![]() None of Giddy’s mooks looked as good as Wagner though, who spent half his time tiptoeing through mansions in the dead of night….and half the time romancing the ladies. Gordon Liddy and his band of nitwits did when called upon for very similar duties for their President a couple of years later. Apparently he’s the only guy in the world who knows how to crack a safe! And that may well have been true - look at the botch-job J. Sprung from jail by the federal government, Wagner’s character is now made to work for Uncle Sam as a spy. The premise of the tv show explored that adage fully. Both titles are taken from the old adage “It takes a thief to catch a thief”. ![]() If that part sounds familiar, it’s because it’s a sort of twist on Hitchcock’s To Catch a Thief. In It Takes a Thief, Wagner plays a swinging playboy who formerly financed his rich lifestyle from his income as a cat burglar. But today I want to talk about the show I knew first and know best, and indelibly associate Wagner with: It Takes a Thief (1968-1970 - Don’t get any funny ideas about my age, I only watched it in re-runs). The second, Switch (1975-1978), on which he co-starred with Eddie Albert , may well get its own post here some day. Don’t give me no crap about Hart to Hart - that was only the third of Wagner’s successful tv series. Today is the birthday of actor Robert Wagner (b.
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