It Takes a Thief (1968 TV series) motion picture "To Catch a Thief", directed by Alfred Hitchcock; both of their titles stem from the English proverb "Set a thief to catch a thief". (Or as is more widely used, "It takes a thief to catch a thief".) "It Takes a Thief," which was created by television writer Roland Kibbee, featured the adventures of cat burglar, pickpocket, and thief Alexander Mundy, who steals to finance his life as a polished playboy and sophisticate. He is in prison when the U.S. government's SIA (the fictional Secret Intelligence Agency) proposes a deal to Mundy: steal for the government in exchange
A Trap to Catch a Cracksman his rooms, in order to burgle them. It was adapted as an episode in the 1977 Raffles (TV series). BBC Radio adapted the story into the tenth episode of its Raffles radio drama, "A Trap to Catch a Cracksman", which first aired on 29 June 1988. The drama features Jeremy Clyde as Raffles and Michael Cochrane as Bunny. The episode largely follows the plot of the original story, with minor changes: A Trap to Catch a Cracksman "A Trap to Catch a Cracksman" is a short story by E. W. Hornung, and features the gentleman thief A. J. Raffles, and