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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 Brother, Can You Spare a Blonde?
    10.0/10(2 votes)

    #1 - 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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  2. Background image for The Lady in the Iron Mask
    10.0/10(2 votes)

    #2 - 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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  3. Background image for Money Talks, Maddie Walks
    10.0/10(2 votes)

    #3 - 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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  4. Background image for My Fair David
    10.0/10(2 votes)

    #4 - 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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  5. Background image for Knowing Her
    10.0/10(2 votes)

    #5 - 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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  6. Background image for Somewhere Under the Rainbow
    10.0/10(2 votes)

    #6 - Somewhere Under the Rainbow

    S2:E7

    Dave and Maddie argue over whether to help a young woman who claims to be a leprechaun find the pot of gold she insists her father has hidden for her in Los Angeles.

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  8. Background image for Portrait of Maddie
    10.0/10(2 votes)

    #7 - Portrait of Maddie

    S2:E8

    Maddie becomes obsessed by the portrait done of her by an artist she never knew and who killed himself upon completing it.

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    10.0/10(2 votes)

    #8 - 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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  10. Background image for The Bride of Tupperman
    10.0/10(2 votes)

    #9 - 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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  11. Background image for North by North Dipesto
    10.0/10(2 votes)

    #10 - North by North Dipesto

    S2:E12

    A restless Ms. Dipesto gets a chance for danger and excitement when she gets a piece of paper from a mysterious man while attending a ball in Dave and Maddie's place.

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  12. Background image for In God We Strongly Suspect
    10.0/10(2 votes)

    #11 - In God We Strongly Suspect

    S2:E13

    Dave and Maddie agree to "corpse-sit" for an escape artist's widow, who believes her dead husband's threats to come back and get even with her.

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  13. Background image for Every Daughter's Father Is a Virgin
    10.0/10(2 votes)

    #12 - 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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  14. Background image for Witness for the Execution
    10.0/10(2 votes)

    #13 - 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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  15. Background image for Sleep Talkin' Guy
    10.0/10(2 votes)

    #14 - 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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  16. Background image for Funeral for a Door Nail
    10.0/10(2 votes)

    #15 - 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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    10.0/10(2 votes)

    #16 - Camille

    S2:E18

    Dave hires an unlucky con woman who accidentally became a heroine when she stopped an assassination attempt against a United States senator, but who is still pursued by a determined crooked cop.

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  18. Background image for The Son Also Rises
    10.0/10(1 votes)

    #17 - The Son Also Rises

    S3:E1

    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.

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  19. Background image for The Man Who Cried Wife
    10.0/10(1 votes)

    #18 - The Man Who Cried Wife

    S3:E2

    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.

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  20. Background image for Symphony in Knocked Flat
    10.0/10(1 votes)

    #19 - 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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  21. Background image for Yours, Very Deadly
    10.0/10(1 votes)

    #20 - Yours, Very Deadly

    S3:E4

    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.

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  22. Background image for All Creatures Great and ... Not So Great
    10.0/10(1 votes)

    #21 - All Creatures Great and ... Not So Great

    S3:E5

    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.

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    10.0/10(1 votes)

    #22 - 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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  24. Background image for Gunfight at the So-So Corral
    9.5/10(2 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 Read the Mind... See the Movie
    9.5/10(2 votes)

    #24 - Read the Mind... See the Movie

    S1:E3

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

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  26. Background image for The Next Murder You Hear
    9.5/10(2 votes)

    #25 - 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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Best Episodes Summary

"Brother, Can You Spare a Blonde?" is the best rated episode of "Moonlighting". It scored 10/10 based on 2 votes. Directed by Peter Werner and written by Glenn Gordon Caron, it aired on 9/24/1985. This episode scored 0.0 points higher than the second highest rated, "The Lady in the Iron Mask".