Brent Butler

Despite denials years later, I think that Stephanie Zimbalist and Pierce Brosnan really were not getting along for much of the series, and particularly by the last year. That was the scuttlebutt at the time, and I believe it. That's the only thing that makes the Season Five plotting make sense -- that those two actors wanted to spend as little time with each other as possible. And you could really see it on the screen in Seasons Four AND Five. The chemistry was disappearing quickly, and their scenes appeared strained, as if they were completing for the camera -- and they probably were. Also, neither actor was very happy about a Season Five. They were both attached to lucrative film roles, and NBC only renewed Season Five to take advantage of the Brosnan as Bond publicity.