- Title: Remington Steele – Steeling the Show
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Throwback Tuesday takes us back to the 80s detective show Remington Steele. Steele (Pierce Brosnan) throws a wrench into the agency’s latest case when the daughter (Frances Lee McCain) of a famous B-movie actress (Bibi Osterwald) hires the firm to find her missing mother. Playing up the woman’s senility, the daughter hopes to end her mother’s ill-conceived return to the silver screen. Steele, more than a little taken with one of his favorite actresses, believes the woman’s story about someone wanting to kill her and keeps the team on the case even after the actress is thrown in the looney bin for the murder of a publicist (Richard Backus) digging into the woman’s past.
“Steeling the Show” features some interesting twist and turns as even Steele’s resolve is tested by a woman whose word isn’t always believable (but whose incarceration profits far too many others not to be questioned). The set-up allows the show to play to the title character’s love of movies. While his choices over the course of the episode infuriate Laura (Stephanie Zimbalist), it turns out his instincts are proven true as his belief in the aging actress allows the agency to solve not one but two murders (and explain who has been gas-lighting the woman, and why).
