The Best Episodes of Moonlighting

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

Director: Peter Werner

Writer: Debra Frank, Carl Sautter

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.

Director: Will Mackenzie

Writer: Jeff Reno, Ron Osborn

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."

Director: Peter Werner

Writer: Glenn Gordon Caron

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.

Director: Christian I. Nyby II, Stanley Donen

Writer: Karen Hall

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

Director: Allan Arkush

Writer: Glenn Gordon Caron, Jeff Reno

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.

Director: Christopher Leitch

Writer: Roger Director

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

Director: Peter Werner

Writer: Glenn Gordon Caron, Peter Silverman

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.

Director: Peter Werner

Writer: Glenn Gordon Caron

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

Director: Christopher Hibler

Writer: Debra Frank, Bruce Franklin Singer

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.

Director: Edwin Sherin

Writer: Debra Frank, Carl Sautter

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.

Director: Allan Arkush

Writer: Jeff Reno, Ron Osborn, Roger Director

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.

Director: Robert Butler

Writer: Glenn Gordon Caron

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.

Director: Peter Werner

Writer: Mary Ann Kasica, Michael Scheff

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

Director: Peter Werner

Writer: Jeff Reno, Ron Osborn

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

Director: Paul Krasny

Writer: Jeff Reno, Ron Osborn

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

Director: Jay Daniel

Writer: Kerry Ehrin

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.

Director: Kevin Connor

Writer: Ali Marie Matheson, Kerry Ehrin

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.

Director: Will Mackenzie

Writer: Bruce Franklin Singer

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

Director: Christian I. Nyby II, Will Mackenzie

Writer: Jeff Reno, Ron Osborn

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

Director: Christopher Hibler

Writer: Debra Frank, Carl Sautter

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.

Director: Allan Arkush

Writer: Jeff Reno, Ron Osborn, Charles H. Eglee, Jonathan Lemkin

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.

Director: Paul Lynch

Writer: Dale Gelineau, Pauline Miller

Dave breaks it off with Annie when her husband comes to California, everyone attends the wedding of Burt and Agnes, and the agency closes its doors for a final time as everyone tries to figure out why it all had to end.

Director: Dennis Dugan

Writer: Ron Clark

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.

Director: Peter Werner

Writer: Glenn Gordon Caron, Michael Petryni

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.

Director: Christian I. Nyby II

Writer: Ali Marie Matheson, Kerry Ehrin