Remington Steele (1982)

Genre

crime television series, comedy television series

Country

United States

Length

5 seasons, 94 episodes

Rated

TV-PG

Rating

7.1 of 10 from 146 voters

Elsewhere

IMDb

How it feels

Laura Holt is a private investigator who invents a male boss named Remington Steele to attract clients. A charming con man then assumes that identity and works with her as they solve cases together.

playfullightheartedromanticwittyclevercharmingnostalgicamusing

What happens

Remington Steele is an American detective fiction television series co-created by Robert Butler and Michael Gleason. The series, starring Stephanie Zimbalist and Pierce Brosnan, was produced by MTM Enterprises and first broadcast on NBC from October 1, 1982, to February 17, 1987. The series blended the genres of romantic comedy, drama, detective procedural and (toward the end of the series) international political intrigue and espionage. Remington Steele's premise is that Laura Holt, a licensed private investigator (Stephanie Zimbalist), opened a detective agency under her own name but found potential clients refused to hire a woman, no matter how qualified. To solve the problem, Laura invents a fictitious male superior she names Remington Steele. Through a series of events in the first episode, "License to Steele", Pierce Brosnan's character, a former thief and con man (whose real name even he proves not to know and is never revealed), assumes the identity of Remington Steele. Behind the scenes, a power struggle ensues between Laura and Steele as to who is really in charge, while the two carry on a casual romantic relationship. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

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