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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. 10.0/10(1 votes)

    #1 - The Son Also Rises

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    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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  2. 10.0/10(1 votes)

    #2 - 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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  3. 10.0/10(1 votes)

    #3 - 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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  4. 10.0/10(1 votes)

    #4 - Yours, Very Deadly

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    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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  5. 10.0/10(1 votes)

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

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    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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  6. 10.0/10(1 votes)

    #6 - 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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  8. 8.3/10(546 votes)

    #7 - The Dream Sequence Always Rings Twice

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    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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  9. 7.8/10(347 votes)

    #8 - Twas the Episode Before Christmas

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    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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  10. 7.7/10(384 votes)

    #9 - The Lady in the Iron Mask

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    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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  11. 7.6/10(436 votes)

    #10 - The Next Murder You Hear

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

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  12. 7.6/10(388 votes)

    #11 - Brother, Can You Spare a Blonde?

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    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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  13. 7.6/10(276 votes)

    #12 - Every Daughter's Father Is a Virgin

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    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. 7.5/10(2.8k votes)

    #13 - Pilot

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    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. 7.5/10(383 votes)

    #14 - The Murder's in the Mail

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    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. 7.5/10(341 votes)

    #15 - Knowing Her

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    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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  17. 7.5/10(282 votes)

    #16 - Witness for the Execution

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

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  18. 7.4/10(418 votes)

    #17 - Next Stop Murder

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    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. 7.4/10(342 votes)

    #18 - My Fair David

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    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. 7.4/10(285 votes)

    #19 - The Bride of Tupperman

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    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. 7.4/10(271 votes)

    #20 - Sleep Talkin' Guy

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    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. 7.4/10(254 votes)

    #21 - Funeral for a Door Nail

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    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. 7.3/10(526 votes)

    #22 - Gunfight at the So-So Corral

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    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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  24. 7.3/10(338 votes)

    #23 - Money Talks, Maddie Walks

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    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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  25. 7.3/10(286 votes)

    #24 - Atlas Belched

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    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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  26. 7.3/10(285 votes)

    #25 - North by North Dipesto

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    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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Best Episodes Summary

"The Son Also Rises" is the best rated episode of "Moonlighting". It scored 10/10 based on 1 votes. Directed by Allan Arkush and written by Ron Osborn, Jeff Reno, it aired on 9/23/1986. This episode scored 0.0 points higher than the second highest rated, "The Man Who Cried Wife".