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Fetal Attraction - Part One

Season 4 · Episode 127

Sunday, April 12, 2026 • Duration 01:18:53

SYNOPSIS:

As Maddie is packing in her room, her mom walks in surprised to see that she is leaving. Maddie explains that she needs to return to Los Angeles to attempt to work things out.

MOONLIGHTING THE TV SHOW

The show is all about the hit TV Show Moonlighting which aired from 1985 to 1989 starring Bruce Willis and Cybill Shepherd.

Grace Chivell and Shawna Saari take a look at each episode in chronological order from the Pilot to the end of the fifth and final season.

They discuss the direction, the production, the outfits, the lighting, the car chases, and the tumultuous relationship between Maddie Hayes and David Addison.

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Cool Hand Dave - Part One

Season 4 · Episode 118

Sunday, November 2, 2025 • Duration 01:17:00

SYNOPSIS:

Agnes is so excited when she hears the news that Maddie is pregnant. Unfortunately, she can’t keep it to herself for long, and tells Bert. But states in uncertain terms that he is not to tell David.

But Bert can’t help himself and goes straight into David’s office to inform him. David races to the airport to catch a flight to Chicago. In the airport lounge, he is tricked by convict Scott “Mad Dog” Hundley, on his way to prison, and they switch places. He ends up going to jail in Hundley’s place.

Agnes is giving herself a facial when she realizes Bert is below her window with his Uncle Phil’s band, serenading her with the song “Sexual Healing.” She lets him into her apartment and tells him that she is worried because Miss Hayes said that Mr. Addison never showed up in Chicago.

To be continued . .

MOONLIGHTING THE TV SHOW

The show is all about the hit TV Show Moonlighting that aired from 1985 to 1989 starring Bruce Willis and Cybill Shepherd.

Grace Chivell and Shawna Saari take a look at each episode in chronological order from the Pilot to the end of the fifth and final season.

They discuss the direction, the production, the outfits, the lighting, the car chases, and the tumultuous relationship between Maddie Hayes and David Addison.

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MOONLIGHTING COMMUNITY:

Somewhere Under The Rainbow - Part Two

Season 2 · Episode 28

Sunday, May 22, 2022 • Duration 58:15

SYNOPSIS:

A woman is being chased by several men, and hires the agency to protect her. She claims to be a leprechaun and that the men are after her pot of gold.

Maddie does not want to take the case, as she believes the woman needs psychiatric help, but David decides to take the case anyway.

The "Pot Of Gold" turns out to be money that was stolen from a bank in Ireland by the woman's father many years earlier.

They finally locate the “Pot Of Gold” just where the woman said it would be and now she has to find a way to flee the country with it. Or does she?

MOONLIGHTING THE TV SHOW

The show is all about the hit TV Show Moonlighting which aired from 1985 to 1989 starring Bruce Willis and Cybill Shepherd.

Grace Chivell and Shawna Saari take a look at each episode in chronological order from the Pilot to the end of the fifth and final season.

They discuss the direction, the production, the outfits, the lighting, the car chases, and the tumultuous relationship between Maddie Hayes and David Addison.

FOR MORE INFORMATION:

MOONLIGHTING COMMUNITY:

Somewhere Under The Rainbow - Part One

Season 2 · Episode 27

Sunday, May 15, 2022 • Duration 58:47

SYNOPSIS:

A woman is being chased by several men, and hires the agency to protect her. She claims to be a leprechaun and that the men are after her pot of gold.

Maddie does not want to take the case, as she believes the woman needs psychiatric help, but David decides to take the case anyway.

The "Pot Of Gold" turns out to be money that was stolen from a bank in Ireland by the woman's father many years earlier.

They finally locate the “Pot Of Gold” just where the woman said it would be and now she has to find a way to flee the country with it. Or does she?

MOONLIGHTING THE TV SHOW

The show is all about the hit TV Show Moonlighting which aired from 1985 to 1989 starring Bruce Willis and Cybill Shepherd.

Grace Chivell and Shawna Saari take a look at each episode in chronological order from the Pilot to the end of the fifth and final season.

They discuss the direction, the production, the outfits, the lighting, the car chases, and the tumultuous relationship between Maddie Hayes and David Addison.

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Knowing Her - Part Two

Season 2 · Episode 26

Sunday, May 1, 2022 • Duration 01:06:56

SYNOPSIS:

Maddie has a bad morning trying to change her flat tyre in the rain. After she arrives at the office, a wealthy client called Gillian Armstrong, played by Dana Delaney, walks into Blue Moon and asks Maddie to find the locket that her grandmother gave her that has been stolen from her hotel room.

David walks in stunned when he sees the client because he used to be in a relationship with her. Blinded by his emotions for Gillian, David begins to suspect that her estranged husband is trying to kill her when she is in a series of apparent accidents, one of which he witnesses.

Gillian shoots her husband during a confrontation in his car. This is witnessed by David who confirms with the police that it was a matter of self-defense. However, Maddie is not convinced.

MOONLIGHTING THE TV SHOW

The show is all about the hit TV Show Moonlighting which aired from 1985 to 1989 starring Bruce Willis and Cybill Shepherd.

Grace Chivell and Shawna Saari take a look at each episode in chronological order from the Pilot to the end of the fifth and final season.

They discuss the direction, the production, the outfits, the lighting, the car chases, and the tumultuous relationship between Maddie Hayes and David Addison.

FOR MORE INFORMATION:

MOONLIGHTING COMMUNITY:

Knowing Her - Part One

Season 2 · Episode 25

Sunday, April 24, 2022 • Duration 01:08:19

SYNOPSIS:

Gillian shoots her husband during a confrontation in his car. This is witnessed by David who confirms with the police that it was a matter of self-defense. However, Maddie is not convinced.

MOONLIGHTING THE TV SHOW

The show is all about the hit TV Show Moonlighting which aired from 1985 to 1989 starring Bruce Willis and Cybill Shepherd.

Grace Chivell and Shawna Saari take a look at each episode in chronological order from the Pilot to the end of the fifth and final season.

They discuss the direction, the production, the outfits, the lighting, the car chases, and the tumultuous relationship between Maddie Hayes and David Addison.

FOR MORE INFORMATION:

MOONLIGHTING COMMUNITY:

My Fair David - Part Two

Season 2 · Episode 24

Sunday, April 10, 2022 • Duration 01:08:39

SYNOPSIS:

After Maddie walks in on a limbo contest in the office between David and her employees, she has a wager with David that he can’t behave like a mature adult for one week.

If he loses, he must fire two employees, whereas if she loses she must limbo in front of all the staff and pay David $3000. A vvery rich client walks in, a woman whose stepson, who is a gifted concert pianist, has been kidnapped and the kidnappers want $100,000 for the return of her son. She has come to them so that they can negotiate for her son’s life with built-in incentives for them if they get him back cheaply. When they go to drop off the money, they find out that her son is the actual kidnapper. However, they are both shocked to find that he has been kidnapped again the very next day. The effort to act so maturely takes its toll on David, which in turn changes the office atmosphere for the worse, as all the employees turn against Maddie. This episode was pre-empted by the third game of the 1985 World Series on October 22, 1985.

GUEST STARS:

Barbara Bain

Robert Joy

MOONLIGHTING THE TV SHOW

The show is all about the hit TV Show Moonlighting which aired from 1985 to 1989 starring Bruce Willis and Cybill Shepherd.

Grace Chivell and Shawna Saari take a look at each episode in chronological order from the Pilot to the end of the fifth and final season.

They discuss the direction, the production, the outfits, the lighting, the car chases, and the tumultuous relationship between Maddie Hayes and David Addison.

FOR MORE INFORMATION:

MOONLIGHTING COMMUNITY:

My Fair David - Part One

Season 2 · Episode 23

Sunday, April 3, 2022 • Duration 01:15:19

SYNOPSIS:

After Maddie walks in on a limbo contest in the office between David and her employees, she has a wager with David that he can’t behave like a mature adult for one week.

GUEST STARS:

Barbara Bain

Robert Joy

MOONLIGHTING THE TV SHOW

The show is all about the hit TV Show Moonlighting which aired from 1985 to 1989 starring Bruce Willis and Cybill Shepherd.

Grace Chivell and Shawna Saari take a look at each episode in chronological order from the Pilot to the end of the fifth and final season.

They discuss the direction, the production, the outfits, the lighting, the car chases, and the tumultuous relationship between Maddie Hayes and David Addison.

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The Dream Sequence Always Rings Twice - Part 2

Season 2 · Episode 22

Sunday, March 27, 2022 • Duration 01:14:26

SYNOPSIS:

This iconic episode is a tribute to 1940s film noir, shot mostly in black and white from approximately 12 minutes into the episode. It was mainly shot on location at the Aquarius Theatre.

Maddie and David learn of a murder committed at a 1940s nightclub, by the current owner. Each dream the role of the convicted murderer and the circumstances leading to the crime, but each dream sequence is coloured by the bias of the dreamer.

Cybill Shepherd performs the Big Band songs “Blue Moon" and "I Told You I Love Ya, Now Get Out!"

Orson Welles introduces the episode to alleviate the viewers' concerns about when the episode turns to black and white and that there is nothing wrong with their television set.

This was his last performance which was filmed exactly one week before his death.

Guest Stars:

Orson Welles

Jack Bannon

Phil Rubenstein

Raleigh Bond

MOONLIGHTING THE TV SHOW

The show is all about the hit TV Show Moonlighting which aired from 1985 to 1989 starring Bruce Willis and Cybill Shepherd.

Grace Chivell and Shawna Saari take a look at each episode in chronological order from the Pilot to the end of the fifth and final season.

They discuss the direction, the production, the outfits, the lighting, the car chases, and the tumultuous relationship between Maddie Hayes and David Addison.

FOR MORE INFORMATION: