Moonlighting
Funeral for a Door Nail
TV Flash files “Funeral for a Door Nail” as hour 24 of 67 in the TV Flash guide — Moonlighting (1985–1989) on ABC, season 2, episode 17, aired 1986-04-29, 60 min.
From the desk
How this hour is filed
This leaf is S02E17: listed hour 24 of 67 in the Moonlighting guide, hour 17 of 18 in season 2. It aired 1986-04-29 (60 min). The listed hour before it is “Sleep Talkin' Guy” (S02E16). Next is “Camille” (S02E18).
Catalog log
Broadcast listing — not a TV Flash recap.
A distraught man, consumed by sorrow over the accidental death of his wife, pays an anonymous hooker to arrange for his death at the end of three days. He doesn't care where or how. Then, to his shock, he recognises his wife walking on a busy street but loses her in the crowd.
Viewer FAQ
Where does Funeral for a Door Nail sit in the Moonlighting guide?
S02E17 is listed hour 24 of 67 — hour 17 of 18 in season 2, season 2 episode 17.
When did Moonlighting S02E17 air?
Funeral for a Door Nail aired 1986-04-29 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…