"Remington Steele" - "Steele" the Best!

I received the first season of "Remington Steele" on DVD for Christmas, and boy did this bring back memories. "Remington Steele" ran from 1982 to 1987 and starred Stephanie Zimbalist as female detective Laura Holt. Unable to get clients on her own, Laura Holt invents a fictitious boss named "Remington Steele" who is always absent from the "Remington Steele Detective Agency". Then, a very young Pierce Brosnan (part crook, part inept scoundrel, part devilishly handsome con man) enters the equation and assumes the identity of Remington Steele. The show is impeccable - fine writing, fine acting, intelligent plot design, and always tasteful.

When I look at what passes for new programming on television today, I shudder. That is why I avoid network programming today and instead pop in the "Remington Steele" DVDs. It is the perfect little time machine that transports me back to the 1980s and back to a young pre-James Bond Pierce Brosnan, a dashing Stephanie Zimbalist, and a whole host of murder mystery plots worthy of Agatha Christie.