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The Best Episodes of Moonlighting

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The Best Episodes of 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,...

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  1. Background image for The Dream Sequence Always Rings Twice
    8.3/10(554 votes)

    #1 - The Dream Sequence Always Rings Twice

    S2:E4

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

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    8.3/10(471 votes)

    #2 - Atomic Shakespeare

    S3:E7

    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.

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  3. Background image for Twas the Episode Before Christmas
    7.8/10(352 votes)

    #3 - Twas the Episode Before Christmas

    S2:E10

    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."

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  4. Background image for Big Man on Mulberry Street
    7.8/10(322 votes)

    #4 - Big Man on Mulberry Street

    S3:E6

    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.

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  5. Background image for I Am Curious... Maddie (4)
    7.8/10(268 votes)

    #5 - I Am Curious... Maddie (4)

    S3:E14

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

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  6. Background image for The Lady in the Iron Mask
    7.7/10(393 votes)

    #6 - The Lady in the Iron Mask

    S2:E2

    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.

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  8. Background image for Every Daughter's Father Is a Virgin
    7.7/10(280 votes)

    #7 - Every Daughter's Father Is a Virgin

    S2:E14

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

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  9. Background image for The Next Murder You Hear
    7.6/10(449 votes)

    #8 - The Next Murder You Hear

    S1:E4

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

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  10. Background image for Brother, Can You Spare a Blonde?
    7.6/10(397 votes)

    #9 - Brother, Can You Spare a Blonde?

    S2:E1

    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.

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  11. Background image for Knowing Her
    7.6/10(348 votes)

    #10 - Knowing Her

    S2:E6

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

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  12. Background image for It's a Wonderful Job
    7.6/10(263 votes)

    #11 - It's a Wonderful Job

    S3:E8

    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.

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    7.6/10(235 votes)

    #12 - Maddie's Turn to Cry (3)

    S3:E13

    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.

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  14. Background image for Pilot
    7.5/10(2.8k votes)

    #13 - Pilot

    S1:E1

    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.

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  15. Background image for The Murder's in the Mail
    7.5/10(395 votes)

    #14 - The Murder's in the Mail

    S1:E6

    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.

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  16. Background image for Witness for the Execution
    7.5/10(287 votes)

    #15 - Witness for the Execution

    S2:E15

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

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  17. Background image for Blonde on Blonde (1)
    7.5/10(263 votes)

    #16 - Blonde on Blonde (1)

    S3:E11

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

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    7.4/10(428 votes)

    #17 - Next Stop Murder

    S1:E5

    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.

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  19. Background image for My Fair David
    7.4/10(347 votes)

    #18 - My Fair David

    S2:E5

    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.

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  20. Background image for The Bride of Tupperman
    7.4/10(288 votes)

    #19 - The Bride of Tupperman

    S2:E11

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

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  21. Background image for Sleep Talkin' Guy
    7.4/10(276 votes)

    #20 - Sleep Talkin' Guy

    S2:E16

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

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  22. Background image for Funeral for a Door Nail
    7.4/10(259 votes)

    #21 - Funeral for a Door Nail

    S2:E17

    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.

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  23. Background image for Symphony in Knocked Flat
    7.4/10(253 votes)

    #22 - Symphony in Knocked Flat

    S3:E3

    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.

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  24. Background image for Gunfight at the So-So Corral
    7.3/10(539 votes)

    #23 - Gunfight at the So-So Corral

    S1:E2

    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.

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  25. Background image for Money Talks, Maddie Walks
    7.3/10(344 votes)

    #24 - Money Talks, Maddie Walks

    S2:E3

    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.

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  26. Background image for Atlas Belched
    7.3/10(290 votes)

    #25 - Atlas Belched

    S2:E9

    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.

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Best Episodes Summary

"The Dream Sequence Always Rings Twice" is the best rated episode of "Moonlighting". It scored 8.3/10 based on 554 votes. Directed by Peter Werner and written by Debra Frank, Carl Sautter, it aired on 10/15/1985. This episode scored 0.0 points higher than the second highest rated, "Atomic Shakespeare".