LICENSE TO STEELE
Original air date: Oct. 1, 1982
Rerun date: May 3, 1983
Laura meets the non-existent Remington Steele.
Bit 'O Trivia: Zimbalist would go on to guest-star in an episode of "Diagnosis Murder" with a plot eerily similar to "License to Steele," co-starring (oddly enough) with Phil Casnof, who was also in "License."

TEMPERED STEELE
Original air date: Oct. 8, 1982
Rerun date: Dec. 17, 1982
Steele installs a fool-proof burglar alarm that is foiled.
Bit 'O Trivia: Originally planned to be the pilot of the series.

STEELE WATERS RUN DEEP
Original air date: Oct. 22, 1982
Rerun date: Dec. 24, 1982
Laura and Steele must find a missing video game designer.
Bit 'O Trivia: Zimbalist would go on to co-star with Peter Scolari in "Stop the World! I Want to Get Off!" Also, this episode features Remington and Laura's first kiss.

SIGNED, STEELED AND DELIVERED
Original air date: Oct. 29, 1982
Rerun date: April 26, 1983
A C.I.A. "answer man" needs Steele's help.
Bit 'O Trivia: Thom Bray starred in the series "Riptide," which aired each week on the same night and network just before "Remington Steele."

THOU SHALT NOT STEELE
Original air date: Nov. 5, 1982
Rerun date: March 11, 1983
An old lover shows up and tried to get Steele to steal the "Five Nudes of Cairo" with her.
Bit 'O Trivia: This is the first episode to feature a family member of one of the stars; Cassandra Harris, Brosnan's late wife, made her first appearance as Felicia.

STEELE BELTED
Original air date: Nov. 12, 1982
Rerun date: April 19, 1983
Remington and Laura's client keeps ending up in jail, as Laura gets close with the client's lawyer.

ETCHED IN STEELE
Original air date: Nov. 19, 1982
Rerun date: June 14, 1983
A famous author is killed and Laura and Remington find the murderer.
Bit 'O Trivia: Laura wears glasses to "look smarter;" the same glasses surface again much later in the fourth season's Grappling Steele.

YOUR STEELE THE ONE FOR ME
Original air date: Nov. 26, 1982
Rerun date: March 29, 1983
A distraught brother hires Laura and Remington to investigate his brother's accidental death.
Bit 'O Trivia: Sab Shimono, who plays Kinji Ito, also plays Sam Kuronatsu in the fourth season's "Steele at Your Service."

IN THE STEELE OF THE NIGHT
Original air date: Dec. 3, 1982
Rerun date: None
Murphy and Laura go to a reunion for the Havenhurst Agency, and Steele crashes the party.
Bit 'O Trivia: The episode won the Edgar Allen Poe award from the Mystery Writers of America.

STEELE TRAP
Original air date: Dec. 10, 1982
Rerun date: June 7, 1983
Laura and Remington go under-cover on an island where all the guests are being murdered, one by one.
Bit 'O Trivia: Lynne Randall, who plays Randi Russell, is the wife of producer Michael Gleason. Randall also later goes on to play Rocky Sullivan.

STEELING THE SHOW
Original air date: Jan. 7, 1983
Rerun date: May 10, 1983
Remington protects an old "B" movie actress who believes she is the target of a killer.
Bit 'O Trivia: Richard Backus, who plays Eddy Howell, returns in the second season episode "Steele Eligible" as Chip Carstairs.

STEELE FLYING HIGH
Original air date: Jan. 14, 1983
Rerun date: June 28, 1983
A man is killed to cover-up his findings about the land for a proposed wildlife sanctuary.
Bit 'O Trivia: Michael McGuire, who plays Harry Swan, returns in the second season's "High Flying Steele" as Fresco. Not only does he get to play two different characters in the series, he has the honor of playing in the two shows whose titles are most-often confused with each other.

A GOOD NIGHT'S STEELE
Original air date: Jan. 21, 1983
Rerun date: June 21, 1983
Laura and Remington go under-cover at a sleep disorders clinic to find a killer.
Bit 'O Trivia: Comedian/writer Paul Reiser had an early role in this episode.

HEARTS OF STEELE
Original air date: Jan. 28, 1983
Rerun date: July 5, 1983
Laura and Remington pose as a married couple getting a divorce to protect a lawyer.
Bit 'O Trivia: The lawyer's client who drinks the poisoned wine and drops dead is played by Guy Boyd, who is better known as Major Descoine.

TO STOP A STEELE
Original air date: Feb. 11, 1983
Rerun date: May 17, 1983
Laura and Murphy work at the opposite end of a case as Steele.
Bit 'O Trivia: Murphy finally makes a move on Laura by kissing her, only to be rebuffed.

STEELE CRAZY AFTER ALL THESE YEARS
Original air date: Feb. 18, 1983
Rerun date: May 31, 1983
Murphy's college reunion is plagued by murders.
Bit 'O Trivia: A very young Sharon Stone appears in this episode as the beauty queen with very few brains. Veteran actor Annie Potts also had a large role. Allyce Beasley, who would later go on to co-star in "Moonlighting" (which was created by "Remington Steele" alum Glen Gordon Caron), also starred in this episode.

STEELE AMONG THE LIVING
Original air date: Feb. 25, 1983
Rerun date: July 12, 1983
A woman apparently dies and her husband is the primary suspect.
Bit 'O Trivia: David Byrd, who plays Giovanni, later returns as Judge Penhaligon in the third season's "Blue Blooded Steele."

STEELE IN THE NEWS
Original air date: March 4, 1983
Rerun date: July 26, 1983
Murders take place on a "happy" news set.
Bit 'O Trivia: J. D. Cannon, who plays Elliot Walsh, later returns in the second season's "Hounded Steele" as Kevin Masters.

VINTAGE STEELE
Original air date: March 15, 1983
Rerun date: Aug. 2, 1983
Laura's old boyfriend shows up needing help.
Bit 'O Trivia: In one of the few bits of "tying back to a previous episode" ever done in the series, we find out Wilson Jeffries is the owner of the white belts and T-shirts found in Laura's closet in "Signed, Steeled and Delivered."

STEELE'S GOLD
Original air date: March 22, 1983
Rerun date: Aug. 23, 1983
Laura and Remington race against a group of prospectors to find gold.

STING OF STEELE
Original air date: April 5, 1983
Rerun date: Aug. 16, 1983
Laura's mother comes to visit and gets involved with a sting Steele and Daniel have going.
Bit 'O Trivia: It's another example of family-ties in the series as Zimbalist's father, Efrem Zimbalist, Jr., appears for the first time as Steele's mentor Daniel Chalmers.

STEELE IN CIRCULATION
Original air date: April 12, 1983
Rerun date: July 19, 1983
A man who "borrowed" two million dollars from a bank tries to kill himself when the money disappears before he can return it.
Bit 'O Trivia: Adele Rosse makes her first of four appearances in the series. She later returns in bit parts in the second season's "Elementary Steele," the third season's "Steele Trying," and the fourth season's "Grappling Steele."