AS TRUE AS STEELE TO REMINGTON STEELE |
This site is devoted to my
favorite TV show ever. I'm talking about American series Remington Steele.
The series
was constructed around female private investigator Laura Holt (played by
Stephanie Zimbalist) and ex con-man turned into her imaginary boss (played by Pierce
Brosnan).
The very first episode (License to Steele) serves as an introduction of what the
series will bring. Private investigator Laura Holt is the head of an agency,
though it's not her name that appears on the door. Since she's a woman doing
what's supposed to be *man's* work she decides to make up an imaginary male boss
named after a typewriter and football team (Remington Steele) and put his name
to the office. What she didn't predict was that HIM would eventually become a real person,
but...
Then a charming con-man/thief with five passports comes into her life as he tries
to steal the gems she had been hired to protect. This mysterious man will
eventually discover that there's no such man as Remington Steele and will seize
the opportunity by adopting his identity instead of following the path of the
gems to San Francisco. Even he declares in this episode that he enjoys
impossible challenges--we are left to wonder whether he was referring to
playing Remington Steele for a long while or to Laura, to whom he feels an
obvious attraction since the beginning, although (or precisely because of that)
she is the first woman he's ever met that is
not willing to stumble into his bed right away.
Technical Details.-
Produced by: MTM Enterprises Inc.
Creators: Robert Butler
and Michael Gleason.
Executive Producer: Michael Gleason
Music by: Henry Mancini, Richard Lewis Warren, Donald Nemitz
Cast.-
Main Characters |
|
Stephanie Zimbalist | Laura Holt |
Pierce Brosnan | Remington Steele |
Other Characters |
|
Frances Piper | |
Janet DeMay | Bernice Foxe (1982-1983) |
Beverly Garland | Abigail Holt |
Felicia | |
James Read | Murphy Michaels (1982-1983) |
Doris Roberts | Mildred Krebs (1983-1987) |
Jack Scalia | Tony Roselli (1986-1987) |
James Tolkan | Norman Keyes |
Efrem Zimbalist Jr. | Daniel Chalmers |
I’m
gonna post here transcriptions of the episodes as they were translated into
Spanish. The reason of doing it is that I've found many mistranslations in the
Spanish version of the series, which provoked the lack of sense in some dialogs.
So along with the transcriptions I will add some comments on some curious or
funny translations. This is no criticism to translators--I know by experience
how difficult a task it is--but just a way of combining my love for the 80's show Remington Steele with
another of my passions: English.
Yes, I do write fan-fiction, too. :-) This stuff is very new to me. I had never attempted to write any piece of fiction at all, let alone in English. Since I'm not a native speaker, this can be a hard task sometimes, although for some strange reason I find myself more at ease writing in English than I am in Spanish. In any case, I'd highly appreciate any correction on syntax or grammar. Any kind of feedback will be welcome. I'm very interested in learning.
In this section you can find scripts and transcripts I've downloaded from the Internet of some of the movies quoted in the show. Classical cinema is another one of my passions, and one important reason why I loved the series--apart from the obvious chemistry between the two leading characters and its mystery plots.
You can send your comments or suggestions to Marta:
07/03/04