The Best Episodes of Moonlighting Season 3

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

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

Sam confronts Dave about Maddie, and tells him he's not good enough for her.

Director: Allan Arkush

Writer: Glenn Gordon Caron, Jeff Reno

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

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

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

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.

Director: Paul Lynch

Writer: Dale Gelineau, Pauline Miller

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.

Director: Allan Arkush

Writer: Jeff Reno, Ron Osborn

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.

Director: Christian I. Nyby II

Writer: N/A

Dave and Maddie quarrel over Sam as they keep watch on a man for his mistress, who's convinced he's two-timing her-with his wife.

Director: Sam Weisman

Writer: Charles H. Eglee, Roger Director

Maddie tries to ignore the previous night as she and David tackle a new case: a woman wants evidence that her fiance loves her and not her father's money.

Director: Sam Weisman

Writer: Kerry Ehrin

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.

Director: Christian I. Nyby II

Writer: Roger Director

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.

Director: Christian I. Nyby II

Writer: Charles H. Eglee, Eric Blakeney

Ms. Dipesto tries to solve a haunted house case refused by Dave and Maddie to show Bert Viola that she's just as good a detective as he is.

Director: Christopher Hibler

Writer: Karen Hall, Charles H. Eglee

Rona Barrett investigates the rumors about discord among the principals at the Blue Moon Detective agency.

Director: Jay Daniel

Writer: Glenn Gordon Caron