The BEST episodes of Remington Steele season 1

Every episode of Remington Steele season 1, ranked from best to worst by thousands of votes from fans of the show. The best episodes of Remington Steele season 1!

Try this for a deep, dark secret. The great detective Remington Steele? He doesn't exist. I invented him. Follow: I always loved excitement, so I studied and apprenticed, and put my name on an office. But absolutely nobody knocked down my door. A female private investigator seemed so . . . feminine. So I invented a superior. A decidedly masculine superior. Suddenly, there were cases around the block. It was working like a charm. Until the day he walked in, with his blue eyes and mysterious past. And before I knew it, he assumed Remington Steele's identity. Now I do the work and he takes the bows. It's a dangerous way to live, but as long as people buy it, I can get the job done. We never mix business with pleasure. Well, almost never. I don't even know his real name.

Last Updated: 8/26/2024Network: NBCStatus: Ended
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Sting of Steele
star
9.24
54 votes

#1 - Sting of Steele

Season 1 - Episode 21 - Aired 4/5/1983

Steele's mentor, Daniel Chalmers, comes to California to ask for Steele's help in dealing with a vindictive crook.

Directors: Seymour Robbie
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To Stop a Steele
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8.68
50 votes

#2 - To Stop a Steele

Season 1 - Episode 15 - Aired 2/11/1983

Laura and Steele wind up working for opposite sides of a jewelry theft when the frightened thief looks for help when someone else beats him to the jewel.

Directors: Sidney Hayers
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Vintage Steele
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8.65
52 votes

#3 - Vintage Steele

Season 1 - Episode 19 - Aired 3/15/1983

Laura's former flame asks her help when he discovers a corpse in the trunk of his car, a corpse that keeps returning as they check out a winery he's involved with.

Directors: Larry Elikann
Writer: Susan Baskin
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Steele Crazy After All These Years
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8.41
81 votes

#4 - Steele Crazy After All These Years

Season 1 - Episode 16 - Aired 2/18/1983

Murphy's college homecoming is marred by a murder that awakens memories of a bombing on campus ten years before.

Directors: Don Weis
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Steele Trap
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8.31
85 votes

#5 - Steele Trap

Season 1 - Episode 10 - Aired 12/10/1982

A client commits suicide in the office so Steele and Laura attend a house party on an island owned by a wealthy publisher in his place in an attempt to find out why.

Directors: Sidney Hayers
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Steele in Circulation
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8.04
49 votes

#6 - Steele in Circulation

Season 1 - Episode 22 - Aired 4/12/1983

Steele stops a distraught young man from killing himself then must find a missing girl and a ""borrowed"" $50,000 to keep him from trying again.

Directors: Don Weis
Writer: Lee Zlotoff
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License to Steele
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7.94
206 votes

#7 - License to Steele

Season 1 - Episode 1 - Aired 10/1/1982

Private eye Laura Holt sees her fictional boss Remington Steele suddenly come to life as she is trying to protect a $2 million jewel shipment from assorted thieves.

Directors: Robert Butler
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A Good Night's Steele
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7.86
51 votes

#8 - A Good Night's Steele

Season 1 - Episode 13 - Aired 1/21/1983

Laura and Steele go undercover at a sleep-disorders clinic to investigate the disappearance of morphine and a doctor.

Directors: Seymour Robbie
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Thou Shalt Not Steele
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7.86
128 votes

#9 - Thou Shalt Not Steele

Season 1 - Episode 5 - Aired 11/5/1982

A woman from Steele's past asks him to help her steal a valuable painting that Laura has already agreed to protect.

Directors: Leo Penn
Writer: Lee Zlotoff
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Steele Among the Living
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7.82
51 votes

#10 - Steele Among the Living

Season 1 - Episode 17 - Aired 2/25/1983

Laura searches for a vanished artist whose works have suddenly appreciated in value, for both her husband and the owner of an art gallery.

Directors: Nick Havinga
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Hearts of Steele
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7.82
50 votes

#11 - Hearts of Steele

Season 1 - Episode 14 - Aired 1/28/1983

Steele and Laura pose as a battling couple while they investigate murder attempts against an aggressive divorce lawyer.

Directors: Robert Butler
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Steele Belted
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7.79
145 votes

#12 - Steele Belted

Season 1 - Episode 6 - Aired 11/12/1982

A loser asks the agency to help him, but his alibi witness is found dead in Steele's apartment and his lawyer seems more interested in Laura than in the case.

Directors: Robert Butler
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Tempered Steele
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7.66
179 votes

#13 - Tempered Steele

Season 1 - Episode 2 - Aired 10/8/1982

Laura tackles a case of industrial espionage in a family-owned business while Steele enlists an old pal to help him install a burglar alarm.

Directors: Robert Butler
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In the Steele of the Night
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7.56
85 votes

#14 - In the Steele of the Night

Season 1 - Episode 9 - Aired 12/3/1982

Steele investigates a murder when Laura's former colleagues gather for a reunion and old grievances begin to re-emerge.

Writer: Joel Steiger
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Steeling the Show
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7.49
84 votes

#15 - Steeling the Show

Season 1 - Episode 11 - Aired 1/7/1983

Steele comes to the aid of an aging B-movie queen whose daughter is trying to commit her and who someone is apparently trying to kill.

Directors: Seymour Robbie
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Signed, Steeled, & Delivered
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7.49
96 votes

#16 - Signed, Steeled, & Delivered

Season 1 - Episode 4 - Aired 10/29/1982

Laura and Steele spend the weekend trying to keep a CIA researcher alive and on time for his wedding.

Directors: Robert Butler
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Your Steele the One for Me
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7.47
117 votes

#17 - Your Steele the One for Me

Season 1 - Episode 8 - Aired 11/26/1982

A lesson in detective work for Steele escalates a jaywalking accident into an encounter with Japanese gangsters.

Directors: Thomas Carter
Writer: Lee Zlotoff
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Steele Waters Run Deep
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7.42
134 votes

#18 - Steele Waters Run Deep

Season 1 - Episode 3 - Aired 10/22/1982

A video game genius disappears just before a merger, with $5 million and the plans for his company's latest video game.

Directors: Jeff Bleckner
Writer: Lee Zlotoff
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Steele in the News
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7.36
55 votes

#19 - Steele in the News

Season 1 - Episode 18 - Aired 3/4/1983

Laura and Steele investigate the increasingly dangerous pranks someone is pulling on the news team of a local television station.

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Steele's Gold
star
7.33
51 votes

#20 - Steele's Gold

Season 1 - Episode 20 - Aired 3/22/1983

A prospector's journal stolen during a party leads Laura and Steele on a wild gold hunt through the desert.

Writer: R.J. Stewart
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Etched in Steele
star
7.31
120 votes

#21 - Etched in Steele

Season 1 - Episode 7 - Aired 11/19/1982

Laura and Steele investigate the murder of an author whose steamy novels badly mirror her own married life.

Directors: Stan Lathan
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Steele Flying High
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6.94
49 votes

#22 - Steele Flying High

Season 1 - Episode 12 - Aired 1/14/1983

Steele gets involved with the murder of a naturalist when he serves on a committee to save the bald eagle.

Directors: Nick Havinga
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