Wednesday, July 23, 2008

It Takes a Thief


It Takes a Thief is up on Hulu. Go, drink in the splendor of the glory days of TV, when shows could be summed up with one elegantcatchphrase ("I'm not asking to to spy, I'm just asking you to steal.") and characters didn't muck about with all this emo shit, but stuck to the job of driving the damn plot where we writers needed it to go. Tasty!

And if you spot some of these grifts popping up on Leverage, ummm -- homage. Yeah, that's it. Homage.

In the comments, any and all Mannix/Alexander Munday/Girl from UNCLE/Rockford fan fic.

(h/t Lee Goldberg)

48 comments:

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  2. Tell me, please, that you guys are beating down doors to get Robert Wagner (and ideally, Rob Lowe as well) to guest on an episode. Please, please, please, Mr. Rogers!

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  3. Roger's, no stealing my idea. Dammit.

    Glad I am not the only one watching it. Although, Where is the pilot episode?

    Now if we can just get ITV and BBC to do a Hulu so I can watch old shows from Great Britain.

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  4. Theme music by Dave Grusin...

    Aaaaaaaah...

    And a time when the Universal back lot was able to go anywhere in the world...

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  5. Anonymous3:25 PM

    Please don't accuse me of being a Dutch oven, or speaking double Dutch, but US only? Waaaaaaaaaah

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  6. Anonymous7:11 AM

    And I thought I was the only one who noticed and appreciated that show. Classy fun all the way.

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  7. Anonymous7:56 AM

    ...And if you spot some of these grifts popping up on Leverage...

    As T.S.Elliot once said, "Immature poets imitate; mature poets steal". Not sure if what you do is "poetry", but I think it applies... ;)

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  8. Ah, well, you didn't happen to pitch Leverage as "It Takes A Thief meets Mission Impossible," did you?

    I'd be surprised the Suits would be old enough to know them! (Well OK, maybe the second -- from the MOVIES!)

    Haven't seen Thief in ages and ages. Will have to peek.

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  9. Both ITV and BBC have online media players, both restricted to UK IP addresses - but 'we have the technology' etc (well, I don't, I'm British - but I funded these programs in the first place so I feel comfortable inviting y'all over to watch them).

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  10. and fred astaire as the uber-suave dad!

    rockford - sublime work.

    the wealth of wickedly bent supporting characters, from margolin to hayes was wonderful.

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  11. Mailbag time!

    I've recently seen a few discussions about leaked versions of television show pilots on p2p networks, two of which mentioned Leverage (http://mikecane2008.wordpress.com/2008/06/26/tv-networks-are-using-a-leaking-service/ and http://newteevee.com/2008/06/26/this-falls-tv-shows-now-on-p2p-networks/ ). I was wondering what you, as a showrunner, think about getting your work out in public before the official debut.

    Thanks!

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  12. Frikkin-A. This gets surreal. Seeing a post here with someone posting the URL to one of my blog posts. He should have used this URL, though, for the fuller leakage: Leverage: The (Leaked) TNT Pilot

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  13. Anonymous3:19 PM

    cool blog, keep it up !

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  14. I'm pleased that Gina Bellman is among the Leverage cast. The camera loves her.

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  15. It Takes a Thief was one of my favoritest series. I've been waiting for it to come out on DVD. Thanks for the Hulu heads up!

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  16. Anonymous11:04 PM

    oooh! OOOH!

    Do ya remember the episode where the Fifth Dimension guest-starred, all about a special assassination version of their hit record, "Up, Up and Away"?

    No?

    Why are you looking at me like that?

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  19. Since you seem to be a TV junkie like myself, I wonder if you carry any recollections of this series (which still hasn't made it onto DVD):

    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rkdbq20s0ls

    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mwOmmIEoLQg&feature=related

    I think it would be cool to watch within the context of today’s technology.

    By the by, I LOVED BLUE BEETLE!

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