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Remington Steele
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A 1982–87 NBC series about private investigator Laura Holt and the handsome, nameless conman with a fascination for film noir who strolled into her life and very publicly took over the identity of her fictional "employer". To the surprise of both Laura and her partners Murphy Michaels and Bernice Fox, the conman with five passports (all in the names of Humphrey Bogart roles) turns out to be not too bad at detective work, although the degree to which he relies on the plots of old movies as his inspiration infuriates just about everyone.After the first season, Murphy and Bernice were replaced by a single character, Mildred Krebs, to allow more stories to focus on the growing chemistry and hesitant romance between Laura and "Steele". Eventually Steele became a considerable investigator in his own right, relying less on his knowledge of movies and more on the experience he'd gained with Laura.Remington Steele made a lasting star of Pierce Brosnan and won him the role of James Bond. Not without some controversy, though; Brosnan was cast in The Living Daylights after Steele had been cancelled, but as soon as the announcement had been made, NBC uncanceled the show at the very last minute, using contractual obligation to force Brosnan to give up the role and return to TV. Timothy Dalton ended up playing Bond in that film, and Brosnan had to wait for almost ten years to play Bond in 1995's GoldenEye. The show also made a lesser star of Stephanie Zimbalist (daughter of Efrem Zimbalist Jr.) for the duration of its run.Originally written as a dramedy, with Steele intended to be a comic-relief figurehead while the focus was on Laura, but Brosnan's charisma and the chemistry between him and Zimbalist took over the plots.One of the show's more prominent quirks was the fact that it always used the word "Steele" as part of every episode title. At first these were clever and/or amusing puns often related to the plot — "Steele Crazy After All These Years", "You're Steele The One For Me" — but as time went on the writers ran out of good 'steel/steal/still' puns, and took to just inserting the word into titles, seemingly at random ("Small Town Steele"). In one episode they managed to use both characters' names ("Red Holt Steele").The trope The Real Remington Steele, while not occurring in the show, takes its name from it. | |
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Strictly Professional Relationship | |
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Strictly Professional Relationship: The cool-to-warm variant occurs with Remington Steele, private investigator. When Laura Holt put her detective skills on the market, she got no takers. Laura then created the fictional Remington Steele as her "boss". Soon a handsome fellow came by, and announced that he was, in fact, Remington Steele. Laura bristled at idea at first. However, Steele soon proved intuitive and useful as a partner. A slow thaw pervaded subsequent episodes. | |
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No Celebrities Were Harmed: Conrad Janis's character in "Stronger than Steele" is totally not Clayton Moore. | |
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Fugitive Arc: Major Descoine twice engineers this for the title character: Once, Descoine frames Steele for a hit-and-run death. Steele and Laura have to try to solve the case while avoiding a plainclothes cop named Jarvis. In a later episode, Descoine calls the police claiming that Steele and Laura threatened to kill him at a particular place at noon; he himself promises them they will be dead by noon that same day, then leads them on a merry chase. The trio arrive at the designated spot, where the cop tries to arrest Laura and Steele; Laura and Steele disarm the cop and steal his police cruiser to get away and resume their pursuit of Descoine. | |
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Pursued Protagonist: "Steele Crazy After All These Years" begins with intercuts between a man running across a campus and looking over his shoulder and a woman lounging around her house. The man reaches the house and pounds on the door, begging to be let in, but when the woman responds to the cries, he is gone and his body is found a few scenes later. "Altared Steele" begins with an amnesiac man with a head wound trying to calm down a woman who finds him in her house, then running outside, driving off, and being followed first on foot, and then in a car, by a woman who tries to shoot him. In "Elementary Steele", two costumed men break into a woman's apartment, causing her to flee into the street wearing a Modesty Towel and ride off on a motorcycle as they follow. However, it turns out that her pursuers were being manipulated into thinking it was part of a novelty company's mystery scenario and aren't malicious. | |
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Heroic BSoD: Steele undergoes a bit of one when he mistakenly thinks he's run someone over with a car. | |
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Parents for a Day: Laura and Steele take care of her nieces and nephew in "Suburban Steele". | |
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Or My Name Isn't... | |
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Or My Name Isn't...: In "Steele Belted": | |
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Tall, Dark, and Handsome: Steele again. | |
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Married at Sea: The producers royally pissed off many Shippers when they had Remington attempting to enter into a Citizenship Marriage with a random hooker, then had him and Laura wed at the end of the episode by a sea captain in a surly ceremony that wasn't anything near the consummation that many fans of the show were hoping for. This trend carried on to the ending, with the result being that Pierce Brosnan publicly stated that the ending of the series in many ways was a disservice to the fans and the characters. | |
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Invented Individual | |
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Invented Individual: One episode finds the detectives searching for a video game exec named George Kaplan. They find that Kaplan does not exist, and was part of the company's scheme to avoid a takeover. Remington Steele himself, until the role is filled. | |
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Cousin Oliver | |
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Cousin Oliver: rare adult version (in terms of audience reaction) with the addition of Tony Roselli in the abbreviated final season. | |
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Wrong Genre Savvy: Steele is a classic movie buff, and every case he and Laura Holt solve together reminds him of a classic movie. Often the wrong one.... | |
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Gentleman Thief | |
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Gentleman Thief: Steele was this kind of character before assuming his role as private investigator. | |
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Baseball Episode: "Second Base Steele". | |
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The Un-Reveal: Steele asks his father what his real name is... only to find that his father has just died. Given the circumstances surrounding Steele's birth as told to him by his father, his mother died in labour and he was in jail at the time, it's quite possible that Steele doesn't actually have a name, or that his name is Harry because that's what his dad called him. | |
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Unique Pilot Title Sequence: The first episode has Laura tell a slightly different story to since at this point she hasn't met the man who would take over Remington Steele's persona. | |
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Sesquipedalian Smith: Remington Steele. | |
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Chained Heat | |
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Chained Heat: Holt and Steele in "Steele Your Heart Away". | |
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Undead Tax Exemption: The eponymous character is actually a made up persona taken over by a con man. He had no problems the first season, but the second season starts out with a visit from the IRS, curious about the lack of about twenty odd years of income tax filings. | |
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Thou Shalt Not Kill | |
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Thou Shalt Not Kill: An episode during one of the early seasons has Steele believing he has run a man over with his car and killed him reveals that up to that point, despite his legally shady behavior and mysterious past, he'd never actually killed anyone before. | |
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Ooh, Me Accent's Slipping | |
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Ooh, Me Accent's Slipping: a bizarre example. Both Steele and Pierce Brosnan are of Irish origin but both affect upper class English accents. In some episodes Steele employs a working class London accent for undercover work but Pierce Brosnan had been raised a working class boy in the London borough of Putney so it is likely this is more like his natural way of speaking. | |
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Engineered Public Confession: In the pilot, the heroes move a body from one room to another in a hotel. When the villain exclaims, "We left him in his room!" a door is opened to reveal a roomful of cops next door. | |
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Actor Allusion: Even though he wouldn't be Bond for another 9 years until GoldenEye in 1995, Remington Steele could be seen as almost a prequel series to Pierce's Bond. Steele is seen handling similar situations that a secret agent would find himself in, and proves his cunning and wit through many episodes. Pierce can be frequently seen wearing tuxedos. Steele even has a Mysterious Past, perfect for his role as Bond. As the series progresses, Steele begins to take on more of a serious personality as he improves his detective skills, sometimes becoming indistinguishable from that of Pierce's Bond. Later on in the series, Steele's British background becomes canon and is heavily implied he is connected to British Secret Intelligence. He even shares the same accent as Bond, and the series ends very ambiguously. In one scene, Steele has a rather innuendo-laden conversation with Laura about Ornithology. This scene is almost directly replicated in Die Another Day, when Bond meets and flirts with Jinx. He even has binoculars, a blue shirt and cigar, just like what he had in Remington Steele. Tomorrow Never Dies has Paris Carver. Paris just happens to be an old flame of James Bond, played by Teri Hatcher, a brunette not unlike that of Stephanie Zimbalist's beautiful Laura Holt. Pierce's Bond is revealed to be an orphan, just like Remington Steele. The climbing accident death of James' parents that is mentioned in GoldenEye could simply be a cover story created by British Intelligence, with the real history of James' parents being revealed in the final episodes of the show instead. Or, it could all be an elaborate ruse, with Remington Steele working as a double agent for British Intelligence the entire time. "Before he was James Bond, he was Remington Steele" was the actual tagline when the series was released on DVD... | |
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Themed Aliases | |
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Themed Aliases: Remington does this in the pilot; all of his fake passports bear the name of a Humphrey Bogart character. | |
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Epunymous Title: See Idiosyncratic Episode Naming below. | |
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Character Development | |
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Character Development: As the series goes on, Steele learns from Laura and becomes a better detective. He even uses his film knowledge to better use, often using films that better fit the situation. | |
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Mysterious Past: Steele. | |
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Becoming the Mask | |
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Becoming the Mask: The Mole impersonates the fictitious Steele as a place to hide, but eventually settles into the role. | |
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Episode on a Plane: "Coffee, Tea or Steele". | |
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Just plain averted in the season 2 premiere "Steele Away With Me," almost entirely set and shot in Mexico. And they don't try to hide it. | |
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Early-Installment Weirdness: For some reason, Steele fails to recognize the name George Kaplan in the second episode. | |
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Suspect Existence Failure: Used in an And Then There Were None reference plot. | |
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Crazy-Prepared: Major Descoine, so very much, but especially in "Elegy in Steele." His crowning achievement of a long list of being waaaaay ahead of Steele & Holt involves having stolen a diary from her childhood and using it to set them up for the final play: driving Steele mad enough to threaten his life in front of a police officer, whom Descoine had previously arranged to be at that spot at that time just to hear Steele threaten him. | |
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Always Murder | |
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Always Murder: Averted at least once, in a season 1 episode where the death turns out to have been a suicide carefully staged to look like a murder, turning the entire plot into an elaborate in-universe Murder Mystery Dinner Theatre, albeit one with an actual corpse. It qualifies as a Fair-Play Whodunnit, to boot. | |
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Masquerading As the Unseen | |
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Masquerading As the Unseen: The premise of the show. Brosnan's character adopts the identity of the unseen head of the detective agency, knowing that only Laura will know he's not the real deal and she can't expose him without exposing herself. | |
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Logo Joke | |
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Logo Joke: The MTM kitten sports a pipe and deerstalker cap a la Sherlock Holmes. | |
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Post-Script Season: The Season 4 finale married off Laura and Steele, as the show's cancellation looked certain and Pierce Brosnan had been offered the role of James Bond. However, because Brosnan got the Bond role, NBC decided to renew the show, bringing it back for a very lame half-season which lacked all of the charm of the preceding seasons and effectively scuttling Brosnan's big movie break. Brosnan didn't end up playing Bond for over a decade. | |
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Mistaken for Gay | |
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Mistaken for Gay: Steele is searching a missing man's hotel room when the man's ex-girlfriend happens to come in. Since the boyfriend had mentioned he was dating someone new, she assumes he meant Steele, and laments, "Why is it always the good-looking ones?" | |
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Recurring Character | |
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Both Remington and Laura have episode specific love interests, often being old flames or rivals to the others affection. None of these last till the end of an episode, with the exception of Felicia Remington's Old Flame. | |
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Interpol Special Agent | |
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Interpol Special Agent: One episode guest-starred Tom Baker (of Doctor Who fame) as a Former Interpol agent whose investigations intersected Remington Steele's Case of the Week. | |
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Sequel Hook: "Elegy in Steele" (Major Descoine is caught, but his daughter "Minor" escapes at the end). | |
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The Villain Knows Where You Live | |
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The Villain Knows Where You Live: In the episode "Elegy in Steele", Major Descoine comes to the agency's office, promises Laura and Steele he'll kill them both by noon that day, and leads them on a chase around the city. One surreal stop is a richly-furnished Victorian-looking apartment in an otherwise abandoned building. On looking around, the detectives notice that the framed photographs scattered about the living room show them at work on recent cases (in clearly recognizable stills from previous episodes), and the penny drops: | |
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The Immodest Orgasm | |
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The Immodest Orgasm: A plot point of sorts in "Steele Trap." | |
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Line-of-Sight Alias | |
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Line-of-Sight Alias: Laura Holt combined a Remington typewriter and the Pittsburgh Steelers to name her "fictitious" boss Remington Steele. | |
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Gaslighting | |
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An episode involving a cartoonist's murder has Steele and Laura realize the killer was Gaslighting the victim. They thus turn it around with their own scheme to break the guy into confessing. | |
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Retired Monster | |
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Retired Monster: A downplayed example with Kevin Masters AKA Le Renard. By his own admission, he has no regrets being a former master thief and occasionally likes to imagine up new heists in the present. However, he's also a Nice Guy who prefers a quite life who genuinely has a thing for Mildred. In some ways, he's kind of an older version of Steele. | |
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If You're So Evil, Eat This Kitten! | |
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If You're So Evil, Eat This Kitten!: posing as a hitman, Steele is recruited by a terrorist group. But before revealing whom they have hired him to assassinate they want him to prove his mettle by killing one of their errant members: | |
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Put on a Bus | |
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Put on a Bus: Murphy Michaels and Bernice Fox depart the agency after season 1. It is explained that Fox has run off with a saxophone player in true 'Some Like It Hot' fashion whilst Michaels has moved back to his native Colorado to open his own detective agency (James Read actually being cast as the co-lead in mini-series 'North and South'). | |
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Belligerent Sexual Tension | |
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Belligerent Sexual Tension: The relationship between Steele and Laura. | |
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Real Life Writes the Plot | |
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Real Life Writes the Plot: Steele was originally meant to be played by an American and some early episodes seem to reflect this, in one he makes an analogy about Babe Ruth and George Washington which seems out of place. The pilot itself was the second episode to be shot and presumably the last episode of the first bunch to be written, the pilot reflects that Steele is a foreigner. From the episode "Steele Trap," Steele is specifically stated to be Irish, like Brosnan. | |
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Nasty Party | |
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Nasty Party: One early case started when a plastic surgeon shot himself to death while holding an invitation to an island resort's exclusive grand opening weekend. Laura and Steele pose as the physician and his nurse to attend the party, and soon the rest of the guests start dying off one by one. | |
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No One Sees the Boss | |
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No One Sees the Boss: Finding people reluctant to hire a detective agency run by a woman, Laura instead poses as an employee of a never-seen fictitious male boss. This straight use of the trope gets turned on its ear once an actual person co-opts the role. | |
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Character Name Alias | |
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Character Name Alias: Steele, a movie buff, has multiple passports, each bearing the name of a character Humphrey Bogart played in the movies. In a later episode, Laura catches him in a lie because a woman calling him uses the alias of an Ingrid Bergman character. | |
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Opening Narration | |
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Opening Narration: In Season 1, Laura explained how her fake detective came to be played by a real person. | |
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Relative Error | |
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Relative Error: Steele once saw Laura talking with her brother-in-law and thought she was having an affair. It didn't really help that the brother-in-law kept kissing her on the cheek... | |
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Sharp-Dressed Man | |
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Sharp-Dressed Man: Steele. The producers felt nothing less than fine suits would be good enough for Pierce Brosnan and referred to him as a clothes horse. Evidently the Bond producers felt the same way. | |
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Significant Reference Date | |
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Significant Reference Date: The date on the headstones in "Elegy in Steele", was the original broadcast date. | |
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Denser and Wackier | |
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Denser and Wackier: Season 3's "Steele in the Chips" is one of the very few episodes to be an outright farce, being a Whole-Plot Reference to It's a Mad, Mad, Mad, Mad World with a tin of cookies. This is not a bad thing, as it's often considered the series' funniest episode. | |
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The Movie Buff | |
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Steele, being The Movie Buff that he is, often brings up movies related to the case hat hand. Often it's the wrong one. | |
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Sexual Euphemism | |
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In one scene, Steele has a rather innuendo-laden conversation with Laura about Ornithology. This scene is almost directly replicated in Die Another Day, when Bond meets and flirts with Jinx. He even has binoculars, a blue shirt and cigar, just like what he had in Remington Steele. | |
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Finger-Licking Poison | |
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Finger-Licking Poison: In one episode, the poison was in the glue on some envelopes Steele and Laura were expected to lick. | |
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Springtime for Hitler | |
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Steele and Laura are investigating the attempts on the life of a horrible singer who, to their surprise, is headlining a sold-out concert tour. They go over the books to find the tour runners have been selling shares of it to dozens of people for 50% each. They realize the guys were planning to have the tour close after a few bad shows and then take the money and run. But they never counted on a millionaire becoming so infatuated with the singer that he bought up every one of her shows. Steele sums it up all as "The Producers. Zero Mostel, Gene Wilder, United Artists, 1967." | |
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A Day in the Limelight | |
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A Day in the Limelight: Season 2's "Hounded Steele" focuses on Mildred and her life outside of the office. | |
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Prelude to Suicide | |
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Prelude to Suicide: One of the biggest clues that the case in "In the Steele of the Night" is Suicide, Not Murder is that the victim has lots of dog food but no dog. Laura realizes he must have recently given away the dog he would no longer be able to care for. | |
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Circus Episode | |
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Circus Episode: In "High Flying Steele", Laura and Remington go undercover as aerialist trainees at a circus to investigate an old "accident" that left another performer paralysed. | |
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Modesty Towel | |
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In "Elementary Steele", two costumed men break into a woman's apartment, causing her to flee into the street wearing a Modesty Towel and ride off on a motorcycle as they follow. However, it turns out that her pursuers were being manipulated into thinking it was part of a novelty company's mystery scenario and aren't malicious. | |
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Idiosyncratic Episode Naming | |
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Idiosyncratic Episode Naming: Each episode title has "Steele" somewhere in it, usually as a pun for "steal," "steel," or "still." Nicely played with in "You're Steele the One for Me," where the expectation of a punny title (and the broken English in which the phrase is said in the episode) make the audience believe it's a pun for "you're still the one for me," but it's actually meant literally, as in, "you're Remington Steele, the person I'm trying to reach." | |
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All for Nothing | |
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All for Nothing: All of the madcap antics in "Steele in the Chips" end up for naught, as a goat eats the last cookie and the recipe died with the creator. | |
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Accidental Misnaming | |
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Accidental Misnaming: In the first season, Steele invariably referred to Laura Holt's secretary Bernice Foxe as "Miss Wolf". It seemed Steele genuinely couldn't remember her last name, even though she told him it a million times. He seemed to have no problem remembering her first name though. | |
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Town with a Dark Secret | |
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Town with a Dark Secret: Used this trope in "Small Town Steele," which cited the 1955 movie Bad Day at Black Rock. | |
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Sweetie Graffiti | |
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Sweetie Graffiti: Laura escapes police observation by hiding near a wall with a large graffiti heart and the initials MK and LH. As she emerges, she comments, "You may not have been much of a kisser, Marty Klopman, but you sure knew where to do it." | |
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Take That! | |
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Take That!: There was an episode with an elderly British spy who said "We in MI5 thought James Bond was a sissy." Pierce Brosnan was in the running to play James Bond when Roger Moore left the role, but had to back out due to commitments to Remington Steele. It all worked out in the end... | |
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Ten Little Murder Victims | |
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Ten Little Murder Victims: Had at least one of these, with Steele of course referencing And Then There Were None and its signature plot twist: the sixth person to 'die' faked his death and was actually the murderer. | |
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Finger Gun | |
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Finger Gun: In one episode Laura holds an empty bottle to someones back to make them think she has a gun. | |
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Love Triangle | |
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Love Triangle: In the first season, Steele and Laura's Belligerent Sexual Tension is accompaned by the agency's junior detective Murphy flirting with Laura and being happy whenever Steele looks bad. | |
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Girl of the Week | |
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Girl of the Week: Both Remington and Laura have episode specific love interests, often being old flames or rivals to the others affection. None of these last till the end of an episode, with the exception of Felicia Remington's Old Flame. Mildred also has multiple love interests throughout the series. These usually last longer than the other two, though the men inevitably never appear again after their sole episodes. | |
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Hyper-Competent Sidekick | |
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Hyper-Competent Sidekick: The apparent "boss" (Steele) is explicitly a figurehead for PR purposes and Laura is the one who is, in fact, in charge. This is played for humour when Mildred is introduced, as she initially didn't know that Steele was a figurehead and thus treats him like the real boss. | |
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Replaced the Theme Tune | |
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Replaced the Theme Tune: The first season featured the tune "Laura's Theme" as Stephanie Zimbalist explained the series premise. The second season introduced a theme based on a small bit of incidental music that played as Remington would say something like "God I'm good!" after Laura explained how the case was solved. They had a more upbeat variant for the third season opening and an even more upbeat version for the fourth, but the latter didn't take. "Laura's Theme" played during the final credits through all the seasons. Incidentally, both themes were composed by Henry Mancini. | |
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His Name Is... | |
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His Name Is...: In the series finale, Steele discovers that his longtime mentor, Daniel Chalmers, is also his father. Chalmers dies just as Steele is asking him, "What is my real name?" See The Unreveal. | |
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Interrupted Suicide | |
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Interrupted Suicide: In the episode "Steele in Circulation", Steele starts the episode pulling a guy down off a bridge... and then has to spend most of the rest of it averting his attempts to walk into traffic and fling himself off roofs, until an attempt on the man's life gets him indignant enough to stop. | |
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California Doubling | |
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California Doubling: Inverted in "Puzzled Steele", which was filmed in Malta. A Maltese village that turns out to be an in-universe prop looks a lot like old American Southwest towns. Just plain averted in the season 2 premiere "Steele Away With Me," almost entirely set and shot in Mexico. And they don't try to hide it. | |
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You Are Better Than You Think You Are | |
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You Are Better Than You Think You Are: Mildred admits in "Hounded Steele" that she feels unimportant as merely the secretary, which is why she exaggerates what she does to her bowling group. Both Remington and Laura immediately assure her that they think she's a very important part of the agency. | |
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Luke, I Am Your Father | |
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Luke, I Am Your Father: Steele finds out in the last episode that Daniel Chalmers, his mentor and fellow con-man, is actually his long-lost father. | |
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Will Talk for a Price | |
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Will Talk for a Price: In hot pursuit of Major Descoine in "Elegy in Steele", Laura and Remington meet a deaf carver of tombstones (including one for each of them, listing that day's date—the Real Life original air date of the episode). He only plugs in his hearing aids and tells them which way Descoine went when presented with a $50 bill. | |
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No Name Given | |
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No Name Given: We never learn Remington Steele's true name; even though we know the name of his supposed father (as revealed late in the series) is Chalmers, there's no guarantee Dad is using a real name, either. Based on the circumstances of Steele's birth mother died in childbirth, father was in prison, he may not even have a real name. It could be supposed that since Chalmers always called him "Harry", that is at least the name his father chose for him. Whether it's his on a birth certificate anywhere is unknown. | |
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Genre Mashup | |
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Genre Mashup: The series blended romantic comedy, drama, detective procedural and (towards the end of the series) international political intrigue and espionage. | |
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"Eureka!" Moment | |
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"Eureka!" Moment: Used regularly, with Steele being reminded of a plot point from a movie at a critical point in the case. Sometimes used as a Red Herring when Steele's movie references end up providing a plausible but entirely incorrect solution. | |
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Opening Shout-Out | |
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Opening Shout-Out: The first episode repeats the entire Opening Narration describing the premise of the show. There's something of a reprise in the Fourth Season premiere. | |
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Prematurely Marked Grave | |
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Prematurely Marked Grave: In "Elegy in Steele", Laura and Steel are in pursuit of Major Descoine (after he threatened to kill them in the next hour) when they come across a selection of tombstones. Two of them have their names and that day's date carved on them (the date was that of the original broadcast of the episode). | |
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Fake Ultimate Hero | |
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Fake Ultimate Hero: Everyone thinks Remington Steele is one of the great detectives, when it's usually Laura doing the work. This gets downplayed as the series goes on, as Steele becomes a better detective. | |
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All Girls Want Bad Boys | |
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All Girls Want Bad Boys: Butch Bemis in "Let's Steele a Plot". | |
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Everyone Can See It | |
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Everyone Can See It: Steele and Laura, of course. The sexual tension is made very clear early on in the series. | |
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Whole-Plot Reference | |
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Whole-Plot Reference: Given the gimmick of Steele's identifying cases with old movies, this happens rather a lot. Steele and Laura are investigating the attempts on the life of a horrible singer who, to their surprise, is headlining a sold-out concert tour. They go over the books to find the tour runners have been selling shares of it to dozens of people for 50% each. They realize the guys were planning to have the tour close after a few bad shows and then take the money and run. But they never counted on a millionaire becoming so infatuated with the singer that he bought up every one of her shows. Steele sums it up all as "The Producers. Zero Mostel, Gene Wilder, United Artists, 1967." An episode involving a cartoonist's murder has Steele and Laura realize the killer was Gaslighting the victim. They thus turn it around with their own scheme to break the guy into confessing. Sometimes, a twist will have Steele cite a movie only for the case to take a turn and Steele realizes he was thinking of the wrong film. | |
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Combat Stilettos | |
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Combat Stilettos: Laura Holt. In the episode "Steele in the Chips," a guest star played by Geena Davis asks how Laura can run in high heels, to which she replies, "Practice." This happens after Laura has chased her several blocks, while Stephanie Zimbalist (who was very adept at running in heels) keeps up easily, all on camera. | |
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Expy | |
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Expy: Moonlighting (created by an ex-Remington Steele writer). Pierce Brosnan even makes a rare non-NBC crossover appearance as Steele in one episode. (Also, the MAD parody "Moon-fighting" is filed under "A Remington Steal Department.") | |
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Gangsterland | |
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Gangsterland: Seems to invoke this trope in having Steele obsessed with hard-boiled detective stories. He seemingly believed that they presented as accurate a picture of contemporary America and its slang as they did in the 1920s–1940s, when most of them were written. | |
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Spotting the Thread | |
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Spotting the Thread: Kevin Masters giving his dog a collar with diamonds automatically outs him as Le Renard, when Laura finds the news article about the Kronesbourgh Necklace, which she recognizes as the dog's collar. Laura slowly realizes that a supposed millionaire actually doesn't exist and created as a false identity for a scam. As she relates, it was a good act to fool almost anyone...except someone who just happened to know exactly what it took to create and maintain a nonexistent boss. | |
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Moment Killer | |
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Moment Killer: According to Steele, the entire universe was involved in a vast conspiracy to prevent him from getting chummy with Laura Holt. | |
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Distracted by the Sexy | |
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Distracted by the Sexy: Done by Laura in "Red Holt Steele" when Steele suggests she Show Some Leg à la Claudette Colbert in It Happened One Night to throw security guards off while our heroes are on a corporate sabotage/murder case. Needless to say, it works. | |
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Bad "Bad Acting" | |
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Bad "Bad Acting": Bernard in "Steele in the Family". | |
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Would Hit a Girl | |
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Would Hit a Girl: Steele, amazingly, at least once. Although he did say "Forgive me" before doing so. | |
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Impossibly Delicious Food | |
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Impossibly Delicious Food: The cookies in "Steele in the Chips", with the added kick that they are literally only one calorie. | |
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Running Gag | |
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Running Gag: There are several moments showing that no one's quite sure what the relationship between Steele and Holt is. Mildred even bluntly tells them in "Hounded Steele" that she can't begin to comprehend what's going on between the two of them. Steele, being The Movie Buff that he is, often brings up movies related to the case hat hand. Often it's the wrong one. | |
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Will They or Won't They? | |
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Will They or Won't They?: Laura and Steele's relationship is this, even when they get married. | |
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