Alexander Mundy was a cat burglar and professional thief who had style, class and talent. He made only one mistake—getting caught. While serving a sentence in San Jobel Prison, he was contacted by representatives of the US Government spy agency, SIA. They offered to get him out if he would put his talents to work stealing for the government. Accepting the offer, he worked closely with an SIA department head, Noah Bain, who was his boss, aide, associate, friend and watchdog. During the second season he was now a free agent and his new SIA contact was Wallie Powers. Alexander's dad Alister became a semi-regular who was also a retired thief, from whom he had learned all his skills, and who occasionally teamed with his son on special jobs.
The newest recruit, a paroled master thief, is sent by the S.I.A. to steal a briefcase with unknown documents from a Middle Eastern courier. The contents may help to stop an information leak that is causing their top agents to be killed.
The SIA orders Mundy to infiltrate a gang planning to steal a small, vulnerable nation's crown jewels.
Unexpected problems plague Mundy's mission to smuggle a defecting British scientist out of an Iron Curtain nation.
Mundy uses various disguises to enter a foreign embassy and assess obstacles to stealing a list of agents.
Mundy places a bugged Da Vinci forgery in a dictator's palace.
Mundy must steal a Swiss bank-account passbook to prevent a Middle East tyrant from financing a takeover of a neighboring state.
Mundy has a thief friend paroled so she can help him steal a sable coat that could destroy a trade treaty.
An island abounding with girls and champagne is Mundy's hunting ground for a microdot.
Mundy poses as a government official to foil a prince's plan to turn his royal nephew against the United States.
Al Mundy is assigned to obtain top-secret microfilm which may be in the gold tooth of an imprisoned SIA agent.
Al Mundy is assigned to recover NATO defense plans from a woman who is offering them for sale to the wrong people.
Mundy is briefed to attempt to steal a new generation of optical lens from a Soviet science institute. At the last moment he is injured and Noah has to step into his shoes, with Mundys coaching.
Mundy travels to Bulgaria to rescue the child of a scientist who defected.
After an agent is killed during a theft attempt, Mundy must finish the man's mission -- as soon as he knows what to steal.
Mundy returns a stolen jeweled globe in time for a coronation but learns his act could result in murder.
Noah sends Al to break into a duchess's villa, not to steal her jewels, but the manuscript of her memoirs.
Al Mundy is assigned to steal the dead body of the son of a Caribbean dictator and return it after an autopsy has been performed.
A temperamental opera singer helps Mundy steal a blackmailer's documents which could expose a fugitive Nazi.
As a magician, Mundy enters a Latin American dictator's palace for negatives used in a blackmail plot.
Al Mundy is poisoned by a Red agent and has little time to trade a decoding device he has stolen for the antidote.
Three foreign agents trying to buy a legendary spy's plutonium confuse Mundy with their quarry.
An enemy agent impersonates the captured SIA chief to trick Mundy into locating a defecting Soviet.
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Al Mundy is assigned to steal a stolen sample of a revolutionary jet fuel from an international fence.
Mundy poses as a hotel bartender in a plan to carry out his next theft, a contract between a major cartel and a revolutionary.
Mundy has evidence on a wealthy traitor, but the culprit threatens to expose Mundy's SIA connection.
Mundy gets himself arrested in East Germany as a spy so he can be traded for a double agent.
Papers planted by Mundy lead Heinrich to accuse a Soviet general of spying for the United States.
To protect identities of SIA agents, Mundy must steal the only print of an avant-garde film.
A successful mission to get a stolen treaty may cost the life of Mundy's friend.
Mundy is assigned to rob a bank safe enclosed in glass in full view of a busy city street.
An African government may collapse if Mundy cannot recover stolen relics.
In Rio de Janeiro, Mundy is nearly bombed, threatened, kidnapped and finally arrested for murder.
Fingerprints and other evidence leading to Al's arrest for jewel thefts convince even Noah.
The government wants a reclusive tycoon to build an anti-missile complex -- as soon as Mundy discovers whether the man is alive.
Mundy must steal a missile-fuel formula from a recluse before it falls into enemy hands.
Mundy begins to think Dodie's precocious young brother invented the stolen formula.
Injured Mundy enlists a former protege to recover crown jewels from a castle.
The SIA orders Mundy to give a Washington, D.C., party in hopes he can nab the pickpocket who recently invaded a similar event.
Learning he is the target of a professional assassin, Mundy hides in Noah's apartment.
A jet-setter helps Mundy obtain a document detailing a Communist takeover of South America.
Mundy hires a hard-drinking safecracker to help steal information from a nightclub belonging to a crime boss.
Mundy arranges to be quarantined with a wealthy clan to learn why its patriarch sells oil behind the Iron Curtain.
Al Mundy tries to find a vital microdot supposedly in the possession of one of a group of international beauty contest winners.
The crash of a SAC bomber in Spain sends Mundy on a mission to retrieve a top-secret device that disappeared from the wreckage.
A traitorous SIA agent obstructs Al Mundy's attempts to track down a laser gun being developed by the Chinese.
Al Mundy and his father set out to loot the vault of a casino in Venice and sell the lira to a counterfeiter.
Mundy's seaside vacation in Italy is rudely interrupted when enemy agents following an SIA courier assume Al is her accomplice.
Mundy poses as a reporter to rescue an SIA chief kidnapped by a Hungarian agent.
When Al Mundy is assigned to protect three priceless paintings, he finds that his father wants to steal them.
The larcenous plans of Mundy's pal Charlie Brown hamper his efforts to find a widowed queen.
An embarrassing kidnap case -- the victim is the daughter of a U.S. senatorial candidate whose press secretary is smearing the S.I.A.
A good friend of Al Mundy names him as the thief who stole a file containing the names of the dreaded Italian Brotherhood.
Al Mundy and his father thwart communist execution attempts and set out to prevent a financial disaster.
A rusty British operative helps Mundy steal a microdot from an East Berlin museum.
Mundy struggles to outwit an enemy intelligence chief who is forcing him to lead the S.I.A.'s top man into a trap.
Mundy poses as an astrologer to infiltrate an occult society; his assumed name makes him an assassination target.
A fashion photographer insists on taking the place of her deceased roommate to retrieve an S.I.A. code book in Paris.
Wally Powers induces Al Mundy to drive in a Formula I car race in Cordona where the SIA suspects the Russians are building Cuba-type missile bases and where vice-president Paulo Monteggo plans to topple the government. Al, using the cover name of Paul Stratford, is confronted by Corie Laughton of the credentials committee, but convinces her to go along with his fanciful excuse for anonymity.
Mundy helps an arthritic ex-thief by inventing a caper, but the escapade interferes with the S.I.A.
A dazed Mundy awakens after a car accident in a ghost town, minus his beautiful companion.
An Air Force Major has a paranoid reaction to a prescription drug and takes over the Command Center during a bomber drill. Al is called in to extract him from the locked President's bunker before he starts World War III.
Musicians become involved in a political plot.
A Nazi diary reveals that a painting by Matisse has a hidden list of Nazi war criminals. Wally calls Al to steal the painting, which is protected by a sophisticated security system.
Alister and Al pose as clowns to get close to a king threatened by a scheming General.
Accusations of treason plunge Mundy into a nightmarish ordeal where friends and enemies become indistinguishable.
Mundy and a stewardess seek a device killing scientists aboard a plane headed for Melbourne.