Writer Glenn Gordon Caron left this series to create "Das Model und der Schnüffler (1985)," another series about a pair of bickering detectives.
Steele's ex-lover Felicia was played by Pierce Brosnan's first wife, Cassandra Harris. Cassandra died of cancer and Brosnan eventually met and married Keely.
Laura once told Steele that she named him after "A typewriter and a football team."
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.
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.