Moonlighting: Season 5
Season 5 Lore Primer
Key plot threads, lore context, and character stakes you need to remember before diving into this season.
- Directly follows the overarching narrative developments of Moonlighting Season 4.
- Faction dynamics and core character alliances shift under escalating external stakes.
- Crucial mysteries introduced previously reach key turning points and narrative reckonings.
- Sets up serialized story arcs that build directly toward the climactic season finale.
Episode Guide
Season 5 Progress Shield
A Womb With a View
Dec 6, 1988 · 46 min
An angel from above visits Baby Hayes as he waits to be born and gives him the low down on his parents and their relationship.
Between a Yuk and a Hard Place
Dec 13, 1988 · 46 min
Maddie takes on several new cases in an effort to bury her sorrow, including one where a woman is convinced that her husband is still in love with someone from his past.
The Color of Maddie
Dec 20, 1988 · 46 min
Maddie and David struggle to find a new footing for their relationship while working on a case for a woman whose husband of one week returns after a ten year absence.
Plastic Fantastic Lovers
Jan 10, 1989 · 46 min
Maddie and David are hired by a disfigured man who has become a recluse and needs the detectives' help in proving that a plastic surgeon wantonly caused his disfiguration.
Shirts and Skins
Jan 17, 1989 · 46 min
The office divides along gender lines when Maddie takes on a case for a woman who shot her boss for sabotaging her career when she refused his sexual advances.
Take My Wife, For Example
Feb 7, 1989 · 46 min
A ruthless divorce lawyer comes to Blue Moon for help in reconciling a couple she helped split up, and Maddie tries to buy David a present.
I See England, I See France, I See Maddie's Netherworld
Feb 14, 1989 · 46 min
Dave and Maddie keep company with a popular corpse and visit a graveyard when a man seeking a bodyguard drops dead in their office.
Those Lips, Those Lies
Apr 2, 1989 · 46 min
Maddie is sympathetic while David is skeptical when his brother shows up asking for help tracking down his fiancee's former partner, who has absconded with all their company assets
Perfetc
Apr 9, 1989 · 46 min
Maddie resists, but David plunges ahead when a dying burglar asks for their help in proving he committed the perfect crime 25 years earlier.
When Girls Collide (1)
Apr 16, 1989 · 46 min
David goes beyond the call of duty to help entertain Maddie's cousin Annie, and Maddie realizes that David may be over his obsession with her.
In 'N Outlaws
Apr 23, 1989 · 46 min
Burt pouts and frantically tries to solve the crime when Agnes is forced to miss his family reunion because she won't vote to convict a man of murdering his partner / lover.
Eine Kleine Nacht Murder
Apr 30, 1989 · 46 min
As the sole eyewitness to a murder, Maddie is given police protection. But David suspects that her handsome young bodyguard is setting her up for death.
Lunar Eclipse
May 14, 1989 · 46 min
Dave breaks it off with Annie when her husband comes to California, everyone attends the wedding of Burt and Agnes, and the agency closes its doors for a final time as everyone tri