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List of Moonlighting episodes

Not to be confused with List of Moonlight episodes.
A man and a woman standing in front of an image of the moon on a black background. The man has dark receding hair, is wearing a white tuxedo and a bow tie and has a cocky smile on his face. The woman has blonde hair, is wearing a long-sleeved white dress and has a neutral expression. Superimposed across them is "Moonlighting: The Complete Seasons One to Five". Above them are the names Cybill Shepherd and Bruce Willis.
The cover of the Moonlighting: The Complete Seasons One to Five Region 2 DVD box set (18 discs)

Moonlighting is an American comedy-drama television show created in 1985 by writer Glenn Gordon Caron.[1] It centers on Maddie Hayes (Cybill Shepherd), a former model who loses most of her financial assets due to her accountant's embezzlement but unexpectedly finds that she owns a detective agency. She teams up with cocky, chauvinistic investigator David Addison (Bruce Willis) to run the agency and becomes embroiled in various unusual cases. The show's other regular characters are Agnes DiPesto (Allyce Beasley), the agency's receptionist, and Herbert Viola (Curtis Armstrong), one of the agency's investigators, who was introduced in the third season and became a featured character in the fourth season.[2] The show mixes drama, comedy and romance, and often incorporates fantasy sequences or breaks the fourth wall.[3]

The series premiered on ABC in the United States with a feature-length pilot episode on March 3, 1985.[2] The series lasted 5 seasons, but only 66 episodes were produced, a low figure for American television, for which a full season normally includes at least 22 episodes.[4][5] The show became notorious for failing to have a new episode ready to air each week, due to on-set problems including script issues and friction between actors and producers.[2] Most episodes aired on Tuesday nights, although when the show returned in April 1989 after a two-month hiatus, the remaining episodes aired on Sunday nights.[6]

During its early years, the series was popular with viewers and broke into the top ten of the Nielsen ratings in its third season.[7] When Maddie and David ended more than two years of sexual tension by sleeping together in that season's highly publicized penultimate episode, "I Am Curious… Maddie", it drew an audience of 60 million viewers.[8][9] The show was also a critical hit, receiving 16 Emmy Award nominations in 1986.[10] Ratings declined, however, in the later seasons, and the show was canceled in 1989.[2][11]

  1. ^ Starr, Michael (October 11, 2023). "Bruce Willis is 'still Bruce' despite not being 'totally verbal', 'Moonlighting' creator says". New York Post. Archived from the original on April 9, 2024. Retrieved June 8, 2024.
  2. ^ a b c d Erickson, Hal. "Moonlighting (TV Series)". AllMovie. All Media Guide. Archived from the original on May 24, 2009. Retrieved February 19, 2010.
  3. ^ Newcomb, Horace (2004). Encyclopedia of Television, Volume 1. CRC Press. p. 1518. ISBN 1-57958-411-X.
  4. ^ Andreeva, Nellie (October 19, 2007). ""Private," "Big Bang" earn full-season orders". Reuters. Archived from the original on October 31, 2023. Retrieved March 31, 2010.
  5. ^ Hinckley, David (December 15, 2009). "Season breaks of popular shows 'Glee', 'V,' 'Gossip Girl' leave viewers in winter withdrawl [sic]". Daily News. New York City. Archived from the original on December 20, 2009. Retrieved March 31, 2010.
  6. ^ Vande Berg, Leah R. "Moonlighting". The Museum of Broadcast Communications. Archived from the original on 2010-12-04. Retrieved February 23, 2010.
  7. ^ Siegel, Barbara & Scott (1987). Cybill & Bruce: Moonlighting Magic. St Martins Press. p. 5. ISBN 0-312-90723-0.
  8. ^ Karger, Dave (April 5, 1996). "Making It On Moonlighting". Entertainment Weekly. Archived from the original on June 8, 2024. Retrieved June 8, 2024.
  9. ^ Belkin, Lisa (March 31, 1987). "For "Moonlighting" couple, a very public private affair". The New York Times. Archived from the original on March 3, 2016. Retrieved February 23, 2010.
  10. ^ "'Moonlighting' Makes Light of 15 Emmy Losses : Mom Goes to Her Reward but TV Show Didn't". Los Angeles Times. September 24, 1986. Archived from the original on February 23, 2024. Retrieved June 8, 2024.
  11. ^ Hyden, Steven; Koski, Genevieve; Murray, Noel; Robinson, Tasha (August 27, 2007). "Look Out For That Cliff: 15 TV Sensations Whose Popularity Faded Fast". The A.V. Club. The Onion, Inc. Archived from the original on February 6, 2010. Retrieved February 21, 2010.

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