Wednesday, February 6, 2008

Remington Steele - October 1982 - March 1985

1980's Romantic Action Comedy - Remington Steele TV Series was a remarkable approach of TV Shows in Detective genre by plotting the elements of romance and comedy, and successfully becoming the 'cult favorite', casting the beautiful and talented Stephanie Zimbalist as Laura Holt with the handsome, enigmatic Irishman and future 'James Bond', Pierce Brosnan as Remington Steele.

A story starts when the beautiful young but highly skilled & well-trained private investigator, Laura Holt started her own Detective Investigation Agency but her potential customers find out the agency was led by a woman, they refuse and unwilling to hire a female detective (era's chauvinistic attitude towards women). In her attempts to attract clients, Laura imagined and invented her fictional with masculine superior, a mythical boss named Remington Steele and renaming her agency into "Remington Steele Investigations" (she took Remington from 'typewriter brand' and Steele from 'Pittsburgh Steelers'). Successfully, her business boomed with many clients knocking her door wanting to meet the brilliant, charismatic boss Remington Steele, and she alibis Remington is always busy on other cases. In one case Laura was working, she encountered a handsome, mysterious and loving thief (Brosnan) escaping murderous thugs (hearing Remington Steele is fictional), he impulsively assumes the Steele's identity & persona and later he choose to use the alias and became Laura's partner.

At first, Laura's associates think the mysterious man can't be trusted, new Remington proved his skills are useful, his extreme charms and suave manner impressed clients, Laura & Remington became a great pair of sleuths while showing at the same time a relationship with romantic charisma and played great comic timing the audience love.

Remington Steele, a successful TV series caught wide audience and won awards, was aired from October 1982 and lasted until March 1985, completed 5 seasons with 94 episodes, catch now on DVD.

Casts:
  • Pierce Brosnan as Remington Steele
  • Stephanie Zimbalist as Laura Holt
  • Doris Roberts as Mildred Krebs
  • James Read as Murphy Michaels
  • Janet DeMay as Bernice Fox
  • Jack Scalia as Tony Roselli
  • James Tolkan as Norman Keyes
  • Blake Clark as Fred
  • Efrem Zimbalist Jr. as Daniel Chalmers

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