Nicholas Lea in Once a Thief

Once a Thief: Fiction

Mac, Li Ann and Victor

Main Cast:
Nicholas Lea	:	Victor Mansfield
Sandrine Holt	:	Li Ann Tsei
Ivan Sergei	:	Mac Ramsey
Jennifer Dale	:	The Director

Victor Mansfield
Once a Thief

TV Movie - 1996

TV Series - 1997

Synopsis

An ex-cop, Victor Mansfield (Nicholas Lea) and two former members of a Hong Kong crime family, Li Ann Tsei (Sandrine Holt) and Mac Ramsey (Ivan Sergei), are persuaded to work for a 'shady government agency'. The pilot episode was filmed in Vancouver and directed by John Woo. The rest of the series was filmed in Toronto.

Pilot Episode
TV Movie 29-Nov-96: Once A Thief (aka Violent Tradition)
Season 1
Episode Number	Production Number	Airdate	Episode Title
01	1-02	15-Sep-97	The Big Bang Theory
02	1-07	22-Sep-97	Rave On
03	1-04	29-Sep-97	Trial Marriage
04	1-05	06-Oct-97	Art of Death
05	1-06	13-Oct-97	Mac Daddy
06	1-03	20-Oct-97	Wang Dang Doodle
07	1-10	27-Oct-97	It Happened One Night
08	1-08	10-Nov-97	Drive, She Said
09	1-09	17-Nov-97	Jaded Love
10	1-12	17-Jan-98	Wedding Bell Blues
11	1-11	24-Jan-98	That Old Gang of Mine
12	1-14	31-Jan-98	Last Temptation of Vic
13	1-15	07-Feb-98	Mama's Boys
14	1-17	14-Feb-98	Li Ann's Choice
15	1-18	21-Feb-98	True Blue
16	1-19	28-Feb-98	Kangaroo Court
17	1-01	07-Mar-98	Little Sister
18	1-20	14-Mar-98	The Director Files
19	1-16	21-Mar-98	Shaken Not Stirred
20	1-13	28-Mar-98	Politics Of Love
21	1-21	25-Apr-98	Family Reunion (part 1 of 2)
22	1-22	02-May-98	Endgame (part 2 of 2)

There are also two US TV movies made from joining two episodes together:-

Brother Against Brother - this is Family Reunion + Endgame with an extra scene in the middle to join them, and a different ending from that shown in Endgame.
Family Business - That Old Gang of Mine + Last Temptation of Vic. I haven't seen this so I don't know what the differences are, if any, from the individual episodes

Pilot Episode

Season 1