Moonlighting

The Best Episodes of Moonlighting

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Every episode of Moonlighting ranked from best to worst. Let's dive into 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. 10.0/10(2 votes)

    #1 - Brother, Can You Spare a Blonde?

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    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. 10.0/10(2 votes)

    #2 - The Lady in the Iron Mask

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    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. 10.0/10(2 votes)

    #3 - Money Talks, Maddie Walks

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    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. 10.0/10(2 votes)

    #4 - My Fair David

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    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. 10.0/10(2 votes)

    #5 - Knowing Her

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    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. 10.0/10(2 votes)

    #6 - Somewhere Under the Rainbow

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    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. 10.0/10(2 votes)

    #7 - Portrait of Maddie

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    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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  9. 10.0/10(2 votes)

    #8 - Atlas Belched

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    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. 10.0/10(2 votes)

    #9 - The Bride of Tupperman

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    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. 10.0/10(2 votes)

    #10 - North by North Dipesto

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    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. 10.0/10(2 votes)

    #11 - In God We Strongly Suspect

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    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. 10.0/10(2 votes)

    #12 - Every Daughter's Father Is a Virgin

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    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. 10.0/10(2 votes)

    #13 - Witness for the Execution

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    S2:E15

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

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  15. 10.0/10(2 votes)

    #14 - Sleep Talkin' Guy

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    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. 10.0/10(2 votes)

    #15 - Funeral for a Door Nail

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    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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  17. 10.0/10(2 votes)

    #16 - Camille

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    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. 10.0/10(1 votes)

    #17 - The Son Also Rises

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    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. 10.0/10(1 votes)

    #18 - The Man Who Cried Wife

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    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. 10.0/10(1 votes)

    #19 - Symphony in Knocked Flat

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    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. 10.0/10(1 votes)

    #20 - Yours, Very Deadly

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    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. 10.0/10(1 votes)

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

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    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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  23. 10.0/10(1 votes)

    #22 - Atomic Shakespeare

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    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. 10.0/10(1 votes)

    #23 - A Trip to the Moon

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    S4:E1

    After a month of intimacy, Maddie begins to question just where this relationship with David is headed.

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  25. 10.0/10(1 votes)

    #24 - Come Back Little Shiksa

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    S4:E2

    With Maddie in Chicago, Dave feels very sympatico with a client who offers $10,000 if they can locate the woman he spent one memorable night with.

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  26. 10.0/10(1 votes)

    #25 - Take a Left at the Altar

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    David recruits Bert Viola as his detecting companion in a case concerning a man who failed to show up for his wedding while Maddie continues to brood in Chicago.

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    Director:Sam Weisman
    Writer:Karen Hall

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".