TV Show

Moonlighting

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.

TV Show Stats +8%

5 seasons

66 episodes total

Status

Ended

First Aired

1985

Rating

TV Show

7.5/10

366 votes • HD

Season 1

6 episodes
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Pilot
Episode 1

Pilot

Episode 1 • Mar 03, 1985

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.

7.3
93m
Gunfight at the So-So Corral
Episode 2

Gunfight at the So-So Corral

Episode 2 • Mar 05, 1985

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.

9.0
49m
Read the Mind... See the Movie
Episode 3

Read the Mind... See the Movie

Episode 3 • Mar 12, 1985

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

9.0
46m
The Next Murder You Hear
Episode 4

The Next Murder You Hear

Episode 4 • Mar 19, 1985

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

9.3
50m
Next Stop Murder
Episode 5

Next Stop Murder

Episode 5 • Mar 26, 1985

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.

9.3
48m
The Murder's in the Mail
Episode 6

The Murder's in the Mail

Episode 6 • Apr 02, 1985

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.

9.3
42m

Season 2

18 episodes
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Brother, Can You Spare a Blonde?
Episode 1

Brother, Can You Spare a Blonde?

Episode 1 • Sep 24, 1985

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.

9.7
48m
The Lady in the Iron Mask
Episode 2

The Lady in the Iron Mask

Episode 2 • Oct 01, 1985

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.

9.7
45m
Money Talks, Maddie Walks
Episode 3

Money Talks, Maddie Walks

Episode 3 • Oct 08, 1985

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.

9.3
47m
The Dream Sequence Always Rings Twice
Episode 4

The Dream Sequence Always Rings Twice

Episode 4 • Oct 15, 1985

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

8.7
49m
My Fair David
Episode 5

My Fair David

Episode 5 • Oct 29, 1985

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.

9.3
50m
Knowing Her
Episode 6

Knowing Her

Episode 6 • Nov 12, 1985

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

9.3
49m
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Season 3

15 episodes
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The Son Also Rises
Episode 1

The Son Also Rises

Episode 1 • Sep 23, 1986

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.

9.0
46m
The Man Who Cried Wife
Episode 2

The Man Who Cried Wife

Episode 2 • Sep 30, 1986

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.

9.0
46m
Symphony in Knocked Flat
Episode 3

Symphony in Knocked Flat

Episode 3 • Oct 14, 1986

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.

8.5
46m
Yours, Very Deadly
Episode 4

Yours, Very Deadly

Episode 4 • Oct 28, 1986

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.

9.0
46m
All Creatures Great and ... Not So Great
Episode 5

All Creatures Great and ... Not So Great

Episode 5 • Nov 11, 1986

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.

9.0
46m
Big Man on Mulberry Street
Episode 6

Big Man on Mulberry Street

Episode 6 • Nov 18, 1986

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.

8.0
46m
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Season 4

14 episodes
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A Trip to the Moon
Episode 1

A Trip to the Moon

Episode 1 • Sep 29, 1987

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

8.5
46m
Come Back Little Shiksa
Episode 2

Come Back Little Shiksa

Episode 2 • Oct 06, 1987

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.

9.0
46m
Take a Left at the Altar
Episode 3

Take a Left at the Altar

Episode 3 • Oct 13, 1987

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.

8.5
46m
Tale in Two Cities
Episode 4

Tale in Two Cities

Episode 4 • Nov 03, 1987

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

9.0
46m
Cool Hand Dave (Part I)
Episode 5

Cool Hand Dave (Part I)

Episode 5 • Nov 17, 1987

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.

9.0
46m
Cool Hand Dave (Part II)
Episode 6

Cool Hand Dave (Part II)

Episode 6 • Dec 01, 1987

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.

9.0
46m
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Season 5

13 episodes
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A Womb With a View
Episode 1

A Womb With a View

Episode 1 • Dec 06, 1988

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.

9.0
46m
Between a Yuk and a Hard Place
Episode 2

Between a Yuk and a Hard Place

Episode 2 • Dec 13, 1988

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.

9.3
46m
The Color of Maddie
Episode 3

The Color of Maddie

Episode 3 • Dec 20, 1988

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.

9.0
46m
Plastic Fantastic Lovers
Episode 4

Plastic Fantastic Lovers

Episode 4 • Jan 10, 1989

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.

9.3
46m
Shirts and Skins
Episode 5

Shirts and Skins

Episode 5 • Jan 17, 1989

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.

9.3
46m
Take My Wife, For Example
Episode 6

Take My Wife, For Example

Episode 6 • Feb 07, 1989

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.

9.3
46m
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