The Best Episodes of Remington Steele Season 1

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

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

"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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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Writer: N/A

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

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

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

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

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

Director: Thomas Carter

Writer: N/A

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