8.3/10504 votesLoading...#1 - The Dream Sequence Always Rings Twice
Season 2 Episode 4 - Aired 10/15/1985
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
8.3/10430 votesLoading...#2 - Atomic Shakespeare
Season 3 Episode 7 - Aired 11/25/1986
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
7.8/10313 votesLoading...#3 - Twas the Episode Before Christmas
Season 2 Episode 10 - Aired 12/17/1985
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
7.8/10290 votesLoading...#4 - Big Man on Mulberry Street
Season 3 Episode 6 - Aired 11/18/1986
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
7.8/10244 votesLoading...#5 - I Am Curious... Maddie (4)
Season 3 Episode 14 - Aired 3/31/1987
Sam confronts Dave about Maddie, and tells him he's not good enough for her.
Director: Allan Arkush
Writer: Glenn Gordon Caron, Jeff Reno
7.7/10352 votesLoading...#6 - The Lady in the Iron Mask
Season 2 Episode 2 - Aired 10/1/1985
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
7.6/10402 votesLoading...#7 - The Next Murder You Hear
Season 1 Episode 4 - Aired 3/19/1985
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
7.6/10359 votesLoading...#8 - Brother, Can You Spare a Blonde?
Season 2 Episode 1 - Aired 9/24/1985
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
7.6/10252 votesLoading...#9 - Every Daughter's Father Is a Virgin
Season 2 Episode 14 - Aired 2/18/1986
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
7.6/10236 votesLoading...#10 - It's a Wonderful Job
Season 3 Episode 8 - Aired 12/16/1986
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
7.6/10213 votesLoading...#11 - Maddie's Turn to Cry (3)
Season 3 Episode 13 - Aired 3/3/1987
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
7.5/102,700 votesLoading...#12 - Pilot
Season 1 Episode 1 - Aired 3/3/1985
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
7.5/10314 votesLoading...#13 - Knowing Her
Season 2 Episode 6 - Aired 11/12/1985
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
7.5/10252 votesLoading...#14 - Witness for the Execution
Season 2 Episode 15 - Aired 3/11/1986
A sick old man asks Dave and Maddie to be the "expert" witnesses at his murder.
Director: Paul Krasny
Writer: Jeff Reno, Ron Osborn
7.5/10236 votesLoading...#15 - Blonde on Blonde (1)
Season 3 Episode 11 - Aired 2/3/1987
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
7.4/10389 votesLoading...#16 - Next Stop Murder
Season 1 Episode 5 - Aired 3/26/1985
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
7.4/10352 votesLoading...#17 - The Murder's in the Mail
Season 1 Episode 6 - Aired 4/2/1985
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
7.4/10312 votesLoading...#18 - My Fair David
Season 2 Episode 5 - Aired 10/29/1985
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
7.4/10259 votesLoading...#19 - The Bride of Tupperman
Season 2 Episode 11 - Aired 1/14/1986
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
7.4/10228 votesLoading...#20 - Funeral for a Door Nail
Season 2 Episode 17 - Aired 4/29/1986
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
7.4/10184 votesLoading...#21 - Lunar Eclipse
Season 5 Episode 13 - Aired 5/14/1989
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
7.3/10480 votesLoading...#22 - Gunfight at the So-So Corral
Season 1 Episode 2 - Aired 3/5/1985
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
7.3/10309 votesLoading...#23 - Money Talks-- Maddie Walks
Season 2 Episode 3 - Aired 10/8/1985
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
7.3/10257 votesLoading...#24 - Atlas Belched
Season 2 Episode 9 - Aired 12/10/1985
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.
Director: Christian I. Nyby II
Writer: Roger Director
7.3/10256 votesLoading...#25 - North by North Dipesto
Season 2 Episode 12 - Aired 1/21/1986
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.
Director: Christopher Hibler
Writer: Debra Frank, Carl Sautter
The Best Episodes of Moonlighting
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,...
Genres:ComedyDramaMysteryCrime
Network:ABC
Best Episodes Summary
"The Dream Sequence Always Rings Twice" is the best rated episode of "Moonlighting". It scored 8.3/10 based on 504 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".