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.

Laura and Steele investigate the murder of an author whose steamy novels badly mirror her own married life.

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

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.

A video game genius disappears just before a merger, with $5 million and the plans for his company's latest video game.

"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.

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.

Laura and Steele spend the weekend trying to keep a CIA researcher alive and on time for his wedding.

A woman from Steele's past asks him to help her steal a valuable painting that Laura has already agreed to protect.

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.

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

A prospector's journal stolen during a party leads Laura and Steele on a wild gold hunt through the desert.

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.

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

Steele investigates a murder when Laura's former colleagues gather for a reunion and old grievances begin to re-emerge.

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.

Steele gets involved with the murder of a naturalist when he serves on a committee to save the bald eagle.

Laura and Steele go undercover at a sleep-disorders clinic to investigate the disappearance of morphine and a doctor.

Steele and Laura pose as a battling couple while they investigate murder attempts against an aggressive divorce lawyer.

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.

Murphy's college homecoming is marred by a murder that awakens memories of a bombing on campus ten years before.

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