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Mike asks:

> 
> Is there a Moonlighting episode guide floating around
> someplace?
> 
> -- 
> Michael
> mstailey@icaen.uiowa.edu

Here's one I modified a couple years back:


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                               Episode Guide



                          Started by Richard K Fox
   (richard_k_fox@giza.cis.ohio-state.edu   fox-r@tut.cis.ohio-state.edu)

  Lots of additions, corrections, and formatting by Otto "HACK-MAN" Heuer
          (ottoh@cfsmo.honeywell.com   hackman@pnet51.orb.mn.org)





(Note that these are not in order of episodes shown except for the first two.  
Also note that the season breaks may be incorrect and the descriptions may be 
inaccurate especially in the later episodes, please send me email if you have 
corrections, additions or comments.  A couple of the shows do not have any 
description, and some of the descriptions are very short and do not tell 
everything about the episode, just what I remember.  I have not seen many of 
the episodes more than once and so they are either very foggy in my memory or 
forgotten)

All episodes are 1 hour except for the movie.  Things denoted within [] are 
features during the opening of the show (i.e. before the credits).

                                 ---------
                                 main cast
                                 ---------

                       Cybil Shepherd - Maddie Hayes
                        Bruce Willis - David Addison
                       Allyce Beasley - Agnes DiPesto
                       Curtis Armstrong - Burt Viola
                             Harvey Needleman -

                           ----------------------
                           special appearances by
                           ----------------------

                                Orson Welles
                                 Billy Joel
                                 Lou Holtz
                              Whoopi Goldberg
                                Judd Nelson
                              The Temptations
                                Rona Barrett
                                Donna Dixon
                                Sam Shepherd


===== Moonlighting Movie (1 1/2 hour premiere of the show)
Blue Moon girl Maddie Hayes wakes to find her accountant has run off with all 
her money.  The only things she is left are her house, BMW and the City of 
Angels Detective Agency, a tax write-off.  When she decides to close down the 
Agency and fire everyone, David Addison talks her into trying a case out 
first.  The case?  Find missing diamonds.

                            ***** SEASON 1 *****

===== Gunfight at the So-So Coral
David, in a desperate attempt to get a client, takes on a case of an old man 
wanting to find his son.  It turns out that the client is a hired gun who is 
out to get the man hired to kill him.

===== Atlas Burped
David searches for a stolen Rolodex while Maddie is wined and dined by Lou 
Holtz who runs a large investigation agency.  Lou wants to buy out Blue Moon 
but David has other ideas.

===== Knowing Her
David's old flame comes to town and involves him in a murder.  Is she 
innocent or guilty?

===== Funeral for a Doornail
David and Maddie are hired to find a man's wife, who just died!!

===== Witness for the Execution
David is hired to witness a man's murder, but did David kill the man himself?  
David becomes a fugitive while Maddie solves the mystery.

===== Read the Mind, See the Movie
Maddie and David are hired to find a security leak in a research  institute.  
Is the leak due to a psychic reading their minds?

===== North by North Dipesto
Agnes gets involved in her own mystery after going to a detective's dance, in 
this spoof of Hitchcock movies.

===== The Dream Sequence Always Rings Twice
[Orson Wells introduces this special black and white episode]
This episode contains 2 dream sequences, one from Maddie and one from David 
as they dream about a murder from the 1930's.  Maddie and David perform in a 
big band (Maddie sings!!).  One of the best episodes, contains some steamy 
scenes of David and Maddie.

===== In God We Strongly Suspect
[3-D glasses which didn't get mailed in time for the episode]
The wife of a magician hires Maddie and David to watch over the body of her 
newly deceased husband for fear that he will come back to life and kill her.  
When the body disappears, they discover that the wife is dead!!

===== Sleeptalking Guy
David becomes a super-detective after getting mob information from a hooker 
who gets the information from a guy who talks in his sleep.

===== Every Daughter's Father is a Virgin
[Reads viewer mail, David gets to kiss Maddie]
Maddie's parents come to visit.  Only, she discovers that her father has been 
cheating on her mother.

===== The Next Murder You Hear
When a radio personality is killed on the air, David wants to take on the 
case for publicity.  Maddie falls for the dead man who faked the whole thing 
while David gets drunk in a bar.

===== Somewhere Under the Rainbow
Blue Moon helps a Lephrachaun find her pot of gold.

===== Brother Can You Spare A Blond?
David's brother, Richard Addison, comes to visit.  But where did he get all 
that money?

===== The Lady In The Iron Mask
A woman, whose face had been burned by acid, wants David and Maddie to find 
the man who did it and tell him that she loves him.

===== Twas the Episode Before Christmas
A very funny episode spoofing Christmas episodes on tv shows.  This one comes 
with everything including a baby, 3 Kings and even a Camel!  One of the best 
episodes.

===== Portrait of Maddie
An artist paints a portrait of Maddie before he is killed.  The  painting is 
a clue to where he hid a stolen museum painting.

===== My Fair David
Maddie tells David to shape up and quit his wise cracking.  So, he tries to 
stop.  In the meantime, they are hired to protect a pianist after he fakes 
his own kidnapping to get money.

===== Bride of Tupperman
Maddie and David are hired to find a wife for a man.  What they don't know is 
that he plans on killing his wife for the insurance money.

===== The Murder's In The Mail
David and Maddie stumble onto an assassination plot while working for a 
repossession company.  The episode ends with a pie fight and also has a great 
Dr. Seuss like rhyming conversation towards the end.

===== Money Talks, Maddie Walks
Maddie finds out that her ex-accountant who ripped her off is living very 
nicely in Buenos Aires.  She goes down there to get her money back and David 
follows.

===== Camille
This episode ended the first season and had Whoopi Goldberg guest starring as 
Camille, a con woman who saves the govonor's life (or mayor or someone 
important).  Judd Nelson stars as a bunco cop tracking her.

                            ***** Season 2 *****

===== The Son Also Rises
[David and Maddie talk about losing the Emmy award]
David's dad is getting married -- to a woman that David has slept with!!

===== The Man who Cried Wife
Is a husband's dead wife out to kill him?  Maddie and David disagree over 
taking the case but solve it anyways.

===== Symphony in Knock Flat
[funk video with the Temptations]
Maddie and David decide to try a date.  Maddie wants to go to the symphony, 
only the scalped tickets that David buys were intended for an assassin.  
Then, on David's date, they go boxing to stop the assassin.

===== Yours Very Deadly
A woman who has been having an affair through the mail asks David and Maddie 
to help her break it off.  What they don't know is that the woman's husband 
set the whole thing up in the first place.

===== All Creatures Great and Not So Great
A priest hires Maddie and David to find the woman he wants to marry

===== Big Man On Mulberry Street
David was once married!!  David goes to NY to attend the funeral of his 
ex-brother-in-law.  Maddie follows.  There is a great dream sequence 
featuring Billy Joel singing the title song (Big Man...)

===== Atomic Shakespeare
In what is undoubtedly the best Moonlighting ever, the cast spoof 
Shakespeare's "Taming of the Shrew".

===== It's A Wonderful Job
Another Christmas episode, this time with Maddie playing the role in "It's a 
Wonderful Life" wishing she had never kept the agency going.

===== The Straight Poop
No new Moonlighting again?  Whats the deal?  Rona Barrett goes behind the 
scenes in this spoof of Moonlighing itself.  Rona interviews the characters 
and shows lots of old clips.

===== Poltergeist III....Dipesto 0
Agnes gets her own case as she and Burt try to solve a haunted house mystery.

===== Blond on Blond
Maddie gets restless and goes out for a night on the town -- without David.  
David is jealous and attempts to follow her but winds up following another 
blond (Donna Dixon).  He stumbles into a murder.  While in jail, the blond 
talks David into making a commitment with Maddie.  The episode ends as David 
goes to confront Maddie only to be surprised by another man answering her 
door!!

===== Sam and Dave
Sam is the other man of course, he is an astronaut.  Immediately sparks fly 
between Sam and Dave.  This is the first of 3 episodes involving Sam.

===== Maddie's Turn to Cry
After feeling threatened by David, Sam asks Maddie to marry him.  Only, 
Maddie doesn't want to get married -- to either Sam or Dave.

===== I Am Curious... Maddie
[Harvey Needleman reads the Moonlighting script as the new episode is not yet 
ready]
Sam and Dave have it out.  Sam leaves and David finally makes it with Maddie.  
Last scene shows them boinking all over the floor.

                           ***** SEASON 3? *****

===== To Hieress Human
The next morning, Maddie wakes up feeling guilty and wants to forget about 
the whole thing. A woman hires them to discover if a man really wants to 
marry her or if he only wants her father's money.

===== A Trip To The Moon
Lots of dream sequences in this episode long fight between David and Maddie.  
Contains clips of the cast playing the Honeymooners.  Episode ends with 
Maddie on a plane to Chicago.

===== Come Back Little Shiksa
David and Burt take on a case while Maddie is in Chicago.  She is pregnant 
but doesn't know if Sam or David is the father.  This episode has a great 
little claymation sequence followed by David trashing the BMW.

===== Take a Left at the Alter
David and Burt take on another case.  Maddie stays at her parents.  Not much 
of an episode.

===== Tale of Two Cities
?????

===== Cool Hand Dave (part I)
Maddie leaves a message on Agnes phone machine that she is pregnant.  Agnes 
tells Burt who immediately tells David.  David goes to the airport to fly out 
to Chicago but while waiting in the bar, gets switched with a prisoner on his 
way to jail.  

===== Cool Hand Dave (part II)
While David is in jail, he comes across an escape plot.  The escape fails but 
turns into a riot.  David saves the day by changing the riot into a huge 
party.  After this, he is released.

===== Father Knows Last
While David and Maddie were both away, Blue Moon falls apart.  The furniture 
is repossessed and the employees mutiny against Burt's new rule.  Maddie's 
father finds out that Maddie is pregnant and flies to LA to confront David 
who is fresh out of jail.  After explaining to Maddie's father that Maddie 
was the one who ran off and didn't want anything to do with David, Maddie's 
father gives David money to get Blue Moon back on its feet.

===== Los Dos Dipestos
[A man just out of a coma wants to know "What's been happening on 
Moonlighting? -- clips are shown]
Agnes's mother comes to visit and gets them involved in a case.

===== Fetal Attraction
David gets involved with a pregnant woman so that he can learn about the 
childbirth process in case Maddie returns.  Meanwhile, Maddie's parents throw 
a party in an attempt to fix her up with a Doctor.

===== Tracks of My Tears
Maddie returns to LA, but on the way into town she marries a stranger.

===== Eek!  A Spouse!
Maddie and David investigate a married man's other woman and stumble into a 
murder mystery.

===== The Color of Maddie
Maddie and David are hired by a battered woman to find her husband.

===== And the Flesh was Made Word
Maddie gets rid of her husband (he exits with a look at the camera and says 
"There, are you happy now?").  Maddie and David are hired to find a woman 
that a businessman's partner has fallen in love with which has caused the 
business to fall apart.  [The episode ends with Burt singing Money Money 
since the episode ended with extra time]

===== A Womb With A View
[Intro is a musical with the entire cast except for Maddie]
A trip inside of Maddie's womb lets us see the unborn baby (played by David) 
as he gets an education about the world he will be born into.  Unfortunately 
(or maybe fortunately), the baby dies (but little baby David gets a chance at 
still being born as a baby is needed for the Cosby Show!!)

===== Between a Yuk and a Hard Place
Trying to recover from the baby dying, both David and Maddie immerse 
themselves in work rather than facing up to their feelings.  But then they 
get stuck in the elevator together and their feelings come out.  They take on 
a case and it ends with a balloon ride with David sitting on top of the 
balloon.

===== Plastic Fantastic Lovers
A man who was disfigured due to plastic surgery hires Maddie and David to 
find evidence for malpractice.  Maddie checks out the surgeon while David 
checks out some of the surgeon's works of art (including his secretary).  
When the surgeon is found murdered, who killed him? -- The butler did it!!

===== Shirts and Skins
Maddie and the girls help out a businesswoman while David and the guys help 
out the woman's husband, both of whom are executives for a large corporation 
and both of whom want to take over the corporation.  Typical battle of the 
sexes type episode.

===== Take My Wife, for Example
[David and Maddie plead for the viewers to return watching the show.  
Maddie's idea to attract more viewers - more human element in the show, 
David's idea - big hooters]
After a divorce attourney has a heart attack, she reconsiders her ways and 
hires Maddie and David to bring together a couple she has been hired to help 
get a divorce settlement for.

===== I See England, I See France, I See Maddie's Netherworld
A man dies in Maddie's office which involves them in a case.  Unfortunately, 
the corpse seems to get dragged along with them.

===== Those Lips, Those Lies
[A replacement is needed for Al Jarreau to sing the opening tune]
Richard Addison comes to visit and David becomes a male model to help solve a 
case.

===== Perfetc
The group tries to stall while David attempts to solve the case.  Burt must 
give a very painful press conference.

===== In 'N Outlaws
Agnes goes on jury duty while Burt goes to his family reunion.  He is 
pressured about a wife or fiancee and tells everyone that he and Agnes are 
getting married.  He winds up getting involved in the case that Agnes is 
involved with and he breaks into the courtroom at the last minute to solve 
the case and save the day.

===== Eine Kleine Nacht Murder
Maddie witnesses a murder and escapes with her life, she hires a body guard 
to protect her.  David meets a friend of Maddie's and they start having a 
romance.

===== Lunar Eclipse
David and Maddie's friend continue their affair but David decides it is 
getting too serious and fakes a romance with one of the girls from the office 
to get rid of Maddie's friend.  Agnes and Burt get engaged.  In the meantime, 
Maddie and David solve a case only to find out that there are 10 minutes left 
in the show's lifespan as it has been cancelled.  They try to get married but 
run out of time.  It ends with some clips of the show.

***** THE END

===== ???
Maddie finds out David is sleeping with her cousin.  David finds out her 
cousin is married.

===== Next Stop Murder
Agnes wins a mystery train ride, but Maddie and David get trapped on the 
train.


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