Remington Steele

Season 51982

Laura Holt, a licensed private detective, opens a detective agency but finds that potential clients refuse to hire a woman, however qualified. To solve the problem, Laura invents a fictitious male superior whom she names Remington Steele. Through a series of events that unfold in the first episode, "License to Steele," a former thief and con man, whose real name is never revealed, assumes the identity of Remington Steele. Behind the scenes, Laura remains firmly in charge.

22 Episodes

    E01 License to Steele

    "License to Steele" is the premiere episode of the television series Remington Steele. This episode introduces and sets all the central elements of the series; the truth about Laura's fictional boss, the mysterious character posing as Steele, the romantic tension, Steele's love of old movies, et cetera.

    October 1, 1982

    E02 Tempered Steele

    Laura tackles a case of industrial espionage in a family-owned business while Steele enlists an old pal to help him install a burglar alarm.

    October 8, 1982

    E03 Steele Waters Run Deep

    A video game genius disappears just before a merger, with $5 million and the plans for his company's latest video game.

    October 22, 1982

    E04 Signed, Steeled, & Delivered

    Laura and Steele spend the weekend trying to keep a CIA researcher alive and on time for his wedding.

    October 29, 1982

    E05 Thou Shalt Not Steele

    A woman from Steele's past asks him to help her steal a valuable painting that Laura has already agreed to protect.

    November 5, 1982

    E06 Steele Belted

    A loser asks the agency to help him, but his alibi witness is found dead in Steele's apartment and his lawyer seems more interested in Laura than in the case.

    November 12, 1982

    E07 Etched in Steele

    Laura and Steele investigate the murder of an author whose steamy novels badly mirror her own married life.

    November 19, 1982

    E08 Your Steele the One For Me

    A lesson in detective work for Steele escalates a jaywalking accident into an encounter with Japanese gangsters.

    November 26, 1982

    E09 In the Steele of the Night

    Steele investigates a murder when Laura's former colleagues gather for a reunion and old grievances begin to re-emerge.

    December 3, 1982

    E10 Steele Trap

    A client commits suicide in the office so Steele and Laura attend a house party on an island owned by a wealthy publisher in his place in an attempt to find out why.

    December 10, 1982

    E11 Steeling the Show

    Steele comes to the aid of an aging B-movie queen whose daughter is trying to commit her and who someone is apparently trying to kill.

    January 7, 1983

    E12 Steele Flying High

    Steele gets involved with the murder of a naturalist when he serves on a committee to save the bald eagle.

    January 14, 1983

    E13 A Good Night's Steele

    Laura and Steele go undercover at a sleep-disorders clinic to investigate the disappearance of morphine and a doctor.

    January 21, 1983

    E14 Hearts of Steele

    Steele and Laura pose as a battling couple while they investigate murder attempts against an aggressive divorce lawyer.

    January 28, 1983

    E15 To Stop a Steele

    Laura and Steele wind up working for opposite sides of a jewelry theft when the frightened thief looks for help when someone else beats him to the jewel.

    February 11, 1983

    E16 Steele Crazy After All These Years

    Murphy's college homecoming is marred by a murder that awakens memories of a bombing on campus ten years before.

    February 18, 1983

    E17 Steele Among the Living

    Laura searches for a vanished artist whose works have suddenly appreciated in value, for both her husband and the owner of an art gallery.

    February 25, 1983

    E18 Steele in the News

    Laura and Steele investigate the increasingly dangerous pranks someone is pulling on the news team of a local television station.

    March 4, 1983

    E19 Vintage Steele

    Laura's former flame asks her help when he discovers a corpse in the trunk of his car, a corpse that keeps returning as they check out a winery he's involved with.

    March 15, 1983

    E20 Steele's Gold

    A prospector's journal stolen during a party leads Laura and Steele on a wild gold hunt through the desert.

    March 22, 1983

    E21 Sting of Steele

    Steele's mentor, Daniel Chalmers, comes to California to ask for Steele's help in dealing with a vindictive crook.

    April 5, 1983

    E22 Steele in Circulation

    Steele stops a distraught young man from killing himself then must find a missing girl and a ""borrowed"" $50,000 to keep him from trying again.

    April 12, 1983