It requires a Thief can be March 2-4, 1970, and a American tv show that aired for two 5 seasons between January 9, 1968 on ABC. It surfaced veteran film actor Robert Wagner in his own tv debut since complicated burglar Alexander Mundy, that works for the U.S. government in return for his release from prison. For the Majority of the series, Malachi Throne and the boss of Mundy, Noah Bain played.It was among the very last of this 1960s spy tv although Mission: Impossible continued for several decades. It Takes A Thief was inspired by, even though not predicated on the 1955 Cary Grant film To Catch a Thief. Both of the names stem out of the English proverb"It requires a thief to catch a burglar."