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Moonlighting
1985 - 1989 7.5 (357 votes) 5 Seasons
Genres
Comedy Drama Mystery Crime
Networks
ABC
Created By
Glenn Gordon Caron

Moonlighting

Detectives with a heart

Overview

After being duped and going bankrupt, model Maddie is convinced by David to become a partner in a detective agency. Together they solve various cases, while getting comfortable with each other.

Key Crew

Writer: Roger Director

Producer: Artie Mandelberg, Jay Daniel, Roger Director, Karen Hall, Jeff Reno, Ron Osborn

Creator: Glenn Gordon Caron

Top Cast

Cybill Shepherd
Cybill Shepherd

Maddie Hayes

Bruce Willis
Bruce Willis

David Addison

Allyce Beasley
Allyce Beasley

Agnes DiPesto

Curtis Armstrong
Curtis Armstrong

Herbert Viola

Seasons

Season 2 poster
Season 2 (1985)

No overview available.

18 episodes

Episodes
Episode 1: Brother, Can You Spare a Blonde?
1985-09-24

Dave's older brother shows up unexpectedly, flashing a big roll of money and determined to impress a bemused Maddie, unaware that he's pursued by a drug dealer who wants his money back.

Runtime: 48 min
Episode 2: The Lady in the Iron Mask
1985-10-01

A mysterious veiled woman asks Dave and Maddie to find the man who disfigured her twenty years ago on her wedding day-so she can marry him.

Runtime: 45 min
Episode 3: Money Talks, Maddie Walks
1985-10-08

Maddie learns through the near-suicide of a friend where her embezzling accountant has fled to and immediately flies after him, determined to get her money back.

Runtime: 47 min
Episode 4: The Dream Sequence Always Rings Twice
1985-10-15

Dave and Maddie each dream their own solutions to an unsolved 1946 murder case after hearing the story while finishing an investigation.

Runtime: 49 min
Episode 5: My Fair David
1985-10-29

Maddie bets David that he can't act like a mature responsible professional for one full week while they deliver ransom money for the mother of a kidnapped concert pianist.

Runtime: 50 min
Episode 6: Knowing Her
1985-11-12

Maddie fears David's old flame is using him when she returns and asks him for help with a bad marriage.

Runtime: 49 min
Episode 7: Somewhere Under the Rainbow
1985-11-19

Dave and Maddie argue over whether to help a young woman who claims to be a leprechaun find the pot of gold she insists her father has hidden for her in Los Angeles.

Runtime: 47 min
Episode 8: Portrait of Maddie
1985-11-26

Maddie becomes obsessed by the portrait done of her by an artist she never knew and who killed himself upon completing it.

Runtime: 47 min
Episode 9: Atlas Belched
1985-12-10

Dave busies himself finding an important phone index for a hapless young executive while Maddie mulls over an offer to sell the agency to a competitor.

Runtime: 48 min
Episode 10: Twas the Episode Before Christmas
1985-12-17

Ms. Dipesto finds a baby left in her apartment by a woman named Mary fleeing from the hit men who killed her husband, and Dave and Maddie quarrel over using the agency phones as a "Santa hot line."

Runtime: 40 min
Episode 11: The Bride of Tupperman
1986-01-14

Dave and Maddie compete to fulfill their client's unusual request: find him a possible mate fitting his very specific requirements.

Runtime: 49 min
Episode 12: North by North Dipesto
1986-01-21

A restless Ms. Dipesto gets a chance for danger and excitement when she gets a piece of paper from a mysterious man while attending a ball in Dave and Maddie's place.

Runtime: 48 min
Episode 13: In God We Strongly Suspect
1986-02-11

Dave and Maddie agree to "corpse-sit" for an escape artist's widow, who believes her dead husband's threats to come back and get even with her.

Runtime: 45 min
Episode 14: Every Daughter's Father Is a Virgin
1986-02-18

Maddie worries about her parents' strange behavior, so Dave tails her father to see if he's having an affair.

Runtime: 43 min
Episode 15: Witness for the Execution
1986-03-11

A sick old man asks Dave and Maddie to be the "expert" witnesses at his murder.

Runtime: 49 min
Episode 16: Sleep Talkin' Guy
1986-04-01

Dave uses information passed on to him from a prostitute with an important client who talks in his sleep to solve several big cases.

Runtime: 49 min
Episode 17: Funeral for a Door Nail
1986-04-29

A depressed man hires a hit man to kill him after his wife dies, then desperately seeks Dave and Maddie's help to call him off when he sees his supposedly dead wife alive.

Runtime: 46 min
Episode 18: Camille
1986-05-13

Dave hires an unlucky con woman who accidentally became a heroine when she stopped an assassination attempt against a United States senator, but who is still pursued by a determined crooked cop.

Runtime: 48 min
Season 3 poster
Season 3 (1986)

No overview available.

15 episodes

Episodes
Episode 1: The Son Also Rises
1986-09-23

David's estranged father makes a surprise visit to announce his upcoming wedding and to introduce his bride-to-be, who comes as a shock to David.

Runtime: 46 min
Episode 2: The Man Who Cried Wife
1986-09-30

A man hires Dave and Maddie to find his wife, who's been making mysterious late night phone calls to him, the same wife he's sure he killed and buried in the forest.

Runtime: 46 min
Episode 3: Symphony in Knocked Flat
1986-10-14

Dave and Maddie agree to each arrange what they consider to be an ideal evening for the other, but the concert tickets Dave buys from a scalper get them into nothing but trouble.

Runtime: 46 min
Episode 4: Yours, Very Deadly
1986-10-28

Dave and Maddie are hired by a married woman to find the man she has been sharing a torrid romantic correspondence with and make sure he understands the arrangement is over.

Runtime: 46 min
Episode 5: All Creatures Great and ... Not So Great
1986-11-11

A priest asks Dave and Maddie to find a woman he's become infatuated with during confession and whose latest revelation was her intention to kill herself.

Runtime: 46 min
Episode 6: Big Man on Mulberry Street
1986-11-18

Maddie becomes consumed with curiosity when David announces he must fly back to New York to attend the funeral of his former wife's brother.

Runtime: 46 min
Episode 7: Atomic Shakespeare
1986-11-25

A boy hoping to watch Moonlighting but forced to study Shakespeare instead daydreams about the cast performing their own version of The Taming of the Shrew complete with Petruchio Dave and Kate Maddie.

Runtime: 46 min
Episode 8: It's a Wonderful Job
1986-12-16

A depressed Maddie gets a chance to see what her life and the rest of Blue Moon staff would be like if she had sold the agency as she originally intended.

Runtime: 46 min
Episode 9: The Straight Poop
1987-01-06

Rona Barrett investigates the rumors about discord among the principals at the Blue Moon Detective agency.

Runtime: 46 min
Episode 10: Poltergeist III—Dipesto Nothing
1987-01-13

Ms. Dipesto tries to solve a haunted house case refused by Dave and Maddie to show Bert Viola that she's just as good a detective as he is.

Runtime: 46 min
Episode 11: Blonde on Blonde (1)
1987-02-03

Maddie's strange mood has David worried so he spends the evening following her, but ends up involved in a murder.

Runtime: 46 min
Episode 12: Sam & Dave (2)
1987-02-10

Dave and Maddie quarrel over Sam as they keep watch on a man for his mistress, who's convinced he's two-timing her-with his wife.

Runtime: 46 min
Episode 13: Maddie's Turn to Cry (3)
1987-03-03

Maddie feels more and more confused about Sam and Dave after an all-night stakeout with Dave ends in an early morning proposal from Sam.

Runtime: 46 min
Episode 14: I Am Curious... Maddie (4)
1987-03-31

Sam confronts Dave about Maddie, and tells him he's not good enough for her.

Runtime: 46 min
Episode 15: To Heiress Human
1987-05-05

Maddie tries to ignore the previous night as she and David tackle a new case: a woman wants evidence that her fiance loves her and not her father's money.

Runtime: 46 min
Season 4 poster
Season 4 (1987)

No overview available.

14 episodes

Episodes
Episode 1: A Trip to the Moon
1987-09-29

After a month of intimacy, Maddie begins to question just where this relationship with David is headed.

Runtime: 46 min
Episode 2: Come Back Little Shiksa
1987-10-06

With Maddie in Chicago, Dave feels very sympatico with a client who offers $10,000 if they can locate the woman he spent one memorable night with.

Runtime: 46 min
Episode 3: Take a Left at the Altar
1987-10-13

David recruits Bert Viola as his detecting companion in a case concerning a man who failed to show up for his wedding while Maddie continues to brood in Chicago.

Runtime: 46 min
Episode 4: Tale in Two Cities
1987-11-03

Maddie's parents throw a party for her in Chicago while Dave and Bert party it up in LA.

Runtime: 46 min
Episode 5: Cool Hand Dave (Part I)
1987-11-17

Ms. Dipesto lets Maddie's secret slip, so Dave frantically tries to fly to Chicago, but he gets waylaid and makes an unexpected side trip to prison under another man's name.

Runtime: 46 min
Episode 6: Cool Hand Dave (Part II)
1987-12-01

Ms. Dipesto lets Maddie's secret slip, so Dave frantically tries to fly to Chicago, but he gets waylaid and makes an unexpected side trip to prison under another man's name.

Runtime: 46 min
Episode 7: Father Knows Last
1987-12-15

Mr. Hayes visits Dave after his return to the agency to subtly hint that he should take some responsibility for Maddie's unborn child.

Runtime: 46 min
Episode 8: Los Dos DiPestos
1988-01-05

Ms. Dipesto's mother returns from a visit to Mexico carrying more than she realizes and becomes the target for several different parties.

Runtime: 46 min
Episode 9: Fetal Attraction
1988-01-19

Dave searches for a suitable Lamaze partner so he can be prepared for Maddie's delivery.

Runtime: 46 min
Episode 10: Tracks of My Tears
1988-02-02

Maddie returns home by train. She is still unsure about David and has dreams and nightmares about being married to him on the trip back. On the journey, she meets a systems analyst returning to Los Angeles and they become friends.

Runtime: 46 min
Episode 11: Eek! A Spouse!
1988-02-09

Dave is skeptical about the existence of Walter Bishop and bugs Maddie about it as they work on case for a woman who wants to buy off her husband's mistress.

Runtime: 46 min
Episode 12: Maddie Hayes Got Married
1988-03-01

Maddie's confused and worried: Dave has insisted on throwing a bachelor party for Walter and a huge formal wedding for her.

Runtime: 46 min
Episode 13: Here's Living With You, Kid
1988-03-15

Bert, bored on an all-night stakeout, dreams about how nice it would be to live with Agnes, but her hesitation when he actually asks her hurts his tender ego.

Runtime: 46 min
Episode 14: And the Flesh Was Made Word
1988-03-22

Dave and Maddie try to recover their working relationship while dealing with the romantic writings of a man obsessed by one woman.

Runtime: 46 min
Season 5 poster
Season 5 (1988)

No overview available.

13 episodes

Episodes
Episode 1: A Womb With a View
1988-12-06

An angel from above visits Baby Hayes as he waits to be born and gives him the low down on his parents and their relationship.

Runtime: 46 min
Episode 2: Between a Yuk and a Hard Place
1988-12-13

Maddie takes on several new cases in an effort to bury her sorrow, including one where a woman is convinced that her husband is still in love with someone from his past.

Runtime: 46 min
Episode 3: The Color of Maddie
1988-12-20

Maddie and David struggle to find a new footing for their relationship while working on a case for a woman whose husband of one week returns after a ten year absence.

Runtime: 46 min
Episode 4: Plastic Fantastic Lovers
1989-01-10

Maddie and David are hired by a disfigured man who has become a recluse and needs the detectives' help in proving that a plastic surgeon wantonly caused his disfiguration.

Runtime: 46 min
Episode 5: Shirts and Skins
1989-01-17

The office divides along gender lines when Maddie takes on a case for a woman who shot her boss for sabotaging her career when she refused his sexual advances.

Runtime: 46 min
Episode 6: Take My Wife, For Example
1989-02-07

A ruthless divorce lawyer comes to Blue Moon for help in reconciling a couple she helped split up, and Maddie tries to buy David a present.

Runtime: 46 min
Episode 7: I See England, I See France, I See Maddie's Netherworld
1989-02-14

Dave and Maddie keep company with a popular corpse and visit a graveyard when a man seeking a bodyguard drops dead in their office.

Runtime: 46 min
Episode 8: Those Lips, Those Lies
1989-04-02

Maddie is sympathetic while David is skeptical when his brother shows up asking for help tracking down his fiancee's former partner, who has absconded with all their company assets.

Runtime: 46 min
Episode 9: Perfetc
1989-04-09

Maddie resists, but David plunges ahead when a dying burglar asks for their help in proving he committed the perfect crime 25 years earlier.

Runtime: 46 min
Episode 10: When Girls Collide (1)
1989-04-16

David goes beyond the call of duty to help entertain Maddie's cousin Annie, and Maddie realizes that David may be over his obsession with her.

Runtime: 46 min
Episode 11: In 'N Outlaws
1989-04-23

Burt pouts and frantically tries to solve the crime when Agnes is forced to miss his family reunion because she won't vote to convict a man of murdering his partner / lover.

Runtime: 46 min
Episode 12: Eine Kleine Nacht Murder
1989-04-30

As the sole eyewitness to a murder, Maddie is given police protection. But David suspects that her handsome young bodyguard is setting her up for death.

Runtime: 46 min
Episode 13: Lunar Eclipse
1989-05-14

Dave breaks it off with Annie when her husband comes to California, everyone attends the wedding of Burt and Agnes, and the agency closes its doors for a final time as everyone tries to figure out why it all had to end.

Runtime: 46 min

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