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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 1 Episode 20 - Steele's Gold
    7.0/10(189 votes)

    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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  2. Remington Steele Season 2 Episode 8 - Scene Steelers
    7.0/10(152 votes)

    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:Peter Medak, Seymour Robbie
    Writer:Unknown

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  3. Remington Steele Season 3 Episode 15 - Springtime For Steele
    7.0/10(98 votes)

    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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  4. Remington Steele Season 1 Episode 8 - Your Steele the One For Me
    7.2/10(194 votes)

    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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  5. Remington Steele Season 2 Episode 13 - High Flying Steele
    7.2/10(145 votes)

    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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  6. Remington Steele Season 2 Episode 14 - Blood is Thicker Than Steele
    7.2/10(141 votes)

    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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  7. Remington Steele Season 1 Episode 2 - Tempered Steele
    7.3/10(266 votes)

    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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  8. Remington Steele Season 2 Episode 9 - Steele Knuckles and Glass Jaws
    7.3/10(144 votes)

    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:Don Weis, Peter Medak
    Writer:Michael Gleason

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  9. Remington Steele Season 2 Episode 18 - Molten Steele
    7.3/10(135 votes)

    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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  10. Remington Steele Season 1 Episode 7 - Etched in Steele
    7.4/10(210 votes)

    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(189 votes)

    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 12 - Steele Flying High
    7.4/10(182 votes)

    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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  13. Remington Steele Season 4 Episode 4 - Grappling Steele
    7.4/10(104 votes)

    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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  14. Remington Steele Season 4 Episode 10 - Steele on the Air
    7.4/10(113 votes)

    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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  15. Remington Steele Season 1 Episode 4 - Signed, Steeled, & Delivered
    7.5/10(238 votes)

    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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  16. Remington Steele Season 1 Episode 17 - Steele Among the Living
    7.5/10(181 votes)

    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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  17. Remington Steele Season 1 Episode 18 - Steele in the News
    7.5/10(183 votes)

    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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  18. Remington Steele Season 2 Episode 10 - My Fair Steele
    7.5/10(138 votes)

    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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  19. Remington Steele Season 2 Episode 11 - Steele Threads
    7.5/10(141 votes)

    S2:E11

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

    Directors:Karen Arthur, Seymour Robbie
    Writer:Unknown

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  20. Remington Steele Season 2 Episode 20 - Woman of Steele
    7.5/10(134 votes)

    S2:E20

    A woman from Steele's past arranges for the agency to handle the security on an exhibition at an art museum, and contacts Steele with a desperate plea for help.

    Directors:Christopher Hibler, Don Weis
    Writer:Unknown

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  21. Remington Steele Season 5 Episode 2 - The Steele That Wouldn't Die (2)
    7.5/10(95 votes)

    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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  22. Remington Steele Season 5 Episode 3 - Steele Hanging in There (1)
    7.5/10(89 votes)

    S5:E3

    Their phony marriage faces a real test when a woman from Steele's past shows up, pretending to be married to him and the archaeologist from Mexico returns, this time as an immigration officer. In London, Tony blackmails Steele into delivering a dangerous package, while Laura delves into Shannon's past.

    Director:Christopher Hibler
    Writer:Unknown

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  23. Remington Steele Season 1 Episode 6 - Steele Belted
    7.6/10(205 votes)

    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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  24. Remington Steele Season 1 Episode 16 - Steele Crazy After All These Years
    7.6/10(212 votes)

    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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  25. Remington Steele Season 2 Episode 4 - Altared Steele
    7.6/10(167 votes)

    S2:E4

    A terrified client doesn't know his name, why someone is trying to kill him nor those five women claiming to be his widows.

    Director:Alexander Singer
    Writer:Unknown

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Worst Episodes Summary

"Steele's Gold" is the worst rated episode of "Remington Steele". It scored 7/10 based on 189 votes. Directed by Burt Brinckerhoff and written by Unknown, it aired on 3/22/1983. This episode scored 0.0 points lower than the second lowest rated, "Scene Steelers".