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It Takes a Thief Season 2 Episodes
Season 2 Episode Guide
26 Episodes 1968 - 1969
Episode 1
One Night on Soledade
Tue, Sep 24, 196851 mins
Pierre Dushon, son of the Soledade dictator, has been poisoned. The SIA fears the dictator will wrongly blame neighboring Casturo, friendly to the US. Al must steal the body, hidden by the superstitious people in the catacombs.
Episode 2
A Sour Note
Tue, Oct 1, 196851 mins
The SIA wants proof Nazi war criminal Karl Muller has a new identity. It is in the safe of Luigi Dimontelli, son of a Fascist Italy bureaucrat. Luigi loves opera. The SIA persuades a diva to perform for him. Al poses as her manager.
Episode 3
The Bill Is in Committee
Tue, Oct 8, 196851 mins
Al impersonates a magician and, accompanied by the magician's assistant, goes to a European principality to steal the negatives of compromising photos of a US Congressman, who is being blackmailed into supporting the country.
Episode 4
The Thingamabob Heist
Tue, Oct 15, 196851 mins
Al must steal a sample of a revolutionary new type of jet fuel, the only trouble is he doesn't know what to look for.
Episode 5
Get Me to the Revolution on Time
Tue, Oct 22, 196851 mins
Al must pose as a cocktail mixologist to gain access to a safe which can only be opened with multiple electronic keys, each emitting a different tonal pitch.
Episode 6
The Packager
Tue, Oct 29, 196851 mins
A millionaire blackmails Al into doing a job by threatening to expose his involvement with SIA.
Episode 7
Hans Across the Border: Part 1
Tue, Nov 12, 196851 mins
Al's simple task this time involves the recovery of a set of papers from a wall safe but, the safe is in a house located somewhere behind the Berlin Wall. Breaking in is the first trick, breaking back out again is the real challenge.
Episode 8
Hans Across the Border: Part 2
Tue, Nov 19, 196851 mins
In Part 2 of this Cold War plot, Al reluctantly returns to the home of the East German general from whom he has stolen a set of papers, in order to plant disinformation about another character, in the safe.
Episode 9
A Case of Red Turnips
Tue, Nov 26, 196851 mins
Mundy is ordered to attend a foreign film festival and steal the only copy of an avant-garde motion picture. The movie's director accidentally filmed eleven American spies making a drop at a location behind the Iron Curtain and if the film is premiered the agents will all soon be captured or dead.
Episode 10
The Galloping Skin Game
Tue, Dec 3, 196851 mins
Al must steal a document hidden in a scientific paper at a conference in Rome. The SIA doesn't know which of the 100 papers contains the document. Al deduces that the paper will be handled by a high-value fence, Grobo, and schemes to get on his good side by stealing the Kimberly Diamond and having Grobo fence it for him. Al comes up with a unique solution to obtain the key paper before it's delivered to Grobo, while also keeping the diamond (that the SIA returns).
Episode 11
Glass Riddle
Tue, Dec 17, 196851 mins
Al makes a withdrawal from a safety deposit box (not his).
Episode 12
To Catch a Roaring Lion
Tue, Dec 31, 196851 mins
Al returns a stolen item, rather than stealing it.
Episode 13
Guess Who's Coming to Rio
Tue, Jan 7, 196951 mins
Al takes a vacation. Or at least, tries to take one.
Episode 14
The Artist Is for Framing
Tue, Jan 21, 196951 mins
Al is being expertly framed for several jewelry heist. But by who?
Episode 15
The Naked Billionaire
Tue, Jan 28, 196960 mins
Daniel Ryder's electronics firm has won a defense contract, but the SIA suspects the reclusive billionaire is being impersonated. Al's old flame Nina Gray is involved with the firm. Can Al trust her help and will she be in danger?
Episode 16
A Matter of Grey Matter: Part 1
Tue, Feb 4, 196951 mins
Dodie Dubois is a terrible actress with a reclusive rich elderly boyfriend financing her movie career. He is also developing missile technology with countries hostile to the US. Al poses as a distribution agent to find and stop Wolfgang.
Episode 17
A Matter of Grey Matter: Part 2
Tue, Feb 11, 196951 mins
Dodie's genius little brother Herbie is pressured by Wolfgang to produce from memory a math formula for new rocket fuel. Will Al find Herbie and Wolfgang in time ?
Episode 18
Catspaw
Tue, Feb 18, 196951 mins
The brother of the ruler of La Monica has stolen the crown jewels. They are on Clayton Hewitt's moat surrounded estate. The SIA wants to recover them, but Al gets injured. He and Noah hoodwink Al's protégé into doing the heist for them.
Episode 19
Boom at the Top
Tue, Feb 25, 196951 mins
The SIA orders Mundy to give a Washington, D.C., party in hopes he can nab the pickpocket who recently invaded a similar event in order to find a microdot. Complications arise when an acquaintance arrives with a bomb strapped to him in hopes that Mundy can disarm it.
Episode 20
The Funeral Is on Mundy
Tue, Mar 11, 196951 mins
While on a mission to discredit a crack thief of an adversarial spy group, Mundy discovers the thief murdered during assignment and learns that he is an additional target of the other thief's mysterious assassin.
Episode 21
The Baranoff Timetable
Tue, Mar 18, 196951 mins
Costa d'Oro secretary Ortega plans a Communist coup in the region and commits it to a paper the SIA wants. Al arouses the suspicions of El Presidente's loyal police, and contends with the SIA's deceitful contact, palace guest Laurie Brooks.
Episode 22
Rock-Bye, Bye, Baby
Tue, Mar 25, 196951 mins
The SIA wants a notebook in the old 1920's era safe of Domino Club owner Manny Grayson. Al wants old San Jobel pal Rocky to help. Noah alludes to Frankenstein's Monster and warns Al of trouble if Rocky gets involved.
Episode 23
The Family
Tue, Apr 1, 196951 mins
Al gets quarantined in the highly secure household of a reclusive elderly oil magnate, to find out who is behind his oil sales to Iron Curtain countries.
Episode 24
38-23-36
Tue, Apr 8, 196951 mins
Al poses as a fashion photographer at an international beauty pageant. He knows only the measurements of the girl who is a dangerous enemy spy, and what a set of figures.
Episode 25
The Great Chess Gambit
Tue, Apr 15, 196951 mins
A SAC bomber with three nuclear weapons aboard crashes. The bombs are recovered but the 3311 "Black Box", a failsafe device that receives the plane's "Go Order" direct from the President, is missing and being held for ransom. Al Mundy must outbid the Russians and retrieve the device.
Episode 26
Mad in Japan
Tue, Apr 22, 196951 mins
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 the prototype for a portable, hand-held laser gun.