Moonlighting: Season 5

1988 · 13 episodes · ★ 9.0

What Season 5 of Moonlighting

Season 5 of Moonlighting has 13 episodes and premiered on December 6, 1988. Here's the complete episode guide with air dates, runtimes and ratings.

13episodes

Dec 6, 1988Released

May 14, 1989latest episode

10 hrtotal runtime

Season 5 Episodes

5x01 A Womb With a View
Dec 6, 1988 · 46 min
An angel from above visits Baby Hayes as he waits to be born and gives him the low down on his parents and their relationship.
Directed by: Jay Daniel · Written by: Glenn Gordon Caron, Charles H. Eglee · Starring: Joseph Maher, Jack Blessing, Sagan Lewis
5x02 Between a Yuk and a Hard Place
Dec 13, 1988 · 46 min
Maddie takes on several new cases in an effort to bury her sorrow, including one where a woman is convinced that her husband is still in love with someone from his past.
Directed by: Dennis Dugan · Written by: Kerry Ehrin · Starring: Cristina Raines, Nicholas Cascone, Jack Blessing, Rod McCary
5x03 The Color of Maddie
Dec 20, 1988 · 46 min
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.
Directing: Artie Mandelberg · Writing: Barbara Hall · Starring: Jack Blessing, Karen Landry, Graham Beckel, Alan McRae
5x04 Plastic Fantastic Lovers
Jan 10, 1989 · 46 min
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.
Directed by: Allan Arkush · Written by: Jerry Stahl · Starring: Michelle Johnson, Stanley DeSantis, Jennifer Tilly, Nicholas Pryor
5x05 Shirts and Skins
Jan 17, 1989 · 46 min
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.
Directed by: Artie Mandelberg · Starring: Jayne Atkinson, Jerry Hauck, Jeff Allin, Jack Blessing
5x06 Take My Wife, For Example
Feb 7, 1989 · 46 min
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.
Directed by: Dennis Dugan · Written by: James Kramer · Starring: Colleen Dewhurst, Lawrence Pressman, James Staley, Jack Blessing
5x07 I See England, I See France, I See Maddie's Netherworld
Feb 14, 1989 · 46 min
Dave and Maddie keep company with a popular corpse and visit a graveyard when a man seeking a bodyguard drops dead in their office.
Directing: Paul Krasny · Writing: Chris Ruppenthal · Starring: Gloria Cromwell, Martin Charles Warner, Martin von Haselberg, Jack Blessing
5x08 Those Lips, Those Lies
Apr 2, 1989 · 46 min
Maddie is sympathetic while David is skeptical when his brother shows up asking for help tracking down his fiancee's former partner, who has absconded with all their company assets.
Directing: Dennis Dugan · Writing: Chris Ruppenthal, James Kramer · Starring: Rita Wilson, Dan Gilvezan, Debra Stipe, Charles Rocket
5x09 Perfetc
Apr 9, 1989 · 46 min
Maddie resists, but David plunges ahead when a dying burglar asks for their help in proving he committed the perfect crime 25 years earlier.
Directed by: Gerald Perry Finnerman · Written by: Chris Ruppenthal, Jerry Stahl, James Kramer · Starring: Cary-Hiroyuki Tagawa, David Ruprecht, Tim Thomerson, Bill Erwin
5x10 When Girls Collide (1)
Apr 16, 1989 · 46 min
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.
Directing: Dennis Dugan · Writing: Merrill Markoe · Starring: Virginia Madsen, Demi Moore, Beverly Sanders, Ron Vernan
5x11 In 'N Outlaws
Apr 23, 1989 · 46 min
Burt pouts and frantically tries to solve the crime when Agnes is forced to miss his family reunion because she won't vote to convict a man of murdering his partner / lover.
Directing: Christopher T. Welch · Writing: Marc Abraham · Starring: Susan French, Val Avery, Eddie Mekka, Patti Deutsch
5x12 Eine Kleine Nacht Murder
Apr 30, 1989 · 46 min · ★ 8.0
As the sole eyewitness to a murder, Maddie is given police protection. But David suspects that her handsome young bodyguard is setting her up for death.
Directing: Jay Daniel · Writing: Barbara Hall · Starring: Virginia Madsen, Jack Blessing, Joseph Hacker, Ray Wise
5x13 Lunar Eclipse Season Finale
May 14, 1989 · 46 min
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.
Directing: Dennis Dugan · Writing: Ron Clark · Starring: James Stephens, Virginia Madsen, Dennis Dugan, George D. Wallace