Remington Steele Episode Guide

This episode guide was written and is copyright © 1994-2013 by Kimberly Last

The comedy/detective TV series Remington Steele was originally broadcast on the NBC television network in the U.S. from October 1, 1982 to February 17, 1987.
Number of Episodes: 88 one-hour episodes, 3 two-hour episodes.

A longer print version of this episode guide also exists, which was published in Epi-log magazine.

Produced by MTM Enterprises Inc.
Creators: Michael Gleason, Robert Butler
Executive Producer: Michael Gleason
Music by Henry Mancini, Richard Lewis Warren, Donald Nemitz

Regular Cast:

Season 1 | Season 2 | Season 3 | Season 4 | Season 5

SEASON 1

1. Licence to Steele

Private eye Laura Holt is hired to protect some valuable Royal Lavualite jewels, but a mysterious con-man keeps interfering. He discovers that the titular head of the agency, Remington Steele, does not exist, and assumes his identity.

Guest Cast: Joseph Hacker, Phil Casnoff, Robert Darnell, John Francis. Writer: Michael Gleason. Director: Robert Butler

2. Tempered Steele

Laura and the new "Steele" investigate industrial espionage at Dillon Electronics, and suspect an inside job at the family-owned business.

Guest Cast: Arlen Dean Snyder, David Hayward, Diana Douglas, Brenda King, Curt Lowens, Charles Stavola, Don Dolan, Stan Sells, Jack Ragotzy, Gene Ryals. Writer: Michael Gleason. Director: Robert Butler

3. Steele Waters Run Deep

A video game genius has disappeared on the eve of big merger, along with $5 million in liquid assets and the company's latest video game.

Guest Cast: Peter Scolari, George D. Wallace, Betty Kennedy, Roxanne Hart, Rae Allen, Randy Rocca, Jose Flores, Christopher Thomas. Writer: Lee Zlotoff. Director: Jeff Bleckner

4. Signed, Steeled and Delivered

Someone is trying to kill Sheldon Quarry, a CIA researcher known as "The Answer Man", so he enlists the help of "famous ex-CIA agent" Steele, in hopes he can live to attend his own wedding on Saturday.

Guest Cast: Thom Bray, Philip Sterling, Alexandra Johnson, Marta Kristen, Christopher Lofton, Jackie DeRouen, Buddy Powell. Writer: Glenn Gordon Caron. Director: Robert Butler

5. Thou Shalt Not Steele

A cursed painting from Steele's past is in town as part of a museum exhibit, and his ex-girlfriend wants him to steal it for her.

Guest Cast: Beverly Garland, Cassandra Harris (Mrs. Pierce Brosnan), James Blendick, Peter MacLean, Benjamin H. Slack, Kurt Christian, Ben Mittleman. Writer: Lee Zlotoff. Director: Leo Penn

6. Steele Belted

The agency searches for a Bill of Sale that will clear an ex-con accused of possessing stolen antique coins.

Guest Cast: Andrew Bloch, Barry Van Dyke, Raymond Singer, Ilene Graff, Lora Staley, Ernest Emling, David Kaufman. Writer: Michael Gleason. Director: Robert Butler

7. Etched in Steele

Steele has signed a deal to write his memoirs. The husband of a romance writer who works for the same publisher has been murdered.

Guest Cast: Shannon Wilcox, Lyman Ward, Richard Cox, Joel Colodner, George Morfogen; . Writer: Glenn Gordon Caron. Director: Stan Lathan

8. Your Steele the One for Me

Steele and Laura investigate the jaywalking death of a man with ties to the Japanese Yakusa, or gangsters.

Guest Cast: Keye Luke, Marc Hayashi, Sab Shimono, Reid Shelton, Emily Kuroda, Richard Stanley; . Writer: Lee Zlotoff. Director: Thomas Carter

9. In the Steele of the Night

Laura, Murphy and Remington attend a reunion of private investigators, all formerly of the Havenhurst Agency, then one of the party is murdered.

Guest Cast: Jeff Pomerantz, Carlene Watkins, Phillip Charles Mackenzie, Arthur Rosenberg; . Writer: Joel Steiger. Director: Burt Brinckerhoff

10. Steele Trap

Laura and Steele crash a weekend house party on the private island of a Playboy-type magazine publisher, where a serial killer is on the loose.

Guest Cast: Lynne Randall, Paul Hecht, Bruce Kirby, Brandis Kemp, Diane Stilwell, Erica Yohn, Robert Phalen; . Writer: Michael Gleason. Director: Sidney Hayers

11. Steeling the Show

A former B-movie actress is in fear of her life, but her family just think she is crazy.

Guest Cast: Bibi Osterwald, Frances Lee McCain, Duncan Ross, Richard Backus, Peter Jurasik, Michael Cornelison. Writer: Peter Lefcourt. Director: Seymour Robbie

12. Steele Flying High

A missing biologist leads to Steele being invited to serve on a committee to Save the Bald Eagle.

Guest Cast: Francine Lembi, Michael Goodwin, Michael McGuire, Martine Bartlett, Paul Brennan, Walter Beery; . Writer: Richard Collins. Director: Nick Havinga

13. A Good Night's Steele

Steele enters a sleep clinic as a patient, with Laura posing as his physician, to discover what happened to a missing doctor.

Guest Cast: Paul Reiser, Nancy Parsons, William Larsen, David Haskell, John Mansfield, Nancy Linari, Marley Sims, Gene Ramsel. Writer: Lee Zlotoff, RJ Stewart. Director: Seymour Robbie

14. Hearts of Steele

Laura and Steele pose as a divorcing couple as they try to determine who is threatening a prominent divorce attorney

Guest Cast: Mark Hutter, Susan Kellerman, Linda Carlson, Caren Kaye, Alexandra Borrie, Mary Joan Negro, Guy Boyd. Writer: Glenn Gordon Caron, Story: Charles Rosin. Director: Robert Butler

15. To Stop a Steele

Laura and Steele are separately hired to find $2 million in jewels heisted from a gem vault.

Guest Cast: Cliff Norton, Michael C. Gwynne, Donald Bishop, Douglas Warhit, Frank Lanyer, Arnold Turner, J.J. Johnson. Writer: Glenn Gordon Caron. Director: Sidney Hayers

16. Steele Crazy After All These Years

Murphy returns to his college for a 10-year reunion, to find that classmates linked to an old campus protest bombing are being murdered one by one.

Guest Cast: Sharon Stone, Annie Potts, Allyce Beasley, Todd Susman, Tony Plana, John C. Becher, Mark King, Xander Berkely, Roger Hampton. Writer: RJ Stewart, Andrew Laskos. Director: Don Weis

17. Steele Among the Living

A famous artist has vanished, and her boy-toy husband is the prime suspect. But several people stand to gain as her paintings increase in value.

Guest Cast: Phil Rubenstein, Marilyn Jones, Reid Smith, Judith Anna Roberts, Hansford Rowe, Peter Vogt, Israel Juarbe, David Byrd. Writer: Andrew Laskos. Director: Nick Havinga

18. Steele in the News

All is not happy talk at Channel 3 TV news, as a series of accidents which have been plaguing the station have escalated to murder.

Guest Cast: J.D. Cannon, Richard Moll, John Reilly, Maggie Roswell, Ron Frazier, Jenny O'Hara, Tracy Scoggins. Writer: Michael Gleason, Fred Lyle, Duncan Smith. Director: Burt Brinckerhoff

19. Vintage Steele

Laura's former banker boyfriend enlists her help to protect his investment deal after a body found in a vat of wine at a winery.

Guest Cast: David Huffman, Beverlee McKinsey, James Widdoes, Michael Currie, Michael O'Guinne, Erik Holland, William Hootkins, Louise Heath, Dorothy Buhrman. Writer: Susan Baskin. Director: Larry Elikann

20. Steele's Gold

The search is on for the "Treasure of the San Jacintos," old gold coins hidden in an old Indian burial ground in the desert.

Guest Cast: James Callahan, Los de Banzie, Barbara Stock, William Russ, Ellis Ren, Ernestine McClendon, Henry Bal, Ben Rayson. Writer: RJ Stewart. Director: Burt Brinckerhoff

21. Sting of Steele

Steele's old mentor Daniel Chalmers is hiding from a vengeful British casino owner out for his blood.

Guest Cast: Efrem Zimbalist Jr., Beverly Garland, John Orchard, Peter Bromilow, Robert Denison, Jim Jansen, Raymond Skipp, Derek Partridge, Gerry Gibson. Writer: Gary Kott, Michael Gleason. Director: Seymour Robbie

22. Your Steele in Circulation

A bank employee who "borrowed" $2.3 million from the Federal Reserve Bank, finds it has been stolen from him, and he is determined to commit suicide.

Guest Cast: John Doolittle, Gina Gallego, Richard Kuss, Pasty Pease, Adele Rosse, Martin Azarow, Ken Gibbel, Amanda McBroom, Thomas Newman, John Edwards. Writer: Lee Zlotoff. Director: Don Weis

SEASON 2

23. Steele Away With Me

2 hour movie. Laura and Steele are off to Acapulco to locate her cleaning woman's son, and become entwined in a diamond fencing scheme, while Steele hides from the IRS and the local gendarmerie.

Guest Cast: David Warner, Vincent Baggetta, Pedro Armendariz Jr., Ray Giradin, Jack Blessing, Fausto Bara, Chloe Webb, Richard Cansino, Perla Walker. Writer: Michael Gleason. Director: Seymour Robbie

24. Red Holt Steele

While investigating industrial collusion in the airplane industry, Laura's home is blown up. [This episode is generally considered the best of the series.]

Guest Cast: Barbara Cason, Joel Polis, Lewis Arquette, Audrey J. Neenan, Thomas Randall Oglesby, Dee Dee Rescher, Raye Birk, Richard Brestoff, James Horan. Writer: Lee Zlotoff. Director: Kevin Connor

25. Altared Steele

An amnesiac who remembers that someone is trying to kill him is found to have been leading 5 lives with 5 different wives.

Guest Cast: Delta Burke, Fred McCarren, Monique Van De Ven, Jane Kaczmarek, Carole Ita White, Clara Perryman, Sam Anderson. Writer: Jeff Melvoin. Director: Alexander Singer

26. Steele Framed

As evidence piles up that points to Steele as a cold-blooded killer, Laura discovers someone with a grudge has a devious taste for revenge.

Guest Cast: Guy Boyd, Gary Frank, Archie Hahn, Lynne Stewart, Gamy L. Taylor, Bill McLaughlin, Gene Ross, Peter Miller, Rod Corbin. Writer: Brian Alan Lane. Director: Sheldon Larry

27. A Steele at Any Price

The disappearance of a newspaper art critic leads to a gang of international art thieves.

Guest Cast: Jeffrey Jones, Michael Cornelison, Susan Bay, Stefan Gierasch, Gillian Eaton, Ernest Havada, Deborah Alison, Barry Dennen, John Terry Bell, Larry Cedar. Writer: Mitch Paradise, Richard Deroy; . Director: Don Weis

28. Love Among the Steele

A 1936 Auburn speedster car keeps appearing, leading to murder, romance and lost treasure.

Guest Cast: Clive Revill, Susan French, Peter Hobbs, Al Ruscio, Patricia Alice Albrecht, Lance Kinsey, Ed Penney, Judy Dean Berns, Robert Thaler, Kate Zentall, Rebecca Street. Writer: Lee Zlotoff. Director: Seymour Robbie

29. Scene Steelers

Sabotage on the set of TV's hottest commercials exposes the intrigue and jealousies behind the scenes.

Guest Cast: Barrie Ingham, Bibi Besch, Gwen Humble, Paul Kreppel, Faith Prince, Frances Bay; . Writer: Richard Deroy, Joyce Armor, Judy Neer. Director: Peter Medak

30. Steele Knuckles and Glass Jaws

A baby is abandoned in the gym locker of a boxer, reuniting Steele with his old boxing manager from his younger days in South America.

Guest Cast: Bert Remsen, Paul Stewart, Ken Foree, Julie Carmen, George McDaniel, Len Lesser, John Davey, Gil Stratton, Shanit Keeter, Gino DiFerelli, Mike Finneran, Ed Rombola. Writer: Jeff Melvoin. Director: Don Weis

31. My Fair Steele

A dying man is searching for the twin of the baby he adopted 29 years ago. When his daughter disappears, the newly-found twin must take her place.

Guest Cast: Stephen Elliott, Ann Dusenberry, Joanna Barnes, Thomas Hill, Judith Chapman, Ian Wolfe, Stephen Godwin, Barry Sattels, Earl Boen. Writer: Brian Alan Lane. Director: Seymour Robbie

32. Steele Threads

Laura and Steele infiltrate the fashion industry to recover lost designs.

Guest Cast: Joshua Shelley, Lara Parker, Dean Santoro, John van Dreelen, Carl Weintraub, Estelle Omens, Joe Bratcher, Michael Bond. Writer: George Lee Marshall. Director: Karen Arthur

33. Steele Eligible

Steele is chosen as one of the 5 most eligible bachelors in Los Angeles, and one-by-one they being murdered.

Guest Cast: Roy Dotrice, Mimi Kuzyk, D.D. Howard, Frank Luz, Richard Backus, Michael Lemon, Michael Sandoval, Donald Craig. Writer: Michael Gleason, Larry Konner. Director: Sheldon Larry

34. High Flying Steele

An old circus accident has present-day ramifications, as Laura and Steele go undercover as trapeze artists.

Guest Cast: Lisa Pelikan, A Martinez, Michael McGuire, Joy Garrett, Jessie Lawrence Ferguson; . Writer: George Lee Marshall. Director: Karen Arthur

35. Blood is Thicker Than Steele

Laura and Steele protect the children of man testifying in Federal Court.

Guest Cast: Patricia Wettig, Jack Betts, Eric Brown, Carolyn Seymour, Bridgette Anderson, Ann Gee Byrd, Conrad C. Palmisano, Ed Crick, Ted LePlat, Mike Genovese, Art Koustik, Michael J. Cutt, Renee Wedel, Bruce Wright; . Writer: Richard Deroy. Director: Barbara Peters

36. Steele Sweet on You

Laura's visiting sister suspects her dentist husband of having an affair during a local dental convention at which his partner is murdered.

Guest Cast: Maryedith Burrell, Michael Durrell, Patrick Collins, James O'Sullivan, Therese Brown, Boyd Bodwell, Garry Goodrow, Earl Houston Bullock. Writer: Susan Baskin. Director: Don Weis

37. Elegy in Steele

Arch-enemy Major Descoine returns one morning, determined to outwit and to kill Laura and Steele by noon.

Guest Cast: Guy Boyd, Quinn Cummings, Michael Fairman, Peter Jason, Ed Hooks, Ric Mancini, James Kavan, Ruth Kobart. Writer: Brian Alan Lane. Director: Kevin Connor

38. Small Town Steele

The search for a missing professor uncovers the secrets that a town has kept for 7 years, after a plane crash.

Guest Cast: Paul Gleason, Ben Slack, Jacques Aubuchon, Carolyn Coates, Ford Rainey, Marilyn Schreffler, Jennifer Parsons, Bill Cross, Richard Fullerton, Judith Searle, Ron Meszaros. Writer: Jeff Melvoin; . Director: Seymour Robbie

39. Molten Steele

A society matron whose phone number has appeared in a swingers' magazine wants to know who is trying to embarrass her.

Pippa Scott, Bill Morey, Ellen Regan, John Bedford-Lloyd, John Furey, Ellen Tobie, Andrea Moar, Jim McKrell, Brenda Currin, Bill Marcus, Jonathan Terry. Writer: Richard Collins. Director: Christopher Hibler

40. Dreams of Steele

The Royal Lavulite jewels return to the Steele Agency's care, and when they disappear, more than the agency's reputation is at stake. Laura and Steele wonder what life would be like if circumstances were changed.

Guest Cast: Judith Light, Woodrow Parfrey, Jack Gwillim, Robert Harper, Michael Collins, Keith Langdale, Jill Andre, Patrick Pankhurst, Lomax Study, Jim Tartan, Jineane Ford Passolt, Tom Everett. Writer: Brian Alan Lane; . Director: Don Weis

41. Woman of Steele

A woman from Steele's past, whom he believed to be dead, asks for his help in ridding herself of a blackmailer.

Guest Cast: Cassandra Harris, James Laurenson, Christopher Stone, Eve Roberts, John Del Regno, John Devlin, Jim Jansen. Writer: Susan Baskin, Richard Deroy, Michael Gleason. Director: Christopher Hibler

42. Hounded Steele

Mildred moonlights to recover the missing dog of a retired cat burgular who is being obsessively pursued by an unbalanced Interpol agent.

Guest Cast: Tom Baker, J.D. Cannon, Sarah Marshall, Nita Talbot, Doris Belack, Paddi Edwards, Lawrence Benedict, J.P. Bumstead, Brian Greene, Robert Rothwell, Stephen James, Freddie Weber, James Hardee. Writer: Jeff Melvoin. Director: Don Weis

43. Elementary Steele

Role-playing mystery fans are duped into solving the real-life case of a murdered bank embezzler.

Guest Cast: Lynne Randall, Peter Evans, Keone Young, Barry Jenner, Pearl Shear, William Griffis, David Garrison, Adele Rosse, Libby Boone, Alan Blumenfeld, Bob Elmore, Paul Keith. Writer: Michael Gleason; . Director: Seymour Robbie

SEASON 3

44. Steele At It

While on vacation on the French Riveria, Steele helps an old friend by stealing the valuable Hapsburg Dagger.

Guest Cast: Andre Maranne, Jacques Maury, Mark Burns, Marianne Lawrence, Bob Sherman, Claude Le Sache; . Writer: Jeff Melvoin. Director: Don Weis

45. Lofty Steele

Something is hidden in the walls of Laura's loft, leaving her in danger and the focus of her neighbors' wrath.

Guest Cast: Susan Ruttan, Gregg Henry, Joe Lambie, Ron O'Neal, Armin Shimerman, James David Hutton, Anita Dangler, Raye Birk, Carmen Filpi, Lou Felder, Kelly Ann Conn, Joe Carberry, Christopher St. John. Writer: Brad Kern. Director: Burt Brinckerhoff

46. Maltese Steele

Laura and Steele travel to Malta to locate the missing body of a dead man and become embroiled in the search for a mysterious Maltese Cross.

Guest Cast: Susan Penhaligon, Frederick Jaegar, John Malcolm, Derek Benfield, Ian Tyler, Bruce Boa. Writer: John Wirth. Director: Seymour Robbie

47. Second Base Steele

Laura and Steele investigate suspected sabotage at a fantasy baseball camp.

Guest Cast: Louis Giambalvo, Micheal McManus, Marco St. John, Lionel Smith, Patricia McCormick, Elizabeth Baur, James Ingersoll, Fred Applegate, Mickey Mantle, Whitey Ford. Writer: Rick Mittleman. Director: Don Weis

48. Blue Blooded Steele

Steele's old mentor Daniel Chalmers embroils them both in a scheme that has Steele posing as the long-lost heir to a British dukedom.

Guest Cast: Efrem Zimbalist Jr, Merete Van Kamp, David Byrd, David Fox-Brenton, Irene Tidrow, Maurice Roeves, Shawn Southwick, Isabel Grandin, Brad Logan, Sandy Helbert, Nelson Welch, David Grant Hayward. Writer: Brady Westwater, John Pashdag, John Wirth. Director: Burt Brinckerhoff

49. Steele Your Heart Away

Suffering from amnesia, Steele is in Ireland trying to learn more about his mysterious past, but he and Laura get entangled in a horsenapping scheme.

Guest Cast: Marie Conmee, Chris O'Neill, Frank Kelly, Tom Jordon. Writer: Brian Clemens. Director: Seymour Robbie

50. Pocketful of Steele

Steele tries to help a teenage pickpocket who is in possession of some dangerous evidence, which could get him killed.

Guest Cast: Meeno Peluce, Ray Wise, Jerry Hardin, Jack Murdock, Rony Clanton, Steven Williams, Laura Esterman, Penny Santon, Jack Thibeau, Herb Braha, Richard Reicheg, Paula Victor, Kathryn Fuller, Jannice F. Skaggs, Tony Schulz. Writer: Brad Kern. Director: Harry Harris

51. Puzzled Steele

In the Mediterranean, Steele and Laura compete to search for a missing journalist.

Guest Cast: Jack Hedley, Tom Adams, Tony Vogel, Brian Gwaspari, Leon Lissek, Janis Lee-Burns; . Writer: Jeff Melvoin. Director: Don Weis

52. Cast in Steele

Someone is making threats against some old-time Hollywood stars, and attempts are made on their lives.

Guest Cast: Michael Constantine, Dorothy Lamour, Virginia Mayo, Lloyd Nolan, Ron Harper, Gerald Hiken, Calvin Bartlett, Rex Ryon. Writer: Jeff Melvoin. Director: Harry Harris

53. Breath of Steele

Two singing telegram girls who witnessed a murder are the killer's next targets.

Guest Cast: John Larroquette, Tom Byrd, Rosemary Forsyth, Alice Cadogan, Kathy Maisnik, Mariana Hill, Kate Vernon, Carol Gordon, Cliff Medaugh. Writer: John Wirth. Director: Don Weis

54. Let's Steele a Plot

Laura and Steele search for the culprit who embezzled $1 million from the treasury of the American Mystery Writers Guild.

Guest Cast: Joe Santos, Gary Graham, James Ray, Suzanne Lederer, Patrick Cronin, Kristine Sutherland, Barbara Townsend, John Braden. Writer: Richard Deroy, Joe Gores. Director: Christopher Hibler

55. Gourmet Steele

Laura and Steele search for a missing pseudonymous restaurant critic, who is hated by many local restaurateurs.

Guest Cast: Billie Bird, Barbara Horan, Daniel Davis, Dakin Matthews, Deborah May, Michael Young, Francisco Lagueruela, Mark Nelson, Jack Heller, Sorin Serene Prigapie, Nick DeMauro, John Allen, William Schilling. Writer: Bob Shayne. Director: Burt Brinckerhoff

56. Stronger Than Steele

The actor who portrayed TV's "Atomic Man" is framed for murder of the movie producer who is making a big screen version of the show.

Guest Cast: Conrad Janis, Gary Frank, Nancy Stafford, Tom Harrison, Gamy L. Taylor, Hal Landon Jr, Stuart Mabray, Bernard Kuby, Bill Kalmenson, Jackson Beck. Writer: Kerry Lenhart, John J. Sakmar; . Director: Stan Lathan

57. Have I Got a Steele for You

Con-man George Mulch is involved in a new scheme making dolls, but his business partner's wife suspects a swindle.

Guest Cast: Michael Constantine, John Lehne, K Callan, Charles Rocket, Seth Jaffe, Courtney Lynne Gleason, Danny Mora, Lily Mariye, Virgil Roberson, Debra Dusay, Gene Freeman. Writer: Jeff Melvoin; . Director: Christopher Hibler

58. Springtime for Steele

Marginally talented singer Rocky Sullivan becomes unexpectedly successful, much to the dismay of her managers, which puts her life in danger. A parody of Mel Brooks' film The Producers, now a Broadway musical itself.

Guest Cast: Lynne Randall, Robert Desiderio, Don Gordon, Jack Kruschen, Tony Frank, Timothy Stack, Elizabeth Huddle, Beau Starr, Peter Brocco. Writer: John Wirth. Director: Christopher Hibler

59. Steele in the Family

Mildred's nephew Bernard helps out a friend by hiding a dead body, but the hitman needs the murder to be discovered.

Guest Cast: Jack Bannon, Albert Macklin, Nancy Everhard, Doris Belack, Bob Hastings, Ryan MacDonald, Joey Aresco, Paige Matthews, Vicki Marasco, Anna Bjorn, Richard McGonagle, Carol Francis. Writer: Brad Kern; . Director: Larry Elikann

60. Diced Steele

Laura and Steele go to Las Vegas to recover some stolen jewels, but make an enemy out of an insurance investigator, who digs into Steele's past.

Guest Cast: James Tolkan, Murphy Dunne, Alan Feinstein, Wortham Krimmer, Victoria Bass, Charles Cooper, Tom Stewart, Sonny Averona, Brian Kale, Joey D. Viera, Simmy Bow, John Roselius, Marty Zagon, Van Quattro, Ralph Bruneau, Paul Virtue, John Roselius. Writer: Jeff Melvoin. Director: Don Weis

61. Now You Steele It, Now You Don't

An antique importer commits suicide after accusing Laura of blackmailing him.

Guest Cast: Savannah Smith Boucher, Philip Abbott, Michael Shannon, Claudia Cron, J.E. Freeman, Robert Pastorelli, Byron Webster, Bernard Behrens, Darwin Joston, Robert Moberly, Logan Clarke, Al Berry. Writer: John Wirth. Director: John Tracy

62. Illustrated Steele

Someone is trying to kill a comic strip artist in a bizarre life-imitates-art scenario.

Guest Cast: Dennis Drake, Biff McGuire, Keith Charles, Mary Beth Evans, Robert Clotworthy, Michael Chieffo; . Writer: John J. Sakmar, Kerry Lenhart. Director: Gabrielle Beaumont

63. Steele in the Chips

A scientist who invented no-calorie chocolate chip cookies is missing, and several interested people want the only prototypes, which have been sent to the Agency

Guest Cast: Geena Davis, Jean Smart, G.W. Bailey, Michael Bell, James Carroll Jordan, Camille Saviola, David Kagen, Brian Reise, James Winker, Lynne Stewart. Writer: Robin Bernheim, Stephanie Zimbalist.; . Director: Sheldon Larry

64. Steele Trying

Steele arranges a romantic trip with Laura to San Francisco by inventing a fake case, but they are soon embroiled in a real murder mystery.

Guest Cast: Teresa Ganzel, Dennis Farina, Herb Vigran, Howard Witt, Gretchen Wyler, Ruth Manning, Adele Rosse, Terry Beaver, John Terry Bell, Steve Restivo, Chuck Mitchell, Sirri Murad , Victor Rivers, John Petlock; . Writer: Michael Gleason. Director: Rocky Lang

65. Steele of Approval

While Laura does a background check on potential senatorial candidate, Steele tries to keep the Agency's investigator's license from begin revoked. Steele vanishes after they quarrel.

Guest Cast: James Houghton, William Prince, David White, Ken Ofson, Rod Arrants, Nicholas Hormann, Richard Frank, Don Stewart, Jeanne Ruskin, Alma Beltran, Murray Rubin, Zoanne Leroy. Writer: Brad Kern; . Director: Seymour Robbie

SEASON 4

66. Steele Searching (Part 1)

Steele has left Laura and the Agency for London, where he tries to piece together clues about his past, while a modern day Jack the Ripper is on the loose.

Guest Cast: Cassandra Harris, Julian Glover, Angharad Rees, Simon Oates, Stephen Dillane, Jeff Rawle, Caroline Goodall, Ann Penfold, Claire Davenport, Zulema Dene, Julia McCarthy, Emyln Price, George Sweeny, David Quilter, Phillip Dettmar, James Trelfa. Writer: Michael Gleason. Director: Seymour Robbie

67. Steele Searching (Part 2)

Steele is coerced by his old girlfriend Felicia and his former mentor Chalmers into posing as an assassin to kill the Earl of Claridge, who just might be Steele's father.

Guest Cast: Efrem Zimbalist Jr, Cassandra Harris, Julian Glover, Angharad Rees, Simon Oates, Linal Haft, Emyln Price, David Quilter, George Sweeney, John Bowe, Simon Watkins, Nick Selby. Writer: Michael Gleason; . Director: Christopher Hibler

68. Steele Blushing

A "boudoir" photographer is in hiding after being threatened by angry clients for doctoring photos (including Laura's) that appear in a porno magazine.

Guest Cast: Kenneth Mars, Kenneth Kimmins, Candy Azzara, Scott Jaeck, Nana Visitor, Richard McGonagle, Chris Mulkey, Peter Elbing, Heidi Sorenson, Dinah Lenney, Jane Marla Robbins. Writer: John Wirth; . Director: Alex Singer

69. Grappling Steele

A professional wrestler is having mysterious accidents, but Laura and Steele suspect it is all more wrestling hype.

Guest Cast: Kim Ulrich, Gary Kasper, Boyd Gaines, Lawrence Tierney, Tim Rossovich, Adele Rosse, Bud Davis, Dan Hamilton, Marty Denkin, Joe Nesnow, Jay Louden, Garrick Dowhen, Steven Barr, Hal Bokar, Charles Couch; . Writer: Rick Mittleman. Director: Don Weis

70. Forged Steele

Steele awakens in a strange hotel room with no memory of the past 2 days, when he apparently gambled away the Agency in a poker game.

Guest Cast: James Tolkan, Ron Masak, Stephanie Blackmore, Richard Minchenberg, John Corey, Monica Lewis, Earl Boen, Janis Ward, Sandra Kronemeyer, Ken Samsom. Writer: Rick Mittleman. Director: Harry Harris

71. Corn-Fed Steele

The Agency's investment in a pig farm in Iowa may be lost when the swine disappear.

Guest Cast: Harry Groener, Joe A. Dorsey, William Frankfather, Joan McMurty, Mary McCusker, Dennis Pratt, Rudy Ramos, Ann McCurry, Bruce Fairbairn, Mindi Iden, Gary Paget. Writer: Pamela Norris. Director: Don Weis

72. Premium Steele

A visitor to Los Angeles reads his own obituary in the newspaper, which leads to the discovery of an insurance scam.

Guest Cast: Richard Lawson, James Staley, Mark Withers, Dennis Howard, Vaughan Armstrong, K. T. Sullivan, Laura Malone, Dierk Torsek, Burton Collins. Writer: Gerald Sanoff. Director: Gabrielle Beaumont

73. Coffee, Tea or Steele

Laura and Steele go undercover at an airline to discover why a dead assassin turned up in the luggage carousel.

Guest Cast: Terry O'Quinn, George Coe, John Zarchen, Julie Montgomery, Patricia Alice Albrecht, Will Jeffries, Michael Francis Clark, Robyn Peterson, Greg Monaghan, Richard Erdman, John DeMita. Writer: Robin Bernheim; . Director: Christopher Hibler

74. Dancer, Prancer, Donner and Steele

Laura, Steele, Mildred and party guests are held hostage on Christmas Eve by three men dressed as Santa Claus, who are threatening to blow up the office building. [This was Die Hard before there was a Die Hard!]

Guest Cast: Alexandra Borrie, John Del Regno, Tom Everett, Larry Gelman, Don Gordon, Peter Jurasik, Michael Keenan, Jennifer Tilly, Newell Tarrant, Paul Mantee. Writer: Michael Gleason, Elliott Lewis. Director: Christopher Hibler

75. Steele on the Air

A radio traffic reporter is killed in a helicopter crash, and the wacky morning team at the radio station are suspects.

Guest Cast: Vincent Schiavelli, Jere Burns, George Pentecost, John McCook, Sanford Jensen, John Hancock, Pamela Roylance, Hanna Hertelendy, Leilani Sarrelle, John Furlong. Writer: Kerry Lenhart, John J. Sakmar; . Director: Christopher Hibler

76. Steele, Inc.

Con-man George Mulch's latest scheme to franchise the Steele agency results in a man's death.

Guest Cast: Michael Constantine, John Considine, Kenneth Gray, Fran Bennett, Marnie Mosiman, Clyde Kusatsu, Anne Seymour, Ernie Lively, Timothy Brown, Julian Deyer, Herman Poppe, Michael Lemon, Susan Burke. Writer: Brad Kern. Director: Don Weis

77. Steele Spawning

The spoiled son of a caviar importer is trying to locate a missing shipment from Russia before "Daddy" finds out.

Guest Cast: Louie Anderson, Allan Kolman, John Shearin, Peter Jason, Richard Green, Michael Boyle, Alan Haufrect, Michael Pniewski, Vachik Mangassarian, Adam Postil, Jim Calvert. Writer: John Wirth; . Director: Will MacKenzie

78. Suburban Steele

A man staggers into and dies in Laura's sister's kitchen, but the body vanishes before anyone else but Frances sees it.

Guest Cast: Maryedith Burrell, Michael Durrell, Andre Gower, Laurie Burton, Tom Callaway, Noble Willingham, Michael Yama, Lloyd Kino, Jesse Dixon, Suzie Lonergan, Bridget Bruce, Valerie Armstrong, Penina Segall, Judith Barsi, Michael Rider, Nicholas Mele, Jon Smet. Writer: Robin Bernheim. Director: Stan Lathan

79. Santa Claus Is Coming to Steele

One of the Santas who held the office hostage last Christmas returns to persuade the witnesses not to testify at his trial.

Guest Cast: Don Gordon, Ray Girardin, Michael Horton, Steven Reisch, Wil Albert, Ted Noose; . Writer: Michael Gleason. Director: Seymour Robbie

80. Steele Blue Yonder

A retired World War II pilot has been acting strangely and his daughter asks the Agency to find out why. [Actor James Stewart was supposedly originally schedule to appear in this episode.]

Guest Cast: Susan Strasberg, Andrew Duggan, Dennis Patrick, Mike Preston, Fred Carney, Phyllis Hamlin, Charles Davis, Dale Reynolds, Nick Angotti, Chuck Winters, Summer Lee Thomas. Writer: Brad Kern; . Director: Don Weis

81. Sensitive Steele

Laura and Steele go undercover as a married couple at a "sensitivity" spa in Malibu to investigate a serious of freak accidents

Guest Cast: Stewart Moss, Dorothy Fielding, Susan Scannell, Yuliis Ruval, Steve Vinovich, David Wohl, Tom Henschel, E. Danny Murphy, Eva Charney, Mark Schneider. Writer: Rick Mittleman. Director: Don Weis

82. Steele in the Spotlight

Laura is asked by a reporter to find a 1950's TV star who has been missing for 30 years.

Guest Cast: Rose Marie, George D Wallace, Rebecca Holden, Charles Woolf, Tony Cummings, Ernestine Mercer, Tom Dasbach. Writer: Kerry Lenhart, John J. Sakmar. Director: Burt Brinckerhoff

83. Steele at Your Service

Steele goes undercover as a butler to a wealthy family to discover who murdered his predecessor.

Guest Cast: Dan O'Herlihy, Neva Patterson, Cindy Fisher, Arye Gross, Liz Sheridan, Sab Shimono, Darryl Henriques, Granville Ames, Robert Viharo, Jenny Gago, David Hooks. Writer: Lee H. Grant. Director: Rocky Lang

84. Steele in the Running

Laura competes in a triathalon, but is mistaken for woman in fear of her life, who has switched numbers with her.

Guest Cast: John Driver, Deborah Wakeham, Alison LaPlaca, Frederick Coffin, Millie Slavin, John DiSanti, Rif Hutton, Ned Bellamy, Tonyo Melendez, Lise Cutter. Writer: Susan Woollen. Director: Gabrielle Beaumont

85. Beg, Borrow or Steele

Returning home to L.A. from New York, Steele and Laura are surprised to hear news reports of their own murder, and that Mildred is suspected of killing them.

Guest Cast: Gary Frank, Mary Kate McGeehan, Nancy Lane, Ken Swofford, Antony Ponzini, Jack Ragotzy, Buzz Borelli, Suzanne Childs, Lee Ryan, Jack Wells, Michael Masters, Alan David, Kirk Scott. Writer: Brad Kern; . Director: Kevin Inch

86. Steele Alive and Kicking

A man who believes that he is dying of a fatal disease frames himself for murder so that his wife can collect the reward.

Guest Cast: Donovan Scott, Pippa Pearthree, Arthur Taxier, LaGena Hart, Daniel Greene, John Walter Davis, Shannon Wilcox, Richard Reicheg, Robert Pastorelli, Tim Cunningham, Mark Harrison, John Walter Dario, Jamie Lyn Hart; . Writer: John Wirth. Director: Stan Lathan

87. Bonds of Steele

While Laura investigates a murder at a mysterious corporation, Steele arranges to get married to a call-girl in order to avoid deportation. But Laura will not allow this to happen!

Guest Cast: Rebecca Street, James Tolkan, Nancy Everhard, Mary Ellen Trainor, Daniel Ziskie, Don Craig, Maurice Hill, Bert Rosario, Diane Lander, Paul Virtue, Terry Willis, Bobbie Ferguson, John Welsh, John Hostetter; . Writer: Jeff Melvoin. Director: Seymour Robbie

SEASON 5

88. The Steele That Wouldn't Die

2 hour movie. Steele and Laura must convince U.S. Immigration that they are really married to prevent Steele's deportation, and go on a Mexican honeymoon. They are followed by Steele's old enemy Norman Keyes, and Steele is arrested for Keyes' murder. Laura is pursued by an archeologist.

Guest Cast: Jack Scalia, James Tolkan, Maria Rubell, Castulo Guerra, Anna Nicholas, James Victor, George Galvan, Mary Ellen Trainor, Bert Rosario. Writer: Brad Kern. Director: Kevin Inch

89. Steele Hanging in There (Part 1)

Still trying to prove to immigration that their marriage is real, Laura and Steele face hurdles from one of his old girlfriends and from "Immigration Agent" Tony Roselli, who fancies Laura for himself.

Guest Cast: Jack Scalia, Sarah Douglas, Frances Conroy, Irving Metzman, Christopher Stone, David Grant Hayward. Writer: Robin Bernheim. Director: Christopher Hibler

90. Steele Hanging in There (Part 2)

Laura and Steele fly to London in pursuit of a missing painting, but again become embroiled with Roselli, who is now working with British intelligence.

Guest Cast: Jack Scalia, Sarah Douglas, Colm Meaney, Ronald Leigh-Hunt, Bernard Kay, Milton Johns, Sean Lawlor, John Hammil. Writer: Robin Bernheim. Director: Christopher Hibler

91. Steeled With a Kiss

2 hour movie. Steele has inherited a castle in Ireland, where he and Laura hide Roselli, who is thought to be a double agent. Steele's old mentor Daniel Chalmers reveals a long-hidden secret before he dies. Laura and Steele consummate their relationship.

Guest Cast: Jack Scalia, Efrem Zimbalist Jr., Barbara Babcock, Stephen Yardley, Ronald Leigh-Hunt, Derry Power, Alan Devlin, Jeremy Clyne, Alan Dolan, Johnny Murphy, Eleanor Feeley, Brendan O'Duill. Writer: Robin Bernheim, Brad Kern. Director: Seymour Robbie

END OF SERIES, 1987

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