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Remington Steele Season 1 Episodes
Season 1 Episode Guide
22 Episodes 1982 - 1983
Episode 1
License to Steele
Fri, Oct 1, 198260 mins
Female PI Laura Holt concocts a mastermind male detective so her failing agency can finally attract sexist clients. One assignment that results is the transport of the world's rarest gems, to hype the debut of a new car. Stalking Laura & the shipment is a mysterious charmer who claims he's a South African government agent. The auto's inventor demands that the fictional agency head, Remington Steele, personally supervise the jewels' arrival, putting Laura on the spot.
Episode 2
Tempered Steele
Fri, Oct 8, 198250 mins
An electronics company hires the agency to discover who is stealing their research. After Mr. Steele blows all Ms. Holt's hard work on the case, he has the arrogant new owner install a fifty thousand dollar security system.
Episode 3
Steele Waters Run Deep
Fri, Oct 22, 198249 mins
Laura and Remington are hired by three video game creators to find their missing partner, who has apparently disappeared with a large portion of the company's assets and their newest video game.
Episode 4
Signed, Steeled and Delivered
Fri, Oct 29, 198249 mins
A mild mannered information retrieval agent who is about to be married, asks the help of the Remington Steele Agency when it appears that the CIA is attempting to kill him.
Episode 5
Thou Shalt Not Steele
Fri, Nov 5, 198249 mins
Remington and Laura disagree on whether to provide security for a cursed painting. A woman from Remington's past appears. Laura's interfering mother comes for a visit.
Episode 6
Steele Belted
Fri, Nov 12, 198260 mins
Mr. Steele is suspicious of an attorney who he thinks is paying more attention to Ms. Holt than to the client who is implicated in the theft of valuable coins and murder.
Episode 7
Etched in Steele
Fri, Nov 19, 198260 mins
Mr. Steele's desire to write a book, over Ms. Holt objection, leads them them to the husband of a sleazy romance novelist who fears that a murder is planned for him.
Episode 8
Your Steele the One for Me
Fri, Nov 26, 198249 mins
A traffic accident in the Asian community may be a Yakuza murder.
Episode 9
In the Steele of the Night
Fri, Dec 3, 198260 mins
Laura and Murphy sneak away to a reunion of former colleagues. After Steele discovers that the invitation was also for him, he shows up at the reunion as well. Soon, the reunion's host turns up dead. With old grievances beginning to surface, the guests turn to Steele to solve the crime. Knowing nothing about how to perform an investigation, Steele secretly seeks guidance from Laura during the investigation.
Episode 10
Steele Trap
Fri, Dec 10, 198249 mins
Steele and Laura attend an island party thrown by a wealthy magazine publisher in order to learn why a client recently committed suicide. Soon, the party guests, as well as the host, begin being murdered one by one, until only the leads and the killer remain. At one point, when the situation gets dire, Steele tries to tell Laura more about himself, but Laura dissuades him, telling him that she would prefer not knowing about any crimes he might have committed before assuming the decidedly upstanding role of Remington Steele. The episode ends with Laura, Murphy, and "Ms. Wolf" humorously trying to get Steele to tell them his real name.
Episode 11
Steeling the Show
Fri, Jan 7, 198360 mins
Steele and Laura are hired to track down Veronica Kirk, a former B movie actress from the 1940s. When the actress is located, she informs them that someone is trying to kill her. Initially, all of Kirk's claims are discredited, and it appears that the aging actress is as crazy as Kirk's daughter claims, but as additional clues surface, Steele and Laura realize that someone really is out to get her.
Episode 12
Steele Flying High
Fri, Jan 14, 198360 mins
After Laura presses him into serving as an honorary chairman of a conservation committee devoted to saving the habitat of the bald eagle, Steele stumbles upon the death of the environmental researcher whose report on land area being considered for purchase by Steele's committee is overdue. Believing the death is no accident, Steele, doing his best Bogart impression, and Laura investigate.
Episode 13
A Good Night's Steele
Fri, Jan 21, 198360 mins
Lab security is compromised, records destroyed, morphine is being stolen and a staff physician is missing. Ms. Holt and Mr. Steele infiltrate a hospital sleep clinic as physician and insomniac to solve the mysteries.
Episode 14
Hearts of Steele
Fri, Jan 28, 198360 mins
Ms. Holt and Mr. Steele masquerade as battling (and slightly alcoholic) spouses to discover who is attempting to kill their divorce lawyer client.
Episode 15
To Stop a Steele
Fri, Feb 11, 198349 mins
Ms. Holt is hired (as long as Steele is not involved) by jeweler, Albert Harrod, to locate an stolen flawless 60 carat diamond that had been "hidden" among much less expensive items. Mr. Steele is hired (as long the agency is not involved) by jewel thief, Morrie Singer. He was commissioned to burgle the Harrod gem vault, but found it empty. Who has the hot rocks and are the two different cases involving the same jeweler connected?
Episode 16
Steele Crazy After All These Years
Fri, Feb 18, 198350 mins
A woman from Murphy Michaels' college days seeks his help solving the mystery disappearance of a mutual friend. It appears a poltergeist is murdering former members of her 1970's anti-war group.
Episode 17
Steele Among the Living
Fri, Feb 25, 198360 mins
Remington and Laura set out to find an artist who recently disappeared. During the investigation, they are hounded by second-rate private investigator Leo Blitzman, who plants electronic eavesdropping devices in order to track their every move.
Episode 18
Steele in the News
Fri, Mar 4, 198360 mins
Steele and Laura investigate the murder of two news team personnel at a local television station.
Episode 19
Vintage Steele
Tue, Mar 15, 198360 mins
Laura is reunited with a former lover when he seeks the help of Remington Steele investigations after finding a corpse in vat of wine. The investigation eventually leads to a nearby monastery, where Steele and Laura learn the identity of the corpse as well as the identity of the killer.
Episode 20
Steele's Gold
Tue, Mar 22, 198360 mins
While protecting artifacts of olde California, a murder committed during the exhibits costume party sends Ms. Holt, Mr. Michaels and Mr. Steele on a golden trail to recover the journal of prospector Arnold Dobbs.
Episode 21
Sting of Steele
Tue, Apr 5, 198360 mins
Daniel Chalmers, Steele's mentor, manages to win some money from a crooked casino in England. His associate who was caught before he could leave, told the owner who his partner is. He learns that Chalmers is going L.A. so he follows him. He then hires the agency to locate Chalmers. Steele is not there when he arrives. Chalmers made sure the owner followed him, cause he's pulling another scam with Steele's help. Laura's mother shows up because the guy she was seeing dumped her and when she meets Chalmers, he charms her. Laura is wondering what Steele and his friend are up to and is worried for her mother.
Episode 22
Steele in Circulation
Tue, Apr 12, 198360 mins
Alfred Hollis thinks that he is helping his new friend, Angelica, by "borrowing" $2.3 million slated to be shredded by the Federal Reserve Bank where he works. The money is stolen from him. Mr. Steele stops Alfred from suicide and works with Ms. Holt to recover the money before the bank notices that it is missing.