Remington Steele

• Title: Remington Steele – You’re Steele the One for Me
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Today’s Throwback Tuesday post takes us back to the 80s detective show Remington Steele. What appears to be a simple traffic accident leaving a grieving brother (Marc Hayashi) seeking answers becomes far more complicated as Steele (Pierce Brosnan) and Laura (Stephanie Zimbalist) uncover a connection to the hit-and-run victim (Sab Shimono) and the Yakuza. It seems there’s a group of unsavory characters all after something very valuable in the victim’s possession at the time of his death. The episode is notable for Laura instructing Steele on how to be a detective (though he reputation makes more headway on the case than her deductions for much of the episode).

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• Title: Remington Steele – Etched in Steele
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Today’s Throwback Tuesday post takes us back to the 80s detective show Remington Steele. While attending a book publisher’s party who is interested in Steele (Pierce Brosnan) writing a book of his most famous cases, the detectives are approached by the husband (Joel Colodner) of a famous author (Shannon Wilcox) who believes his wife plans to murder him. Shortly after talking with Laura (Stephanie Zimbalist) and Steele, the man falls to his death in the exact manner that he described from the manuscript of the latest novel (but which doesn’t appear in the pages following his death). The mystery only deepens when the detectives learn that the dead man was the actual ghostwriter for the tawdry novels.

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• Title: Remington Steele – Signed, Steeled, and Delivered
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Today’s Throwback Tuesday post takes us back to the 80s detective show Remington Steele. When CIA information retrieval specialist Sheldon Quarry (Thom Bray) shows up on Steele‘s (Pierce Brosnan) doorstep after being shot at and followed, the private eyes have a new case. Thanks to the fictional history Laura (Stephanie Zimbalist) created to fill in the life of the fake PI she created, which strongly suggests Steele was part of the CIA back in the day, Sheldon believes he is the perfect man for the job. And time is a factor as these attacks keep taking Sheldon away from his fiance Lucille (Alexandra Johnson) and their impending wedding.

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