Moonlighting
Brother, Can You Spare a Blonde?
TV Flash files “Brother, Can You Spare a Blonde?” as the first listed hour of season 2 — Moonlighting (1985–1989) on ABC, season 2, episode 1, aired 1985-09-24, 60 min.
From the desk
How this hour is filed
This leaf is S02E01: listed hour 8 of 67 in the Moonlighting guide, first listed hour of season 2. It aired 1985-09-24 (60 min). The listed hour before it is “The Murder's in the Mail” (S01E07). Next is “The Lady in the Iron Mask” (S02E02).
Viewer FAQ
Where does Brother, Can You Spare a Blonde? sit in the Moonlighting guide?
S02E01 is listed hour 8 of 67 — first listed hour of season 2, season 2 episode 1.
When did Moonlighting S02E01 air?
Brother, Can You Spare a Blonde? aired 1985-09-24 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…