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  • ABC
  • Mar 3, 1985
  • ABC
  • Mar 3, 1985

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

  • ABC
  • Mar 3, 1985
  • ABC
  • Mar 3, 1985
Moonlighting
Season 1
5 Seasons
Season Premiere: Mar 3, 1985
Metascore Generally Favorable Based on 20 Critic Reviews
62
User Score Generally Favorable Based on 4 User Ratings
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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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Episode 1 • Mar 3, 1985 • 1 h 33 m
Moonlighting (Pilot)
Maddie Hayes wakes up to find her staff have quit and all her money has been stolen. One of her few remaining assets is a loss-making investigation agency run by David Addison. She sacks the staff but David is determined to keep it going.
Episode 2 • Mar 5, 1985 • 50 m
Gunfight at the So-So Corral
It is Maddie's first day at the Blue Moon Detective Agency but there is nothing to do. In desperation, David 'steals' a client from a rival agency. The man wants them to find his estranged son, but all is not as it seems.
Episode 3 • Mar 12, 1985 • 46 m
Read the Mind... See the Movie
Blue Moon have been hired as security consultants for an aerospace firm from which a rival company has been stealing secrets. Maddie and David work through the rival company's owner and a psychic before they work out what is going on.
Episode 4 • Mar 19, 1985 • 50 m
The Next Murder You Hear
Episode 5 • Mar 26, 1985 • 1 h
Next Stop Murder
Episode 6 • Apr 2, 1985 • 43 m
The Murder's in the Mail
David gets the agency a job collecting money from debtors, which he believes that it will be easy but Maddie is not so sure. They find themselves involved in murder, a disappearing body and an international conspiracy.
5 Seasons

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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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Metascore
Generally Favorable Based on 20 Critic Reviews
62
55% Positive
11 Reviews
35% Mixed
7 Reviews
10% Negative
2 Reviews

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Metascore
Generally Favorable Based on 20 Critic Reviews
62
55% Positive
11 Reviews
35% Mixed
7 Reviews
10% Negative
2 Reviews

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90
Sep 28, 2023
It is Mr. Willis who elevates the show from good viewing to outstanding entertainment. [03 Mar 1985, p.3K]
By Barry Garron FULL REVIEW
80
Sep 28, 2023
Moonlighting is a sleuth-and-smoocher that is very funny and so downright friendly you keep wishing these people were real so you could hang with 'em on the corner, talkin' trash and lookin' sly. [01 Mar 1985, p.67]
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75
Sep 28, 2023
With a little elbow grease, some long hours and good support from Willis (who should have been in a series long before this) Moonlighting could well go into overtime. [01 Mar 1985, p.B13]
By Bruce Miller FULL REVIEW
70
Sep 27, 2023
Moonlighting does not have a style and charm all its own. It borrow those important intangibles from NBC's Remington Steele. But it borrows more from the early Steele than the cutesier current incarnation, and that's good. [01 Mar 1985, p.E3]
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40
Sep 27, 2023
We expect television programs to be derivative, but Moonlighting doesn't even do its borrowing with finesse.
By Tom Shales FULL REVIEW
40
Sep 27, 2023
Why go for the imitation when you can have the original? Stick with real magnetism and Remington on Tuesdays. [06 Mar 1985, p.5B]
By Steve Sonsky FULL REVIEW
25
Sep 27, 2023
In general, pilot films fall into three modes -- promising, bearable and for imbeciles only. Moonlighting is definitely in the last class. [01 Mar 1985, p.20]
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