Episodes cast for
"Moonlighting" (1985) More at IMDbPro »

Season: 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5
Year: 1985 | 1986 | 1987 | 1988 | 1989

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Season 1

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Season 1, Episode 1: Moonlighting (Pilot)

3 March 1985
Maddie Hayes wakes up to find her staff have quit and all her money has been stolen. One of her few remaining assets is a loss-making investigation agency run by David Addison. She sacks the staff but David is determined to keep it going.

Season 1, Episode 2: Gunfight at the So-So Corral

5 March 1985
It is Maddie's first day at the Blue Moon Detective Agency but there is nothing to do. In desperation, David 'steals' a client from a rival agency. The man wants them to find his estranged son, but all is not as it seems.

Season 1, Episode 3: Read the Mind... See the Movie

12 March 1985
Blue Moon have been hired as security consultants for an aerospace firm from which a rival company has been stealing secrets. Maddie and David work through the rival company's owner and a psychic before they work out what is going on.

Season 1, Episode 4: The Next Murder You Hear

19 March 1985
A talk radio host is murdered on the air and David thinks it would be great for business if they solved the case. While investigating they find that him and the station manager's wife were having an affair, then they find that he faked his death and is still alive. The plot thicken's when the station manager is murdered.

Season 1, Episode 5: Next Stop Murder

26 March 1985
When Ms. DiPesto has won a competition, she is allowed to join a Murder on the Orient Express (1974) inspired crime game in a train created by her favorite crime author. She is accompanied by Maddie and David to central station. Maddie and David miss to leave the train before it starts off and now have to stay on it since it won't stop for the next 24 hours. When a real murder happens, everybody is suspicious and the two detectives have to solve the crime.

Season 1, Episode 6: The Murder's in the Mail

2 April 1985
David gets the agency a job collecting money from debtors, which he believes that it will be easy but Maddie is not so sure. They find themselves involved in murder, a disappearing body and an international conspiracy.

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Season 2

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Season 2, Episode 1: Brother, Can You Spare a Blonde?

24 September 1985
When David's brother Richard shows up, he does not only seem to be a rich man, but also makes an impression on Maddie. While David has got to handle his jealousy, Maddie has trouble to pay back her $37 000 debt to the bank. When David is attacked by a stranger, who wants back his money, David realizes that all the money that his brother spends does not belong to him.

Season 2, Episode 2: The Lady in the Iron Mask

1 October 1985
A mysterious woman appears in Maddie's and David's agency, who does not want to show her face. She wants Maddie and David to find her former lover, who is the reason why she can't show her face. The two detectives find this man, but find out on the next day that someone murdered him. Of course, the mysterious woman is their very first suspect.

Season 2, Episode 3: Money Talks... Maddie Walks

8 October 1985
Maddie learns where the accountant who took her money is and is determined to get it back, David tries to talk some sense into her, telling her he is in South America so her money is gone. She won't listen and hopes a plane, she imagines him feeling guilty and apologizing instead he maneuvers he out, and just when she thinks all hope is lost David shows up. With him they win, but if they won some other poor sucker lost, Maddie want's him to be the poor sucker. They get him in a little one on one, $100,000 to start Maddie puts up her house and car. When it comes to the moment of truth will she give up her night's winnings and walk away with her house, car, and dignity, or will she risk it all.

Season 2, Episode 4: The Dream Sequence Always Rings Twice

15 October 1985
When David and Maddie meet the owner of a club who tells them about an unresolved murder. Maddie and David argue about who they think the real murderer is and, in their dreams, set about solving the murder that occurred 40 years ago.

Season 2, Episode 5: My Fair David

29 October 1985
A wealthy woman comes to David and Maddie when her son is kidnapped. They are hired to negotiate the price of the ransom and to get her stepson back safely. Things are further complicated when the stepson is kidnapped a second time.

Season 2, Episode 6: Knowing Her

12 November 1985
Maddie is hired to find a silver locket by an old girlfriend of David's. He has strong feelings for her and thinks that her husband is trying to kill her. However, Maddie isn't so sure, especially when she kills her husband in self-defense.

Season 2, Episode 7: Somewhere Under the Rainbow

19 November 1985
An Irish girl who claims to be a leprechaun wants to hire the Blue moon detective agency to protect her. David is willing to take the case, but Maddie thinks that the girl is mentally ill and needs a psychiatrist, not a detective agency.

Season 2, Episode 8: Portrait of Maddie

26 November 1985
An artist, whom Maddie has never met, paints her portrait and then shoots himself. Maddie decides to purchase the portrait and gives it to the artist's brother, who is then killed. It turns out the brother was an international art thief.

Season 2, Episode 9: Atlas Belched

10 December 1985
A rival detective agency has made an offer for Blue Moon Detective Agency and Maddie accepts the offer. Addison is upset and sets up his own agency. Neither courses of action work out well.

Season 2, Episode 10: Twas the Episode Before Christmas

17 December 1985
A criminal in the witness protection scheme is killed but his wife and baby manage to escape. When fleeing, the baby is left in Agnes' apartment but without any explanation. Maddie and Addison decide to try to find the mother.

Season 2, Episode 11: The Bride of Tupperman

14 January 1986
A wealthy man comes into the agency wanting to get married. He has a description of his perfect wife but he just hasn't found her yet. Maddie and Addison then compete to find the woman who matches the description, but there's a twist.

Season 2, Episode 12: North by North DiPesto

21 January 1986
Agnes is feeling down and feels that her life is in a rut. To cheer her up, Maddie and Addison decide to send her to an investigator's ball where she meets a man. When he is stabbed the next day, her troubles have only just begun.

Season 2, Episode 13: In God We Strongly Suspect

11 February 1986
An escape artist is drowned when he fails to exit his trick water cabinet. His widow approaches the Blue Moon agency asking for protection. Her husband had threatened to come back and kill her after his death.

Season 2, Episode 14: Every Daughter's Father Is a Virgin

18 February 1986
Maddie's parents are in town but her mother is worried that her father is having an affair. Maddie wants to follow her father to prove that he is not having an affair. To spare her possible embarrassment, Addison does it for her.

Season 2, Episode 15: Witness for the Execution

11 March 1986
A man dying from an incurable disease comes into the agency. He says he is going to be murdered for the insurance and he wants Maddie and Addison to be a witnesses. Maddie doesn't want anything to do with it but Addison wants to do it.

Season 2, Episode 16: Sleep Talkin' Guy

1 April 1986
A prostitute speaks to Addison about a potential murder that she heard about from one of her clients who talks in his sleep. After he realises that the information is accurate, Addison decides to use her to solve more cases.

Season 2, Episode 17: Funeral for a Door Nail

29 April 1986
A man's wife is killed in a car accident, which leaves him so upset he wants to die. He arranges to have himself killed by a hit man. From the distance he sees his wife in the street and so he then hires Maddie and Addison to stop the hit.

Season 2, Episode 18: Camille

13 May 1986
When a con woman escapes from the custody of a crooked detective she accidentally stops an assassin killing an American senator. Addison has the bright idea of employing Camille to raise the profile of the company.

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Season 3

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Season 3, Episode 1: The Son Also Rises

23 September 1986
David's father contacts David after a long time. The reason for the visit is that David Sr. is getting married and wants David Jr. to be the best man. When David Jr. sees the bride-to-be, he realises that he had a one night stand with her.

Season 3, Episode 2: The Man Who Cried Wife

30 September 1986
In an argument, a man kills his wife and buries her in a forest. However, when he starts getting phone calls from her the next day, he tries to dig up her body only to find that it is gone. He then decides to use Blue Moon to find her.

Season 3, Episode 3: Symphony in Knocked Flat

21 October 1986
Maddie and David have an argument about what a date should be all about. David decides to show her a good date by buying stolen tickets to a symphony concert from a scalper. They then find themselves involved in an assassination plot.

Season 3, Episode 4: Yours, Very Deadly

28 October 1986
A woman approaches Blue Moon for help. For over two years, she had been corresponding with an unknown admirer. The woman wants Maddie and David to find the admirer and ask him to stop. When they find him, they are in for a surprise.

Season 3, Episode 5: All Creatures Great... and Not So Great

11 November 1986
A Catholic priest is infatuated with a woman who comes to confession regularly. This week, the woman says she wants to commit suicide. She disappears before he can catch up with her so he asks Blue Moon Investigations to find her.

Season 3, Episode 6: Big Man on Mulberry Street

18 November 1986
David hears that his former brother-in-law has just died. Maddie is shocked that David was briefly married. She becomes very curious about his former wife and follows him to New York where she finds out some amazing information.

Season 3, Episode 7: Atomic Shakespeare

25 November 1986
A student starts to watch Moonlighting, then his mother appears and reminds he has to read Taming of the Shrew for school. As he starts to read, the characters from Moonlighting enact the play.

Season 3, Episode 8: It's a Wonderful Job

16 December 1986
It's Christmas and Blue Moon has to work. The staff are not happy. Maddie is also under pressure and says she regrets keeping the agency open. Her guardian angel approaches her and shows her how life would have been if she had done this.

Season 3, Episode 9: The Straight Poop

6 January 1987
Other shows have done it when you flash back and discuss the show. Now "Moonlighting" after too long with no new episode Rona Barrett, an 80's reporter goes in to get "The Straight Poop" apparently Maddie and David have been fighting and not speaking to one another. As she talks with Maddie, David, Miss Dipesto, and Mr. Viola they flash back to previous episodes to show examples of their statements and in the end they kiss and make up.

Season 3, Episode 10: Poltergeist III - Dipesto Nothing

13 January 1987
Agnes has been at Blue Moon for five years and is upset Herbert is already working on a case after only three months. To prove herself and without telling them, Agnes takes on a case that Maddie and David refuse to do.

Season 3, Episode 11: Blonde on Blonde

3 February 1987
When Maddie walks in on an office poker game run by David and does nothing about it, he realises that something is wrong. Maddie is feeling a bit low and wants to go out and pick up a man for a one night stand. David decides to follow her.

Season 3, Episode 12: Sam & Dave

10 February 1987
David attempts to be civil towards Maddie and Sam, but ends up becoming a drunken embarrassment.

Season 3, Episode 13: Maddie's Turn to Cry

3 March 1987
Maddie is still torn between Sam and David, and David is still jealous of the situation. They continue to investigate whether a woman's lover is betraying her by continuing to be with his wife, when his wife suddenly commits suicide.

Season 3, Episode 14: I Am Curious... Maddie

31 March 1987
The battle between Sam and David continues and became serious when Sam proposed to Maddie. She is non-committal with her answer but it forces David to think about how he feels about Maddie. Sam and David end up having a fight.

Season 3, Episode 15: To Heiress Human

5 May 1987
It's the morning after they slept together but Maddie and David are in different moods. She wants to forget that it ever happened. A wealthy heiress hires Blue Moon to prove that her boyfriend loves her and isn't after her money.

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Season 4

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Season 4, Episode 1: A Trip to the Moon

29 September 1987
David and Maddie have been together for four weeks and Maddie is wondering where their relationship is going. She thinks all they do is sleep together. David expresses his love for her but she doesn't know what she wants.

Season 4, Episode 2: Come Back Little Shiksa

6 October 1987
David felt the previous evening went well, unaware that Maddie has left town. A client comes to Blue Moon and wants it to find a particularly beautiful woman whom he saw at a charity ball. The only clue is a valuable ear ring left behind.

Season 4, Episode 3: Take a Left at the Altar

13 October 1987
It's been a week and David is desperate to hear from Maddie, who is still at home and starting to worry her father. A groom supposedly goes missing on his wedding day and the bride's brother wants Blue Moon to find him.

Season 4, Episode 4: Tale in Two Cities

3 November 1987
Maddie's father is determined to find out why she is avoiding going home. Bert and MacGillicudy are fighting over Agnes, and Bert is particularly upset. David takes him to a bar to help him forget. Maddie gives Agnes some big news.

Season 4, Episode 5: Cool Hand Dave: Part 1

17 November 1987
Agnes is excited at the news of Maddie's pregnancy and she blurts it out to Herbert, who then tells David. He tries to fly to Chicago but his identity stolen and he finds himself arrested, in jail, and then in solitary confinement.

Season 4, Episode 6: Cool Hand Dave: Part 2

1 December 1987
David is released from solitary and ends up on a work gang. His fellow workers advise him to marry Maddie. He tries to get to a phone to speak to Maddie but all he finds is a bent warder. Agnes and Herbert go looking for David.

Season 4, Episode 7: Father Knows Last

15 December 1987
Maddie starts getting morning sickness. The furniture is repossessed and the staff are rebelling because they haven't been paid. Maddie's father meets with David and they sort out their differences. He gives David the money to keep going.

Season 4, Episode 8: Los Dos Dipestos

5 January 1988
On Agnes' mother's return from a holiday in Mexico, stolen gems are planted on her to be smuggled back into America. The criminal wants his gems back and, with David and Maddie away, it is up to Agnes and Herbert to solve the situation.

Season 4, Episode 9: Fetal Attraction

19 January 1988
With Maddie's baby on the way, David is concerned about there being so much to learn. He unsuccessfully tries to enrol in a Lamaze class but an unwed mother comes to him and asks for his help, which he does.

Season 4, Episode 10: Tracks of My Tears

2 February 1988
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.

Season 4, Episode 11: Eek! A Spouse!

9 February 1988
The news of Maddie's marriage affects the office but not David, as he appears happy with the news. A woman asks Blue Moon to approach her husband's mistress with an offer of money to go away. She later kills him in self defence.

Season 4, Episode 12: Maddie Hayes Got Married

1 March 1988
David finally gets to meet Walter at the office and then offers to throw Maddie a big wedding, complete with a bachelor party. When David's Lamaze partner goes into labour during the wedding, it all comes to a head at the hospital.

Season 4, Episode 13: Here's Living with You, Kid

15 March 1988
Herbert has spent three weeks guarding a frost-proof grapefruit but all he can think of is Agnes. He asks her to move in together but initially she says no. Sitting at home, Herbert sees his life with Agnes in a series of old movies.

Season 4, Episode 14: And the Flesh Was Made Word

22 March 1988
Maddie and Walter finally get divorced. David and Maddie are asked by a businessman to find an mystery woman who has distracted his partner, which threatens to bankrupt his company. Maddie wants to restart the relationship with David.

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Season 5

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Season 5, Episode 1: A Womb with a View

6 December 1988

Season 5, Episode 2: Between a Yuk and a Hard Place

13 December 1988

Season 5, Episode 3: The Color of Maddie

20 December 1988

Season 5, Episode 4: Plastic Fantastic Lovers

10 January 1989

Season 5, Episode 5: Shirts and Skins

17 January 1989

Season 5, Episode 6: Take My Wife, for Example

7 February 1989

Season 5, Episode 7: I See England, I See France, I See Maddie's Netherworld

14 February 1989

Season 5, Episode 8: Those Lips, Those Lies

2 April 1989

Season 5, Episode 9: Perfetc

9 April 1989

Season 5, Episode 10: When Girls Collide

16 April 1989

Season 5, Episode 11: In 'N Outlaws

23 April 1989

Season 5, Episode 12: Eine Kleine Nacht Murder

30 April 1989

Season 5, Episode 13: Lunar Eclipse

14 May 1989