Moonlighting — Season 5
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 (13)
1. A Womb With a View
9.0Aired 6 December 1988 • 46 min
An angel from above visits Baby Hayes as he waits to be born and gives him the low down on his parents and their relationship.
2. Between a Yuk and a Hard Place
9.3Aired 13 December 1988 • 46 min
Maddie takes on several new cases in an effort to bury her sorrow, including one where a woman is convinced that her husband is still in love with someone from his past.
3. The Color of Maddie
9.0Aired 20 December 1988 • 46 min
Maddie and David struggle to find a new footing for their relationship while working on a case for a woman whose husband of one week returns after a ten year absence.
4. Plastic Fantastic Lovers
9.3Aired 10 January 1989 • 46 min
Maddie and David are hired by a disfigured man who has become a recluse and needs the detectives' help in proving that a plastic surgeon wantonly caused his disfiguration.
5. Shirts and Skins
9.3Aired 17 January 1989 • 46 min
The office divides along gender lines when Maddie takes on a case for a woman who shot her boss for sabotaging her career when she refused his sexual advances.
6. Take My Wife, For Example
9.3Aired 7 February 1989 • 46 min
A ruthless divorce lawyer comes to Blue Moon for help in reconciling a couple she helped split up, and Maddie tries to buy David a present.
7. I See England, I See France, I See Maddie's Netherworld
9.0Aired 14 February 1989 • 46 min
Dave and Maddie keep company with a popular corpse and visit a graveyard when a man seeking a bodyguard drops dead in their office.
8. Those Lips, Those Lies
8.8Aired 2 April 1989 • 46 min
Maddie is sympathetic while David is skeptical when his brother shows up asking for help tracking down his fiancee's former partner, who has absconded with all their company assets.
9. Perfetc
9.0Aired 9 April 1989 • 46 min
Maddie resists, but David plunges ahead when a dying burglar asks for their help in proving he committed the perfect crime 25 years earlier.
10. When Girls Collide (1)
9.0Aired 16 April 1989 • 46 min
David goes beyond the call of duty to help entertain Maddie's cousin Annie, and Maddie realizes that David may be over his obsession with her.
11. In 'N Outlaws
9.0Aired 23 April 1989 • 46 min
Burt pouts and frantically tries to solve the crime when Agnes is forced to miss his family reunion because she won't vote to convict a man of murdering his partner / lover.
12. Eine Kleine Nacht Murder
8.0Aired 30 April 1989 • 46 min
As the sole eyewitness to a murder, Maddie is given police protection. But David suspects that her handsome young bodyguard is setting her up for death.
13. Lunar Eclipse
9.3Aired 14 May 1989 • 46 min
Dave breaks it off with Annie when her husband comes to California, everyone attends the wedding of Burt and Agnes, and the agency closes its doors for a final time as everyone tries to figure out why it all had to end.