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The Best Episodes of Moonlighting Season 2

Every episode of Moonlighting Season 2 ranked from best to worst. Discover the Best Episodes of Moonlighting Season 2!

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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.

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  1. #1 Fan Favorite
    Moonlighting Season 2 Episode 1 - Brother, Can You Spare a Blonde?
    7.5/10(430 votes)

    #1 - Brother, Can You Spare a Blonde?

    S2:E1

    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.

    Director:Peter Werner
    Writer:Glenn Gordon Caron

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  2. Moonlighting Season 2 Episode 2 - The Lady in the Iron Mask
    7.7/10(425 votes)

    #2 - The Lady in the Iron Mask

    S2:E2

    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.

    Director:Christopher Leitch
    Writer:Roger Director

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  3. Moonlighting Season 2 Episode 3 - Money Talks, Maddie Walks
    7.3/10(371 votes)

    #3 - Money Talks, Maddie Walks

    S2:E3

    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.

    Director:Christian I. Nyby II
    Writers:Ali Marie Matheson, Kerry Ehrin

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  4. Moonlighting Season 2 Episode 4 - The Dream Sequence Always Rings Twice
    8.4/10(588 votes)

    #4 - The Dream Sequence Always Rings Twice

    S2:E4

    Dave and Maddie each dream their own solutions to an unsolved 1946 murder case after hearing the story while finishing an investigation.

    Director:Peter Werner
    Writers:Debra Frank, Carl Sautter

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  5. Moonlighting Season 2 Episode 5 - My Fair David
    7.4/10(372 votes)

    #5 - My Fair David

    S2:E5

    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.

    Director:Will Mackenzie
    Writer:Bruce Franklin Singer

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  6. Moonlighting Season 2 Episode 6 - Knowing Her
    7.6/10(372 votes)

    #6 - Knowing Her

    S2:E6

    Maddie fears David's old flame is using him when she returns and asks him for help with a bad marriage.

    Director:Peter Werner
    Writers:Ron Osborn, Jeff Reno

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  7. Moonlighting Season 2 Episode 7 - Somewhere Under the Rainbow
    7.2/10(373 votes)

    #7 - Somewhere Under the Rainbow

    S2:E7

    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.

    Director:Peter Crane
    Writers:Debra Frank, Carl Sautter

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  8. Moonlighting Season 2 Episode 8 - Portrait of Maddie
    7.2/10(330 votes)

    #8 - Portrait of Maddie

    S2:E8

    Maddie becomes obsessed by the portrait done of her by an artist she never knew and who killed himself upon completing it.

    Director:Peter Werner
    Writers:Ali Marie Matheson, Kerry Ehrin

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  9. Moonlighting Season 2 Episode 9 - Atlas Belched
    7.3/10(315 votes)

    #9 - Atlas Belched

    S2:E9

    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.

    Director:Christian I. Nyby II
    Writer:Roger Director

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  10. Moonlighting Season 2 Episode 10 - Twas the Episode Before Christmas
    7.7/10(385 votes)

    #10 - Twas the Episode Before Christmas

    S2:E10

    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."

    Director:Peter Werner
    Writer:Glenn Gordon Caron

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  11. Moonlighting Season 2 Episode 11 - The Bride of Tupperman
    7.4/10(313 votes)

    #11 - The Bride of Tupperman

    S2:E11

    Dave and Maddie compete to fulfill their client's unusual request: find him a possible mate fitting his very specific requirements.

    Directors:Will Mackenzie, Christian I. Nyby II
    Writers:Ron Osborn, Jeff Reno

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  12. Moonlighting Season 2 Episode 12 - North by North Dipesto
    7.3/10(317 votes)

    #12 - North by North Dipesto

    S2:E12

    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.

    Director:Christopher Hibler
    Writers:Debra Frank, Carl Sautter

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  13. Moonlighting Season 2 Episode 13 - In God We Strongly Suspect
    7.3/10(300 votes)

    #13 - In God We Strongly Suspect

    S2:E13

    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.

    Director:Will Mackenzie
    Writer:Scott S. Gorden

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  14. Moonlighting Season 2 Episode 14 - Every Daughter's Father Is a Virgin
    7.7/10(307 votes)

    #14 - Every Daughter's Father Is a Virgin

    S2:E14

    Maddie worries about her parents' strange behavior, so Dave tails her father to see if he's having an affair.

    Director:Christopher Hibler
    Writers:Debra Frank, Bruce Franklin Singer

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  15. Moonlighting Season 2 Episode 15 - Witness for the Execution
    7.5/10(311 votes)

    #15 - Witness for the Execution

    S2:E15

    A sick old man asks Dave and Maddie to be the "expert" witnesses at his murder.

    Director:Paul Krasny
    Writers:Ron Osborn, Jeff Reno

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  16. Moonlighting Season 2 Episode 16 - Sleep Talkin' Guy
    7.4/10(301 votes)

    #16 - Sleep Talkin' Guy

    S2:E16

    Dave uses information passed on to him from a prostitute with an important client who talks in his sleep to solve several big cases.

    Director:Christopher Hibler
    Writers:Debra Frank, Carl Sautter

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  17. Moonlighting Season 2 Episode 17 - Funeral for a Door Nail
    7.4/10(287 votes)

    #17 - Funeral for a Door Nail

    S2:E17

    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.

    Director:Allan Arkush
    Writers:Ron Osborn, Charles H. Eglee, Jeff Reno, Jonathan Lemkin

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  18. Moonlighting Season 2 Episode 18 - Camille
    6.8/10(350 votes)

    #18 - Camille

    S2:E18

    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.

    Director:Peter Werner
    Writer:Roger Director

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Season 2 Ratings Summary

"Brother, Can You Spare a Blonde?" is the best rated episode of "Moonlighting" season 2. It scored 7.5/10 based on 430 votes. Directed by Peter Werner and written by Glenn Gordon Caron, it aired on 9/24/1985. This episode is rated 0.2 points higher than the second-best, "The Lady in the Iron Mask".