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1	* FakeBrit:
2	** Al sometimes poses as an Englishman. [[NotEvenBotheringWithTheAccent Too bad Robert Wagner never learned to do a good British accent...]]
3	** "Charlie" Brown poses as this in "When Thieves Fall In".
4	** "Project 'X'" features Canadian actor Creator/LloydBochner as a British scientist.
5	** Julie Newmar is [[OohMeAccentsSlipping supposed]] to be one in "[[PunnyName The Funeral Is on Mundy]]."
6	* PlayingAgainstType:
7	** George Palmer, Al's EvilCounterpart from "To Steal a Battleship", was played by Creator/BillBixby, who was best known for portraying {{Nice Guy}}s such as Tim O'Hara in ''Film/MyFavoriteMartian''.
8	** And then there's Gavin [=MacLeod=] (Murray Slaughter from ''Series/TheMaryTylerMooreShow'', Captain Stubing from ''Series/TheLoveBoat''). He played [[YouLookFamiliar three different characters]], all villains; he's surprisingly convincing as a brutal, sadistic mob enforcer in "Rock-A-Bye, Bye, Baby". At that time it ''wasn't'' PlayingAgainstType for him, as he frequently played villains before being cast as Murray Slaughter.
9	* StuntCasting: Plenty of it in the third season. Creator/FredAstaire played the RecurringCharacter Alistair Mundy, Creator/BetteDavis guest starred in "Touch of Magic", and Creator/PeterSellers did a CelebrityCameo in "Who'll Bid Two Million Dollars?". Also, popular {{Soul}} group The 5th Dimension played [[{{Expy}} Expies]] of themselves in "To Sing a Song of Murder" (along with their producer and manager), and racing legend Mario Andretti appeared AsHimself in "The Steal Driving Man".
10	* YouLookFamiliar:
11	** Susan Saint James played an SIA agent under cover as a flight attendant in the original pilot ("Magnificent Thief"). She then made her first appearance as "Charlie" Brown in the series first episode, "It Takes One to Know One". While they're clearly different characters ([[spoiler: the SIA agent gets murdered]]), you'd think Al would ask Brown, "You have a twin sister?"
12	** In the pilot, Wally Cox is briefly seen as a man trying to buy an airline ticket. In the series' final episode ("Project 'X'"), an EpisodeOnAPlane, Cox plays airline passenger Professor Moses.

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