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Moonlighting

1985–1989 · Ended · 5 seasons

Drama Comedy Romance Mystery
First aired
Mar 3, 1985
Last aired
May 14, 1989
IMDb rating
7.6 / 10 26,244 votes
Recall rating
7.0 / 10 1 rating

Overview

When former fashion model Maddie Hayes goes broke and finds that one of her few remaining assets is ownership of the Blue Moon Detective Agency, she is tempted to liquidate it until she meets the quirky employees and gets involved in their even quirkier cases.

Won 6 Primetime Emmys. 19 wins & 60 nominations total

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Episodes

Season 5 · 13 episodes

  • Dec 6, 1988 45 min

    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.

  • Dec 13, 1988 45 min

    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.

  • Dec 20, 1988 45 min

    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.

  • Jan 10, 1989 45 min

    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.

  • Jan 17, 1989 45 min

    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.

  • Feb 7, 1989 45 min

    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.

  • Feb 14, 1989 45 min

    Dave and Maddie keep company with a popular corpse and visit a graveyard when a man seeking a bodyguard drops dead in their office.

  • Apr 2, 1989 45 min

    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.

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    Apr 9, 1989 45 min

    Maddie resists, but David plunges ahead when a dying burglar asks for their help in proving he committed the perfect crime 25 years earlier.

  • Apr 16, 1989 45 min

    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.

  • Apr 23, 1989 45 min

    Agnes misses Herbert's family reunion when she is called for jury duty. She is the only juror convinced of the defendant's innocence, and the jury is now sequestered until a verdict can be agreed. Herbert is desperate to ensure that Agnes makes it to the reunion so sets out to solve the case himself.

  • Apr 30, 1989 45 min

    Maddie witnesses a murder and is placed under police protection, but David thinks her bodyguard is crooked and is planning to kill her himself. Annie moves in with David, largely because of the discomfort their relationship is causing Maddie. David goes to Maddie's house to convince her to try to flee from the bad guys, only for a SWAT team to show up and severely damage the house.

  • May 14, 1989 45 min

    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.

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