Remington Steele is an American

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 television

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 series, co-created by Robert Butler

Robert Butler (director)

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 and Michael Gleason. The series, starring Stephanie Zimbalist

Stephanie Zimbalist

Stephanie Zimbalist is an American actress best known for her role as Laura Holt on the NBC detective series Remington Steele.-Background:...

 and Pierce Brosnan

Pierce Brosnan

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, was produced by MTM Enterprises

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 and first broadcast on the NBC

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 network from 1982

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 to 1987

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. The series blended the genres of romantic comedy, drama, and detective procedural. Remington Steele is best known for launching the career of Pierce Brosnan and for serving as a forerunner of the similar series Moonlighting

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, but was also an influential part of television history in its own right.

Remington Steeles premise is that Laura Holt, a licensed private detective played by Stephanie Zimbalist, opened a detective agency under her own name but found that potential clients refused to hire a woman, however qualified.