Old Time Buddy - To Catch a Thief
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Old Time Buddy - To Catch a Thief official poster
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| Also known as | 'Old Time Buddy 2' |
| Genre |
Period drama Romantic comedy Mystery |
| Written by | Bau Wai-chung Cheung Siu-fong Cat Kwan Tsang Bo-wah Chow Siu-fong Szeto Kam-Yuen |
| Directed by | Chan Wai-koon So Man-chung Wong Ciu-ying Mak Koon-chi Wong kwok-koon Man Wai-hung Chung Shu-kai |
| Starring |
Gallen Lo Maggie Cheung Ho-yee Gordon Lam Elaine Ng |
| Theme music composer | Shunsuke Kikuchi |
| Opening theme | Se Ma Ru by Gallen Lo and Maggie Cheung Ho-yee |
| Country of origin | Hong Kong |
| Original language(s) | Cantonese |
| No. of episodes | 25 |
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| Executive producer(s) | Tommy Leung |
| Producer(s) | Chung Shu-kai |
| Location(s) | Hong Kong |
| Editor(s) | Bau Wai-chung Chow Yuk-ming |
| Camera setup | Multi camera |
| Running time | 45 minutes |
| Production company(s) | TVB |
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| Original network | TVB Jade |
| Picture format | 576i (SDTV) |
| Original release | 3 August – 4 September 1998 |
| Chronology | |
| Preceded by | Old Time Buddy |
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| Chinese | 難兄難弟之神探李奇 | ||||||||||
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| Literal meaning | "Difficult Older Brother, Difficult Younger Brother-Detective Lee Kei" | ||||||||||
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| Standard Mandarin | |
| Hanyu Pinyin | nàn xiōng nàn dì zhī shén tàn lǐ qí |
| Yue: Cantonese | |
| Jyutping | naan4 hing1 naan4 dai6 zi1 san1 taam1 lei5 kei4 |
Old Time Buddy - To Catch a Thief (Chinese: 難兄難弟之神探李奇; Jyutping: naan4 hing1 naan4 dai6 zi1 san1 taam1 lei5 kei4; literally "Difficult Older Brother, Difficult Younger Brother-Detective Lee Kei") is a 1998 Hong Kong period romantic comedy television drama created and produced by TVB, starring Gallen Lo, Maggie Cheung Ho-yee, Gordon Lam, Elaine Ng as the main cast. The series is an indirect sequel to 1997's Old Time Buddy. Filming took place in early 1998 entirely on location in Hong Kong. Original broadcast began on Hong Kong's TVB Jade channel August 3 till September 4, 1998 every Monday through Friday during its 7:30 to 8:30 pm timeslot with a total of 25 episodes.
Although it is the second installment of the Old Time Buddy series the story and characters have no connections to the first series. While the first series focuses on Hong Kong film industry in the 1960s, the second series is adapted from plots of 1960s Hong Kong detective mystery films such as The Black Rose (1965) starring the real life Connie Chan.
Lee Kei (Gallen Lo) is a righteous cop who refuses to follow the majority of most Hong Kong police officers who accepted bribes during the 1960s. Wanting to move away from his supervisor who is a corrupted cop, Kei reports it to his precinct Lieutenant, who is unable to do anything about it since his superior is also corrupted. In order to protect Kei, he has him go undercover to find the infamous cat burglar "Black Rose", who has escaped being captured for over twenty years.
His first clue to finding "Black Rose" leads him to a nightclub, but he gets side tracked when he sees one of his favorite singer is scheduled to perform there. However, when Kei finds out the singer will be a no show he leaves. Walking past the back alley a man crash lands on him. The man turns out to be Tse Sei (Gordon Lam), the slick talent manager of the nightclub who is trying to escape from triads because he did not pay the talent their fees, they refuse to perform which causes the triad boss who sold the tickets to lose money. Sei and Kei are former classmates. Sei seeing that Kei resembles the singer scheduled to perform tricks him onto stage. The two almost gets away with tricking the crowds until Kei drops his sunglasses.
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