It Takes a Thief can be an American actionadventure tv show that aired for 2 5 seasons between January 9, 1968 on ABC, and March 2-4, 1970. It starred veteran movie actor Robert Wagner in his own tv debut since sophisticated thief Alexander Mundy, that works to get the U.S. government in return for his release from prison. For the Majority of the series, Malachi Throne and Mundy's boss, Noah Bain played with. It had been one of the very last of this 1960s spy tv although Mission. It requires a Thief was motivated by, though perhaps not based on , the 1955 Cary Grant film To Catch a Thief, directed by Alfred Hitchcock. Both of their titles stem from the English proverb"It requires a thief to catch a thief."