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"Moonlighting" Moonlighting (Pilot) (1985)


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Moonlighting: The Pilot: Season 1: Episode 1 -- US Home Video Trailer from Anchor Bay Entertainment

Overview

User Rating:
7.3/10   1,777 votes
Director:
Writers:
Glenn Gordon Caron (written by) and
Marc Abraham (writer)
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Original Air Date:
3 March 1985 (Season 1, Episode 1)
Plot:
This is the pilot episode of the "Moonlighting" (_qv_) television series. Maddie Hayes, a wealthy former model... more | add synopsis
Awards:
Nominated for 2 Primetime Emmys. more
User Reviews:
great pilot for a great series more (11 total)

Cast

  (Episode Cast overview, first billed only)

Cybill Shepherd ... Madelyn 'Maddie' Hayes

Bruce Willis ... David Addison Jr.

Allyce Beasley ... Agnes DiPesto
Robert Ellenstein ... Heinz

James Karen ... Alan
Rebecca Stanley ... Susan Kaplan
Dennis Lipscomb ... Simon
Frederick Coffin ... Pawnbroker
Mary Hart ... Herself

Henry G. Sanders ... Investigator #1
Liz Sheridan ... Selma
Dennis Stewart ... Blond Mohawk
Jean Adams ... Old Lady
Rachel Bard ... Grandma
Blake Clark ... Newsstand Man
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Additional Details

Runtime:
93 min
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Fun Stuff

Quotes:
David Addison: All right! You're looking great, kid! I'm right behind ya. Now, don't look back and try and see me, just know that I'm right in back of you, and -- yes, I am looking up your dress. more

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4 out of 4 people found the following review useful.
great pilot for a great series, 27 September 2005
10/10
Author: movieman_kev from United States

Ex-model Maddie Hayes, now penniless thanks to an shifty accountant, decides to liquidate the businesses that she still owns. But David Addison wants desperately to keep his job as a private eye at a detective agency that Maddie owns. After a dying man forces Maddi to take a watch, they find themselves chased by bad people. As well as the start of a TV love/hate relationship for the ages. The chemistry between Bruce Willis and Cybil Sheppard is amazing, the dialog is great and this is one of the better TV movie pilots that I've seen. The pilot can be seen on the Complete First & Second seasons DVD Set (and I can't recommend that you buy it highly enough)

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