8.0/10345 votes#1 - 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
7.2/10229 votes#2 - 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
7.7/10225 votes#3 - 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: N/A
7.4/10210 votes#4 - 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
7.8/10212 votes#5 - 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: N/A
7.5/10176 votes#6 - 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
7.4/10185 votes#7 - 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
7.2/10170 votes#8 - 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: N/A
8.1/10189 votes#9 - 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
7.7/10183 votes#10 - 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
7.3/10159 votes#11 - 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
7.3/10157 votes#12 - 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: N/A
Writer: N/A
7.8/10177 votes#13 - 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
7.6/10169 votes#14 - 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
7.8/10165 votes#15 - 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
7.5/10196 votes#16 - 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: N/A
7.4/10156 votes#17 - 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: N/A
Writer: N/A
7.4/10154 votes#18 - 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
8.1/10187 votes#19 - 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
7.0/10166 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.
Director: Burt Brinckerhoff
Writer: N/A
8.0/10174 votes#21 - 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
7.8/10156 votes#22 - 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: N/A
The Best Episodes of Remington Steele Season 1
Every episode of Remington Steele Season 1 ranked from best to worst. Discover the Best Episodes of Remington Steele Season 1!
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Season 1 Ratings Summary
"License to Steele" is the best rated episode of "Remington Steele" season 1. It scored 8/10 based on 345 votes. Directed by Robert Butler and written by Michael Gleason, it aired on 10/1/1982. This episode is rated 0.8 points higher than the second-best, "Tempered Steele".