Season 1

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  8.0/10361 votes

  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

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  7.2/10242 votes

  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.

  Director: Robert Butler

  Writer: Michael Gleason

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  7.7/10233 votes

  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.

  Director: Jeff Bleckner

  Writer: Unknown

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  7.4/10218 votes

  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.

  Director: Robert Butler

  Writer: Glenn Gordon Caron

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  7.8/10221 votes

  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.

  Director: Leo Penn

  Writer: Unknown

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  7.5/10184 votes

  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.

  Director: Robert Butler

  Writer: Michael Gleason

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  7.4/10192 votes

  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.

  Director: Stan Lathan

  Writer: Glenn Gordon Caron

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  7.2/10176 votes

  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.

  Director: Thomas Carter

  Writer: Unknown

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  8.2/10197 votes

  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

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  7.8/10192 votes

  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.

  Director: Sidney Hayers

  Writer: Michael Gleason

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  7.3/10168 votes

  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.

  Director: Seymour Robbie

  Writer: Peter Lefcourt

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  7.3/10163 votes

  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.

  Director: Unknown

  Writer: Unknown

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  7.9/10183 votes

  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: Unknown

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  7.7/10179 votes

  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.

  Director: Robert Butler

  Writer: Glenn Gordon Caron

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  7.9/10172 votes

  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

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  7.5/10205 votes

  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.

  Director: Don Weis

  Writer: Unknown

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  7.4/10163 votes

  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.

  Director: Unknown

  Writer: Unknown

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  7.4/10163 votes

  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.

  Director: Burt Brinckerhoff

  Writer: Michael Gleason

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  8.2/10197 votes

  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: Unknown

  Writer: Unknown

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  6.9/10174 votes

  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.

  Director: Burt Brinckerhoff

  Writer: Unknown

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  8.0/10182 votes

  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

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  7.8/10164 votes

  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.

  Director: Don Weis

  Writer: Unknown