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Remington Steele: Season 4

22 episodes Premiered Sep 25, 1985 Updated Oct 20, 2026
Previously on Remington Steele

Season 4 Lore Primer

Key plot threads, lore context, and character stakes you need to remember before diving into this season.

  • ⚡ Picks up essential narrative continuity directly following the events of Remington Steele Season 3.
  • ⚡ Character alliances, factions, and personal loyalties undergo significant shifts under escalating stakes.
  • ⚡ Addresses unresolved cliffhangers and thematic mysteries introduced during previous seasons.
  • ⚡ Establishes the primary seasonal conflict that drives serialized character arcs toward the finale.
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Season 4 Episodes

Episode Guide

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Season 4: Filler vs. Essential Canon

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Mytharc (4): Crucial lore & season climaxes
Core (18): Character development & subplots
Side Quest (0): Standalone / filler
S4·E1 Mytharc

Steele Searching (1)

Sep 25, 1985 · 46 min

Laura races with Scotland Yard to locate Steele, who has become involved in murder while searching for a man with a clue to his past. Steele masquerades as an assassin hired by Dan

S4·E2 Core

Steele Searching (2)

Oct 1, 1985 · 46 min

Laura races with Scotland Yard to locate Steele, who has become involved in murder while searching for a man with a clue to his past. Steele masquerades as an assassin hired by Dan

S4·E3 Core

Steele Blushing

Oct 22, 1985 · 46 min

Laura protects a photographer and his files from angry clients and the FBI even after her doctored photo appears in a porno magazine.

S4·E4 Core

Grappling Steele

Oct 29, 1985 · 46 min

Laura and Steele are hired to protect a professional wrestler who has been receiving death threats and having mysterious ""accidents.""

S4·E5 Core

Forged Steele

Nov 12, 1985 · 46 min

Steele awakens from a 36-hour blackout to find that he has apparently gambled away the agency.

S4·E6 Core

Corn Fed Steele

Nov 19, 1985 · 46 min

Laura and Steele look into the disappearance of some prized breeding pigs from an experimental farm in Iowa.

S4·E7 Core

Premium Steele

Dec 3, 1985 · 46 min

Laura and Steele try to discover why phony obituaries are being printed about people like poor garlic farmer Lester Shane.

S4·E8 Core

Coffee, Tea, or Steele

Dec 10, 1985 · 46 min

Laura and Steele fly the unfriendly skies to learn why the body of a hired killer turned up on the baggage carrousel of a luxury airline.

S4·E9 Core

Dancer, Prancer, Donner and Steele

Dec 17, 1985 · 46 min

The agency Christmas party is interrupted by three gun-wielding Santas who take everyone hostage and threaten to blow up the building.

S4·E10 Mytharc

Steele on the Air

Jan 7, 1986 · 45 min

A traffic reporter dies while aloft in a helicopter and the two prime suspects are the disc jockeys, who were on the air at the time.

S4·E11 Core

Steele, Inc.

Jan 14, 1986 · 45 min

Mulch's latest brainstorm to franchise the agency gets an unfortunate investigator killed by an angry client.

S4·E12 Core

Steele Spawning

Jan 28, 1986 · 46 min

Laura and Steele are hired by the spoiled son of a caviar importer to find a missing shipment before daddy returns home.

S4·E13 Core

Suburban Steele

Feb 11, 1986 · 45 min

Laura's sister finds a dead body on her kitchen floor and asks for help from a reluctant Laura and Steele.

S4·E14 Core

Santa Claus is Coming to Steele

Feb 18, 1986 · 46 min

One of the phony Santas from the ill-fated Christmas party returns to persuade witness not to testify against him.

S4·E15 Core

Steele Blue Yonder

Feb 22, 1986 · 46 min

A woman is afraid her father may need help but Laura and Steele learn he knows exactly what he's doing.

S4·E16 Core

Sensitive Steele

Mar 1, 1986 · 45 min

Laura and Steele go undercover at a self-improvement spa to find out why there have been a series of mysterious accidents.

S4·E17 Core

Steele in the Spotlight

Mar 8, 1986 · 45 min

The search for a singer from the fifties has unexpected, deadly consequences.

S4·E18 Core

Steele at Your Service

Mar 15, 1986 · 45 min

The servants of the wealthy Wellingtons hire Laura and Steele to find out who killed the former butler, who had planned on publishing his memoirs.

S4·E19 Core

Steele in the Running

Mar 22, 1986 · 45 min

Laura is assaulted while running in a triathlon after a desperate woman switches numbers with her.

S4·E20 Core

Beg, Borrow, or Steele

Mar 29, 1986 · 45 min

Laura and Steele return from the East to find reports of their murder on the news and Mildred arrested for the crime.

S4·E21 Mytharc

Steele Alive and Kicking

May 3, 1986 · 45 min

A man who framed himself so his wife could collect the reward learns he isn't terminally ill and wants Laura and Steele to clear him.

S4·E22 Mytharc

Bonds of Steele

May 10, 1986 · 44 min

Laura has her hands full trying to discover why an accountant at a huge corporation was killed while Steele handles several mysterious errands of his own.

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