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Remington Steele was an American television series first broadcast on the NBC network from 1982 to 1987. The show took an offbeat approach to the standard TV detective genre, with ironic plotting and elements of romantic comedy. Basil Rathbone as Sherlock Holmes Detective fiction is a branch of crime fiction that centers upon the investigation of a crime, usually murder, by a detective, either professional or amateur. ...
Stephanie Zimbalist (born October 8, 1956, New York City, New York) is an American actress. ...
Pierce Brendan Brosnan OBE[1] (born May 16, 1953) is an Irish actor and producer best known for portraying James Bond in four films: GoldenEye (1995), Tomorrow Never Dies (1997), The World Is Not Enough (1999) and Die Another Day (2002). ...
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The following is a list of episodes for the television show, Remington Steele. ...
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Series history Stephanie Zimbalist plays Laura Holt, a private detective who finds that her potential customers are unwilling to hire a woman. Business picks up when she invents a fictitious male superior named Remington Steele. In the first episode, she encounters a Humphrey Bogart-loving thief, played by Pierce Brosnan, who overhears someone calling for "Remington Steele" and, in order to escape a pair of murderous thugs, impulsively assumes the Steele persona. By the end of the episode, he chooses to make the alias permanent. Image File history File links Screen capture from Remington Steele. ...
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Pierce Brendan Brosnan OBE[1] (born May 16, 1953) is an Irish actor and producer best known for portraying James Bond in four films: GoldenEye (1995), Tomorrow Never Dies (1997), The World Is Not Enough (1999) and Die Another Day (2002). ...
Stephanie Zimbalist (born October 8, 1956, New York City, New York) is an American actress. ...
Stephanie Zimbalist (born October 8, 1956, New York City, New York) is an American actress. ...
A private investigator, or PI, is a person who undertakes investigations. ...
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Pierce Brendan Brosnan OBE[1] (born May 16, 1953) is an Irish actor and producer best known for portraying James Bond in four films: GoldenEye (1995), Tomorrow Never Dies (1997), The World Is Not Enough (1999) and Die Another Day (2002). ...
The real name of Brosnan's character was never revealed; in later episodes, it was revealed that Steele did not know his birth name, and his attempts to discover it became a running theme. In the show's pilot episode (which was actually the second episode broadcast), Laura reveals that she took the name "Remington" from a brand of typewriter and "Steele" from the Pittsburgh Steelers. A television pilot is the first episode of an intended television series. ...
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City Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania Team colors Black and Gold Head Coach Mike Tomlin Owner Dan Rooney General manager Kevin Colbert League/Conference affiliations National Football League (1933–present) Eastern Division (1933–1943; 1945–1949) Western Division (1944) American Conference (1950–1952) Eastern Conference (1953–1969) Century Division (1967–1969) American Football...
One running joke throughout the series was "Steele's" penchant for quoting lines from famous movies as ersatz bits of philosophy, and occasionally using techniques from cinematic mysteries to attempt to solve crimes, with variable degrees of success. A number of plotlines were openly inspired by famous film noir thrillers, such as the first-season episode "Steele Flying High" that takes its lead from the Bogart classic The Maltese Falcon. The running gag is a popular hallmark of comedy television shows and movies. ...
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Actors Bogart, Lorre, Astor and Greenstreet in The Maltese Falcon (1941) The Maltese Falcon (1930) is a detective novel by Dashiell Hammett that has been adapted several times for the cinema. ...
The first season included two recurring characters, James Read who played Zimbalist's real partner, Murphy Michaels, and Janet DeMay, their secretary and periodic rescuer, Bernice Foxe (whom Steele always misnamed "Wolf"). Early episodes tended to be simple, focusing on the story without too much flash. (Writer Joel Steiger won an Edgar Award from the Mystery Writers of America for his script for the first-season episode "In The Steele of the Night".) The series tended to focus on the sexual tension between the leads as much as the plots of the episodes themselves. NBC decided that the show was worthy of considerably more attention and re-tooled the format for the second season. James Read in 1985, as young George Hazard James Christopher Read (born July 31, 1953 in Buffalo, New York) is an American television actor. ...
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Read was removed in order to allow the romance between Holt and Steele to develop; his character pined for Holt and the producers felt this was a hindrance, so in the second-season opener Steele and Holt explain to an IRS agent that Murphy had opened his own detective agency in Denver, and that Bernice had resigned to marry a musician. Later in the episode, the nosy IRS agent, Mildred Krebs (Doris Roberts), joined the firm as Bernice's replacement. Mildred proved to be a capable investigator in her own right, and grew to be an amalgam of Bernice, Murphy, and Laura's mother as the series progressed. The "new" Remington Steele was a bigger-budget production with more flash and a more lively opening credits sequence that emphasized the action and adventure of the series. (The third season saw another opening credits sequence introduced that incorporated Doris Roberts.) Doris May Roberts (b. ...
After the success of the season 2 premiere, which was filmed on location in Mexico, NBC gave producers a bigger travel allowance for the third season, resulting in several episodes being filmed in European locations such as Ireland, Malta and France.
The new format lasted for three more years before the series was cancelled at the end of the 1985–86 television season. After several seasons of "teasing" and nothing happening between Holt and Steele the show was deemed to have run its course, and the show was cancelled. Brosnan was then named the newest actor to play James Bond for the film, The Living Daylights. NBC received a barrage of letters urging them to renew the show. The network, which still had Brosnan under contract, chose to renew Remington Steele for another year in order to capitalize on Brosnan becoming the new James Bond; this backfired, and Brosnan subsequently lost the role to Timothy Dalton as Bond film producer Cubby Broccoli stated he did not want Bond to be identified with a current TV series and the producers of Remington Steele refused to release Brosnan from his contract in the light of increased popularity generated by the Bond rumours. Brosnan would finally become 007 in 1995. Another side-effect of the surprise renewal was that Zimbalist was forced to pull out of the production of RoboCop, in which she was originally cast to play Officer Lewis. 1985 (MCMLXXXV) was a common year starting on Tuesday of the Gregorian calendar. ...
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The final abbreviated season consisted of several made-for-TV films broadcast over the course of a few months, including installments filmed on location in places like Ireland. Jack Scalia joined the cast as a Romancing the Stone-inspired rival for Laura's affections. This new format was not very popular with audiences, and low ratings coupled with reports of on-the-set tension (due in part to Brosnan's resentment at losing the Bond role) resulted in the series being cancelled for good in the spring of 1987 (ironically long before the release of Living Daylights). The final scene of the series showed Steele and Laura apparently about to finally consummate their relationship. Jack Scalia (born 1950) is an actor from the 1970s and 1980s. ...
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A North American DVD release of the first season occurred on July 26, 2005, with Season 2 following on November 8, 2005 and Season 3 on April 18, 2006. The Season 1 DVD inadvertently echoed an ongoing joke in the series in that Stephanie Zimbalist—who had top star billing when the show was on the air—was initially omitted from all promotional material connected with its release, as well as the DVD box itself, as Fox Video chose instead to promote Pierce Brosnan as the sole star. Subsequently, a sticker saying "Also starring Stephanie Zimbalist" was added to the packaging as an afterthought. This omission was corrected with the release of the second season which not only gave Zimbalist star billing, but her photograph also appears on the box. Additionally, Zimbalist is featured on the behind-the-scenes featurettes contained therein (having been absent from the Season 1 featurettes). DVD (commonly Digital Versatile Disc or Digital Video Disc) is an optical disc storage media format that can be used for data storage, including movies with high video and sound quality. ...
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The final two seasons of the series were released as a single DVD set in North America on August 15, 2006.[1]
Cast Other recurring actors included: Pierce Brendan Brosnan OBE[1] (born May 16, 1953) is an Irish actor and producer best known for portraying James Bond in four films: GoldenEye (1995), Tomorrow Never Dies (1997), The World Is Not Enough (1999) and Die Another Day (2002). ...
Stephanie Zimbalist (born October 8, 1956, New York City, New York) is an American actress. ...
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James Read in 1985, as young George Hazard James Christopher Read (born July 31, 1953 in Buffalo, New York) is an American television actor. ...
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- Cassandra Harris (Brosnan's real-life wife) playing several different roles, including the recurring Felicia, one of Steele's old flames.
- James Tolkan as Norman Keyes, an insurance investigator bent on proving Steele to be a fraud.
- Efrem Zimbalist Jr. (father of Stephanie Zimbalist) as Daniel Chalmers, a charming con man who was Steele's mentor and surrogate father and whose real name, like Steele's, was unknown.
- Beverly Garland as Abigail Holt, Laura's mother.
- Michael Constantine as George Edward Mulch, a business man with farfetched ideas only looking for fame and fortune.
- Gary Frank as Detective James Jarvis, who suspected Steele was not all he appeared.
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Efrem Zimbalist, Jr. ...
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Trivia - Stephanie Zimbalist co-wrote one episode of the series, "Steele in the Chips."
- The success of the series led to Pierce Brosnan being compared to Roger Moore, and not only in terms of being a possible successor in the role of James Bond. In 1985 there were media reports that Moore was considering producing a movie based upon his old TV series, The Saint, and that Brosnan was a prime candidate to play Simon Templar. This project was eventually given to Val Kilmer.
- Series producer Glenn Gordon Caron went on to create a similar series called Moonlighting which, at times, was considered to be in head-to-head competition with Steele. Brosnan makes a cameo appearance as Remington Steele in the Moonlighting episode "The Straight Poop."
- A featurette on the Season 2 DVD reveals that Laura's house, seen in the first season and blown up in the second episode of the second season, was actually Stephanie Zimbalist's real-life home. (A replica was destroyed.)
- Remington Steele Investigations, Century City Plaza, 2049 (2029) Century Park East, Los Angeles, CA 90067
- In 1984, actor Tom Baker, best known to UK and international audiences as Doctor Who, made a rare American television appearance when he played Interpol agent Anatole Blaylock in the episode '"Hounded Steele."
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The Saint was a long-running British action adventure television series, made by ITC Entertainment, that aired on ITV stations between 1962 and 1969, and on American television as a syndicated show (1962-1967) and on NBC (1967-69). ...
An artists conception of Simon Templar as seen on the cover of a 1983 omnibus edition collecting several early Saint books. ...
Val Edward Kilmer[1] (born December 31, 1959) is an American actor. ...
Glenn Gordon Caron is an American television writer and producer. ...
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Feature film Brosnan has stated that he does not think a Remington Steele movie will be made.[2]
See also List of Remington Steele episodes The following is a list of episodes for the television show, Remington Steele. ...
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