Remington Steele Episo de Guide Version Compiled by Raymond Chen Revision history Version Septemb er Version Version Version Version x February internal Version Decemb er c Copyright Raymond Chen all rights reserved Permission is granted to copy and repro duce this do cument provided that it b e distributed in its entirety including this page No charge may b e made for this do cument b eyond the costs of printing and distribution No mo dications may b e made to this do cument Preface This episo de guide b egan as a collection of private notes on the program Remington Steele which I had kept while watching the show on NBC in the eighties Yes I take notes on most television programs I watch Call me analretentive Sometime in early I got the crazy idea of creating an episo de guide and the rst edition of this guide eventually app eared later that year Still not satised and unable to recall the plots of most of the episo des b eyond the sketchiest of descriptions I decided to give my feeble brain cells a breather and write out more detailed plot summaries as I watched the episo des I consider using a VCR to b e cheating and b esides you can read a plot summary faster than you can watch a tap e There you have it the confessions of a neurotic televisionwatcher Not in the printed guide but available in the guide source is a summary of musical themes and a list of quotes Remington Steele still gets my vote for the show with the b est incidental music No other show I know comes even close The quotes you can add to your favorite textual database of quotes to help you nd just the right signature quote for your netarticles I wish to extend my thanks to the following p eople who have in some way or other contributed to this guide Dave Cavalli Violet K Jen Phyllis Mar Kenneth E Staan Arlene M Osb ourne and Gary Will Although the eects of their work might not always b e visible in the current version of the guide their help during the development of the guide is greatly appreciated All corrections and mo dications should b e sent to rjcmathprincetonedu My favorite episo des Probably Vintage Steele and Love Among the Steele Enjoy rjc Decemb er iii Table of Contents Remington Steele Episo de Guide Version Contents Preface iii Intro duction vii First Season License to Steele Temp ered Steele Steele Waters Run Deep Signed Steeled Delivered Thou Shalt Not Steele Steele Belted Etched in Steele Your Steele the One for Me In the Steele of the Night Steele Trap Steeling the Show Steele Flying High A Go o d Nights Steele Hearts of Steele To Stop a Steele Steele Crazy After All These Years Steele Among the Living Steele in the News Vintage Steele Steeles Gold Sting of Steele Steele in Circulation Second Season Steele Away With Me Part Steele Away With Me Part Red Holt Steele Altared Steele Steele Framed A Steele at Any Price Love Among the Steele Scene Steelers Steele Knuckles and Glass Jaws My Fair Steele Steele Threads Steele Eligible High Flying Steele Blo o d is Thicker than Steele Steele Sweet on You Elegy in Steele Small Town Steele Molten Steele Dreams of Steele Woman of Steele Hounded Steele Elementary Steele iv Remington Steele Episo de Guide Version Table of Contents Third Season Steele at It Lofty Steele Maltese Steele Second Base Steele Blue Blo o ded Steele Steele Your Heart Away APo cketful of Steele Puzzled Steele Cast in Steele Breath of Steele Lets Steele a Plot Gourmet Steele Stronger Than Steele Have I Got a Steele for You Springtime for Steele Steele in the Family Diced Steele Now You Steele It Now You Dont Illustrated Steele Steele in the Chips Steele Trying Steele of Approval Fourth Season Steele Searching Part Steele Searching Part Steele Blushing Grappling Steele Forged Steele Corn Fed Steele Premium Steele Coee Tea or Steele Dancer Prancer Donner and Steele Steele on the Air Steele Inc Steele Spawning Suburban Steele Santa Claus is Coming to Steele Steele Blue Yonder Sensitive Steele Steele in the Sp otlight Steele at Your Service Steele in the Running Beg Borrow or Steele Steele Alive and Kicking Bonds of Steele Fifth Season The Steele That Wouldnt Die Part The Steele That Wouldnt Die Part Steele Hanging In There Part Steele Hanging In There Part Steeled With a Kiss Part Steeled With a Kiss Part A Actors List B Basic List of Episo des C Creative Credits D Dates of Broadcast E Esoterica F Film Annotations v Table of Contents Remington Steele Episo de Guide Version This page left blank vi Intro duction This guide has b een assembled as a reference to the television series Remington Steele It has b een designed for use by the fans of the series The guide contains ve chapters one for each season of the program The episo des are listed in the order they were originally aired by NBC b etween and This need not b e the order they app ear in syndication In particular the placement of the episo de Coee Tea or Steele is op en to debate since it was originally aired out of sequence Also the episo des Steele Away With Me The Steele That Wouldnt Die and Steele With a Kiss originally aired as single twohour episo des even though they typically air as two onehour episo des in syndication The format of each episo de is as follows Episo de numb er Episo de Title Pro duction co de Writer Director Air Episo de description as printed in TV Guide dates Character actor Episo de synopsis Movies Movie title other citation information Notes Other comments If a separate teleplay credit was given the writer of the teleplay is given in parentheses after the writers name Beware that some of the Notes entries contain comments which are my p ersonal opinions This guide started out as a collection of private notes If they disturb you go ahead and scribble them out with a magic marker The rst app endix is a list of all actors which have app eared on the program Each entry is of the form Actors name Character Episo de Title Episo de numb er The episo de numb er is provided to facilitate nding the particular episo de Observe that the episo de numb er app ears in the upp erleft corner of each verso so a thumbthrough should lo cate the episo de quickly The list of titles can b e obtained from the second app endix which contains the episo des sorted alpha b etically by title and numerically by pro duction co de To see the episo des sorted by air date consult the table of contents The third app endix is a list of directors and writers In the fourth app endix each panel denotes one broadcast season The rst column is the air date the second the pro duction co de of the episo de blank if Remington Steele did not air and suxed by an R if the episo de was a rep eat followed by the title If Remington Steele did not air that day the replacement programming is shown The nal column highlights the several changes of time slot The fth app endix is a relatively unorganized clump of random trivial tidbits vii Intro duction Remington Steele Episo de Guide Version The nal app endix is a list of all lm citations Each lm citation is of the form Movie Title episo de numb er Character Line of dialog Additional comments A dash indicates the movie title when it app ears in dialog viii First Season Try this for a deep dark secret The great detective Remington Steele He do esnt exist I invented him Follow I always loved excitement so I studied and apprenticed and put my name on an oce But absolutely nob o dy kno cked down my do or A female private investigator seemed so feminine So I invented a sup erior A decidedly masculine sup erior Suddenly there were cases around the blo ck It was working like a charm Until the day he walked in with his blue eyes and mysterious past And b efore I knew it he assumed Remington Steeles identity Now I do the work and he takes the b ows Its a dangerous way to live but as long as p eople buy it I can get the job done We never mix business with pleasure Well almost never I dont even know his real name Starring Stephanie Zimbalist as Laura