The BEST episodes of Moonlighting season 2

Every episode of Moonlighting season 2, ranked from best to worst by thousands of votes from fans of the show. The best episodes of Moonlighting season 2!

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.

Last Updated: 9/11/2024Network: ABC (US)Status: Ended
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In God We Strongly Suspect
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8.55
115 votes

#1 - 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.

Directors: Will Mackenzie
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Atlas Belched
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8.53
125 votes

#2 - 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.

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Sleep Talkin' Guy
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8.52
121 votes

#3 - 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.

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North by North Dipesto
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8.46
119 votes

#4 - 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.

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The Bride of Tupperman
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8.39
121 votes

#5 - 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.

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Somewhere Under the Rainbow
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8.27
131 votes

#6 - 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.

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Funeral for a Door Nail
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8.08
118 votes

#7 - 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.

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Money Talks -- Maddie Walks
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8.07
170 votes

#8 - 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.

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Twas the Episode Before Christmas
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8.07
122 votes

#9 - 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."

Directors: Peter Werner
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Portrait of Maddie
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8.00
125 votes

#10 - 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.

Directors: Peter Werner
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Knowing Her
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7.95
160 votes

#11 - 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.

Directors: Peter Werner
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Brother, Can You Spare a Blonde?
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7.79
214 votes

#12 - Brother, Can You Spare a Blonde?

Season 2 - Episode 1 - Aired 9/24/1985

Dave's older brother shows up unexpectedly, flashing a big roll of money and determined to impress a bemused Maddie, unaware that he's pursued by a drug dealer who wants his money back.

Directors: Peter Werner
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My Fair David
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7.70
168 votes

#13 - My Fair David

Season 2 - Episode 5 - Aired 10/29/1985

Maddie bets David that he can't act like a mature responsible professional for one full week while they deliver ransom money for the mother of a kidnapped concert pianist.

Directors: Will Mackenzie
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Camille
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7.68
117 votes

#14 - Camille

Season 2 - Episode 18 - Aired 5/13/1986

Dave hires an unlucky con woman who accidentally became a heroine when she stopped an assassination attempt against a United States senator, but who is still pursued by a determined crooked cop.

Directors: Peter Werner
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The Dream Sequence Always Rings Twice
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7.65
168 votes

#15 - The Dream Sequence Always Rings Twice

Season 2 - Episode 4 - Aired 10/15/1985

Dave and Maddie each dream their own solutions to an unsolved 1946 murder case after hearing the story while finishing an investigation.

Directors: Peter Werner
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The Lady in the Iron Mask
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7.58
243 votes

#16 - The Lady in the Iron Mask

Season 2 - Episode 2 - Aired 10/1/1985

A mysterious veiled woman asks Dave and Maddie to find the man who disfigured her twenty years ago on her wedding day-so she can marry him.

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Witness for the Execution
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7.50
122 votes

#17 - Witness for the Execution

Season 2 - Episode 15 - Aired 3/11/1986

A sick old man asks Dave and Maddie to be the "expert" witnesses at his murder.

Directors: Paul Krasny
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Every Daughter's Father is a Virgin
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7.43
118 votes

#18 - Every Daughter's Father is a Virgin

Season 2 - Episode 14 - Aired 2/18/1986

Maddie worries about her parents' strange behavior, so Dave tails her father to see if he's having an affair.

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