Steele Watching Remington

I’m making slow progress with Remington Steele box set. I’m five episodes in. There are 22 in total Each one with a title including the word Steele, usually as a weak pun on the words Steal, Still or Steel (hence my tribute title above). That’s 22 Steele puns for the first series alone. Last night I watched ‘Thou Shalt Not Steele’.

Remington Steele isn’t one of the better known detective programmes so for anyone reading who might not know, the premise is thus:

Laura Holt is a trained detective but nobody wanted to hire a female detective. So she makes up a male boss, Remington Steele, puts is name on the agency and the work floods in. Things are going along smoothly but then in the first episode Pierce Brosnan, a mysterious man with a shady past and unknown identity turns up, and ends up assuming the identity of Remington Steele. As he is charming and dashing, it helps out the agency top have a real Remington Steele to introduce to clients, but of course he gets involved in the cases and there is an on-going will they/won’t they romance between him and Laura.

In each episode they take on a new case, usually investigating a theft, providing security or looking for a missing person, although often there is a murder thrown in for good measure. It is what I would call a light-hearted detective show - the murders aren't gruesome or sad and there is a fair bit of wit from Mr Brosnan. The show's creators went onto do Moonlighting and it is pretty similar in tone to that.

Along the way there are little bits of information given about Remington’s past and true identity, although knowing it runs for 4 seasons means I’m not hopeful of finding out who he is within this box set.