Remington Steele vids(part 1)

[meganbmoore]

So, earlier, dangermousie inadvertently reminded me(by asking about one of my icons) that I haven't really talked much about my favorite TV show ever, Remington Steele, very much here, certainly not since meeting  a fair bit of my flist.

As it is far too late in the day(read: early in the morning) to properly meta, I shall stick to vids.

For those who don't know, Remington Steele is an 80s series about Laura Holt(Stephanie Zimbalist) an ace private eye who gets regularly dismissed and overlooked because she's a female and hey, private eyes are supposed to be men. So she creates a male supervisor, Remington Steele, who works in an "advisory capacity" and prefers to work in the shadows and never meets with clients.  She doesn't get the credit, but she gets the work and the credit is given to her to "pass on" to "the boss" so it works.

All is going along well as she's about to make it big when a con artist(Pierce Brosnan)-who she will later dub "Harry"-stumbles over her scheme.  He, of course, is there to steal the diamonds she was hired to protect, and since it takes one con to recognize another, he sees through her con and presents himself to her client as  Remington Steele(incidentally, if you ever hear me say "high heels through the heart" I am referring to my continued amazement that that did NOT happen to him when she realized that  A) He WAS the con artist she was worried he was and was after the diamonds(more confirmation than realization, really), B) He had seen through her con, C) he had taken on the identity of her boss and thus, was taking her credit, and D) they both knew there was nothing she could really do about it without risking her own con being exposed.  That scene is likely the scene that made me fall in love with the show)  Of course, by the end of the adventure, he's come to rather like the idea of playing detective(or rather, the idea of a free ride and and having a go at trying his luck with Laura) and she realizes that there are advantages to there being a "real" Remington Steele, and they become partners.(well, there's more to it than that, but it's after 3 am...)

The show is set in a detective agency and the leads  are detectives, but the mysteries themselves-while usually fun-are of secondary importance.  The main things are A) the wit and chemistry between the leads(which is hard to match and almost impossible to surpass, IMO) and B) love for and paying homage to the classics(Steele is a huge classics buff and can find a movie to correlate to any case it seems)  Humphrey Bogart was a particular favorite.  Actually, the show is the main source of my interest in the classics.

Anyway...