The Best Episodes of Moonlighting Season 1

#1 Fan Favorite
7.6/10(2896 votes)
#1 - Pilot
S1:E13/3/1985
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
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Director:Robert Butler
Writer:Glenn Gordon Caron
7.6/10(510 votes)
#2 - The Next Murder You Hear
S1:E43/19/1985
Maddie becomes infatuated with a radio talk-show host who has apparently been murdered while he was on the air.
Director:Peter Werner
Writers:Glenn Gordon Caron, Peter Silverman
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Director:Peter Werner
Writers:Glenn Gordon Caron, Peter Silverman
7.5/10(453 votes)
#3 - The Murder's in the Mail
S1:E64/2/1985
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
Writers:Michael Scheff, Mary Ann Kasica
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Director:Peter Werner
Writers:Michael Scheff, Mary Ann Kasica
7.4/10(488 votes)
#4 - Next Stop Murder
S1:E53/26/1985
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
Writers:Ali Marie Matheson, Kerry Ehrin
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Director:Kevin Connor
Writers:Ali Marie Matheson, Kerry Ehrin
7.3/10(624 votes)
#5 - Gunfight at the So-So Corral
S1:E23/5/1985
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
Writers:Glenn Gordon Caron, Michael Petryni
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Director:Peter Werner
Writers:Glenn Gordon Caron, Michael Petryni
7.0/10(507 votes)
#6 - Read the Mind... See the Movie
S1:E33/12/1985
Maddie believes that a client's design secrets are being pilfered from the astral plane by a psychic.
Director:Unknown
Writer:Unknown
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Director:Unknown
Writer:Unknown