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The Worst Episodes of Remington Steele

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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 problem, Laura invents a fictitious male superior whom she names

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  1. #1 Worst Episode
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    Remington Steele Season 3 Episode 15 - Springtime For Steele
    6.9/10(92 votes)

    #1 - Springtime For Steele

    S3:E15

    The unexpected success of singer Rocky Sullivan threatens a little scheme cooked up by her managers and might get her killed.

    Director:Christopher Hibler
    Writer:Unknown

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  2. Remington Steele Season 1 Episode 20 - Steele's Gold
    7.0/10(177 votes)

    #2 - Steele's Gold

    S1:E20

    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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  3. Remington Steele Season 2 Episode 8 - Scene Steelers
    7.0/10(140 votes)

    #3 - Scene Steelers

    S2:E8

    A poisoned TV dinner is the latest move in a long-standing quarrel between the stars of a series of television commercials.

    Directors:Seymour Robbie, Peter Medak
    Writer:Unknown

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  4. Remington Steele Season 2 Episode 13 - High Flying Steele
    7.1/10(134 votes)

    #4 - High Flying Steele

    S2:E13

    A break-in at the agency offices prompts Laura and Remington to go undercover at the circus to unravel a murder that happened some years before.

    Director:Unknown
    Writer:Unknown

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  5. Remington Steele Season 2 Episode 14 - Blood is Thicker Than Steele
    7.1/10(130 votes)

    #5 - Blood is Thicker Than Steele

    S2:E14

    Laura and Steele must protect the rather obnoxious children of a Federal witness.

    Directors:Karen Arthur, Sheldon Larry
    Writers:Lawrence Konner, Michael Gleason

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  6. Remington Steele Season 1 Episode 8 - Your Steele the One For Me
    7.2/10(181 votes)

    #6 - Your Steele the One For Me

    S1:E8

    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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  7. Remington Steele Season 2 Episode 9 - Steele Knuckles and Glass Jaws
    7.2/10(134 votes)

    #7 - Steele Knuckles and Glass Jaws

    S2:E9

    A dead bookie and an abandoned baby reunite Steele with a boxing manager from his past life as the "Kilkenny Kid- Pride of the Pampas."

    Directors:Peter Medak, Don Weis
    Writer:Michael Gleason

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  8. Remington Steele Season 1 Episode 2 - Tempered Steele
    7.3/10(245 votes)

    #8 - Tempered Steele

    S1:E2

    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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  9. Remington Steele Season 1 Episode 12 - Steele Flying High
    7.3/10(166 votes)

    #9 - Steele Flying High

    S1:E12

    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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  10. Remington Steele Season 1 Episode 7 - Etched in Steele
    7.4/10(196 votes)

    #10 - Etched in Steele

    S1:E7

    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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  11. Remington Steele Season 1 Episode 11 - Steeling the Show
    7.4/10(173 votes)

    #11 - Steeling the Show

    S1:E11

    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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  12. Remington Steele Season 1 Episode 17 - Steele Among the Living
    7.4/10(166 votes)

    #12 - Steele Among the Living

    S1:E17

    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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  13. Remington Steele Season 1 Episode 18 - Steele in the News
    7.4/10(166 votes)

    #13 - Steele in the News

    S1:E18

    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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  14. Remington Steele Season 2 Episode 18 - Molten Steele
    7.4/10(126 votes)

    #14 - Molten Steele

    S2:E18

    Laura and Steele try to learn how and why a woman's name and phone number came to be printed in a steamy sex-magazine.

    Director:Christopher Hibler
    Writer:Unknown

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  15. Remington Steele Season 4 Episode 4 - Grappling Steele
    7.4/10(100 votes)

    #15 - Grappling Steele

    S4:E4

    Laura and Steele are hired to protect a professional wrestler who has been receiving death threats and having mysterious ""accidents.""

    Director:Don Weis
    Writer:Unknown

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  16. Remington Steele Season 4 Episode 10 - Steele on the Air
    7.4/10(107 votes)

    #16 - Steele on the Air

    S4:E10

    A traffic reporter dies while aloft in a helicopter and the two prime suspects are the disc jockeys, who were on the air at the time.

    Director:Christopher Hibler
    Writer:Unknown

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  17. Remington Steele Season 5 Episode 2 - The Steele That Wouldn't Die (2)
    7.4/10(91 votes)

    #17 - The Steele That Wouldn't Die (2)

    S5:E2

    Steele is arrested for the murder of Norman Keyes while he and Laura try to honeymoon in Mexico.

    Director:Unknown
    Writer:Unknown

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  18. Remington Steele Season 1 Episode 4 - Signed, Steeled, & Delivered
    7.5/10(220 votes)

    #18 - Signed, Steeled, & Delivered

    S1:E4

    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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  19. Remington Steele Season 1 Episode 6 - Steele Belted
    7.5/10(188 votes)

    #19 - Steele Belted

    S1:E6

    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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  20. Remington Steele Season 1 Episode 16 - Steele Crazy After All These Years
    7.5/10(209 votes)

    #20 - Steele Crazy After All These Years

    S1:E16

    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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  21. Remington Steele Season 2 Episode 10 - My Fair Steele
    7.5/10(126 votes)

    #21 - My Fair Steele

    S2:E10

    Laura and Steele aid a dying man to protect the interests of his kidnapped adopted daughter using her secret twin sister.

    Director:Don Weis
    Writer:Unknown

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  22. Remington Steele Season 2 Episode 11 - Steele Threads
    7.5/10(131 votes)

    #22 - Steele Threads

    S2:E11

    Laura and Steele investigate industrial espionage fueled by a vicious sibling rivalry.

    Directors:Seymour Robbie, Karen Arthur
    Writer:Unknown

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  23. Remington Steele Season 3 Episode 7 - A Pocketful of Steele
    7.5/10(119 votes)

    #23 - A Pocketful of Steele

    S3:E7

    Steele tries to help a street-wise kid who picks his pocket and grabs evidence that a loan shark will do anything to retrieve.

    Director:Harry Harris
    Writer:Brad Kern

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  24. Remington Steele Season 4 Episode 12 - Steele Spawning
    7.5/10(99 votes)

    #24 - Steele Spawning

    S4:E12

    Laura and Steele are hired by the spoiled son of a caviar importer to find a missing shipment before daddy returns home.

    Director:Will Mackenzie
    Writer:Unknown

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  25. Remington Steele Season 4 Episode 21 - Steele Alive and Kicking
    7.5/10(88 votes)

    #25 - Steele Alive and Kicking

    S4:E21

    A man who framed himself so his wife could collect the reward learns he isn't terminally ill and wants Laura and Steele to clear him.

    Director:Stan Lathan
    Writer:Unknown

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Worst Episodes Summary

"Springtime For Steele" is the worst rated episode of "Remington Steele". It scored 6.9/10 based on 92 votes. Directed by Christopher Hibler and written by Unknown, it aired on 1/29/1985. This episode scored 0.1 points lower than the second lowest rated, "Steele's Gold".