Moonlighting: The Pilot
Air Dates: 3 Mar 1985, 6 Aug 1985, 27 Dec 1988
Synopsis:
Maddie Hayes, a wealthy former model, discovers one morning
that her business manager has stolen all the money she has in the
bank. However, it turns out that she still owns some non-liquid
assets – money-losing companies which were maintained as tax
write-offs – one of which is a detective agency run by David Addison.
Maddie meets with him to inform him that the company is to be shut
down, but he tries to persuade her to keep it open by convincing her
that the detective agency can make money. To prove it, David brings
Maddie into a murder case involving a mysterious wristwatch and four
million dollars worth of smuggled diamonds.
Directed by Robert Butler
Written by Glenn Gordon Caron
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Guest Starring:
- Robert Ellenstein (as Heinz)
- Jim MacKrell (as Plastic Surgeon)
- James Karen (as Alan, the attorney)
- Rebecca Stanley (as Susan Kaplan)
- Dennis Lipscomb as Simon
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Co-Starring:
- Frederick Coffin as Pawnbroker
- Mary Hart as Herself
- Henry Sanders as Investigator #1
- Liz Sheridan as Selma
- Dennis Stewart as Blond Mohawk
- Joe Whipp as Investigator #2
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Featuring:
- Jean Adams as Old Lady
- Rachel Bard as Grandma
- Blake Clark as Newsstand Man
- Suzanne Fagan as Female Driver
- Sam Hennings as Jonathan Kaplan
- Joan McMurtrey as Mother
- Ira Rosenstein as Bartender
- John Medici as Andre
- Brian Thompson as Simon's Man
- Tricia Tomicic as Jennifer
- Michael Voletti as Maitre D'
Memorable Dialog and Additional Links:
Music:
- David Addison does Blue Moon on the harmonica. Note that
this is the same song that Maddie-as-Rita performs in the episode
The Dream Sequence Always Rings Twice
- Crazy, performed by Patsy Cline, when David and Maddie
enter the bar
- Since I Fell For You, which is included on the
soundtrack,
except that the version on the soundtrack is performed by Al Jarreau,
from the episode
Blonde on Blonde.
This version is the original, performed by Lenny Welch.
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