Episode Data

Moonlighting

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Season 0

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  1: Not Just a Day Job - The Story of Moonlighting Part I

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  2: Inside the Blue Moon Detective Agency - The Story of Moonlighting Part II

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  3: Screen Test

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  4: Original ABC Promos

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  5: The Moonlighting Phenomenon

• _{Wednesday, February 7th, 1990}

  6: Memories of Moonlighting

  "Memories of Moonlighting" is a half-hour documentary about the third season, featuring exclusive interviews with cast and crew, including new cast member Curtis Armstrong, and the long-awaited reunion of Cybill Shepherd and Bruce Willis! Memories of Moonlighting goes behind the scenes to look at some of the amazing stories of the people involved with the show in this extraordinary award-winning season.

Season 1

• _{Sunday, March 3rd, 1985}

  1: Pilot

  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.

• _{Tuesday, March 5th, 1985}

  2: Gunfight at the So-So Corral

  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.

• _{Tuesday, March 12th, 1985}

  3: Read the Mind -- See the Movie

  Maddie believes that a client's design secrets are being pilfered from the astral plane by a psychic.

• _{Tuesday, March 19th, 1985}

  4: The Next Murder You Hear

  Maddie becomes infatuated with a radio talk-show host who has apparently been murdered while he was on the air.

• _{Tuesday, March 26th, 1985}

  5: Next Stop Murder

  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.

• _{Tuesday, April 2nd, 1985}

  6: The Murder's in the Mail

  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.

Season 2

• _{Tuesday, September 24th, 1985}

  1: Brother, Can You Spare a Blonde?

  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.

• _{Tuesday, October 1st, 1985}

  2: The Lady in the Iron Mask

  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.

• _{Tuesday, October 8th, 1985}

  3: Money Talks -- Maddie Walks

  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.

• _{Tuesday, October 15th, 1985}

  4: The Dream Sequence Always Rings Twice

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

• _{Tuesday, October 29th, 1985}

  5: My Fair David

  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.

• _{Tuesday, November 12th, 1985}

  6: Knowing Her

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

• _{Tuesday, November 19th, 1985}

  7: Somewhere Under the Rainbow

  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.

• _{Tuesday, November 26th, 1985}

  8: Portrait of Maddie

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

• _{Tuesday, December 10th, 1985}

  9: Atlas Belched

  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.

• _{Tuesday, December 17th, 1985}

  10: Twas the Episode Before Christmas

  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."

• _{Tuesday, January 14th, 1986}

  11: The Bride of Tupperman

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

• _{Tuesday, January 21st, 1986}

  12: North by North Dipesto

  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.

• _{Tuesday, February 11th, 1986}

  13: In God We Strongly Suspect

  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.

• _{Tuesday, February 18th, 1986}

  14: Every Daughter's Father is a Virgin

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

• _{Tuesday, March 11th, 1986}

  15: Witness for the Execution

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

• _{Tuesday, April 1st, 1986}

  16: Sleep Talkin' Guy

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

• _{Tuesday, April 29th, 1986}

  17: Funeral for a Door Nail

  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.

• _{Tuesday, May 13th, 1986}

  18: Camille

  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.

Season 3

• _{Tuesday, September 23rd, 1986}

  1: The Son Also Rises

  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.

• _{Tuesday, September 30th, 1986}

  2: The Man Who Cried Wife

  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.

• _{Tuesday, October 14th, 1986}

  3: Symphony in Knocked Flat

  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.

• _{Tuesday, October 28th, 1986}

  4: Yours, Very Deadly

  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.

• _{Tuesday, November 11th, 1986}

  5: All Creatures Great and...Not So Great

  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.

• _{Tuesday, November 18th, 1986}

  6: Big Man on Mulberry Street

  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.

• _{Tuesday, November 25th, 1986}

  7: Atomic Shakespeare

  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.

• _{Tuesday, December 16th, 1986}

  8: It's a Wonderful Job

  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.

• _{Tuesday, January 6th, 1987}

  9: The Straight Poop

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

• _{Tuesday, January 13th, 1987}

  10: Poltergeist III -- Dipesto Nothing

  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.

• _{Tuesday, February 3rd, 1987}

  11: Blonde on Blonde (1)

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

• _{Tuesday, February 10th, 1987}

  12: Sam & Dave (2)

  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.

• _{Tuesday, March 3rd, 1987}

  13: Maddie's Turn to Cry (3)

  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.

• _{Tuesday, March 31st, 1987}

  14: I am Curious...Maddie (4)

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

• _{Tuesday, May 5th, 1987}

  15: To Heiress Human

  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.

Season 4

• _{Tuesday, September 29th, 1987}

  1: A Trip to the Moon

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

• _{Tuesday, October 6th, 1987}

  2: Come Back Little Shiksa

  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.

• _{Tuesday, October 13th, 1987}

  3: Take a Left at the Altar

  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.

• _{Tuesday, November 3rd, 1987}

  4: Tale in Two Cities

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

• _{Tuesday, November 17th, 1987}

  5: Cool Hand Dave (1)

  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.

• _{Tuesday, December 1st, 1987}

  6: Cool Hand Dave (2)

• _{Tuesday, December 15th, 1987}

  7: Father Knows Last

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

• _{Tuesday, January 5th, 1988}

  8: Los Dos DiPestos

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

• _{Tuesday, January 19th, 1988}

  9: Fetal Attraction

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

• _{Tuesday, February 2nd, 1988}

  10: Tracks of My Tears

  Maddie returns to Los Angeles by train and spends the time daydreaming about her future and pouring her troubles out to a sympathetic fellow passenger.

• _{Tuesday, February 9th, 1988}

  11: Eek! A Spouse!

  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.

• _{Tuesday, March 1st, 1988}

  12: Maddie Hayes Got Married

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

• _{Tuesday, March 15th, 1988}

  13: Here's Living with You, Kid

  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.

• _{Tuesday, March 22nd, 1988}

  14: And the Flesh Was Made Word

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

Season 5

• _{Tuesday, December 6th, 1988}

  1: A Womb with a View

  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.

• _{Tuesday, December 13th, 1988}

  2: Between a Yuk and a Hard Place

  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.

• _{Tuesday, December 20th, 1988}

  3: The Color of Maddie

  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.

• _{Tuesday, January 10th, 1989}

  4: Plastic Fantastic Lovers

  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.

• _{Tuesday, January 17th, 1989}

  5: Shirts and Skins

  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.

• _{Tuesday, February 7th, 1989}

  6: Take My Wife, for Example

  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.

• _{Tuesday, February 14th, 1989}

  7: I See England, I See France, I See Maddie's Netherworld

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

• _{Sunday, April 2nd, 1989}

  8: Those Lips, Those Lies

  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.

• _{Sunday, April 9th, 1989}

  9: Perfetc

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

• _{Sunday, April 16th, 1989}

  10: When Girls Collide (1)

  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.

• _{Sunday, April 23rd, 1989}

  11: In 'n Outlaws

  Agnes misses Herbert's family reunion when she is called for jury duty. She is the only juror convinced of the defendant's innocence, and the jury is now sequestered until a verdict can be agreed. Herbert is desperate to ensure that Agnes makes it to the reunion so sets out to solve the case himself.

• _{Sunday, April 30th, 1989}

  12: Eine Kleine Nacht Murder

  Maddie witnesses a murder and is placed under police protection, but David thinks her bodyguard is crooked and is planning to kill her himself. Annie moves in with David, largely because of the discomfort their relationship is causing Maddie. David goes to Maddie's house to convince her to try to flee from the bad guys, only for a SWAT team to show up and severely damage the house.

• _{Sunday, May 14th, 1989}

  13: Lunar Eclipse

  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.