Since Moonlighting creator Glenn Caron had worked, not very happily, on Remington Steele, and tended to less-than-subtly point to Remington Steele as the sort of show he was trying to subvert with the post-modern Moonlighting, it was natural to think of Remington Steele as little more than another interchangeable part of the boy-girl detective show format that started with Hart To Hart,