Moonlighting season 2 Twas the Episode Before Christmas - Metacritic

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TV-PG
ABC
Dec 17, 1985
1 h

TV-PG
ABC
Dec 17, 1985
1 h

Summary 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. Moonlighting as a series was plagued by production delays and erratic sche...

Directed By: Peter Werner

Written By: Glenn Gordon Caron

TV-PG
ABC
Dec 17, 1985
1 h

TV-PG
ABC
Dec 17, 1985
1 h

S2 • Episode 10

Twas the Episode Before Christmas

Air Date: Dec 17, 1985

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Summary 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. Moonlighting as a series was plagued by production delays and erratic sche...

Created By: Glenn Gordon Caron

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Season Episodes

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Episode 1 • Sep 24, 1985 • 1 h

Brother, Can You Spare a Blonde?

Episode 2 • Oct 1, 1985 • 45 m

The Lady in the Iron Mask

Episode 3 • Oct 8, 1985 • 47 m

Money Talks... Maddie Walks

Episode 4 • Oct 15, 1985 • 50 m

The Dream Sequence Always Rings Twice

David and Maddie meet the owner of a club who tells them about an unresolved murder. Maddie and David argue about who they think the real murderer is and, in their dreams, set about solving the murder that occurred 40 years ago.

Episode 5 • Oct 29, 1985 • 50 m

A wealthy woman comes to David and Maddie when her son is kidnapped. They are hired to negotiate the price of the ransom and to get her stepson back safely. Things are further complicated when the stepson is kidnapped a second time.

Episode 6 • Nov 12, 1985 • 49 m

Episode 7 • Nov 19, 1985 • 48 m

Somewhere Under the Rainbow

An Irish girl who claims to be a leprechaun wants to hire the Blue moon detective agency to protect her. David is willing to take the case, but Maddie thinks that the girl is mentally ill and needs a psychiatrist, not a detective agency.

Episode 8 • Nov 26, 1985 • 48 m

Portrait of Maddie

An artist, whom Maddie has never met, paints her portrait and then shoots himself. Maddie decides to purchase the portrait and gives it to the artist's brother, who is then killed. It turns out the brother was an international art thief.

Episode 9 • Dec 10, 1985 • 49 m

A rival detective agency has made an offer for Blue Moon Detective Agency and Maddie accepts the offer. Addison is upset and sets up his own agency. Neither course of action works out well.

Episode 10 • Dec 17, 1985 • 1 h

Twas the Episode Before Christmas

A criminal in the witness protection scheme is killed but his wife and baby manage to escape. When fleeing, the baby is left in Agnes' apartment but without any explanation. Maddie and Addison decide to try to find the mother.

Episode 11 • Jan 14, 1986 • 50 m

The Bride of Tupperman

A wealthy man comes into the agency wanting to get married. He has a description of his perfect wife but he just hasn't found her yet. Maddie and Addison then compete to find the woman who matches the description, but there's a twist.

Episode 12 • Jan 21, 1986 • 49 m

North by North DiPesto

Agnes is feeling down and feels that her life is in a rut. To cheer her up, Maddie and Addison decide to send her to an investigator's ball where she meets a man. When he is stabbed the next day, her troubles have only just begun.

Episode 13 • Feb 11, 1986 • 46 m

In God We Strongly Suspect

An escape artist is drowned when he fails to exit his trick water cabinet. His widow approaches the Blue Moon agency asking for protection. Her husband had threatened to come back and kill her after his death.

Episode 14 • Feb 18, 1986 • 44 m

Every Daughter's Father Is a Virgin

Maddie's parents are in town but her mother is worried that her father is having an affair. Maddie wants to follow her father to prove that he is not having an affair. To spare her possible embarrassment, Addison does it for her.

Episode 15 • Mar 11, 1986 • 48 m

Witness for the Execution

A man dying from an incurable disease comes into the agency. He says he is going to be murdered for the insurance and he wants Maddie and Addison to be witnesses. Maddie doesn't want anything to do with it but Addison wants to do it.

Episode 16 • Apr 1, 1986 • 48 m

Sleep Talkin' Guy

A prostitute speaks to Addison about a potential murder she heard about from a client, who talks in his sleep. When David realises the information's correct, he decides to use her to solve more cases.

Episode 17 • Apr 29, 1986 • 48 m

Funeral for a Door Nail

A man's wife is killed in a car accident, which leaves him so upset he wants to die. He arranges to have himself killed by a hit man. From the distance he sees his wife in the street and so he then hires Maddie and Addison to stop the hit.

Episode 18 • May 13, 1986 • 49 m

When a con woman escapes from the custody of a crooked detective she accidentally stops an assassin killing an American senator. Addison has the bright idea of employing Camille to raise the profile of the company.

5 Seasons

Top Cast

Cybill Shepherd

Maddie Hayes, Katerina, Maddie Hayes (Alice)

Bruce Willis

David Addison Jr., Baby Hayes, Pertrucio

Allyce Beasley

Agnes DiPesto, Agnes DiPesto (Trixie), Bianca

Curtis Armstrong

Herbert Quentin Viola, Burt Viola, Bert Viola

Kristine Kauffman

Kris - Blue Moon Employee, Blue Moon Employee, Kris

Jonathan Ames

Jergenson, Jergenson - Blue Moon Employee, Jurgenson

Daniel Fitzpatrick

O'Neill, O'Neill - Blue Moon Employee, O'Neill, Blue Moon Employee

Jamie Taylor

Jamie - Blue Moon Employee, Jamie, Jamie, Blue Moon Employee

Willie Brown

Simmons, Simmons - Blue Moon Employee, Simmons, Blue Moon Employee

Jack Blessing

MacGillicudy

Inez Edwards

Inez, Inez, Blue Moon Employee, Blue Moon Employee, Blue Moon Staff, Inez - Blue Moon Employee

Eva Marie Saint

Virginia Hayes

Robert Webber

Alexander Hayes

Charles Rocket

Richard Addison, Richard Addison (Ed)

Clinton Allmon

Jury Man #1, Man Breaking Up Fight, Mr. Purdy, Townsman

Mark Harmon

Sam Crawford

Dennis Dugan

Walter Bishop, Cy

Virginia Madsen

Lorraine Anne Charnock

Brooke Adams

Terri Knowles

Bill Marcus

Bowling Alley Manager, Cop with Hooker, Police Station Desk Clerk

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