He would have made an excellent American James Bond in the style of Roger Moore. Robert Wagner has a laid back style to him that works in a "light" show like It Takes a Thief. Highlights for me included the scenes on the airplane (very funny) and the airport chase. I enjoyed the breezy feel I got from Magnificent Thief (or is it A Thief is a Thief). For the most part, the writing is clever and the show has a nice pace to it. I watched Episode 1 last night and really enjoyed it. I've seen the odd episode of It Takes a Thief over the years, but it's been so long, I couldn't tell you which ones I've seen. Can Mundy succeed where others have failed (and been killed)? To stay out of jail, he agrees to put his special talents to use for the government. He has master thief Alexander Mundy paroled from prison for the job.
Thinking outside the box, Bain decides that the best way to steal the contents of the briefcase might be to employ the services of a real thief. He's convinced that a foreign power is behind the assassinations and the key lies in a special, heavily guarded briefcase. Noah Bain, a big dog at the spy agency known as SIA, is tired of seeing his field agents killed one by one. The original 99 minute-long theatrical provides viewers with three scenes that explain the transition to the Expo missing in the shorter version. This can be seen by the evidence of the opening credits where such cast members as Kurt Kasner and Joe Louis are absent in the missing 24 minutes and the plot makes no sense from the abrupt jump after fight scene in the stewardess' apartment in Washington, DC, to the sudden shift without explanation to the Montreal Sports Expo concluding the episode. The initial episode was an awkwardly edited 75 minute-long cut of the theatrical release.
#IT TAKES A THIEF 1968 SERIES#
Wagner further states that while filming another project in South America he heard that on the basis of the theatrical release, the series had been picked up as a mid-season replacement. Wagner says the film was released in theaters in Europe under the title "Magnificent Thief". Wasserman fulfilled his promised by producing an entirely new rewritten 99minute-long film stocked with actors under Universal option. Wagner goes on to say in the interview that he pilot was rejected by the networks and scrapped. Wasserman promised him if that Wagner made a pilot and it didn't sell to a network, Universal would produce a theatrical release. Wagner demurred, saying that he wasn't sure he was interested in doing TV. According to the 2011-release of the complete 18-disc complete series, the bonus-material DVD provides "The King of Thieves: An Interview with Robert Wagner", starting at the 1:00 minute mark and running until the 3:00 minute mark, Wagner states that he was called into the office of Universal Studios head Lou Wasserman in 1967 and offered the role of Alexander Mundy.
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