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Moonlighting Season 1 Episodes
Season 1 Episode Guide
6 Episodes 1985 - 1985
Episode 1
Moonlighting (Pilot)
Sun, Mar 3, 198593 mins
In the pilot for the subsequent series, Madeline 'Maddie' Hayes' a former model, wakes up to find out her accountant has stolen all her money. She still owns some non-liquid assets - money-losing companies (as tax write-offs). One is a detective agency, run by David Addison. Maddie goes to the office and tells him the agency is to be shut down, but he tries persuading her to keep it open by convincing her the detective agency can make money. To prove it, David brings Maddie into a murder case, involving a purloined wristwatch and US$4 million of smuggled diamonds.
Episode 2
Gunfight at the So-So Corral
Tue, Mar 5, 198550 mins
It's Maddie's first day as a detective, all excited, she walks in to find the place dead. The employs just sit there, there are no waiting clients and no ringing phones. When she goes to David telling him how this is hopeless and ready to close down the place, he lies saying they have a client coming in. He then runs to a neighboring agency and Davids a client out of their waiting room. The client is a dying man who wants "Blue Moon" to find his estranged son he has some things he would like to say to him, he also mentions that he might be involved in some shady business. As they go in search of his son the find that he is a contract killer. After they take themselves off the case, they meet the son and find out that he has been dead for a while. The "father" is the best contract killer around and the "son" is headed in that direction and wants to make it official by killing him, "dad" on the other hand knows the pros and cons of the business and wants to pass it on. The two end up in a showdown with Maddie and David in the middle.
Episode 3
Read the Mind... See the Movie
Tue, Mar 12, 198546 mins
Blue Moon have been hired as security consultants for an aerospace firm SRT Industries, which David has not be taking very seriously. However, a rival company Holt Aerospace is still stealing secrets from SRT and Blue Moon were sacked. Maddie is particularly upset as she is a friend of SRT's president's sister. She then goes to work on Preston Holt, in charge of Holt Aerospace. He claims that a psychic is feeding him the information. The psychic denies any involvement but there is much more to his involvement than he is letting on. Maddie and David manage to solve the mystery of what is going, or so they think.
Episode 4
The Next Murder You Hear
Tue, Mar 19, 198550 mins
Paul McCain reigns over late night AM talk radio, KRKD 1040. During the 2:00 to 6:00 o'clock a.m. time slot, listeners could call "The Heartbreak Hotline" at 555-HART to pour out their fears, hopes and dreams. One night, in the midst of a live broadcast, loud, violent staccatos of gunfire burst out across the air, stopping the voice of Paul McCain in mid-sentence. The resulting investigation receives attention and front page headlines; David immediately sees dollar signs; all Maddie sees is they have no client and she turns up her nose at the idea of lonely people calling a stranger on the radio. David insists Blue Moon pursue the case, so the pair visits KRKD. General Manager, Sonny Brezner, tells a story of McCain as a very talented man who was also a loner, a man who received many lucrative job offers but chose to work the night shift. Brezner said McCain could have had the prime daytime slot, but he preferred the dark. Brezner alluded most married men work during the day, their wives were at home alone and McCain had his reasons for wanting his days free. Maddie leaves KRKD with distaste for the meretricious man of the dark. But, as she listens to taped recordings of his show, Maddie is drawn to the man; David, in turn, becomes jealous. The pair look for clues and meet Laura Boyd, the wife of multimillionaire, Arthur Boyd, owner of KRKD. Laura draws her weapon on David and Maddie when she and Brezner catch them in McCain's closet, believing her husband hired them to follow her. Laura Boyd describes her husband as cold and autocratic, a man who owned KRKD and other possessions just as he owned his wife. She candidly admitted she stayed with Arthur Boyd for his money and power. As the investigation progresses, Maddie and David solve some mysteries and learn a little bit more about themselves, in the process.
Episode 5
Next Stop Murder
Tue, Mar 26, 198560 mins
When Ms. DiPesto has won a competition, she is allowed to join a Murder on the Orient Express (1974) inspired crime game in a train created by her favorite crime author. She is accompanied by Maddie and David to central station. Maddie and David miss to leave the train before it starts off and now have to stay on it since it won't stop for the next 24 hours. When a real murder happens, everybody is suspicious and the two detectives have to solve the crime.
Episode 6
The Murder's in the Mail
Tue, Apr 2, 198543 mins
David and Maddie do some moonlighting of their own for a debt collection agency when the agency is short of money. They discover that one of the company's clients has been killed, but when they return with the police, the body has disappeared and a completely different man is at the scene claiming to be the client. This leads the duo to become involved in a CIA investigation, strange clues, international espionage and an assassination plot to kill a very important Chinese man at a banquet. But the main problem is that they haven't got the idea who is the Chinese guy because the only description they got is found in a message that says "a man with the mole on his nose". This leads them to the banquet posing as waiters and trying to solve yet another mystery.
