REMINGTON STEELE

SERIES DESCRIPTION:

Laura Holt, a female private investigator invents a mythical male "boss" for her clients who don't believe a woman can achieve top results. When her creation shows up in the flesh, Laura finds herself attracted to the enigmatic young man she has named Remington Steele.

CAST: STEPHANIE ZIMBALIST, PIERCE BROSNAN, DORIS ROBERTS

RUNTIME: 1 HR

GENRE: DRAMA

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SEASON 1

TEMPERED STEELE - 1YAM79 - 1983 - Laura and Remington become involved with industrial espionage when they're hired to supervise the installation of a fool-proof burglar alarm system.

STEEELE WATERS RUN DEEP - 1YAM03 - 1983 - Remington and Laura must find a missing video game genius who has disappeared along with five million dollars and the plans to his company's newest
video game creation.

LICENSE TO STEELE - 1YAM04 - 1983 - Convinced that being a woman might scare off prospective clients, private investigator Laura Holt invents a male "boss" and gives him the name 'Remington Steele.' All goes well until her creation shows up.

HEARTS OF STEELE - 1YAM05 - 1983 - Remington and Laura pose as a husband and wife whose marriage is on the rocks as they seek to find out who is trying to kill their client, a high powered divorce lawyer.

THOU SHALT NOT STEELE - 1YAM06 - 1983 - Remington does not want to provide security for a multi-million dollar painting because of the curse it bears, but Laura is eager for the business. Laura has second thoughts, however when assistant curator makes a brazen play for Remington.

ETCHED IN STEELE - 1YAM07 - 1983 - When Remington decides to write a book and Laura tells him to drop the idea, they become involved with a best-selling author of lurid romances.

IN THE STEELE OF THE NIGHT - 1YAM08 - Laura and Remington attend a reunion of private investigators that are forced to investigate themselves when their hated host dies under mysterious circumstances.

YOU'RE STEELE THE ONE FOR ME - 1YAM09 - When Laura tells Remington to stop intruding on her detective work, he asks her to investigate a 'routine' auto accident, which begins to look more and more like an oriental underworld murder.

STEELE TRAP - 1YAM10 - 1983 - Remington and Laura attend a weekend party on an isolated tropical island but fear for their lives when the guests get murdered one by one.

STEELE FLYING HIGH - 1YAM11 - 1983 - Remington is surprised to be named honorary chairman of a charity that seeks to save the bald eagle, blithely unaware of its ulterior motive: he is suspected of possessing a compromising report that was prepared by a member of the charity who has been murdered.

A GOOD NIGHT'S STEELE - 1YAM12 - 1983 - Laura and Remington infiltrate a hospital to find out why a female physician has vanished and why morphine keeps disappearing.

VINTAGE STEELE - 1YAM16 - 1983 - Much to her dismay, a former lover turns to Laura for help when he approaches her and Remington with a body he found floating in a winery.

STEELE AMONG THE LIVING - 1YAM18 - 1983 - When an artist is apparently murdered, Laura and Remington find a number of suspects but no body or paintings.

TO STOP A STEELE - 1YAM21 - 1983 - Laura and Remington find themselves in competition with each other when they are hired by a jeweler and would-be thief to find a stolen two-million dollar, 60-carat precious stone.

STING OF STEELE - 1YAM22 - 1983 - Daniel Chalmers, a charming con man, gets reacquainted with his protégé, Remington Steele, when the two plan a sting operation against Albert Hoskins, a crooked casino owner who has murdered Chalmers' associate.

STEELE'S GOLD - 1YAM23 - 1983 - Laura, Remington and Murphy go on a treasure hunt when a gold prospector's journal is stolen at a costume party that ends in murder.

STEELE IN CIRCULATION - 1YAM24 - 1983 - Laura and Remington get involved in the punk rock scene when they try to locate $2.3 million missing from the Federal Reserve Bank where the money was to be shredded.

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SEASON 2

ALTERED STEELE - 2YAM02 - 1984 - A man with multiple identities (and wives) turns to Laura and Remington for help when he cannot remember who he is and finds himself marked for murder.

SCENE STEELERS - 2YAM03 - 1984 - When a parrot dies during the production of a food commercial, Remington and Laura go into action to find out who is trying to kill the stars and sabotage the operation.

A STEELE AT ANY PRICE - 2YAM06 - 1984 - Laura and Remington set up a competing syndicate in hopes of locating an investigative reporter who has disappeared inside a ring of international art thieves.

STEELE FRAMED - 2YAM08 - 1984 -Steele is horrified when he hits a pedestrian with his car and the apparently fatal accident begins to look like premeditated murder.

STEELE THREADS - 2YAM12 - 1984 - Laura goes undercover as a high fashion model and Remington plays a slightly vulgar wholesale buyer as they try to find out who's stealing their client's design secrets, and they find themselves involved in foreign espionage.

BLOOD IS THICKER THAN STEELE - 2YAM12 - 1984 - Walter Gallen, A Robert Vesco-like expatriate, is brought back from his tropical exile to testify on the government's behalf against his former
employer. Fearing retaliatory harm against his two children, he hires Laura and Remington to protect them until his testimony is completed.

MY FAIR STEELE - 2YAM14 - 1984 - Laura and Remington are hired by a dying business tycoon to locate the twin sister of his jet-setting daughter, but following his death, one twin appears and the other disappears -- presumably kidnapped.

LOVE AMONG THE STEELE - 2YAM16 - 1984 - Laura and Remington set out to unravel the romantic and sinister mystery involving a driverless, runaway vintage car which almost runs them down. The identity of a murderer and the whereabouts of some missing million-dollar jewels are buried in the history of the car.

HIGH FLYING STEELE - 2YAM18 - 1984 - Laura and Remington join the circus, performing on the trapeze and eating fire as they investigate a homicide which occurred some years before.

STEELE ELIGIBLE - 2YAM19 - 1984 - A prominent magazine lists Remington among its five 'most eligible' bachelors but the honor soon turns into a nightmare when tow of the bachelors are murdered, prompting Laura to launch an immediate search for the killer before he or she strikes again.

ELEGY IN STEELE - 2YAM20 - 1984 - Laura and Remington are given but one hour to live when the crafty Major Descoine (who once framed Remington for murder) pays a return visit to their office and, after the threat, vanishes behind a puff of magic smoke.

SMALL TOWN STEELE - 2YAM21 - 1984 - A missing person's case brings Laura and Remington to a small town where the entire populace is in on a secret involving hidden money and murder.

DREAMS OF STEELE - 2YAM26 - 1984 - Laura and Remington are hired to transport the famous royal´Lavulite jewels from Santa Barbara to Los Angeles but somehow the gems are replaced by fakes en route, leading the young investigators into a murder case.

HOUNDED STEELE - 2YAM27 - 1984 - Mildred decides to help a friend locate a missing dog, but in the process she uncovers a bizarre plot concerning the fabulous Jennings diamond and a world-renowned former jewel thief, Anatole Blaylock, who has retired and is living in the area.

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SEASON 3

BLUE BLOODED STEELE - 3YAM01 - 1985 - Remington is coaxed by his mentor, the charming con man Daniel Chalmers, to pose as the long-lost son and heir to the $12 million estate of the late Duke of Rutherford, and the suspicious Laura trails the pair to England where Remington is a sitting duck.

LOFTY STEELE - 3YAM03 - 1985 - Laura finds evidence of a corporate embezzlement plot hidden in her apartment and the dangerous perpetrators aim to end her investigation, and if necessary, her life.

LET'S STEELE A PLOT - 3YAM04 - 1985 - After the sudden death of a member of the Mystery Writers of America, a million dollars is embezzled from the treasury of the guild. Laura and Remington are hired to catch the culprit, but truth and fiction seem inseparable with this imaginative bunch.

SECOND BASE STEELE - 3YAM05 - 1985 - Laura and Remington meet up with former New York Yankees greats, Mickey Mantle and Whitey Ford, when they go undercover at an exclusive adult baseball
camp to investigate possible murder with a group of would-be jocks who've paid to play with the pros.

PUZZLED STEELE - 3YAM12 - 1985 - Enticed to exotic Malta, the outraged Laura and Remington find themselves tackling trumped-up competition against one another to solve the real and surprisingly dangerous case of a missing journalist.

MALTESE STEELE - 3YAM13 - 1985 - Laura and Remington comb the exotic Mediterranean isle of Malta for the missing body of a murdered thief whose quarry -- the Maltese Cross -- puts the detective team and Mildred in mortal danger.

GOURMET STEELE - 3YAM16 - 1985 - When an anonymous restaurant critic, despised for his scathing reviews, is marked for murder, Remington and Laura are hired to find him or her -- and Remington is mistaken for the targeted gourmet.

STEELE TRYING - 3YAM17 - 1985 - Remington invents a case as a ruse to whisk Laura off to romantic San Francisco, where they tail a mythical errant husband. However, the trip turns treacherous when the "husband" courts exotic dancer Rita del Rio - and murder (excerpts from some of Tony Bennett's hit songs are woven throughout the story as a musical commentary).

STRONGER THAN STEELE - 3YAM18 - 1985 - The out-of-work actor who was once "atomic man" and Laura's childhood idol, is sought for murdering the producer of a new recast movie version of the show. Laura sets out to nail the real killer and risks a charge of aiding and abetting a fugitive.

CAST IN STEELE - 3YAM20 - 1985 - A series of odd accidents and ominous notes spur three veteran film stars to hire Remington and Laura after meeting them at a gala awards ceremony.

POCKET FULL OF STEELE - 3YAM21 - 1985 - When Jackie, a street-wise teenager picks Remington's pocket, he slips away with photographic evidence of a loan-sharking operation. This places the boy in danger, and well as Remington and Laura's reputation.

STEELE IN THE FAMILY - 3YAM23 - 1985 - When Remington finds a corpse stashed in his bathtub, he and Laura are drawn into the dangerous case of a call girl's murdered client.

NOW YOU STEELE IT, NOW YOU DON'T - 3YAM24 - 1985 - The sudden death of an antiques importer and the disappearance of kleptomaniac Grace Kelton are the puzzling consequences of Laura's recovery of statues stolen by Grace. Also, the clue-hunting Remington is drugged and tortured for rummaging through a ship's antique cargo.

HAVE I GOT A STEELE FOR YOU - 3YAM25 - 1985 - The bungling George Mulch believes his brainchild, the Courtney Doll, will rival the Cabbage Patch Kids, but when an investor's wife suspects fraud and hires the Steele Agency, it is clear this is not a matter of child's play.

ILLUSTRATED STEELE - 3YAM26 - 1985 - Tossed into the high-stakes gambling world of Las Vegas, Remington and Laura tail alleged jewel thief/card shark Eddie Grogan for an insurance company; and they must win a fortune at the gaming tables to recover the gems he pawned.

STEELE OF APPROVAL - 3YAM28 -1985 - Hired to check into the background of young senatorial candidate, William Westfield, Laura pursues the case and romance in Mexico with the dashing politician. Meanwhile, a frantic home-based Remington faces loss of the agency's license, and perhaps Laura.

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SEASON 4

STEELE, INC. - 4YAM03 - 1986 - When the body of a Remington Steele impersonator turns up in the San Diego County morgue, the befuddled Laura and Remington become murder targets as they set out to learn his identity and find he is linked to pie-in-the-sky inventor George Mulch.

STEELE BLUSHING - 4YAM04 - 1986 - When modest Laura turns up in the buff as a magazine's Babe of the Month, and the credited photographer hires the Steele Agency for protection, a puzzled Remington tries to fit the pieces together.

FORGED STEELE - 4YAM10 - 1986 - A confused Steele seems to have lost the agency in an all-night poker game. Although he can't recall playing in the game, his signature appears on a promissory note and, as evidence mounts, even Laura begins to doubt him.

CORN-FED STEELE - 4YAM12 - 1986 - Without the knowledge of her employers, Mildred has invested $75,000 in a provocative tax shelter, a pig-breeding farm. When some valuable sows are stolen, the investment is in grave danger, so Laura and Remington must fly to Iowa.

STEELE IN THE RUNNING - 4YAM13 - 1986 - Mistaken for someone else while running in a triathlon, Laura is nabbed by goons and then released, whereupon she and Remington enter a deadly cat-and-mouse game with the world-be kidnappers as both pursue an elusive Laura-look-alike.

STEELE SPAWNING - 4YAM15 - 1986 - Spoiled, bungling Bingham Perret, the son of a wealthy caviar importer, tries to do business without Daddy and a menacing Russian begins tailing him. Bing then turns to Laura and Remington to save his hide and bail him out of a brewing international blow-up.

STEELE BLUE YONDER - 4YAM18 - 1986 - When retired World War II Brigadier General Johnny Cooper suddenly gambles away a fortune and takes 3:00 a.m. joy rides in his P-40 Flying Tiger, his
daughter Eleanor hires the Steele Agency to see if there's method to the charming old gent's madness.

SENSITIVE STEELE - 4YAM19 - 1986 - Posing as a husband and wife to investigate a series of accidents at a trendy California sensitivity spa, Laura and Remington finally discuss how they really feel about each other -- and become the victims of the next "mishap."

STEELE ALIVE AND KICKING - 4YAM20 - 1986 - Thinking he's fatally ill, Vinny Dowd frames himself for murder so that his wife can claim the reward. However when prison doctors say he's cured, he
escapes and makes a beeline for the Steele Agency.