8.5/10109 votesLoading...#1 - Beg, Borrow, or Steele
Season 4 Episode 20 - Aired 3/29/1986
Laura and Steele return from the East to find reports of their murder on the news and Mildred arrested for the crime.
Director: Kevin Inch
Writer: Brad Kern
8.4/10132 votesLoading...#2 - Steele Your Heart Away
Season 3 Episode 6 - Aired 11/13/1984
Laura flies off to help an amnesiac Steele recall why he came to Ireland and why someone is trying to kill him.
Director: Seymour Robbie
Writer: Brian Clemens
8.3/1094 votesLoading...#3 - Steele Searching (2)
Season 4 Episode 2 - Aired 10/1/1985
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.
Director: Christopher Hibler
Writer: Michael Gleason
8.3/1098 votesLoading...#4 - Forged Steele
Season 4 Episode 5 - Aired 11/12/1985
Steele awakens from a 36-hour blackout to find that he has apparently gambled away the agency.
Director: Harry Harris
Writer: N/A
8.2/10101 votesLoading...#5 - Steele Searching (1)
Season 4 Episode 1 - Aired 9/25/1985
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.
Director: Seymour Robbie
Writer: Michael Gleason
8.2/1086 votesLoading...#6 - Steele at Your Service
Season 4 Episode 18 - Aired 3/15/1986
The servants of the wealthy Wellingtons hire Laura and Steele to find out who killed the former butler, who had planned on publishing his memoirs.
Director: N/A
Writer: N/A
8.1/10189 votesLoading...#7 - 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.
Director: Burt Brinckerhoff
Writer: Joel Steiger
8.1/10187 votesLoading...#8 - 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.
Director: N/A
Writer: N/A
8.1/10169 votesLoading...#9 - Red Holt Steele
Season 2 Episode 3 - Aired 9/27/1983
Laura's investigation of corporate foul play in a widow's aircraft company becomes personal when the opposition blows up her home.
Director: Kevin Connor
Writer: Lee David Zlotoff
8.1/10104 votesLoading...#11 - Illustrated Steele
Season 3 Episode 19 - Aired 3/12/1985
A young cartoonist finds his life threatened as the events of his strip start happening to him.
Director: Gabrielle Beaumont
Writer: N/A
8.1/1099 votesLoading...#12 - Steele Trying
Season 3 Episode 21 - Aired 5/7/1985
Mr. Steele's plans for a romantic weekend in San Francisco are upset when his imaginary case turns into a real one.
Director: N/A
Writer: Michael Gleason
8.1/10101 votesLoading...#13 - Premium Steele
Season 4 Episode 7 - Aired 12/3/1985
Laura and Steele try to discover why phony obituaries are being printed about people like poor garlic farmer Lester Shane.
Director: Gabrielle Beaumont
Writer: N/A
8.0/10345 votesLoading...#15 - License to Steele
Season 1 Episode 1 - Aired 10/1/1982
"License to Steele" is the premiere episode of the television series Remington Steele. This episode introduces and sets all the central elements of the series; the truth about Laura's fictional boss, the mysterious character posing as Steele, the romantic tension, Steele's love of old movies, et cetera.
Director: Robert Butler
Writer: Michael Gleason
8.0/10174 votesLoading...#16 - 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.
Director: Seymour Robbie
Writer: Michael Gleason
8.0/10108 votesLoading...#17 - Maltese Steele
Season 3 Episode 3 - Aired 10/16/1984
Laura and Steele search for a missing body on the island of Malta, but find an insignificant piece of brass that could get them killed.
Director: Seymour Robbie
Writer: N/A
8.0/10101 votesLoading...#18 - Now You Steele It, Now You Don't
Season 3 Episode 18 - Aired 3/5/1985
Laura feels used when she discovers an importer has killed himself after she delivers a message to him.
Director: John Tracy
Writer: N/A
7.9/10160 votesLoading...#20 - Steele Framed
Season 2 Episode 5 - Aired 10/18/1983
Remington is convinced someone is out to frame him while, when responding to a mysterious phone call, he accidentally hits and kills a man who has been blackmailing him.
Director: N/A
Writer: N/A
7.9/1095 votesLoading...#21 - Steele Blushing
Season 4 Episode 3 - Aired 10/22/1985
Laura protects a photographer and his files from angry clients and the FBI even after her doctored photo appears in a porno magazine.
Director: Alexander Singer
Writer: N/A
7.9/1087 votesLoading...#22 - Santa Claus is Coming to Steele
Season 4 Episode 14 - Aired 2/18/1986
One of the phony Santas from the ill-fated Christmas party returns to persuade witness not to testify against him.
Director: Seymour Robbie
Writer: Michael Gleason
7.8/10177 votesLoading...#24 - 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.
Director: Seymour Robbie
Writer: N/A
7.8/10165 votesLoading...#25 - 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.
Director: Sidney Hayers
Writer: Glenn Gordon Caron
The Best Episodes of Remington Steele
Every episode of Remington Steele ranked from best to worst. Let's dive into the Best Episodes of Remington Steele!
Laura Holt, a licensed private detective, opens a detective agency but finds that potential clients refuse to hire a woman, however qualified. To solve the...
Genres:DramaFamilyComedy
Network:NBC
Best Episodes Summary
"Beg, Borrow, or Steele" is the best rated episode of "Remington Steele". It scored 8.5/10 based on 109 votes. Directed by Kevin Inch and written by Brad Kern, it aired on 3/29/1986. This episode scored 0.1 points higher than the second highest rated, "Steele Your Heart Away".
