EPISODE
SEASON
Moonlighting - Season 5
Season five of this comedy follows Maddie, a smart model, who makes her mind to partner David, a smart detective, in a detective agency, as they work on solving mysterious cases around the country. In this new season, Maddie works hard to overcome her sorrow.
27 June 1953, Griffin, Georgia, USA
26 October 1956, Los Angeles, California, USA
1948 in Gateshead, County Durham, England, UK
22 October 1946, Boston, Massachusetts, USA
18 June 1923, Newark, New Jersey, USA
11 May 1944, Brooklyn, New York, USA
October 18, 2018
Moonlighting is and was stunningly modern, hilarious and energetic in a still breathtaking way, meta before meta was standard, a social media series before there was social media.
October 18, 2018
Besides the whirlwind of great one-liners, there are the superb running jokes, from the eternally unsolved Anselmo case to ditzy receptionist Agnes answering the phone in rhyming couplets.
October 18, 2018
They were the Katharine Hepburn and Cary Grant of their time, a pairing made all the more delicious by rumours that they fought off-set as well as on it.
October 18, 2018
While the series had plenty of behind-the-scenes strife... it consistently entertained, pioneered the dramedy genre that is so popular today, and regularly broke the fourth wall in innovative ways.
October 18, 2018
Moonlighting is the sort of television show that gave a reason to write about television.
October 19, 2018
The other 12 episodes don't all measure up, but examples of dazzling creativity abound straight through to the head-spinningly metafictional grand finale (featuring Dr. Timothy Leary as himself).
