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Moonlighting

  • TV Series
  • 1985–19891985–1989
  • TV-PGTV-PG
  • 1h
IMDb RATING
7.6/10
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Bruce Willis and Cybill Shepherd in Moonlighting (1985)
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The quirky cases of a former model and a smart aleck detective who manage a private detective agency.The quirky cases of a former model and a smart aleck detective who manage a private detective agency.The quirky cases of a former model and a smart aleck detective who manage a private detective agency.
IMDb RATING
7.6/10
21K
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POPULARITY
1,586
48
    • Glenn Gordon Caron
  • Stars
    • Cybill Shepherd
    • Bruce Willis
    • Allyce Beasley
    • Glenn Gordon Caron
  • Stars
    • Cybill Shepherd
    • Bruce Willis
    • Allyce Beasley
  • See production, box office & company info
    • 52User reviews
    • 17Critic reviews
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    • Won 6 Primetime Emmys

    Episodes66

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    Moonlighting: Seasons 1 & 2
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    Moonlighting: Season 3
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    Bruce Willis and Cybill Shepherd in Moonlighting (1985)
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    Bruce Willis, Cybill Shepherd, and Brian Thompson in Moonlighting (1985)
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    Cybill Shepherd
    Cybill Shepherd
    • Maddie Hayes…
    Bruce Willis
    Bruce Willis
    • David Addison Jr.…
    Allyce Beasley
    Allyce Beasley
    • Agnes DiPesto…
    Curtis Armstrong
    Curtis Armstrong
    • Herbert Quentin Viola…
    Kristine Kauffman
    • Kris - Blue Moon Employee…
    Jonathan Ames
    • Jergenson…
    Daniel Fitzpatrick
    • O'Neill…
    Jamie Taylor
    • Jamie - Blue Moon Employee…
    Willie Brown
    • Simmons…
    Jack Blessing
    Jack Blessing
    • MacGillicudy
    Inez Edwards
    • Inez…
    Eva Marie Saint
    Eva Marie Saint
    • Virginia Hayes
    Robert Webber
    Robert Webber
    • Alexander Hayes
    Charles Rocket
    Charles Rocket
    • Richard Addison…
    Clinton Allmon
    • Jury Man #1…
    Mark Harmon
    Mark Harmon
    • Sam Crawford
    Dennis Dugan
    Dennis Dugan
    • Walter Bishop…
    Virginia Madsen
    Virginia Madsen
    • Lorraine Anne Charnock
      • Glenn Gordon Caron
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    • Trivia
      Cybill Shepherd and Bruce Willis did not get along during production. Willis' success with Die Hard (1988) further strained their relationship. Willis became a major film star, and bristled at being the second-billed actor on a TV series. He also resented Shepherd, blaming her for many of the shooting delays.
    • Quotes

      Security Officer: I'm sorry, but you're not on the guest list.

      David Addison: That's because we're not guests. We're looking for a man with a mole on his nose.

      Security Officer: A mole on his nose?

      Maddie Hayes: A mole on his nose.

      Security Officer: [to Maddie] What kind of clothes?

      Maddie Hayes: [to David] What kind of clothes?

      David Addison: What kind of clothes do you suppose?

      Security Officer: What kind of clothes do I suppose would be worn by a man with a mole on his nose? Who knows?

      David Addison: Did I happen to mention, did I bother to disclose, that this man that we're seeking with the mole on his nose? I'm not sure of his clothes or anything else, except he's Chinese, a big clue by itself.

      Maddie Hayes: How do you do that?

      David Addison: Gotta read a lot of Dr. Seuss.

      Security Officer: I'm sorry to say, I'm sad to report, I haven't seen anyone at all of that sort. Not a man who's Chinese with a mole on his nose with some kind of clothes that you can't suppose. So get away from this door and get out of this place, or I'll have to hurt you - put my foot in your face.

    • Crazy credits
      Between the closing credits of episode 3.9, "The Straight Poop", about 5 minutes of bloopers from previous episodes are shown.
    • Connections
      Featured in The 37th Annual Primetime Emmy Awards (1985)

    User reviews52

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    The one that got it right.
    "Moonlighting" had the same basic template as "Remington Steele" (which "Moonlighting" creator Glenn Gordon Caron also wrote for), but the two shows were ultimately so different that it never really felt like a ripoff. (In any case, "Remington Steele" itself felt a bit like "Hart To Hart," about which the less said the better.)

    The show's troubled backstage production is the stuff of legend (if Sky 1 viewers think the arrival of new episodes of "The Simpsons" is an event, they don't remember this show's travails - a new episode on ABC was practically a headline story); so self-reverential was "Moonlighting" that the episode "The Straight Poop" was actually about the show's backstage drama, with Rona Barrett (real-life gossip maven) hosting and interviews with Cybill Shepherd's ex Peter Bogdanovich and, amusingly, Pierce "Steele" Brosnan. But though the problems really affected the show to the extent that some episodes had to focus on David and Maddie's secretary Agnes and the agency's new recruit Herbert, it never really became unwatchable.

    And at its best, "Moonlighting" was a gem; with dazzling wordplay, real sparks between Bruce Willis and Cybill Shepherd (although Shepherd never getting recognised by the Emmys was justified), and some occasionally good mysteries to boot. Listing all the highlights the show produced would take too long, but the show deserves its place in history for, among others:

    1. "It's A Wonderful Maddie": Maddie finding that in an alternate timeline the Blue Moon Detective Agency has been taken over by Jonathan and Jennifer Hart (Maddie and Max together: "Don't I know you from somewhere?") and that David has wound up marrying Cheryl Tiegs - a much better choice than Cybill Shepherd methinks.

    2. "The Murder's In The Mail": For the "man with a mole on his nose" scene with the doorman.

    3. What the narrator at the start of one of the episodes called "those silly chases they like to do on 'Moonlighting'."

    4. "Atomic Shakespeare": In which a boy who has to miss "Moonlighting" to study "The Taming of the Shrew" leads us into a very amusing reshaping of the yarn ("10 Things I Hate About You" was good, but can that give you a medieval wedding ceremony with "Good Loving"?).

    5. The movie-length pilot, complete with the full version of the wonderful Lee Holdridge-Al Jarreau theme song over the credits.

    6. "The Dream Sequence Always Rings Twice." Orson Welles and Bruce Willis. A match made in heaven.

    7. "Camille": Especially the climax.

    Bruce Willis can look back on this with pride; Cybill Shepherd had nowhere to go but down. And the show's writers (Caron, Jeff Reno and Ron Osborn, Roger Director, Chris Ruppenthal, Debra Frank and Carl Sautter...), I salute you. A true classic.

    Too bad the Anselmo case was never solved, though.
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    • Victor Field
    • Jan 12, 2003

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      • March 3, 1985 (United States)
      • United States
      • English
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      • ABC Entertainment Center - 2040 Avenue of the Stars, Century City, Los Angeles, California, USA
    • Production companies
      • ABC Circle Films
      • Picturemaker Productions
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