The Best Episodes of Moonlighting Season 1

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1. #1 Fan Favorite
   

   7.6/10(2859 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
2. 

   7.3/10(590 votes)

   #2 - 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
3. 

   7.0/10(482 votes)

   #3 - 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
4. 

   7.6/10(487 votes)

   #4 - 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
5. 

   7.4/10(466 votes)

   #5 - 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
6. 

   7.5/10(431 votes)

   #6 - 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:Mary Ann Kasica, Michael Scheff

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   Director:Peter Werner

   Writers:Mary Ann Kasica, Michael Scheff
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