Moonlighting: Season 2

1985 · 18 episodes · ★ 9.6

What Season 2 of Moonlighting

Maddie Hayes, a former model left broke after her accountant steals her money, ends up with a Los Angeles detective agency that until then had been used as a tax shelter. The business is run by David Addison, a carefree man who fears losing his job and convinces Maddie to become his partner. Together they take on mystery cases amid rapid-fire banter and a sexual tension she tries to dodge. The cases take them from a kidnapping for ransom to a corpse that must be guarded before cremation, along with an elderly man who plans his own murder. Stars Cybill Shepherd and Bruce Willis.

18episodes

Sep 24, 1985premiered

May 13, 1986latest episode

14.1 hrtotal runtime

Season 2 Episodes

2x01 Brother, Can You Spare a Blonde?
Sep 24, 1985 · 48 min
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.
Directed by: Peter Werner · Written by: Glenn Gordon Caron · Starring: Beau Billingslea, Jonathan Stark, Terry Wills, Charles Rocket
2x02 The Lady in the Iron Mask
Oct 1, 1985 · 45 min
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.
Directed by: Christopher Leitch · Written by: Roger Director · Starring: Paul Willson, Dennis Christopher, Joel Polis, Jim Doughan
2x03 Money Talks, Maddie Walks
Oct 8, 1985 · 47 min
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.
Directed by: Christian I. Nyby II · Written by: Ali Marie Matheson, Kerry Ehrin · Starring: Rick Fitts, Mark Lonow, Charles Seixas, Alan Blumenfeld
2x04 The Dream Sequence Always Rings Twice
Oct 15, 1985 · 49 min
Dave and Maddie each dream their own solutions to an unsolved 1946 murder case after hearing the story while finishing an investigation.
Directed by: Peter Werner · Written by: Debra Frank, Carl Sautter · Starring: Jack Bannon, Orson Welles, Phil Rubenstein, Raleigh Bond
2x05 My Fair David
Oct 29, 1985 · 50 min
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.
Directed by: Will Mackenzie · Written by: Bruce Franklin Singer · Starring: Barbara Bain, Robert Joy, Billy Drago, Will Nye
2x06 Knowing Her
Nov 12, 1985 · 49 min
Maddie fears David's old flame is using him when she returns and asks him for help with a bad marriage.
Directed by: Peter Werner · Written by: Ron Osborn, Jeff Reno · Starring: Richard McGonagle, Tyra Ferrell, Dana Delany, Dianne Turley Travis
2x07 Somewhere Under the Rainbow
Nov 19, 1985 · 47 min
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.
Directed by: Peter Crane · Written by: Debra Frank, Carl Sautter · Starring: David Patrick Kelly, Danny Dayton, Sam Whipple, Robert Alan Browne
2x08 Portrait of Maddie
Nov 26, 1985 · 47 min
Maddie becomes obsessed by the portrait done of her by an artist she never knew and who killed himself upon completing it.
Directed by: Peter Werner · Written by: Ali Marie Matheson, Kerry Ehrin · Starring: Dan Lauria, John Calvin, Paul Rudd, Gary Carlos Cervantes
2x09 Atlas Belched
Dec 10, 1985 · 48 min
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.
Directed by: Christian I. Nyby II · Written by: Roger Director · Starring: Mark Linn-Baker, George Coe, Sid Conrad, Gene Ross
2x10 Twas the Episode Before Christmas
Dec 17, 1985 · 40 min · ★ 8.7
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."
Directed by: Peter Werner · Written by: Glenn Gordon Caron · Starring: Richard Belzer, John Hostetter, Brian Libby, Leslie Wing
2x11 The Bride of Tupperman
Jan 14, 1986 · 49 min
Dave and Maddie compete to fulfill their client's unusual request: find him a possible mate fitting his very specific requirements.
Directed by: Will Mackenzie, Christian I. Nyby II · Written by: Ron Osborn, Jeff Reno · Starring: Sydney Lassick, Julie Hayek, Terri Lynn Doss, Larry Stewart
2x12 North by North Dipesto
Jan 21, 1986 · 48 min
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.
Directed by: Christopher Hibler · Written by: Debra Frank, Carl Sautter · Starring: Jim Haynie, Marshall R. Teague, Charlie Stavola, Bill Marcus
2x13 In God We Strongly Suspect
Feb 11, 1986 · 45 min
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.
Directed by: Will Mackenzie · Written by: Scott S. Gorden · Starring: Eddie Quillan, K Callan, J.A. Preston, F. William Parker
2x14 Every Daughter's Father Is a Virgin
Feb 18, 1986 · 43 min
Maddie worries about her parents' strange behavior, so Dave tails her father to see if he's having an affair.
Directed by: Christopher Hibler · Written by: Debra Frank, Bruce Franklin Singer · Starring: Robert Webber, Eva Marie Saint, Rosanna Huffman, Kate Murtagh
2x15 Witness for the Execution
Mar 11, 1986 · 49 min
A sick old man asks Dave and Maddie to be the "expert" witnesses at his murder.
Directed by Paul Krasny · Written by Ron Osborn, Jeff Reno · Starring Ellen Geer, Michael MacRae, Roberts Blossom, Maurice Sneed
2x16 Sleep Talkin' Guy
Apr 1, 1986 · 49 min
Dave uses information passed on to him from a prostitute with an important client who talks in his sleep to solve several big cases.
Directed by: Christopher Hibler · Written by: Debra Frank, Carl Sautter · Starring: Lisa Blount, David Ankrum, Steven Keats, David Wells
2x17 Funeral for a Door Nail
Apr 29, 1986 · 46 min
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.
Directed by: Allan Arkush · Written by: Ron Osborn, Charles H. Eglee, Jeff Reno · Starring: Leslie Ackerman, Allan Arkush, Granville Van Dusen, Jeffrey DeMunn
2x18 Camille Season Finale
May 13, 1986 · 48 min
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.
Directed by: Peter Werner · Written by: Roger Director · Starring: Judd Nelson, David Paymer, Billy Barty, Edie McClurg