Why did remington steele end

Writer Glenn Gordon Caron left this series to create "Moonlighting ," another series about a pair of bickering detectives. Originally, the character of Remington Steele was supposed to be a figurehead, comic relief to be used in support of Stephanie Zimbalist.

Brosnan became so popular, that his part became more significant. Robert Butler originally pitched the show to MTM as detective Laura Holt running a detective agency belonging to a male superior, whom she invented for business purposes.

MTM put Butler in contact with Michael Gleason, who suggested the chaos that would ensue if the invented superior turned up one day, and the character of Remington Steele was created. At the beginning of each episode, the episode title was displayed. The surprise renewal of the series for cost Stephanie Zimbalist a role in "RoboCop During the run of the series, Pierce Brosnan was not only touted as the next James Bond, but he was also mentioned in published reports as being considered to star in a theatrical version of "The Saint Steele was a serious Humphrey Bogart fan.

He has five passports from five countries in five different names, all of which are characters played by Bogart. Director Chris Columbus is a big James Bond fan, and he was crushed when Pierce Brosnan didn't get cast when he was offered the part during the making of this show, but they wouldn't release him from his contract. The show airs on Family Net since October Community Showcase More. Follow TV Tropes. You need to login to do this. Get Known if you don't have an account. Before he was James Bond , he was Remington Steele.

He doesn't exist. I invented him. I always loved excitement, so I studied, and apprenticed, and put my name on an office. But absolutely nobody knocked down my door. A female private investigator seemed so So I invented a superior.

A decidedly masculine superior. Suddenly there were cases around the block. Laura names her agency after him and business immediately picks up. He soon decides to make the alias permanent and Laura goes along with it because she realizes the value in having someone physically play her boss.

He eventually leaves to start his own agency in Denver, leaving the door open for another romance. As the series progresses, Mildred becomes an active member of the detective team. The series was cancelled at the end of season four, on May 15, , with a day option left on the show.

That same day, Brosnan agreed to play the role of James Bond in multiple movies for many millions of dollars. That generated so much publicity that ratings for Steele soared during the summer months and NBC decided to bring the series back for an abbreviated fifth season of three two-hour movies. With a seven year contract, Brosnan was obligated to do it.

Brosnan was replaced by Timothy Dalton in the James Bond movies. Zimbalist had also supposedly been cast as Officer Anne Lewis in RoboCop but had to pull out of that movie.