What Happened to Remington Steele (1982-87)?
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- Опубліковано 18 лют 2024
- Long before he was James Bond, Pierce Brosnan was a young Irish actor who became an overnight heartthrob when he was signed to star in the NBC series Remington Steele. Co-starring Stephanie Zimbalist, the show was about a female private eye who crested a fictional male boss to be taken seriously, only for a roguish man to show up claiming to be the character she invented. A mash-up of film noir and old-school Hitchcock like To Catch a Thief, the show was a smash and ran for five years. While it made Brosnan a star, it also arguably cost him his first opportunity at playing 007 when the show’s producers wouldn’t let him out of his contract for the abbreviated fifth season (it would also cost Zimbalist the role of Lewis in Robocop). In this episode of Gone But Not Forgotten, our host Jessica Dwyer explains how this show came to be and why it kept Brosnan from playing 007 for so many years.
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I grew up watching Remington Steele, Simon & Simon, Magnum PI, and of course Knight Rider with the talking car.
All excellent but no A-Team?
@@jaysonraphaelmurdock8812 No. I wasn't allowed to watch it as it was too violent
I’m 30 and I own all the Magnum PI and Remington Steele DVDs. My kids are gonna grow up in the 80s, like it or not
Stephanie Zimbalist was gorgeous and talented.
My mom loved Remington Steele and was looking forward to seeing Pierce Brosnan James Bond.
Our moms all loved Pierce - haha
While I've always enjoyed Remington Steele, I really hated it that they dumped Murphy and Fox from the first season--I really liked them both as supporting characters.
The first time i saw Pierce on Remington Steele I thought this guy would make a great James Bond
Sorry - one correction. The pilot episode was actually the 2nd episode broadcast. The License to Steel was created to be the first episode because NBC suits said the show needed a backstory. Also, the series went overseas to avoid to the logistics issues of the summer Olympics being held in Los Angeles in 1984.
I was terribly torn at the time between having Brosnan do James Bond and having him continue as Remington Steele. I loved the show so much that I wanted it to continue but I grew up watching the Bond films. Luckily, fans like me ended up with both. Thanks for posting about one of my favorite shows!
It Being 42 painfully makes me feel so old!
No way Moonlighting had the best theme song ever, Remmington Steelenot so good.
I haven't rewatched this detective show since originally airing, but I still believe to remember Remington Steele asking Laura how she knows he actually isn't Remingron Steele and then her majestic frustration because she couldn't admit that she invented him. Although later on in the series she does tell people but they didn't believe her and accuse her of envy of her boss.
Much of the fun in the interaction between Steele and Laura was that she was always angry about his identity theft and that she couldn't find out nor prove who he really was, throughout the entire series. And he kept trying to charm her to give it up while actually growing from winging it into becoming a good detecrive after all.
Excellent review/video. I loved watching Remington Steele. Thank you.
Glad you enjoyed it
When MAD magazine did its satire on Moonlighting, it was under the "A Remington Steal dept." (big fan of both shows).
Definitely a television classic. I'm struck by how similar the setup is for some of the scenes in Joss Whedon's Buffy the Vampire Slayer.
X-Files too
@@Syncrotron9001 as a young fan of Remington Steele, I immediately saw the similarity in X-Files character relationships. A quirky male is the partner of a serious intelligent woman.
I admired Stephanie Zimbalist and Kate Jackson in a similar way. They both played intelligent, feminine and capable women who didn't take themselves too seriously. And both were gorgeous in my opinion in a way that wasn't overtly sexual and entitled.
watched some episodes and this show still holds up; the relationship issues of the 2 leads could be copy pasted into any current show and thats why you cant remake it, because its still everwhere, e.g. Bones, Castle, Mentalist... the same Remington Steele formula for 2 leads at odds paired together to solve crimes, w her being the trained intellectual and him being the quirkier/comedic/eccentric one, in a will they-wont they relationship is still being used in tv shows. So there is no need to remake
This Jessica Dwyer is a keeper. Authentic, easy to relate to viewpoints, and not gimmicky in her narration. Definitely a keeper. I have consistently enjoyed her retrospectives.
Thank you so very much! That means a lot :)
If she's a fan of Tom Baker then I agree.
@@jaysonraphaelmurdock8812 I have his autograph staring at me everyday I work 💙💙
I watched regularly. They played so well off each other, and their differing backgrounds allowed each to shine in different situations. Laura being a better pure detective and Steele being so good at slipping into any role and improvising. I also had quite the crush on Zimbalist.
I'm kind of surprised this show hasn't been rebooted. It could have been a movie adaption.
I think you could do a remake series and it would still be topical today, but it seems like it would be very hard to beat the Brosnan & Zimbalist casting. I do worry a modern take on the concept would dumb down the Steele character for comic relief.
Hey, how about 007?
George Lazenby?
No! Pierce Brosnan.
A voice like his would give our house a much-needed touch of class.
All right, but I'm doing this because he was Remington Steele.
Lazenby is my favorite series James Bond, but David Niven was the best James Bond!
Stephanie Zimbalist was originally cast as Ann Lewis in Robocop but this show stood in the way
My bad... Finish the video, then comment!
Would have been different!
Great video! Remington Steele was a great series. Also loved the relationship between the leads
Glad you enjoyed it!
I loved Remington Steele and was ecstatic when I found out PB would play JB
I used to be the age guesser in the carny. All the Stephinies were named after Power and Zimbilist
Nice leg shot by Steph at 6:16.
I am watching the series on Prime and Stephanie was certainly not bashful about showing off her assets. She obviously kept herself in shape.
I never saw Pierce as 007 until I did n he was and is my favorite but I thought he'd make a great Simon Templer the Saint
80s TV shows were so full of cheesy goodness !
Please do a video on Silk Stalkings. I loved that series also where you have another well paired male-female duo (who eventually fall in love). Mitzi Kapture was also a fave.
Agreed!
pierce is sharped dressed 12/10
Pierce is always immaculately turned-out.
I LOVED Remington Steele!!!
Way Back Monday 😆😎👍
Damn 42yrs ago !?!?! Damn I'm old...lol...I loved this show so much I wanted to be steele, I even took n lived up to one of his quotes of not carrying cash ( ruins the lining of the suit) but if they were to make a reunion movie I would love to see Steele n Holt face off with Maj Discoins daughter or by now granddaughter for they were the family of crooks they never caught ( not all of'em)
How could you mention Efrem Zimbalist Jr's resume and NOT talk about nine seasons of The FBI?
To be fair, I'm so old that I mainly knew him from 77 Sunset Strip, one of my favorite TV detective shows.
As a fan of Remington Steele I loved this video. Very well done. One small correction, Henry Mancini didn’t write the theme from Love Story, that was Francis Lai. Mancini did famously record his own version of it though. Thanks for the video. Looking forward to more. ❤
great review and history of the great show would you tell me how it compares to the television show The Scarecrow and Mrs.King
I loved both of these series...makes me realize I've ALWAYS had a soft spot in my heart for all things, literature and series/film adaptations, mystery and detective stories...straight and comedy. I grew to love all of the actors playing these characters in both series but especially Remington Steele.
Hey. I love Henry Mancini. I truly do. But “Moonlighting” by Al Jarreau is absolutely iconic. No way the “Remington Steele” theme is better.
I like the Remington Steele one better. The Moonlighting one makes me want to jump into the nearest active volcano.
Serious X-Files vibes from his show.
❤️
I never watched one episode
Hey I saw that dude from NORTH and SOUTH 😅
Patrick Swasye?
👍👍👍📺
When are you going to research the tv show surface? I loved it as a child in the early 2000s, baby godzillas!
I really hated when they renewed the show and kept Brosnan from being Bond, but Timothy Dalton was an underrated Bond and I think Brosnan was better with a few more years on him. Too bad his run got cut short. Still not a fan of Daniel Craig's Bond.
It was probably best in the end that he didn't play Bond in 87. Would have been too young.
I have no idea what this channel is or anything, everything seems weird to me. But this video especially, compared to the other three I clicked, had awful sound. I seriously thought it was a 1000 subs or less channel. If it's something that seems like an organized collaboration I'd assume someone would at least give directions on how to make each video an equal viewing experience. It's not even mic quality or anything like that, but just how it's mastered. Volume is low, EQ is bad and I don't even know if there's any compression on it. If there's even anything done to the audio at all.
way too complicated 4 me!
Kept Brosnan from being a younger Bond
"What Happened to Remington Steele (1982-87)?" the answer is in your title lol
wtf?!
Remington Steele theme song is mediocre at best. Moonlighting theme is one of greatest ever! Best in the 80's on par with Miami Vice.
I totally agree!
We can't say we saw the show mouth at that time,,,,,Not a great show very dom ,,lll
In fact, the network 'suits' rather than the MTM producers were the ones who effectively prevented Brosnan from taking the 007 role (but then, the delay had proven to be a blessing; had he gotten the role _then_ he would presumably have had to cool his heels for 5+ years while the legal tussles were being sorted out).
The question for me has always been whether or not Living Daylights and Licence to Kill would have been bigger hits with him. To be honest though, I still think those two Dalton movies are amazing.