Moonlighting — Season 2
Detectives with a heart
About this season
After being duped and going bankrupt, model Maddie is convinced by David to become a partner in a detective agency. Together they solve various cases, while getting comfortable with each other.
Episodes (18)
1. Brother, Can You Spare a Blonde?
9.0Aired 24 September 1985 • 48 min
Dave's older brother shows up unexpectedly, flashing a big roll of money and determined to impress a bemused Maddie, unaware that he's pursued by a drug dealer who wants his money back.
2. The Lady in the Iron Mask
9.0Aired 1 October 1985 • 45 min
A mysterious veiled woman asks Dave and Maddie to find the man who disfigured her twenty years ago on her wedding day-so she can marry him.
3. Money Talks, Maddie Walks
9.3Aired 8 October 1985 • 47 min
Maddie learns through the near-suicide of a friend where her embezzling accountant has fled to and immediately flies after him, determined to get her money back.
4. The Dream Sequence Always Rings Twice
8.7Aired 15 October 1985 • 49 min
Dave and Maddie each dream their own solutions to an unsolved 1946 murder case after hearing the story while finishing an investigation.
5. My Fair David
9.3Aired 29 October 1985 • 50 min
Maddie bets David that he can't act like a mature responsible professional for one full week while they deliver ransom money for the mother of a kidnapped concert pianist.
6. Knowing Her
9.3Aired 12 November 1985 • 49 min
Maddie fears David's old flame is using him when she returns and asks him for help with a bad marriage.
7. Somewhere Under the Rainbow
9.3Aired 19 November 1985 • 47 min
Dave and Maddie argue over whether to help a young woman who claims to be a leprechaun find the pot of gold she insists her father has hidden for her in Los Angeles.
8. Portrait of Maddie
10.0Aired 26 November 1985 • 47 min
Maddie becomes obsessed by the portrait done of her by an artist she never knew and who killed himself upon completing it.
9. Atlas Belched
10.0Aired 10 December 1985 • 48 min
Dave busies himself finding an important phone index for a hapless young executive while Maddie mulls over an offer to sell the agency to a competitor.
10. Twas the Episode Before Christmas
8.7Aired 17 December 1985 • 40 min
Ms. Dipesto finds a baby left in her apartment by a woman named Mary fleeing from the hit men who killed her husband, and Dave and Maddie quarrel over using the agency phones as a "Santa hot line."
11. The Bride of Tupperman
10.0Aired 14 January 1986 • 49 min
Dave and Maddie compete to fulfill their client's unusual request: find him a possible mate fitting his very specific requirements.
12. North by North Dipesto
10.0Aired 21 January 1986 • 48 min
A restless Ms. Dipesto gets a chance for danger and excitement when she gets a piece of paper from a mysterious man while attending a ball in Dave and Maddie's place.
13. In God We Strongly Suspect
10.0Aired 11 February 1986 • 45 min
Dave and Maddie agree to "corpse-sit" for an escape artist's widow, who believes her dead husband's threats to come back and get even with her.
14. Every Daughter's Father Is a Virgin
10.0Aired 18 February 1986 • 43 min
Maddie worries about her parents' strange behavior, so Dave tails her father to see if he's having an affair.
15. Witness for the Execution
10.0Aired 11 March 1986 • 49 min
A sick old man asks Dave and Maddie to be the "expert" witnesses at his murder.
16. Sleep Talkin' Guy
10.0Aired 1 April 1986 • 49 min
Dave uses information passed on to him from a prostitute with an important client who talks in his sleep to solve several big cases.
17. Funeral for a Door Nail
10.0Aired 29 April 1986 • 46 min
A depressed man hires a hit man to kill him after his wife dies, then desperately seeks Dave and Maddie's help to call him off when he sees his supposedly dead wife alive.
18. Camille
10.0Aired 13 May 1986 • 48 min
Dave hires an unlucky con woman who accidentally became a heroine when she stopped an assassination attempt against a United States senator, but who is still pursued by a determined crooked cop.