Remington Steele | |
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Narrated by | Stephanie Zimbalist in character as Laura Holt (Season 1 titles only) |
Theme music composer | Henry Mancini; incidental music by Richard Lewis Warren |
Opening theme | "The Remington Steele Theme", composed by Henry Mancini |
Ending theme | "Laura Holt's Tune", composed by Henry Mancini |
Country of origin | United States |
Original language | English |
No. of seasons | 5 |
No. of episodes | 94 (list of episodes) |
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Executive producer | Michael Gleason |
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Production location | Los Angeles |
Running time | 60 minutes (including commercials) |
Production company | MTM Enterprises |
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Network | NBC |
Release | October 1, 1982 February 17, 1987 | –
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Remington Steele is an American television series co-created by Robert Butler and Michael Gleason. The series, starring Stephanie Zimbalist and Pierce Brosnan, was produced by MTM Enterprises and first broadcast on NBC from October 1, 1982, to February 17, 1987. The series blended the genres of romantic comedy, drama, detective procedural and (towards the end of the series) international political intrigue and espionage.
Remington Steele's premise is that Laura Holt, a licensed private investigator (Stephanie Zimbalist) opened a detective agency under her own name but found potential clients refused to hire a woman, no matter how qualified. To solve the problem, Laura invents a fictitious male superior she names Remington Steele. Through a series of events in the first episode, "License to Steele", Pierce Brosnan's character, a former thief and con man (whose real name even he proves not to know and is never revealed), assumes the identity of Remington Steele. Behind the scenes, a power struggle ensues between Laura and Steele as to who is really in charge, while the two carry on a casual romantic relationship.
Try this for a deep, dark secret: the great detective, Remington Steele? He doesn't exist. I invented him. Follow. I always loved excitement, so I studied, and apprenticed, and put my name on an office. But absolutely nobody knocked down my door. A female private investigator seemed so... "feminine". So I invented a superior, a decidedly "masculine" superior. Suddenly, there were cases around the block. It was working like a charm...until the day HE walked in, with his blue eyes and mysterious past. And before I knew it, he assumed Remington Steele's identity. Now I do the work and he takes the bows. It's a dangerous way to live, but as long as people buy it, I can get the job done. We never mixed business with pleasure. Well, almost never. I don't even know his real name!
Laura Holt's opening narration