A lightly comic format about mismatched detectives. After a feisty female private investigator invents a fictional male boss named “Remington Steele” to gain clients, a handsome international con man assumes the role to escape being caught — and the unlikely pair agree to become partners.
As the two go to work together investigating disappearances, protecting rich clients and solving murders, they find they have a chemistry that involves constantly butting heads: while she is relentlessly practical, Remington would rather spend the company expense account on clothes and champagne. Because of Remington's complete lack of experience as a detective, she always finds herself cleaning up his mess just in time to solve the case — but just as often Remington's charm has been a crucial component in cracking it. And along with the murder and intrigue of each case they tackle is the excitement of romantic tension between the unlikely pair.