Episode 1: The Son Also Rises
1986-09-2346 min
David's estranged father makes a surprise visit to announce his upcoming wedding and to introduce his bride-to-be, who comes as a shock to David.
Season guide
Moonlighting Season 3 — Episodes and Where to Watch
15 episodes · first aired 1986-09-23
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Episode guide
Episode 2: The Man Who Cried Wife
1986-09-3046 min
A man hires Dave and Maddie to find his wife, who's been making mysterious late night phone calls to him, the same wife he's sure he killed and buried in the forest.
Episode 3: Symphony in Knocked Flat
1986-10-1446 min
Dave and Maddie agree to each arrange what they consider to be an ideal evening for the other, but the concert tickets Dave buys from a scalper get them into nothing but trouble.
Episode 4: Yours, Very Deadly
1986-10-2846 min
Dave and Maddie are hired by a married woman to find the man she has been sharing a torrid romantic correspondence with and make sure he understands the arrangement is over.
Episode 5: All Creatures Great and ... Not So Great
1986-11-1146 min
A priest asks Dave and Maddie to find a woman he's become infatuated with during confession and whose latest revelation was her intention to kill herself.
Episode 6: Big Man on Mulberry Street
1986-11-1846 min
Maddie becomes consumed with curiosity when David announces he must fly back to New York to attend the funeral of his former wife's brother.
Episode 7: Atomic Shakespeare
1986-11-2546 min
A boy hoping to watch Moonlighting but forced to study Shakespeare instead daydreams about the cast performing their own version of The Taming of the Shrew complete with Petruchio Dave and Kate Maddie.
Episode 8: It's a Wonderful Job
1986-12-1646 min
A depressed Maddie gets a chance to see what her life and the rest of Blue Moon staff would be like if she had sold the agency as she originally intended.
Episode 9: The Straight Poop
1987-01-0646 min
Rona Barrett investigates the rumors about discord among the principals at the Blue Moon Detective agency.
Episode 10: Poltergeist III—Dipesto Nothing
1987-01-1346 min
Ms. Dipesto tries to solve a haunted house case refused by Dave and Maddie to show Bert Viola that she's just as good a detective as he is.
Episode 11: Blonde on Blonde (1)
1987-02-0346 min
Maddie's strange mood has David worried so he spends the evening following her, but ends up involved in a murder.
Episode 12: Sam & Dave (2)
1987-02-1046 min
Dave and Maddie quarrel over Sam as they keep watch on a man for his mistress, who's convinced he's two-timing her-with his wife.
Episode 13: Maddie's Turn to Cry (3)
1987-03-0346 min
Maddie feels more and more confused about Sam and Dave after an all-night stakeout with Dave ends in an early morning proposal from Sam.
Episode 14: I Am Curious... Maddie (4)
1987-03-3146 min
Sam confronts Dave about Maddie, and tells him he's not good enough for her.
Episode 15: To Heiress Human
1987-05-0546 min
Maddie tries to ignore the previous night as she and David tackle a new case: a woman wants evidence that her fiance loves her and not her father's money.
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