Remington Steele

Remington Steele – Steele Away with Me

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  • Title: Remington Steele – Steele Away with Me: Part 1 & Part 2
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Wayback Wednesday takes us back to a con man pretending to be the world’s greatest detective in Remington Steele. Returning for its Second Season, the show saw some major shakeup to it supporting characters with the off-screen departures of both Murphy Michaels (James Read) and Bernice Fox (Janet DeMay). Rather than recast both characters individually, Michael Gleason decided to create a new character to fill both roles offering us the introduction of Mildred Krebs (Doris Roberts), an agent of the IRS on the scent of tax evasion who will follow Remington Steele (Pierce Brosnan) to Acapulco but ultimately end up on his side in a mystery involving diamond smuggling and murder. While I miss the mostly underutilized Janet DeMay, Read’s character had outlived his usefulness at this point, and Roberts makes a great addition to the cast adding a completely different kind of energy to the show.

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Remington Steele – Steele in Circulation

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  • Title: Remington Steele – Steele in Circulation
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Throwback Thursday takes us back to a con man pretending to be the world’s greatest detective in Remington Steele. After the opening sequence involving a bank robbery from the Federal Reserve by a nervous employee, only to find the money stolen, the First Season finale begins with Remington Steele (Pierce Brosnan) preventing poor Alfred (John Doolittle) from ending his own life by jumping off a bridge. Early attempts by Steele and Laura (Stephanie Zimbalist) to find the money only to further disappointing revelations such as the woman he was stealing the woman (Gina Gallego) for was using him and the boss who gave him a promotion to be put in the proper position was the brains behind the heist.

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Remington Steele – Sting of Steele

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  • Title: Remington Steele – Sting of Steele
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“Sting of Steele” introduces Efrem Zimbalist Jr. as Remington Steele‘s (Pierce Brosnan) old mentor on the run from a crooked casino owner (John Orchard). It also allows Murphy (James Read) to play the role of Remington Steele and brings back Beverly Garland in a second, and final, appearance as Laura‘s (Stephanie Zimbalist) mother. Like Steele, Efrem Zimbalist’s character is given numerous names and a past of secrets. And as with other episodes which explore faces from the title character’s past, Laura learns far less than she hoped to about the con man turned private investigator.

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Remington Steele – Steele’s Gold

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  • Title: Remington Steele – Steele’s Gold
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Remington Steele - Steele's Gold television review

Throwback Tuesday takes us back to a con man pretending to be the world’s greatest detective in Remington Steele. Gold fever is in the air in a crazy episode that begins with Remington Steele (Pierce Brosnan), Laura (Stephanie Zimbalist), and Murphy (James Read) witnessing a murder at a costume party while attempting to protect an exhibit of old California artifacts. The only thing missing from the exhibit turns out to be the journal of prospector which supposedly points to gold in them there hills. There are several colorful characters interested in the gold, and most aren’t what they initially appear to be. The guest cast includes James T. Callahan, Lois De Banzie, Spenser: For Hire‘s Barbara Stock, William Russ, Ben Rayson, and Ellis Ren. After a dizzying amount of reveals, Steele and Laura snuggling for warmth in a sleeping bag, and even Murphy catching the gold fever, the murder will be solved and gold will indeed be found.

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Remington Steele – Vintage Steele

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  • Title: Remington Steele – Vintage Steele
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Throwback Tuesday takes us back to a con man pretending to be the world’s greatest detective in Remington Steele. “Vintage Steele” throws Remington Steele (Pierce Brosnan) and Laura (Stephanie Zimbalist) together on an absurd case involving a dead body which keeps appearing and disappearing. The body is first discovered by Laura’s ex-boyfriend (David Huffman), a banker overseeing a deal with a local winery, who discovers the body floating in a vat of chardonnay. He successfully hides the body, which he fears will blow the deal, only to lose in on the road and later discover it again in the winery. With most of the story centered around either finding the body, which Steele takes to calling Harry, or preventing others from stumbling upon it, the mystery of how the man died (or who he is) remains on the back-burner.

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