It Takes a Thief (1979 TV series)
| It Takes a Thief | |
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| Genre | Wuxia |
| Written by | Gu Long (original story) |
| Directed by | Lee Wai-man Siu Hin-fai |
| Starring | Pat Poon Kenneth Tsang Paul Chun Alex Man Bonnie Ngai Law Lok-lam Mary Cheung Man Man-yee Wen Hsueh-erh Yuen Pui-jan Miu Kam-fung Chan Yuen-mei Yung Wai-man Nancy Sit Choi King-fai |
| Opening theme | Hap Dou Fung Lau (俠盜風流) performed by Amy Chan |
| Ending theme | Siu Wan Kei Sum Sing (簫韻寄心聲) performed by Nancy Sit |
| Composer(s) | Michael Lai |
| Country of origin | Hong Kong |
| Original language(s) | Cantonese |
| No. of episodes | 8 |
| Production | |
| Executive producer(s) | Kong Lung |
| Producer(s) | Johnny Mak Tsui Hark |
| Location(s) | Hong Kong |
| Running time | 60 minutes per episode |
| Production company(s) | RTV |
| Release | |
| Original network | RTV |
| First shown in | 1 September 1979 |
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| Traditional Chinese | 俠盜風流 | ||||||||||
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| Simplified Chinese | 侠盗风流 | ||||||||||
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| Transcriptions | |
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| Standard Mandarin | |
| Hanyu Pinyin | Xiá Dào Fēnglíu |
| Yue: Cantonese | |
| Jyutping | Hap6 Dou6 Fung1 Lau4 |
It Takes a Thief is a Hong Kong television series adapted from Gu Long's Chu Liuxiang Series. The series was first broadcast on RTV (now ATV) in Hong Kong in September 1979.
The series' original Chinese title was 盜帥留香 (Dou Seoi Lau Heung; lit. "Bandit Chief Liuxiang"). It was released around the same time as Chor Lau-heung, a similar television series produced by TVB. RTV and TVB became involved in copyright lawsuits against each other because of similarities between It Takes a Thief and Chor Lau-heung. TVB won the lawsuits and eventually RTV had to change the Chinese title of It Takes a Thief from 盜帥留香 to 俠盜風流, and the names of characters in the television series. The name of the protagonist Chor Lau-heung (Cantonese for "Chu Liuxiang") was changed to "Dou Seoi" (盜帥; lit. "Bandit Chief"), one of Chu Liuxiang's nicknames in the novels. It Takes a Thief started airing on 1 September 1979, two days earlier than TVB's Chor Lau-heung.
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