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1 :01x01 - A Thief is a Thief (a.k.a. Magnificent Thief)
Writer: Leslie Stevens, Roland Kibbee
Director: Leslie Stevens
Guest star: Michael Forest (Courier 031), Senta Berger (Claire Vickers), Susan Saint James (Stewardess), Wally Cox (Man in Line), John Saxon (Dead Man), Leslie Nielsen (S.I.A. Security Man)
US government is advised to hire a real thief, Alexander Mundy, in order to nab the crooks who have killed several agents and eluded law for years.
4 :01x04 - A Very Warm Reception
Writer: Leslie Stevens
Director: Don Weis
Guest star: Simon Oakland (Colonel Savrille)
9 :01x09 - When Good Friends Get Together
Writer: Dean Hargrove
Director: Lee H. Katzin
Guest star: Robert Ito (Chief Aide), Keye Luke (Dubek)
10 :01x10 - Birds of a Feather
Writer: Glen A. Larson
Director: Don Weis
Guest star: Tania Elg (Anya Selina)
13 :01x13 - The Radomir Miniature
Writer: Stephen Kandel
Director: Michael Caffey
Guest star: Eve Plumb (Maritsa), Richard Van Vleet (Janos)
15 :01x15 - A Matter of Royal Larceny
Writer: Tony Barrett
Director: Michael Caffey
Guest star: Ben Murphy (King Pineau)
16 :01x16 - The Lay of the Land
Writer: Richard Collins, Peter Allan Fields, Al Friedman, Winston Miller
Director: Don Weis
Guest star: Larry D. Mann (Dedier)
18 :02x02 - A Sour Note
Director: Don Weis
Guest star: Suzanne Pleshette (Angela), Harvey Lembeck (Gino), Gino Conforti (Luigi Dimontelli), Bruce Gordon (Tonio Boselli), Martin Kosleck (Schroeder), John Sebastian (Kratz), Vince Williams (Hogan), Henry Dar Boggia (Butler), Tony Dante (1st Guard)
In Italy, Al goes undercover with an egotistical opera singer to break into an impenetrable safe and get the goods on a former Nazi war criminal.
19 :02x03 - The Bill is in Committee
Writer: Elroy Schwartz
Director: Don Weis
Guest star: Roger C. Carmel (Premier Paz), John van Dreelen (Valdone), Yvonne Craig (Roxanne), Jocelyn Lane (Michelle), Tom Basham (Hagney), Donald Lawton (Butler), Alex Rodine (Guard), Gordon Oliver (Congressman Marks)
Al goes undercover as a magician in a small foreign country to find the proof that Premier Paz is bribing a U.S. Congressman for foreign aid, but his cover is soon blown.
20 :02x04 - The Thingamabob Heist
Writer: Burt Styler
Director: Jack Arnold
Guest star: Ricardo Montalban (Nick Grobbo), Sharon Acker (Dr. Edwina Hopkins), Bill Russell (The Butler (George (as William "Bill" Russell))), Kay Peters (The Countess), Noah Keen (Professor Corcoran), James Gavin (Sentry), Don Ross (S.I.A. Agent), Martin Kosleck (2nd Agent), Gene Dynarski (1st Agent), Sharon Harvey (Lady Cook), Ann Morell (Lady Barber), Walter Woolf King (Curator), Tiger Joe Marsh (Man B), Ben Frank (Chauffeur), Milt Kogan (Man A)
To retrieve an experimental fuel sample, Al stages a fake diamond robbery to wrangle an invitation to the estate of Nick Grobbo, the man who plans to sell the stolen sample to the highest bidder.
21 :02x05 - Get Me to the Revolution on Time
Writer: Glen A. Larson, Paul Tuckahoe
Director: Leonard Horn
Guest star: Ivan Dixon (General Kristoff), Morgan Woodward (Ivor Phillips), Ena Hartman (Jasmin), Wende Wagner (Linda (Linda Phillips)), Robert F. Simon (Vogel), Rodolfo Hoyos, Jr. (Machado), Ivan Triesault (Kruger), Émile Genest (Boileau), Peter Marland-Jones (Cormack Shannon), Darlene Enlow (1st Lady), Keith Walker (1st Man), Victor Bozeman (Victor Bozeman), Paul Factor (1st Officer)
Al poses as a mixologist to get close to Kristoff, a Communist guerrilla who plans to overthrow the government of Santa Thomas. An international cartel is secretly backing Kristoff, and the document that incriminates them is locked in a safe sealed with six electronic keys that are hidden by the six cartel members at the estate where Al will be "performing."
22 :02x06 - The Packager
Writer: Leonard Stadd
Director: Leonard Horn
Guest star: Alex Dreier (Ambrose "Amby" Billington), Lee Meredith (Helena Sedley), William Smithers (Mr. Aiken (William Aiken)), John McCann (Edmund), Lane Bradford (Anderson), Jim Malinda (Wilke), James McEachin (Gate Guard), Margaret Field (Miss Hibler), Fabian Dean (Foreman), Lew Brown (Vault Guard), Robert Reese (Senator), Foster Brooks (Judge)
A millionaire blackmails Al into stealing fifty atomic fuel capsules for him. If Al fails, the villain will expose the thief's relationship with the SIA, forcing the agency to send him back to jail.
23 :02x07 - Hans Across the Border (1)
Writer: Glen A. Larson
Director: Don Weis
Guest star: Joseph Cotten (Colonel Heinrich), Pamela Austin (Corey Levin), Mario Alcalde (Hardtman), Frank DeKova (General Tashkov (General Georgei Tashkov (as Frank de Kova))), Georg Stanford Brown (Bates), John Hoyt (Mundt), Willi Koopman (Heide (Heide Schiller)), Than Wyenn (Hans Schiller), James Flavin (General Levin), Erik Holland (Schneider), Dennis McCarthy (2nd U.S. Doctor), Robert Boon (German Doctor)
Colonel Heinrich sets up a Western double-agent, Schiller, and Al must get himself arrested by Heinrich, break out of an East German security headquarters, and get to Schiller's safe to recover important documents... with no one the wiser.
24 :02x08 - Hans Across the Border (2)
Writer: Glen A. Larson
Director: Don Weis
Guest star: Joseph Cotten (Colonel Heinrich), Pamela Austin (Corey Levin), Frank DeKova (General Tashkov (General Georgei Tashkov (as Frank de Kova))), Mario Alcalde (Hardtman), Georg Stanford Brown (Bates), John Hoyt (Mundt), Willi Koopman (Heide (Heide Schiller)), Than Wyenn (Hans Schiller), James Flavin (General Levin), Erik Holland (Schneider), Dennis McCarthy (2nd U.S. Doctor), Robert Boon (German Doctor)
Having put the documents in Colonel Heinrich's safe, Al figures that he's clear... until Noah says that now Al has to steal them out of the safe.
25 :02x09 - A Case of Red Turnips
Writer: Mort Zarcoff
Director: Don Weis
Guest star: Noel Harrison (Lester V. Griffin), Amy Thomson (Iris Vander), Sandor Szabo (Malchek), Miko Mayama (Joy Sung), Nate Esformes (Paco), Richard Loo (Clown), Foster Brooks (Drunk), Peggy Rea (Woman), Richard Poston (Editor)
Al has to crash a foreign film festival to steal the only copy of a premiere movie, The Red Turnips. The director has inadvertently captured a major SIA operation on film in the background, and Al has to get the film before enemy agents obtain it and try to identify the compromised agents.
26 :02x10 - The Galloping Skin Game
Director: Michael Caffey
Guest star: Ricardo Montalban (Nick Grobbo), Martine Beswick (Christine Leland), Michael Conrad (Anton), James McEachin (Earl Danton), Richard Kiel (Willy (Willy Trion)), Don Diamond (Messenger), Hannie Landman (Clarisse), Michael Masters (Sandone (as Mike Masters)), Bob Golden (Bonelli), Joseph La Cava (Croupier), Katherine Berger (Baroness)
Noah sends Al to Rome to recover a stolen treaty from Nick Grobbo, a fence that Al has dealt with before. To cover the theft, set to take place at a doctor convention, Al steals a rare diamond to get into Nick's good graces.
27 :02x11 - Glass Riddle
Writer: B. W. Sandefur
Director: George Tyne
Guest star: Marion Marshall (Myrna Latham), Jason Evers (Aubrey Latham), Linda Lawson (Miss Forbes), Roy Poole (Roper), Paul Langton (Preston Washburne), Allen Emerson (Morris), George Robotham (Webster)
Noah sends Alexander in to stop a cartel's purchase of a munitions company. If they make the purchase, they'll be able to control arms deals worldwide. To steal the stock proxies, Al must get into a sealed vault exposed to the public at all times.
28 :02x12 - To Catch a Roaring Lion
Writer: Robert Malcolm Young
Director: Marc Daniels
Guest star: Brock Peters (Chak), Denise Nicholas (Toosdhi), Khigh Dhiegh (Fu Cheng), George Takei (Wo), Davis Roberts (Bardimhu), Ken Renard (Walamba), Charles Lampkin (Prof. Kilghi), Isaac Fields (Gara (as Izack Fields)), Jai Rich (Desk Clerk), Ji Tu Cumbuka (Roosevelt), Larry Duran (Lee)
Al's old friend Chak, the chief of intelligence of an emerging African country, San Zambotiko, asks the thief to recover stolen tribal scrolls. If the aging president discovers the theft, the shock will kill him, paving the way for a takeover by Red Chinese agents who engineered the theft.
29 :02x13 - Guess Who's Coming to Rio?
Writer: Glen A. Larson
Director: Bruce Kessler
Guest star: Teri Garr (Maggie Philbin)
30 :02x14 - The Artist is for Framing
Writer: Glen A. Larson, Martin Roth
Director: Don Weis
Guest star: Paul Henreid (Inspector Berman), Gia Scala (Angel), Dennis Patrick (State's Attorney), Patrick Horgan (Vic Torres), Alfred Dennis (Herman Grosse), Ted Roter (Sykes), Nelson Olmsted (Store Manager), Bob Golden (Officer)
Al is arrested by a retiring inspector, who has connected Al to four jewelry thefts. The thief soon realizes that the inspector set him up, and plays a dangerous double-game to get him to expose himself.
31 :02x15 - The Naked Billionaire
Writer: Stephen Kandel
Director: Norman Foster
Guest star: Peter Mark Richman (Carl Kovacs (as Mark Richman)), Sally Kellerman (Nina Gray), Richard Carlson (Daniel Ryder), Edward Ashley (Parnell Grady), Peter Hobbs (Mr. Cook), Irwin Charone (Maintenance Man), William Bakewell (Hotel Clerk), Walt Davis (Guard (as Walter Davis))
To identify Daniel Ryder, a reclusive billionaire who they think may have been replaced by an impostor, Al has to identify him by getting a photograph of an identifying scar on his body.
32 :02x16 - A Matter of Grey Matter (1)
Director: Jack Arnold
Guest star: Barry Williams (Herbie DuBois), Michael Forest (Cheech), Edward Everett Horton (Lord Pelham-Gifford)
33 :02x17 - A Matter of Grey Matter (2)
Director: Jack Arnold
Guest star: Michael Forest (Cheech), Barry Williams (Herbie DuBois)
34 :02x18 - Catspaw
Director: Jerry Hopper
Guest star: Lloyd Bochner (Clayton Hewitt), Fernando Lamas (Pepe (Pepe Rouchet)), Sharon Acker (Dr. Edwina Hopkins), Ann Prentiss (Desk Clerk), Tom Basham (Anton (Anton Moreau)), Allen Emerson (Mitchell), Danny Klega (Aide), Gordon Ayres (1st Reporter), Tom Curtis (2nd Reporter), Duke Cigrang (Guard)
When Al is injured during a mission, he's forced to bring in a replacement, the second-best thief in the world, Pepe Rouchet. Al guides Pepe in to steal the Crown Jewels of La Monica, taken by an insider and hidden at a heavily-guarded estate. However, Pepe goes in on his own, unaware of a major trap, and Al has to lend a hand.
37 :02x21 - The Baranoff Timetable
Writer: Mort Zarcoff, Carey Wilber
Director: Michael O'Herlihy
Guest star: Larry D. Mann (Achille Morales), Jessica Walter (Laurie Brooks)
38 :02x22 - Rock-Bye, Bye, Baby
Writer: Mort Zarcoff
Director: Seymour Robbie
Guest star: Gregory Sierra (Fletcher)
39 :02x23 - The Family
Writer: David P. Harmon, K.C. Alison
Director: Joseph Sargent
Guest star: Gordon Pinsent (Gerald Lockridge), Sidney Clute (Dr. Byron), Carla Borelli (Laura Cannon)
40 :02x24 - 38-23-36
The ladies, participating in a beauty pageant, pay a visit to the Pentagon. During the tour, a top secret document is stolen. An agent, who has been tagging the beauty queens, is found dying and gasping a cypher "38-23-36. Mundy investigates the ladies.
42 :02x26 - Mad In Japan
Writer: Mort Zarcoff
Director: George Tyne
Guest star: Sharon Acker (Dr. Edwina Hopkins)
43 :03x01 - Saturday Night in Venice
Writer: Stephen Kandel
Director: Jack Arnold
Guest star: Jack Betts (Garrison)
44 :03x02 - Who'll Bid Two Million Dollars?
46 :03x04 - The Great Casino Caper
Writer: Glen A. Larson
Director: Jack Arnold
Guest star: Fred Astaire (Allister Mundy)
48 :03x06 - The Blue, Blue Danube
Writer: Oscar Brodney
Director: Bruce Kessler
Guest star: Bill Cort (Whitman)
50 :03x08 - Payoff in the Piazza
Writer: Oscar Brodney
Director: Gerd Oswald
Guest star: Carla Borelli (Queen Consort)
51 :03x09 - The King of Thieves
Alexander Mundy, desperately trying to rescue a kidnapped girl, turns for help to the king of Rome's petty crooks.
52 :03x10 - A Friend in Deed
Writer: B. W. Sandefur
Director: Bruce Kessler
Guest star: Walter Mathews (Antonio)
56 :03x14 - The Scorpio Drop
Writer: William Bast
Director: Robert Gist
Guest star: Eduard Franz (Mr. Johnson), Dennis G. Turner (Freddie Millard)
58 :03x16 - The Steal-Driving Man
60 :03x18 - Fortune City
61 :03x19 - Situation Red
Writer: Glen A. Larson
Director: Joseph Sargent
Guest star: William Conrad (the Countdown)
63 :03x21 - The Suzie Simone Caper
Writer: Oscar Brodney, William Bast
Director: Don Taylor
Guest star: Murray Matheson (Harry Fulham), Susan Saint James (Charlene "Chuck" Brown), Jane Morgan (Suzie Simone)
64 :03x22 - An Evening With Alister Mundy
Writer: Glen A. Larson
Director: Jack Arnold
Guest star: Lynn Kellogg (Gabriella)
65 :03x23 - Beyond a Treasonable Doubt
Writer: Norman Hudis
Director: Barry Shear
Guest star: Read Morgan (Wilett)
66 :03x24 - Project "X"
Writer: Glen A. Larson
Director: Jack Arnold
Guest star: John Colicos (The Man), Wally Cox (Professor Moses), Keye Luke (Dr. Tanu)
Al Mundy matches wits with a mad scientist aboard a plane to a scientific meeting in Melbourne.