Moonlighting
Detectives with a heart
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.
Seasons
1. Pilot
Air Date: 1985-03-03
After an embezzling accountant leaves her penniless, ex-model Maddie Hayes decides to sell the few failing businesses she still owns, among them a detective agency. But private eye David Addison wants to keeps his job, so he persuades a reluctant Maddie to form a partnership. Their first case gives them little to go on: Maddie gets a broken watch from a dying man.
2. Gunfight at the So-So Corral
Air Date: 1985-03-05
Dave and Maddie face a difficult situation when they have to tell their client that the son he hired them to find is a notorious contract killer.
3. Read the Mind... See the Movie
Air Date: 1985-03-12
Maddie believes that a client's design secrets are being pilfered from the astral plane by a psychic.
4. The Next Murder You Hear
Air Date: 1985-03-19
Maddie becomes infatuated with a radio talk-show host who has apparently been murdered while he was on the air.
5. Next Stop Murder
Air Date: 1985-03-26
Maddie and Dave get trapped on a train filled with mystery buffs when they try to deliver Agnes on time for her big weekend solving a make-believe murder staged by a famous author.
6. The Murder's in the Mail
Air Date: 1985-04-02
Dave and Maddie find a dead body as they try to collect money for a collection agency, but it disappears without a trace when they try to report it.
1. Brother, Can You Spare a Blonde?
Air Date: 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.
2. The Lady in the Iron Mask
Air Date: 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.
3. Money Talks, Maddie Walks
Air Date: 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.
4. The Dream Sequence Always Rings Twice
Air Date: 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.
5. My Fair David
Air Date: 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.
6. Knowing Her
Air Date: 1985-11-12
Maddie fears David's old flame is using him when she returns and asks him for help with a bad marriage.
7. Somewhere Under the Rainbow
Air Date: 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.
8. Portrait of Maddie
Air Date: 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.
9. Atlas Belched
Air Date: 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.
10. Twas the Episode Before Christmas
Air Date: 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."
11. The Bride of Tupperman
Air Date: 1986-01-14
Dave and Maddie compete to fulfill their client's unusual request: find him a possible mate fitting his very specific requirements.
12. North by North Dipesto
Air Date: 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.
13. In God We Strongly Suspect
Air Date: 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.
14. Every Daughter's Father Is a Virgin
Air Date: 1986-02-18
Maddie worries about her parents' strange behavior, so Dave tails her father to see if he's having an affair.
15. Witness for the Execution
Air Date: 1986-03-11
A sick old man asks Dave and Maddie to be the "expert" witnesses at his murder.
16. Sleep Talkin' Guy
Air Date: 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.
17. Funeral for a Door Nail
Air Date: 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.
18. Camille
Air Date: 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.
1. The Son Also Rises
Air Date: 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.
2. The Man Who Cried Wife
Air Date: 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.
3. Symphony in Knocked Flat
Air Date: 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.
4. Yours, Very Deadly
Air Date: 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.
5. All Creatures Great and ... Not So Great
Air Date: 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.
6. Big Man on Mulberry Street
Air Date: 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.
7. Atomic Shakespeare
Air Date: 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.
8. It's a Wonderful Job
Air Date: 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.
9. The Straight Poop
Air Date: 1987-01-06
Rona Barrett investigates the rumors about discord among the principals at the Blue Moon Detective agency.
10. Poltergeist III—Dipesto Nothing
Air Date: 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.
11. Blonde on Blonde (1)
Air Date: 1987-02-03
Maddie's strange mood has David worried so he spends the evening following her, but ends up involved in a murder.
12. Sam & Dave (2)
Air Date: 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.
13. Maddie's Turn to Cry (3)
Air Date: 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.
14. I Am Curious... Maddie (4)
Air Date: 1987-03-31
Sam confronts Dave about Maddie, and tells him he's not good enough for her.
15. To Heiress Human
Air Date: 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.
1. A Trip to the Moon
Air Date: 1987-09-29
After a month of intimacy, Maddie begins to question just where this relationship with David is headed.
2. Come Back Little Shiksa
Air Date: 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.
3. Take a Left at the Altar
Air Date: 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.
4. Tale in Two Cities
Air Date: 1987-11-03
Maddie's parents throw a party for her in Chicago while Dave and Bert party it up in LA.
5. Cool Hand Dave (Part I)
Air Date: 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.
6. Cool Hand Dave (Part II)
Air Date: 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.
7. Father Knows Last
Air Date: 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.
8. Los Dos DiPestos
Air Date: 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.
9. Fetal Attraction
Air Date: 1988-01-19
Dave searches for a suitable Lamaze partner so he can be prepared for Maddie's delivery.
10. Tracks of My Tears
Air Date: 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.
11. Eek! A Spouse!
Air Date: 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.
12. Maddie Hayes Got Married
Air Date: 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.
13. Here's Living With You, Kid
Air Date: 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.
14. And the Flesh Was Made Word
Air Date: 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.
1. A Womb With a View
Air Date: 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.
2. Between a Yuk and a Hard Place
Air Date: 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.
3. The Color of Maddie
Air Date: 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.
4. Plastic Fantastic Lovers
Air Date: 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.
5. Shirts and Skins
Air Date: 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.
6. Take My Wife, For Example
Air Date: 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.
7. I See England, I See France, I See Maddie's Netherworld
Air Date: 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.
8. Those Lips, Those Lies
Air Date: 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.
9. Perfetc
Air Date: 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.
10. When Girls Collide (1)
Air Date: 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.
11. In 'N Outlaws
Air Date: 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.
12. Eine Kleine Nacht Murder
Air Date: 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.
13. Lunar Eclipse
Air Date: 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.
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Rating
7.5/10
Release Date
1985-03-03
Episodes
66 (5 seasons)
Status
Ended
Cast
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Production Companies
Picturemaker Productions
ABC Circle Films