List of Moonlighting episodes explained

List of Moonlighting episodes should not be confused with List of Moonlight episodes.

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. The show mixes drama, comedy and romance, and often incorporates fantasy sequences or breaks the fourth wall.[2]

The series premiered on ABC in the United States with a feature-length pilot episode on March 3, 1985. 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.[3] [4] 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.[5] 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.[11]

Series overview

Episodes

Season 5 (1988–1989)

Notes and References

  1. Web site: Bruce Willis is ‘still Bruce’ despite not being ‘totally verbal’, ‘Moonlighting’ creator says. Michael. Starr. June 8, 2024. New York Post. October 11, 2023. April 9, 2024. https://web.archive.org/web/20240409121133/https://nypost.com/2023/10/11/moonlighting-creator-bruce-willis-not-totally-verbal-amid-dementia/. live.
  2. Book: Newcomb, Horace. Encyclopedia of Television, Volume 1. CRC Press. 2004. 1518. 1-57958-411-X.
  3. Web site: "Private," "Big Bang" earn full-season orders. October 19, 2007. March 31, 2010. Nellie. Andreeva. Reuters. October 31, 2023. https://web.archive.org/web/20231031124459/https://www.reuters.com/article/idUSN1944877520071019. live.
  4. Web site: Season breaks of popular shows 'Glee', 'V,' 'Gossip Girl' leave viewers in winter }}]. Daily News. New York City. David. Hinckley. December 15, 2009. March 31, 2010. https://web.archive.org/web/20091220153412/http://www.nydailynews.com/entertainment/tv/2009/12/16/2009-12-16_the_season_of_our_discontent_series_go_on_hiatus__glee_turns_to_gloom.html. December 20, 2009.
  5. Web site: Moonlighting (TV Series). February 19, 2010. AllMovie. All Media Guide. Hal. Erickson. May 24, 2009. https://web.archive.org/web/20090524083128/http://www.allmovie.com/work/moonlighting-216960. live.
  6. Web site: Moonlighting. The Museum of Broadcast Communications. February 23, 2010. Leah R.. Vande Berg. https://web.archive.org/web/20101204123637/http://www.museum.tv/eotvsection.php?entrycode=moonlighting. 2010-12-04. dead.
  7. Book: Siegel, Barbara & Scott. Cybill & Bruce: Moonlighting Magic. 5. 0-312-90723-0. 1987. St Martins Press.
  8. Web site: Making It On Moonlighting. April 5, 1996. June 8, 2024. Entertainment Weekly. Dave. Karger. June 8, 2024. https://web.archive.org/web/20240608071110/https://ew.com/article/1996/04/05/making-it-moonlighting/. live.
  9. Web site: For "Moonlighting" couple, a very public private affair. The New York Times. Lisa. Belkin. March 31, 1987. February 23, 2010. March 3, 2016. https://web.archive.org/web/20160303173904/http://www.nytimes.com/1987/03/31/arts/for-moonlighting-couple-a-very-public-private-affair.html?pagewanted=1. live.
  10. Web site: ‘Moonlighting’ Makes Light of 15 Emmy Losses : Mom Goes to Her Reward but TV Show Didn’t. Los Angeles Times. September 24, 1986. June 8, 2024. February 23, 2024. https://web.archive.org/web/20240223131005/https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-1986-09-24-mn-9052-story.html. live.
  11. Web site: Look Out For That Cliff: 15 TV Sensations Whose Popularity Faded Fast. Steven. Hyden. Koski, Genevieve. Murray, Noel. Robinson, Tasha. The A.V. Club. The Onion, Inc. February 21, 2010. August 27, 2007. February 6, 2010. https://web.archive.org/web/20100206205917/http://www.avclub.com/articles/look-out-for-that-cliff-15-tv-sensations-whose-pop,2023/. live.

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