Moonlighting
The Lady in the Iron Mask
TV Flash files “The Lady in the Iron Mask” as hour 9 of 67 in the TV Flash guide — Moonlighting (1985–1989) on ABC, season 2, episode 2, aired 1985-10-01, 60 min.
From the desk
How this hour is filed
This leaf is S02E02: listed hour 9 of 67 in the Moonlighting guide, hour 2 of 18 in season 2. It aired 1985-10-01 (60 min). The listed hour before it is “Brother, Can You Spare a Blonde?” (S02E01). Next is “Money Talks, Maddie Walks” (S02E03).
Catalog log
Broadcast listing — not a TV Flash recap.
A disfigured lady hires Maddie and David to track down the felon who burned her face with acid years ago. The man has been just released from prison and the pair locates him. Once they report to the dame the man turns up killed. Maddie and David tail the lady and find she's behaving oddly.
Viewer FAQ
Where does The Lady in the Iron Mask sit in the Moonlighting guide?
S02E02 is listed hour 9 of 67 — hour 2 of 18 in season 2, season 2 episode 2.
When did Moonlighting S02E02 air?
The Lady in the Iron Mask aired 1985-10-01 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…
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- Allyce Beasley as Ms. DiPesto
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