The BEST episodes written by Michael Gleason

#1 - Sting of Steele

Remington Steele - Season 1 - Episode 21

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

#2 - The 42nd Street Cavalry

McCloud - Season 5 - Episode 4

McCloud's lackluster assignments make him grouse, so Chief Clifford sends him to the Mounted Unit. A fence sets up a munitions theft at a National Guard Armory (USMC) for a revolutionary group, and the cavalry is on its way.

#3 - Steele Away with Me (1)

Remington Steele - Season 2 - Episode 1

Laura returns to Acapulco after a dying man leaves a tuna stuffed with diamonds and wrapped in an Acapulco newspaper on her doorstep. Steele joins her while trying to avoid a dogged IRS investigator, Mildred Krebs.

#4 - Santa Claus is Coming to Steele

Remington Steele - Season 4 - Episode 14

One of the phony Santas from the ill-fated Christmas party returns to persuade witness not to testify against him.

#5 - The Disappearance

The Big Valley - Season 3 - Episode 8

A frantic Victoria searches for Audra, who has disappeared from a hotel and who no one claims to have seen.

#6 - Steele Searching (2)

Remington Steele - Season 4 - Episode 2

#7 - The Thrill is Gone

Martial Law - Season 2 - Episode 18

A new designer drug hits the street. It is called 'Thrill' and it breaks down your inhibitions and imbues you with a euphoric sense of invincibility. Sammo and Tyrell have to deal with a gang of 'Thrill junkies' when a traffic jam they are in is attacked. They stop the gang but Sammo's leg is broken in the process. He ends up in the same hospital as Ludlow Teale, the government's chief negotiator for the Middle East. Kyle Strode returns to town and Grace continues trying to get inside his organization so that she can find Lone Wei. The MCU investigations reveal that Scorpio has something to do with 'Thrill' and they plan a major operation to show it's potential.

#8 - Steele Trap

Remington Steele - Season 1 - Episode 10

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.

#9 - Steele Trying

Remington Steele - Season 3 - Episode 21

Mr. Steele's plans for a romantic weekend in San Francisco are upset when his imaginary case turns into a real one.

#10 - Steele Away with Me (2)

Remington Steele - Season 2 - Episode 2

#11 - The Man on the Couch

My Favorite Martian - Season 1 - Episode 6

To get some rarefied air, Martin goes atop a water tower. Passersby, including the police, think he's a jumper and he's promptly sent to the psychiatric ward of the hospital. Martin thinks he can quickly exit the hospital by reading the psychiatrist's mind and tell him what he wants to hear. However the psychiatrist, Dr. Harvey Bonnett, has other things on his mind, like his troubled marriage. Ultimately, Dr. Bonnett becomes the patient and Martin the doctor.

#12 - Steele Searching (1)

Remington Steele - Season 4 - Episode 1

Laura races with Scotland Yard to locate Steele, who has become involved in murder while searching for a man with a clue to his past. Steele masquerades as an assassin hired by Daniel Chalmers to kill the Earl of Claridge.

#13 - Elementary Steele

Remington Steele - Season 2 - Episode 22

Someone is using mystery buffs signed up to solve a make-believe case to find a murderous embezzler.

#14 - The Solid Gold Swingers

McCloud - Season 4 - Episode 2

While answering a high-rise apartment burglary call, McCloud stumbles on a body, which then disappears. The case leads to a VIP madam under indictment, whose girls are apparently being murdered by a serial killer.

#15 - The Colorado Cattle Caper

McCloud - Season 4 - Episode 4

Modern-day cattle rustlers ship lethally contaminated beef to New York.

#16 - The Sins of the Father Episode

Mr. & Mrs. Smith - Season 1 - Episode 13

Mr. Smith disappears during a mission and leaves Mrs. Smith hanging. She escapes and begins to search for the missing Mr. Smith. Meanwhile, he finds out that his son has been kidnapped and to get him back he must kill a man.

#17 - License to Steele

Remington Steele - Season 1 - Episode 1

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.

#18 - Woman of Steele

Remington Steele - Season 2 - Episode 20

A woman from Steele's past arranges for the agency to handle the security on an exhibition at an art museum, and contacts Steele with a desperate plea for help.

#19 - Pardon My Past

Charmed - Season 2 - Episode 14

Phoebe experiences flashes of one of her past lives when she and her sisters were cousins in the 1920s. However, in this past life, Phoebe was evil and power mad and a curse was bestowed upon her that could affect future Phoebe's life.

#20 - Scene Steelers

Remington Steele - Season 2 - Episode 8

A poisoned TV dinner is the latest move in a long-standing quarrel between the stars of a series of television commercials.

#21 - Ghosts

Lois & Clark: The New Adventures of Superman - Season 4 - Episode 9

A real estate agent's plan to frighten people into selling their homes spirals out of control when he accidently summons the spirit of a murdered housewife.

#22 - Steele Belted

Remington Steele - Season 1 - Episode 6

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.

#23 - Incident of the Portrait

Rawhide - Season 5 - Episode 2

Frank Trask enters the Curtis' at night through a window. He's hungry and takes a picture of a woman. Raymond Curtis hears a noise and checks it outs. Trask knocks him out. Marion, the woman in the picture, ""sees"" Trask leave.

#24 - The Nowhere Man

Cannon - Season 1 - Episode 13

Should the weapons manufacturer be judged by its bookeeper?

#25 - Tempered Steele

Remington Steele - Season 1 - Episode 2

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.

#26 - A Flock of Trouble

The Big Valley - Season 3 - Episode 3

To pay off a gambling debt, Josiah Freeman pawns off his flock of sheep on Nick.

#27 - Dancer, Prancer, Donner and Steele

Remington Steele - Season 4 - Episode 9

The agency Christmas party is interrupted by three gun-wielding Santas who take everyone hostage and threaten to blow up the building.

#28 - Trial by Magic

Charmed - Season 4 - Episode 11

While Phoebe performs jury duty in a murder case, she is hit with a premonition about the real killer, and must convince the rest of the jury that the defendant is not guilty without exposing magic. Meanwhile, Piper, Paige and Leo try help Phoebe find the real murderer, but they stumble upon a gang of demons involved and they must solve the crime and keep Paige's friend out of danger before Phoebe gets thrown off the jury.

#29 - Steele Eligible

Remington Steele - Season 2 - Episode 12

Steele is named to the five most eligible bachelors in Los Angeles list but it proves a dubious honor. Someone is trying to kill them all off.

#30 - Steele in the News

Remington Steele - Season 1 - Episode 18

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

#31 - The Barefoot Stewardess Caper

McCloud - Season 3 - Episode 2

A bevy of international stewardesses have a second career as cat burglars.

#32 - How to Murder Your Lawyer

Diagnosis Murder - Season 2 - Episode 19

After Steve's night school law teacher is nearly run down in the parking lot, he and a paralegal investigate shady dealings in their law firm.

#33 - A Nose for News

My Favorite Martian - Season 1 - Episode 36

Tim gets mad at Martin for "disappearing and spying" on him while he has a date at the apartment. To make up for this, Martin covers for Tim when he goes missing from the office and Mr. Burns calls the apartment looking for him. Martin goes on the story in his place and phones back to Mr. Burns with an exclusive using Tim's voice. Unfortunately, Mr. Burns sees Tim in the office when he is also on the talking to him on the phone; Tim confesses that it is Martin on the phone covering for him. Also unfortunately, the exclusive is regarding an old friend of Mr. Burns', Ambassodor Lloyd Thomas, who decides to sue the paper for invasion of privacy because of the story. Martin finds out that the suit is in part due to some old animosity between Mr. Burns and Ambassador Thomas, and thus Martin decides to try and mend some old wounds.

#34 - Death in the Daytime

Diagnosis Murder - Season 2 - Episode 21

Amanda wins a guest role on The Young and the Restless and walks right into a murder.

#35 - The Bela Lugosi Blues

Diagnosis Murder - Season 2 - Episode 13

Mark has some unorthodox theories when several dead bodies are found drained of blood with puncture marks on their neck.

#36 - Love Kills

She Spies - Season 2 - Episode 8

Cassie and Cross go undercover as a married couple at an exclusive couples workshop to root out a husband wife team of assassins.