Moonlighting
Moonlighting
TV Flash files “Moonlighting” as the hour the catalog opens — Moonlighting (1985–1989) on ABC, season 1, episode 1, aired 1985-03-03, 60 min.
From the desk
How this hour is filed
This leaf is S01E01: listed hour 1 of 67 in the Moonlighting guide, first listed hour of season 1. It aired 1985-03-03 (60 min). No earlier hour is listed in this guide. Next is “Moonlighting” (S01E02).
Ice-blonde tailoring, rumpled charm, a detective agency that is really a two-hander. Style is already the plot.
Viewer FAQ
Where does Moonlighting sit in the Moonlighting guide?
S01E01 is listed hour 1 of 67 — first listed hour of season 1, season 1 episode 1.
When did Moonlighting S01E01 air?
Moonlighting aired 1985-03-03 and is listed at 60 minutes.
Where should I start?
The two-hour premiere for the ice-and-grin contract, then the black-and-white dream hour and Atomic Shakespeare. That is the look book. The cases are the alibi.
In the series
Why this series still plays
Watch it as a two-hander in couture lighting: ice-blonde tailoring, rumpled charm, black-and-white noir as a theme-carpet flex. Peak Moonlighting is the look of will-they. The consummation is the cautionary after-party, and the late delays are the second look.
She walks in like a model who has been told the agency is bankrupt. He grins like the bankruptcy is the joke. March 1985, ABC, a Blue Moon detective agency that is really a two-hander in beautiful clothes. Moonlighting is a look before it is a case: Cybill Shepherd’s Maddie in ice-blonde tailoring, Bruce Willis’s David in rumpled charm that is also a costume, Allyce Beasley’s Ms. DiPesto answering the phone like a musical number. Glenn Gordon Caron built a screwball marriage that had not happened yet. The fourth…
Filed against
- Cybill Shepherd as Maddie Hayes
Cybill Shepherd matched Bruce Willis beat-for-beat as Maddie Hayes on Moonlighting — ice-blonde tailoring, screwball detective chemistry, and a black-and-white dream hour that still photographs as a fashion thesis. Model-to-TV star heat…
- Bruce Willis as David Addison
Bruce Willis grinned Moonlighting into a two-hander in beautiful clothes — rumpled charm as costume, Cybill Shepherd’s ice as architecture, and screwball detective TV dressed like a premiere. The black-and-white dream hour still…
- Allyce Beasley as Ms. DiPesto
Allyce Beasley’s Agnes DiPesto rhymed the Blue Moon office into 1980s sitcom-mystery lore on Moonlighting — reception desk as comic instrument. Fourth-wall chaos needed her earnest melody. TV Flash files her as the scene-stealer who made…
- Curtis Armstrong as Herbert Viola
Curtis Armstrong’s Herbert Viola joined Moonlighting’s Blue Moon chaos — screwball detective will-they with fourth-wall wink and production-chaos lore. Scene-stealing support in 1980s tone-mixing TV. On TV Flash he’s the office energy…