- 6.3/10191 votes
#1 - A Womb With a View
Season 5 Episode 1 - Aired 12/6/1988
An angel from above visits Baby Hayes as he waits to be born and gives him the low down on his parents and their relationship.
Director: Jay Daniel
Writer: Glenn Gordon Caron, Charles H. Eglee
- 6.8/10161 votes
#2 - Between a Yuk and a Hard Place
Season 5 Episode 2 - Aired 12/13/1988
Maddie takes on several new cases in an effort to bury her sorrow, including one where a woman is convinced that her husband is still in love with someone from his past.
Director: Dennis Dugan
Writer: Kerry Ehrin
- 7.0/10149 votes
#3 - The Color of Maddie
Season 5 Episode 3 - Aired 12/20/1988
Maddie and David struggle to find a new footing for their relationship while working on a case for a woman whose husband of one week returns after a ten year absence.
Director: Artie Mandelberg
Writer: Barbara Hall
- 7.2/10157 votes
#4 - Plastic Fantastic Lovers
Season 5 Episode 4 - Aired 1/10/1989
Maddie and David are hired by a disfigured man who has become a recluse and needs the detectives' help in proving that a plastic surgeon wantonly caused his disfiguration.
Director: Allan Arkush
Writer: Jerry Stahl
- 7.1/10147 votes
#5 - Shirts and Skins
Season 5 Episode 5 - Aired 1/17/1989
The office divides along gender lines when Maddie takes on a case for a woman who shot her boss for sabotaging her career when she refused his sexual advances.
Director: Artie Mandelberg
Writer: N/A
- 7.0/10144 votes
#6 - Take My Wife, For Example
Season 5 Episode 6 - Aired 2/7/1989
A ruthless divorce lawyer comes to Blue Moon for help in reconciling a couple she helped split up, and Maddie tries to buy David a present.
Director: Dennis Dugan
Writer: James Kramer
- 6.6/10146 votes
#7 - I See England, I See France, I See Maddie's Netherworld
Season 5 Episode 7 - Aired 2/14/1989
Dave and Maddie keep company with a popular corpse and visit a graveyard when a man seeking a bodyguard drops dead in their office.
Director: Paul Krasny
Writer: Chris Ruppenthal
- 7.1/10146 votes
#8 - Those Lips, Those Lies
Season 5 Episode 8 - Aired 4/2/1989
Maddie is sympathetic while David is skeptical when his brother shows up asking for help tracking down his fiancee's former partner, who has absconded with all their company assets.
Director: Dennis Dugan
Writer: Chris Ruppenthal, James Kramer
- 6.9/10142 votes
#9 - Perfetc
Season 5 Episode 9 - Aired 4/9/1989
Maddie resists, but David plunges ahead when a dying burglar asks for their help in proving he committed the perfect crime 25 years earlier.
Director: Gerald Perry Finnerman
Writer: Jerry Stahl, Chris Ruppenthal, James Kramer
- 7.3/10177 votes
#10 - When Girls Collide (1)
Season 5 Episode 10 - Aired 4/16/1989
David goes beyond the call of duty to help entertain Maddie's cousin Annie, and Maddie realizes that David may be over his obsession with her.
Director: Dennis Dugan
Writer: Merrill Markoe
- 6.7/10142 votes
#11 - In 'N Outlaws
Season 5 Episode 11 - Aired 4/23/1989
Burt pouts and frantically tries to solve the crime when Agnes is forced to miss his family reunion because she won't vote to convict a man of murdering his partner / lover.
Director: Christopher T. Welch
Writer: Marc Abraham
- 7.0/10145 votes
#12 - Eine Kleine Nacht Murder
Season 5 Episode 12 - Aired 4/30/1989
As the sole eyewitness to a murder, Maddie is given police protection. But David suspects that her handsome young bodyguard is setting her up for death.
Director: Jay Daniel
Writer: Barbara Hall
- 7.4/10184 votes
#13 - Lunar Eclipse
Season 5 Episode 13 - Aired 5/14/1989
Dave breaks it off with Annie when her husband comes to California, everyone attends the wedding of Burt and Agnes, and the agency closes its doors for a final time as everyone tries to figure out why it all had to end.
Director: Dennis Dugan
Writer: Ron Clark
The Best Episodes of Moonlighting Season 5
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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,...
Genres:ComedyDramaMysteryCrime
Network:ABC
Season 5 Ratings Summary
"A Womb With a View" is the best rated episode of "Moonlighting" season 5. It scored 6.3/10 based on 191 votes. Directed by Jay Daniel and written by Glenn Gordon Caron, Charles H. Eglee, it aired on 12/6/1988. This episode is rated 0.5 points higher than the second-best, "Between a Yuk and a Hard Place".