There were only six episodes in the first season, including the two-part pilot, but 18 were produced for the second.

Surely one of the best TV shows of the 1980s, Moonlighting not only made stars of Cybill Shepherd and Bruce Willis but also set the standard for many shows to come, the stars' on-screen chemistry and the wacky writing key to this series' success.David and Maddie try to mend their professional relationship while working on the case of an obsessed suitor. The first season or two was some of the best TV I've ever seen, and I think Atomic Shakespeare and The Dream Sequence Always Rings Twice might be the high points of the entire show. They filmed a majority of an episode in black and white, they would have David and Maddie talk to the camera, and they had Orson Welles give a short preface to an episode (which aired for the first time just days after he died. The plots themselves were often standard mystery fare, things you'd find happening on Murder, She Wrote or some other detective show. Pilot episode of the popular TV show, showing how the unlikely crimefighting partnership of former fashion model Maddie (Cybill Shepherd) and down-at-heel private dick David (Bruce Willis) first came into being.

But as a whole, it was a slow, morose little morality play, with David actually agonizing over Maddie's refusal to stay together, and Maddie's incomprehensible excuses not to stay with David. The actors obviously enjoyed working with each other during the show, and this great episode is perfect for their comments. It was a desperate solution (as admitted by all concerned), and it reaches ridiculous proportions when they even create a Claymation Maddie in Come Back Little Shiksa to interact with David. I don't know if Moonlighting is available on blu but if it is then it would be at the correct speed and should be better picture quality than either version of the DVD. Not only the songs that are an integral part of the show, such as when David Sing Money (That's What I Want) but also the background music.To calculate the overall star rating and percentage breakdown by star, we don’t use a simple average. Entertainment Magpie Limited t/a Music Magpie is authorised and regulated by the Financial Conduct Authority FRN 775278. The banter between the two leads is reminiscent of His Girl Friday with barbed phrases being thrown about throughout the series with devastatingly comic effect. I loved this series so so much when it first aired, and I have the DVD set which strangely I haven’t watched much of. There used to be a game my friends and I would play that goes like this: Think of two single sentence description of a man and a woman, then follow that with "They're both detectives.