"License to Steele" is the premiere episode of the television series Remington Steele. This episode introduces and sets all the central elements of the series; the truth about Laura's fictional boss, the mysterious character posing as Steele, the romantic tension, Steele's love of old movies, et cetera.
Guest Stars:
Philip Casnoff, Joseph Hacker
Laura tackles a case of industrial espionage in a family-owned business while Steele enlists an old pal to help him install a burglar alarm.
Guest Stars:
Diana Douglas, Curt Lowens, Arlen Dean Snyder, Lou Antonio
A video game genius disappears just before a merger, with $5 million and the plans for his company's latest video game.
Guest Stars:
Rae Allen, George D. Wallace, Blake Clark, Roxanne Hart, Peter Scolari
Laura and Steele spend the weekend trying to keep a CIA researcher alive and on time for his wedding.
Guest Stars:
Thom Bray, Marta Kristen, Philip Sterling
A woman from Steele's past asks him to help her steal a valuable painting that Laura has already agreed to protect.
Guest Stars:
Cassandra Harris, Beverly Garland
A loser asks the agency to help him, but his alibi witness is found dead in Steele's apartment and his lawyer seems more interested in Laura than in the case.
Guest Stars:
Ilene Graff, Raymond Singer, Barry Van Dyke
Laura and Steele investigate the murder of an author whose steamy novels badly mirror her own married life.
Guest Stars:
Lyman Ward, Richard Cox
A lesson in detective work for Steele escalates a jaywalking accident into an encounter with Japanese gangsters.
Guest Stars:
Reid Shelton, Keye Luke, Stephen Lee, Sab Shimono, Marc Hayashi
Steele investigates a murder when Laura's former colleagues gather for a reunion and old grievances begin to re-emerge.
Guest Stars:
Jeff Pomerantz, Arthur Rosenberg, Philip Charles MacKenzie, Carlene Watkins
A client commits suicide in the office so Steele and Laura attend a house party on an island owned by a wealthy publisher in his place in an attempt to find out why.
Guest Stars:
Robert Phalen, Paul Hecht, Bruce Kirby
Steele comes to the aid of an aging B-movie queen whose daughter is trying to commit her and who someone is apparently trying to kill.
Guest Stars:
Richard Backus, Peter Jurasik, Frances Lee McCain, Bibi Osterwald
Steele gets involved with the murder of a naturalist when he serves on a committee to save the bald eagle.
Guest Stars:
Martine Bartlett, Blake Clark
Laura and Steele go undercover at a sleep-disorders clinic to investigate the disappearance of morphine and a doctor.
Guest Stars:
David Haskell, Paul Reiser, Nancy Parsons
Steele and Laura pose as a battling couple while they investigate murder attempts against an aggressive divorce lawyer.
Guest Stars:
Caren Kaye, Blake Clark, Linda Carlson
Laura and Steele wind up working for opposite sides of a jewelry theft when the frightened thief looks for help when someone else beats him to the jewel.
Guest Stars:
Cliff Norton, Michael C. Gwynne, Arnold F. Turner
Murphy's college homecoming is marred by a murder that awakens memories of a bombing on campus ten years before.
Guest Stars:
Tony Plana, Sharon Stone, Xander Berkeley, Todd Susman, Annie Potts
Laura searches for a vanished artist whose works have suddenly appreciated in value, for both her husband and the owner of an art gallery.
Guest Stars:
Hansford Rowe, Blake Clark, Reid Smith
Laura and Steele investigate the increasingly dangerous pranks someone is pulling on the news team of a local television station.
Guest Stars:
Tracy Scoggins, Maggie Roswell, Jenny O'Hara, J.D. Cannon, John Reilly
Laura's former flame asks her help when he discovers a corpse in the trunk of his car, a corpse that keeps returning as they check out a winery he's involved with.
Guest Stars:
James Widdoes, William Hootkins, Beverlee McKinsey, Michael Currie, Michael O'Guinne
A prospector's journal stolen during a party leads Laura and Steele on a wild gold hunt through the desert.
Guest Stars:
Barbara Stock, Lois de Banzie, James T. Callahan, William Russ
Steele's mentor, Daniel Chalmers, comes to California to ask for Steele's help in dealing with a vindictive crook.
Guest Stars:
John Orchard, Beverly Garland, Efrem Zimbalist Jr.