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The Worst Episodes of Moonlighting

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,...

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  1. Background image for Sam & Dave (2)
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    #1 - Sam & Dave (2)

    S3:E12

    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.

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    #2 - Maddie's Turn to Cry (3)

    S3:E13

    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.

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    #3 - I Am Curious... Maddie (4)

    S3:E14

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

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    #4 - To Heiress Human

    S3:E15

    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.

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    Director:Sam Weisman
  5. Background image for The Straight Poop
    5.0/10(1 votes)

    #5 - The Straight Poop

    S3:E9

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

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  6. Background image for Blonde on Blonde (1)
    7.0/10(1 votes)

    #6 - Blonde on Blonde (1)

    S3:E11

    Maddie's strange mood has David worried so he spends the evening following her, but ends up involved in a murder.

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    Director:Jay Daniel
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  8. Background image for Pilot
    7.3/10(19 votes)

    #7 - Pilot

    S1:E1

    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.

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    8.0/10(1 votes)

    #8 - Big Man on Mulberry Street

    S3:E6

    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.

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  10. Background image for It's a Wonderful Job
    8.0/10(1 votes)

    #9 - It's a Wonderful Job

    S3:E8

    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.

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    8.0/10(1 votes)

    #10 - Poltergeist III—Dipesto Nothing

    S3:E10

    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.

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    8.2/10(4 votes)

    #11 - Eine Kleine Nacht Murder

    S5:E12

    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.

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    Director:Jay Daniel
  13. Background image for Symphony in Knocked Flat
    8.5/10(2 votes)

    #12 - Symphony in Knocked Flat

    S3:E3

    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.

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  14. Background image for The Dream Sequence Always Rings Twice
    8.7/10(3 votes)

    #13 - The Dream Sequence Always Rings Twice

    S2:E4

    Dave and Maddie each dream their own solutions to an unsolved 1946 murder case after hearing the story while finishing an investigation.

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    8.7/10(6 votes)

    #14 - Twas the Episode Before Christmas

    S2:E10

    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."

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  16. Background image for Gunfight at the So-So Corral
    9.0/10(3 votes)

    #15 - Gunfight at the So-So Corral

    S1:E2

    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.

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    9.0/10(3 votes)

    #16 - Read the Mind... See the Movie

    S1:E3

    Maddie believes that a client's design secrets are being pilfered from the astral plane by a psychic.

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    Director:Unknown
    Writer:Unknown
  18. Background image for The Son Also Rises
    9.0/10(2 votes)

    #17 - The Son Also Rises

    S3:E1

    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.

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    9.0/10(2 votes)

    #18 - The Man Who Cried Wife

    S3:E2

    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.

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    9.0/10(2 votes)

    #19 - Yours, Very Deadly

    S3:E4

    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.

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    9.0/10(2 votes)

    #20 - All Creatures Great and ... Not So Great

    S3:E5

    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.

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    9.0/10(2 votes)

    #21 - Atomic Shakespeare

    S3:E7

    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.

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  23. Background image for Fetal Attraction
    9.0/10(1 votes)

    #22 - Fetal Attraction

    S4:E9

    Dave searches for a suitable Lamaze partner so he can be prepared for Maddie's delivery.

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    9.0/10(1 votes)

    #23 - Tracks of My Tears

    S4:E10

    Maddie returns home by train. She is still unsure about David and has dreams and nightmares about being married to him on the trip back. On the journey, she meets a systems analyst returning to Los Angeles and they become friends.

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    Director:Paul Krasny
  25. Background image for The Next Murder You Hear
    9.3/10(3 votes)

    #24 - The Next Murder You Hear

    S1:E4

    Maddie becomes infatuated with a radio talk-show host who has apparently been murdered while he was on the air.

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    9.3/10(3 votes)

    #25 - Next Stop Murder

    S1:E5

    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.

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Worst Episodes Summary

"Sam & Dave (2)" is the worst rated episode of "Moonlighting". It scored /10 based on 0 votes. Directed by Sam Weisman and written by Roger Director, Charles H. Eglee, it aired on 2/10/1987. This episode scored 0.0 points lower than the second lowest rated, "Maddie's Turn to Cry (3)".