The BEST episodes of Moonlighting
Every episode of Moonlighting ever, ranked from best to worst by thousands of votes from fans of the show. The best episodes of Moonlighting!
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.
#1 - Poltergeist III -- Dipesto Nothing
Season 3 - Episode 10 - Aired 1/13/1987
Ms. Dipesto tries to solve a haunted house case refused by Dave and Maddie to show Bert Viola that she's just as good a detective as he is.
#2 - In God We Strongly Suspect
Season 2 - Episode 13 - Aired 2/11/1986
Dave and Maddie agree to "corpse-sit" for an escape artist's widow, who believes her dead husband's threats to come back and get even with her.
#3 - Come Back Little Shiksa
Season 4 - Episode 2 - Aired 10/6/1987
With Maddie in Chicago, Dave feels very sympatico with a client who offers $10,000 if they can locate the woman he spent one memorable night with.
#4 - Atlas Belched
Season 2 - Episode 9 - Aired 12/10/1985
Dave busies himself finding an important phone index for a hapless young executive while Maddie mulls over an offer to sell the agency to a competitor.
#5 - Sleep Talkin' Guy
Season 2 - Episode 16 - Aired 4/1/1986
Dave uses information passed on to him from a prostitute with an important client who talks in his sleep to solve several big cases.
#6 - Cool Hand Dave (1)
Season 4 - Episode 5 - Aired 11/17/1987
Ms. Dipesto lets Maddie's secret slip, so Dave frantically tries to fly to Chicago, but he gets waylaid and makes an unexpected side trip to prison under another man's name.
#7 - North by North Dipesto
Season 2 - Episode 12 - Aired 1/21/1986
A restless Ms. Dipesto gets a chance for danger and excitement when she gets a piece of paper from a mysterious man while attending a ball in Dave and Maddie's place.
#8 - Tale in Two Cities
Season 4 - Episode 4 - Aired 11/3/1987
Maddie's parents throw a party for her in Chicago while Dave and Bert party it up in LA.
#9 - The Bride of Tupperman
Season 2 - Episode 11 - Aired 1/14/1986
Dave and Maddie compete to fulfill their client's unusual request: find him a possible mate fitting his very specific requirements.
#10 - It's a Wonderful Job
Season 3 - Episode 8 - Aired 12/16/1986
A depressed Maddie gets a chance to see what her life and the rest of Blue Moon staff would be like if she had sold the agency as she originally intended.
#11 - Cool Hand Dave (2)
Season 4 - Episode 6 - Aired 12/1/1987
#12 - Father Knows Last
Season 4 - Episode 7 - Aired 12/15/1987
Mr. Hayes visits Dave after his return to the agency to subtly hint that he should take some responsibility for Maddie's unborn child.
#13 - Somewhere Under the Rainbow
Season 2 - Episode 7 - Aired 11/19/1985
Dave and Maddie argue over whether to help a young woman who claims to be a leprechaun find the pot of gold she insists her father has hidden for her in Los Angeles.
#14 - Next Stop Murder
Season 1 - Episode 5 - Aired 3/26/1985
Maddie and Dave get trapped on a train filled with mystery buffs when they try to deliver Agnes on time for her big weekend solving a make-believe murder staged by a famous author.
#15 - Lunar Eclipse
Season 5 - Episode 13 - Aired 5/14/1989
Dave breaks it off with Annie when her husband comes to California, everyone attends the wedding of Burt and Agnes, and the agency closes its doors for a final time as everyone tries to figure out why it all had to end.
#16 - Funeral for a Door Nail
Season 2 - Episode 17 - Aired 4/29/1986
A depressed man hires a hit man to kill him after his wife dies, then desperately seeks Dave and Maddie's help to call him off when he sees his supposedly dead wife alive.
#17 - Money Talks -- Maddie Walks
Season 2 - Episode 3 - Aired 10/8/1985
Maddie learns through the near-suicide of a friend where her embezzling accountant has fled to and immediately flies after him, determined to get her money back.
#18 - Twas the Episode Before Christmas
Season 2 - Episode 10 - Aired 12/17/1985
Ms. Dipesto finds a baby left in her apartment by a woman named Mary fleeing from the hit men who killed her husband, and Dave and Maddie quarrel over using the agency phones as a "Santa hot line."
#19 - Blonde on Blonde (1)
Season 3 - Episode 11 - Aired 2/3/1987
Maddie's strange mood has David worried so he spends the evening following her, but ends up involved in a murder.
#20 - Yours, Very Deadly
Season 3 - Episode 4 - Aired 10/28/1986
Dave and Maddie are hired by a married woman to find the man she has been sharing a torrid romantic correspondence with and make sure he understands the arrangement is over.
#21 - Portrait of Maddie
Season 2 - Episode 8 - Aired 11/26/1985
Maddie becomes obsessed by the portrait done of her by an artist she never knew and who killed himself upon completing it.
#22 - Los Dos DiPestos
Season 4 - Episode 8 - Aired 1/5/1988
Ms. Dipesto's mother returns from a visit to Mexico carrying more than she realizes and becomes the target for several different parties.
#23 - Knowing Her
Season 2 - Episode 6 - Aired 11/12/1985
Maddie fears David's old flame is using him when she returns and asks him for help with a bad marriage.
#24 - The Next Murder You Hear
Season 1 - Episode 4 - Aired 3/19/1985
Maddie becomes infatuated with a radio talk-show host who has apparently been murdered while he was on the air.
#25 - The Murder's in the Mail
Season 1 - Episode 6 - Aired 4/2/1985
Dave and Maddie find a dead body as they try to collect money for a collection agency, but it disappears without a trace when they try to report it.