"Edited Steele"
DVD Music Cuts and Replacements
 
Steve Sissons has a wonderful video on YouTube about the edits. Check it out here!
 
Since the release of the DVDs for Remington Steele, fans of the show have discovered - to their collective horror - that whole chunks of episodes have been changed or cut because of music licensing problems. Below is a list of the ones we know about so far - please contact me if you know of any others. Thank you, Steve Sisson for your help!
Season One:
 
"Hearts of Steele"
- Laura's wonderful rendition of "Satisfaction" is missing. While we see her enter the office after her first girls' night out with the ex-wives club, the sound of her singing is cut - we only see the reaction of Steele, Bernice and Murphy.
 
"Steele Belted"
- The music Steele plays in his apartment with Miss Taplinger isn't the same. The background music is missing when Remington and Murphy break into Creighton's gated apt complex at night. The music is also missing when  Remington breaks into Creighton's apt.after that. The whistling that Steele does to annoy Laura is different on the DVD than in the earlier version.-There is no music at all on Mr. Steele's stereo, and the musical score is entirely absent from about the 17 minute mark until the tag scene
 
"Signed, Steeled, and Delivered"
- The music at Sheldon Quarry's wedding has been changed from the theme from Mondo Cane' to generic organ music
 
"Steele Trap"
-All of the music Madeline plays on the piano has been changed (except for the very first piece) - this includes the cassette recording of her playing that Laura finds later on
 
"Steele in the News"
-In every scene at the ballroom, the music being played has been changed. This includes both times Laura visits Elliot Walsh, and the tag scene at the end, which originally used a version of "As Time Goes By"
 
Season Two:
 
"Steele Away With Me"
- Michael Jackson's "Beat It" has been replaced by a generic disco tune.
 
"Woman of Steele"
- The original song that has such a profound effect on Steele has been changed. The new one is more generic than anything else. (Does anyone know what the original was and what the song is that it was replaced with?) -At the western bar, "Your Cheatin' Heart" has been replaced with another country sounding song
 
Season Three:

"Breath of Steele"
- Lots missing here. "Happy Birthday" (I still don't see how anyone could have a copyright on that song), and all of the songs that Terri and Toni sing are clipped. As a result of losing that first song in the office, the end of the episode where they're talking about "42nd Street" doesn't make sense.-The security guard's TV was originally playing the Star Spangled Banner - it now plays some music that serves as a dramatic score for the scene
 
"Steele Trying"
- This is the *biggie*. The one that many fans were worried about, since Tony Bennett's wonderful voice helped to *make* the episode a classic. But Fox (in its infinate stupidity) chose not to pay Mr. Bennett's people for the rights to the songs and substituted someone else singing different songs.
 
"Steele Your Heart Away"
- The song that the pocketwatch that Steele is given plays a generic watch chime, not "When Irish Eyes are Smiling".-The music at the wakes in both the opening and closing scenes has been changed
 
"Springtime for Steele" - In the opening scene, we hear "Hooray for Hollywood".  But it's only "Rocky Sullivan's" singing - not the music.
 
Season Four:
 
"Steele Searching"
-As in "Steele Your Heart Away," the chime on Mr. Steele's pocketwatch has been changed
 
"Grappling Steele"
-The music Mr. Steele and Laura dance to at his apartment was originally a bold orchestral arrangement of Gershwin's "I got a Crush on You" - it is now a mellow piano piece
 
"Dancer, Prancer, Donner and Steele"
-Some of the Christmas music has been changed
 
"Steele on the Air"
-Laura is singing "Girls Just Wanna Have Fun" along with the radio in her car, but the song the radio plays has been changed
-Tyler and Austin originally played "Leaving on a Jet Plane" in memory of their traffic reporter - that song has been changed
-They also originally played "Help me Rhonda" later in the episode, and that has been changed to a surf-guitar piece
...and at the end, they originally played "Thank You for Being a Friend," but now it's a piece about being a witness to a crime
Season Five:
 
"The Steele That Wouldn't Die"
"As Time Goes By" was originally used as background music when Laura and Tony are walking along the beach
The pocket watch chime has been changed at the end of "Steeled With a Kiss Pt.1" just as it was in previous episodes, but just moments earlier in the closing scene, it still plays "When Irish Eyes are Smiling" for a brief second when Laura asks Daniel how he came to be in possession of the watch. In "Steele with a Kiss Pt 2" it prominently plays "When Irish Eyes are Smiling" in the climactic scene between Daniel and Mr. Steele
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