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The Best Episodes of Moonlighting Season 2

Every episode of Moonlighting Season 2 ranked from best to worst. Discover the Best Episodes of Moonlighting Season 2!

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, while getting comfortable with each other.

Genres:ComedyDramaMysteryCrime
Network:ABC

Season 2 Ratings Summary

The best episode of "Moonlighting" season 2 is "Brother, Can You Spare a Blonde?", rated 7.5/10 from 349 user votes. It was directed by Peter Werner and written by Glenn Gordon Caron. "Brother, Can You Spare a Blonde?" aired on 9/24/1985 and is rated 0.1 point(s) higher than the second highest rated, "The Lady in the Iron Mask".

  • Brother, Can You Spare a Blonde?
    7.5/10 349 votes

    #1 - 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

  • The Lady in the Iron Mask
    7.6/10 344 votes

    #2 - 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

  • Money Talks-- Maddie Walks
    7.3/10 301 votes

    #3 - 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

  • The Dream Sequence Always Rings Twice
    8.3/10 491 votes

    #4 - 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

  • My Fair David
    7.4/10 303 votes

    #5 - 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

  • Knowing Her
    7.5/10 305 votes

    #6 - 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: Ron Osborn, Jeff Reno

  • Somewhere Under the Rainbow
    7.2/10 300 votes

    #7 - Somewhere Under the Rainbow

    Season 2 Episode 7 - Aired 11/19/1985

    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.

    Director: Peter Crane

    Writer: Debra Frank, Carl Sautter

  • Portrait of Maddie
    7.2/10 267 votes

    #8 - Portrait of Maddie

    Season 2 Episode 8 - Aired 11/26/1985

    Maddie becomes obsessed by the portrait done of her by an artist she never knew and who killed himself upon completing it.

    Director: Peter Werner

    Writer: Ali Marie Matheson, Kerry Ehrin

  • Atlas Belched
    7.3/10 253 votes

    #9 - 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

  • Twas the Episode Before Christmas
    7.7/10 303 votes

    #10 - 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

  • The Bride of Tupperman
    7.4/10 253 votes

    #11 - 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: Will Mackenzie, Christian I. Nyby II

    Writer: Ron Osborn, Jeff Reno

  • North by North Dipesto
    7.3/10 249 votes

    #12 - 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

  • In God We Strongly Suspect
    7.3/10 239 votes

    #13 - In God We Strongly Suspect

    Season 2 Episode 13 - Aired 2/11/1986

    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.

    Director: Will Mackenzie

    Writer: Scott S. Gorden

  • Every Daughter's Father Is a Virgin
    7.6/10 244 votes

    #14 - 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

  • Witness for the Execution
    7.6/10 245 votes

    #15 - 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: Ron Osborn, Jeff Reno

  • Sleep Talkin' Guy
    7.3/10 240 votes

    #16 - Sleep Talkin' Guy

    Season 2 Episode 16 - Aired 4/1/1986

    Dave uses information passed on to him from a prostitute with an important client who talks in his sleep to solve several big cases.

    Director: Christopher Hibler

    Writer: Debra Frank, Carl Sautter

  • Funeral for a Door Nail
    7.4/10 224 votes

    #17 - 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: Ron Osborn, Jeff Reno, Charles H. Eglee, Jonathan Lemkin

  • Camille
    6.8/10 278 votes

    #18 - Camille

    Season 2 Episode 18 - Aired 5/13/1986

    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.

    Director: Peter Werner

    Writer: Roger Director