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Admittedly, the plot in When Thieves Fall In leaves a lot to be desired. To put it bluntly, it's ridiculous. Mundy is asked to steal a fur coat from a Baltic country that, for reasons known only to script writer, has Soviet missile plans sown into the lining. For some bizarre reason that I can't begin to explain, a fantastic ceremony is planned where the coat will be presented to a London fashion model (Like I said, it's ridiculous). Mundy needs a female operative and realizes his old friend Charlie Brown (Susan Saint James) is quite naturally the spitting image for the model (Wasn't she the spitting image of Princess Astride in Episode 2?). He convinces Noah to get her out of prison so they can work together.

Despite how ridiculous the whole thing is, When Thieves Fall In is still a lot of fun. You can thank Robert Wagner and Susan Saint James. They had real on-screen chemistry that was a joy to watch. I was able to go along with much of the crazy plot simply because I believed their relationship. I see that Charlie Brown appears in a couple more episodes. I look forward to both and wish she had appeared in a dozen more.

In this series, set during Cold War, the enemies, the villains were most of the time Russians and their Eastern allies or fierce dictators from Latin America. No one else. In this episode, our lead has to steal a fur containing a document about Russian missiles sites. And in this purpose, he asks his "supervisor" to get the help of a glamorous female thief. As you can guess, you'll get many light touches here, nearly comedy that Blake Edwards would not have denied. In this show, forget realism, all bad guys are idiots at a scale you can't even imagine, but it remains an enjoyable entertainment to forget daily problems. It would only miss the off laughs, like we had in GET SMART. Directed by Don Weiss, who seemingly made many épisodes for this show.