
Oct 22, 1968
An international cartel is planning to finance Kristoff, a communist guerilla, to power in Santo Thomas, a Caribbean country, in exchange for mining rights. A document that the investors .. show full overview
2x6
The Packager
Episode overview
Air date
Oct 29, 1968
Al breaks into the safe of a rich man's home but it turns out it was only a test, the man wants Al in on a ""package"" worth $10,000,000, to steal fifty atomic fuel capsules. If Al .. show full overview
2x7
Hans Across the Border (1)
Episode overview
Air date
Nov 12, 1968
Hans Schiller, the most important direct intelligence link to East Berlin, is arrested on the U.S. side of the East-West Berlin border crossing. He was set up by Heinrich, who suspects .. show full overview
2x8
Hans Across the Border (2)
Episode overview
Air date
Nov 19, 1968
Hans Schiller, the most important direct intelligence link to East Berlin, is arrested on the U.S. side of the East-West Berlin border crossing. He was set up by Heinrich, who suspects .. show full overview
2x9
A Case of Red Turnips
Episode overview
Air date
Nov 26, 1968
Noah gets Al out of bed at 1:30 in the morning to watch ""The Red Turnips"", an avant-garde film made by Lester V. Griffin. Al wants to know why, and Noah tells him that all of his .. show full overview
2x10
The Galloping Skin Game
Episode overview
Air date
Dec 03, 1968
Al flies to Rome to recover a top secret mutual defense treaty with Latavia, which was stolen. Noah wants Al to steal it back when the treaty passes through an intermediary, Nick Grobbo, .. show full overview
2x11
Glass Riddle
Episode overview
Air date
Dec 17, 1968
A cartel is putting together the finances that will enable it to buy the International Munitions Corp. With it, they will be able to decide the fate of any large or small disputes that .. show full overview
2x12
To Catch a Roaring Lion
Episode overview
Air date
Dec 31, 1968
A Chinese backed general that is trying to seize power in a small African country steals the Endaka scrolls. Al has less than 24 hours to break into a museum, and the heavily guarded .. show full overview
2x13
Guess Who's Coming to Rio?
Episode overview
Air date
Jan 07, 1969
Al takes a trip down to Rio for a short vacation with a Contessa. He winds up instead involved in determining the fate of a beautiful and recently defected Soviet citizen.
2x14
The Artist is for Framing
Episode overview
Air date
Jan 21, 1969
Al's arrested in Lucerne, and is accused of four major thefts in four major cities, while he was in each city. While in custody, Inspector Berman describes the thefts with details, that .. show full overview
2x15
The Naked Billionaire
Episode overview
Air date
Jan 28, 1969
Al is given three days to take a picture that will prove that a reclusive billionaire is still alive. Since no one really knows what he looks like, Al must take a picture of a part of .. show full overview
2x16
A Matter of Grey Matter (1)
Episode overview
Air date
Feb 04, 1969
Al flies to London to find Muenster Von Wolfgang, the richest man in the world, who is involved in some ""technical missile breakthrough"" and is in negotiations with countries not .. show full overview
2x17
A Matter of Grey Matter (2)
Episode overview
Air date
Feb 11, 1969
Al flies to London to find Muenster Von Wolfgang, the richest man in the world, who is involved in some ""technical missile breakthrough"" and is in negotiations with countries not .. show full overview
2x18
Catspaw
Episode overview
Air date
Feb 18, 1969
An injured Al must get Pepe Rouchet, the ""second best"" thief in the world, to substitute for him on an assignment. The job is to retrieve the ""Crown Jewels of La Monica"", whose .. show full overview
2x19
Boom at the Top
Episode overview
Air date
Feb 25, 1969
Al is brought in fast to recover an important microdot that was inadvertently stolen by a small time thief. A party is thrown to try to flush this thief out. Meanwhile, a government .. show full overview
2x20
The Funeral is on Mundy
Episode overview
Air date
Mar 11, 1969
In London, Noah has Al break into the U.S. Embassy and MI5, using the M.O. of ""The Electrician"", a thief who has been stealing secrets for 6 years for an unknown organization. Noah .. show full overview
2x21
The Baranoff Timetable
Episode overview
Air date
Mar 18, 1969
Al flies to Costa de Oro, to pose as the fiancé of an international jet setter who has has information on the Baranoff Timetable, a detailed plan of the communist takeover of all of .. show full overview
2x22
Rock-Bye, Bye, Baby
Episode overview
Air date
Mar 25, 1969
Al is having difficulty breaking into an old fashioned safe that contains a little black book that contains information that can help to break the syndicate. Al knows of an old safe .. show full overview
2x23
The Family
Episode overview
Air date
Apr 01, 1969
Al penetrates the house of John B. Cannon, a reclusive billionaire, who hasn't been seen in years. Al must prove to the old man that a member of his family is diverting one of their company's oil production to the Soviet Union.
2x24
38-23-36
Episode overview
Air date
Apr 08, 1969
Before competing in the Miss United Nations Beauty Pageant, in N.Y., a group of international beauties are touring the U.S. as guests of the State Department. After they had been on a .. show full overview
2x25
The Great Chess Gambit
Episode overview
Air date
Apr 15, 1969
Al is sent to recover a black box that contains nuclear detonation codes. He must match wits with a chess player who has intentions on the disposition off the box.
2x26 Season finale
Mad in Japan
Episode overview
Air date
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 .. show full overview

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