"The last line of dialogue in the last episode of the series is spoken directly to the camera.
Wally Powers (facing & continuing to talk to the other actors, not the camera): "You know that, and I know it, and you can be very sure the government knows it."
(turning his face to the camera)
"So what are you trying to do, scare everybody?"
Al Mundy's apartment was in the Watergate complex, famed for Nixon break-in in 1972.
In the first season, Alexander Mundy was a cat burglar hired by American spy agency: The SIA. In the second season, he became a freelance operative.
Spoofed in Mad Magazine as "It Takes a Crook".
The recent success of William Wyler's "How to Steal a Million", starring Audrey Hepburn and Peter O'Toole, was the inspiration for this TV series. The title of this series is also a play on the the title of the Alfred Hitchcock film "To Catch a Thief", starring Cary Grant and Grace Kelly.
There were many influences, such as Cary Grant in To Catch a Thief. But the most direct influence for It Takes A Thief was probably The Pink Panther where Robert Wagner was the aspiring nephew of the infamous cat burglar The Pink Panther, played by David Niven.
There were many influences, such as Cary Grant in To Catch a Thief. But the most direct influence for It Takes A Thief was probably The Pink Panther where Robert Wagner was the aspiring nephew of the infamous cat burglar The Pink Panther, played by David Niven.