"Remington Steele" Vintage Steele (1983)

Director:

Larry Elikann

Writers:

Susan Baskin (teleplay)
Robert Butler (creator)

TV Series:

"Remington Steele" (1982)

Original Air Date:

15 March 1983 (Season 1, Episode 19)

Genre:

Adventure | Comedy | Crime | Drama | Mystery

Plot:

Laura is reunited with a former lover when he seeks the help of Remington Steele investigations after finding a corpse in vat of wine...

Plot Keywords:

Corpse | Monastery | Wine | Former Lovers | Vat

Cast

Stephanie Zimbalist	...	Laura Holt
Pierce Brosnan	...	Remington Steele
James Read	...	Murphy Michaels (credit only)
Janet DeMay	...	Bernice Foxe
David Huffman	...	Wilson Jeffries
James Widdoes	...	Claude Vandermeer
Beverlee McKinsey	...	Alexis Vandermeer
Michael Currie	...	Melville Westfield
William Hootkins	...	Chester Harcourt
Michael O'Guinne	...	Brother Bartholomew
Erik Holland	...	Werner Schumann
Luise Heath	...	Reporter #2
rest of cast listed alphabetically:
Dorothy Buhrman	...	Reporter #1
Joseph Chapman	...	Reporter #3

Quotes:

[Laura's car speeds into a dirt parking lot at a vineyard, tires screeching, she suddenly turning the car, and it halts to a stop right in front of a building]
Remington Steele: Well, you certainly taught that road a lesson it won't soon forget.
Laura Holt: No sense in dragging this thing out.
[the three of them get out of the car]
Wilson Jeffries: It's inside, I'll show you.
[Laura walks inside the building]
Remington Steele: Oh. Uh, if you don't mind my asking Wilson... uh, when you and Miss Holt were, uh, uhm...
[moving his hands]
Wilson Jeffries: Cohabitating.
Remington Steele: Yes, uh.
[...]

Movie Connections:

References Rasputin and the Empress (1932)

Vintage Beverlee!!

Before Beverlee McKinsey returned to daytime in her final long-term role, she had a guest appearance on Remington Steele as Alexis Vanderveer. Beverlee chews up the scenery in the same way that dogs chew bone but she's always fun to watch and enjoy. Even this episode where it showed some of her brilliance as family matriarch and demanding mother. I wished that she would come out of retirement for another stab at acting regardless of the role. With Beverlee, she can make it worth it. Vintage Steele is about Laura's old flame coming to see her and help him with a dead man in the trunk. Who knew in 1982 that it was supposed to be drama? Laura, Steele, and her ex-boyfriend travel to the wine country where you get vintage in order to solve the mystery. Upon going there, they meet Alexis and her horses. Too bad, Beverlee McKinsey has given up acting and retired. We miss you, Beverlee.