Remington Steele (TV Series) Dreams of Steele (1984) User Reviews

Dreams of Steele

[Prismark10 · 1/10 · 10 March 2019]

A truly dismal episode.

The Remington Steele agency has to transport some sky blue gems to a museum where they would be put on display. All this happens in a blaze of publicity.

The gems are priceless. So Remington and Laura see it fit to transport the gems in a small convertible Volkswagen.

On their journey, someone pushes their car from an edge of a cliff. When the gems arrive it is found to be glass.

Remington and Laura need to salvage their reputations. They are convinced somewhere a switcheroo tool place.

Well if it is going to be just two people driving around a small convertible car to transport something valuable. They deserve everything they get.

The episode is chock full of prolonged and unfunny dream sequences. It seemed the producers did not want to bother too much with quality control for this episode.

Not their finest hour

[aramis-112-804880 · 24 March 2024]

The Remington Steele Agency is hired to transfer valuable gems from one city to another. Naturally, it goes wrong. Now they must recover the stones and nail the villain or lose the Agency.

With so much at stake, and so many delicious twists (including a tank of venomous sea snakes and Remington and Laura stuck in a coffin about to be cremated) it's a shame the episode as a whole isn't better.

When the Cullinan diamond was purchased for the British Crown elaborate precautions were made for its transferrence; all for show, since the real diamond was slapped in a box and put in ordinary mail. So Steele's preparations, which look slapdash, may be cleverer than we think. Whatever, they don't work. And the villain is fairly obvious, though the "Batman" fight at the end (without the "zow-ee" or "biff" signs) does have a genuinely surprising climax.

The problem with this episode is that the action and romance is broken by daydreams (hence the title) one of which is reminiscent of the miserable ending of the otherwise howlingly funny "Arrivederci, Baby" (Tony Curtis, Lionel Jeffries, Paramount, 1966).

Fast forward through the dream sequences. They add nothing to the plot. Nor to your life. They render this episode only marginally superior to a clip show.