Remington Steele was an American television series, produced by MTM Enterprises and first broadcast on the NBC network from 1982 to 1987. It starred Stephanie Zimbalist as private detective Laura Holt and Pierce Brosnan as a roguish former white-collar thief and former con man who assumed Remington Steele's fictitious identity--without his originally having planned on doing so. The show combined the standard TV detective genre with ironic plottin...
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Remington Steele was an American television series, produced by MTM Enterprises and first broadcast on the NBC network from 1982 to 1987. It starred Stephanie Zimbalist as private detective Laura Holt and Pierce Brosnan as a roguish former white-collar thief and former con man who assumed Remington Steele's fictitious identity--without his originally having planned on doing so. The show combined the standard TV detective genre with ironic plotting and elements of romantic comedy.
The success of the series led to Pierce Brosnan being compared to Roger Moore, and not only in terms of being a possible successor in the role of James Bond. In 1985, there were media reports that Moore was considering producing a movie based upon his old TV series, The Saint, and that Brosnan was a prime candidate to play Simon Templar. This project was eventually given to Val Kilmer.
Series producer Glenn Gordon Caron went on to create a similar series called Moonlighting which, at times, was considered to...
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