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
To Catch a Killer 2010, eighteen years after the film's first broadcast in the US, a profile of Dennehey in the "Times of North West Indiana" noted, "whenever Dennehy comes back to Chicago, which is often... he's inevitably asked about his made-for-television 1992 movie role in "To Catch a Killer."" Dennehey received a letter from Gacy following the film's US broadcast, in which Gacy admonished him for taking part in a "fraud" film and maintaining his claim that "lots of people had access to that crawl space." To Catch a Killer To Catch a Killer is a two-part television film from 1992, directed by