The WORST episodes of Moonlighting
Every episode of Moonlighting ever, ranked from worst to best by thousands of votes from fans of the show. The worst 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 - A Trip to the Moon
Season 4 - Episode 1 - Aired 9/29/1987
After a month of intimacy, Maddie begins to question just where this relationship with David is headed.
#2 - I See England, I See France, I See Maddie's Netherworld
Season 5 - Episode 7 - Aired 2/14/1989
Dave and Maddie keep company with a popular corpse and visit a graveyard when a man seeking a bodyguard drops dead in their office.
#3 - Shirts and Skins
Season 5 - Episode 5 - Aired 1/17/1989
The office divides along gender lines when Maddie takes on a case for a woman who shot her boss for sabotaging her career when she refused his sexual advances.
#5 - Tracks of My Tears
Season 4 - Episode 10 - Aired 2/2/1988
Maddie returns to Los Angeles by train and spends the time daydreaming about her future and pouring her troubles out to a sympathetic fellow passenger.
#6 - Take My Wife, for Example
Season 5 - Episode 6 - Aired 2/7/1989
A ruthless divorce lawyer comes to Blue Moon for help in reconciling a couple she helped split up, and Maddie tries to buy David a present.
#7 - In 'n Outlaws
Season 5 - Episode 11 - Aired 4/23/1989
Agnes misses Herbert's family reunion when she is called for jury duty. She is the only juror convinced of the defendant's innocence, and the jury is now sequestered until a verdict can be agreed. Herbert is desperate to ensure that Agnes makes it to the reunion so sets out to solve the case himself.
#8 - The Color of Maddie
Season 5 - Episode 3 - Aired 12/20/1988
Maddie and David struggle to find a new footing for their relationship while working on a case for a woman whose husband of one week returns after a ten year absence.
#9 - The Son Also Rises
Season 3 - Episode 1 - Aired 9/23/1986
David's estranged father makes a surprise visit to announce his upcoming wedding and to introduce his bride-to-be, who comes as a shock to David.
#10 - Eine Kleine Nacht Murder
Season 5 - Episode 12 - Aired 4/30/1989
Maddie witnesses a murder and is placed under police protection, but David thinks her bodyguard is crooked and is planning to kill her himself. Annie moves in with David, largely because of the discomfort their relationship is causing Maddie. David goes to Maddie's house to convince her to try to flee from the bad guys, only for a SWAT team to show up and severely damage the house.
#11 - When Girls Collide (1)
Season 5 - Episode 10 - Aired 4/16/1989
David goes beyond the call of duty to help entertain Maddie's cousin Annie, and Maddie realizes that David may be over his obsession with her.
#12 - Plastic Fantastic Lovers
Season 5 - Episode 4 - Aired 1/10/1989
Maddie and David are hired by a disfigured man who has become a recluse and needs the detectives' help in proving that a plastic surgeon wantonly caused his disfiguration.
#13 - The Man Who Cried Wife
Season 3 - Episode 2 - Aired 9/30/1986
A man hires Dave and Maddie to find his wife, who's been making mysterious late night phone calls to him, the same wife he's sure he killed and buried in the forest.
#14 - Sam & Dave (2)
Season 3 - Episode 12 - Aired 2/10/1987
Dave and Maddie quarrel over Sam as they keep watch on a man for his mistress, who's convinced he's two-timing her-with his wife.
#15 - Eek! A Spouse!
Season 4 - Episode 11 - Aired 2/9/1988
Dave is skeptical about the existence of Walter Bishop and bugs Maddie about it as they work on case for a woman who wants to buy off her husband's mistress.
#16 - Atomic Shakespeare
Season 3 - Episode 7 - Aired 11/25/1986
A boy hoping to watch Moonlighting but forced to study Shakespeare instead daydreams about the cast performing their own version of The Taming of the Shrew complete with Petruchio Dave and Kate Maddie.
#17 - The Straight Poop
Season 3 - Episode 9 - Aired 1/6/1987
Rona Barrett investigates the rumors about discord among the principals at the Blue Moon Detective agency.
#18 - Symphony in Knocked Flat
Season 3 - Episode 3 - Aired 10/14/1986
Dave and Maddie agree to each arrange what they consider to be an ideal evening for the other, but the concert tickets Dave buys from a scalper get them into nothing but trouble.
#19 - I am Curious...Maddie (4)
Season 3 - Episode 14 - Aired 3/31/1987
Sam confronts Dave about Maddie, and tells him he's not good enough for her.
#20 - 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.
#21 - Pilot
Season 1 - Episode 1 - Aired 3/3/1985
After an embezzling accountant leaves her penniless, ex-model Maddie Hayes decides to sell the few failing businesses she still owns, among them a detective agency. But private eye David Addison wants to keeps his job, so he persuades a reluctant Maddie to form a partnership. Their first case gives them little to go on: Maddie gets a broken watch from a dying man.
#22 - 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.
#23 - To Heiress Human
Season 3 - Episode 15 - Aired 5/5/1987
Maddie tries to ignore the previous night as she and David tackle a new case: a woman wants evidence that her fiance loves her and not her father's money.
#24 - 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.
