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Moonlighting: Maddie Hayes
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Produced by Glen Gordon Caron, Moonlighting featured high-fashion model, Maddie Hayes (played by real-life former high-fashion model Cybill Shepard), and fast-talking private eye David Addison (played by then-unknown Bruce Willis). The series' story began after Maddie's business manager embezzled most of her fortune, leaving her with her house and the Blue Moon Detective Agency, designed by the wily accountant as nothing more than a tax write-off and consisting of detective David Addison and secretary Agnes Dipesto (played by Allyce Beasley). The romantic tension between David--the smart, slovenly, party-animal and womanizer, and Maddie--the beautiful, haute couture-attired, snobbish Maddie lasted for two seasons. After this point complications on and off the set led to a plot line in which Maddie juggled relationships with David and another suitor, briefly married a third man, had the marriage annulled, and suffered a miscarriage.
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Here are the Panels that made up the credits of Moonlighting played at the beginning of each episode. The one on top ran for the first few years (seasons 1-3) and the one on bottom ran the last two years (seasons 4 & 5).In the first panel, each cast member's photo came from a scene in the Pilot. In the second panel, the cast member's photos came from various third season episodes: Sam & Dave, The Son Also Rises, Maddie's Turn to Cry, and Yours Very Deadly, respectively.
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The plot of Moonlighting is simple, model Maddie Hayes (Cybill Shepherd) and detective David Addison (Bruce Willis) come together to set up the Blue Moon Detective Agency as partners, and each week, the two undertake a different case. The charm of the series was the ongoing 'will they or won't they question as to whether the two would finally come together, the wonderful mix between comedy and drama and the quirky moments through all of the five series where the plot broke through that fourth wall, unique for a TV show of it's time.
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It is easy to see why audiences tuned in to Moonlighting between 1985 and 1989. So wrapped up in the emotional adventures of Maddie and David they cared little for the actual storylines; and let’s be fair some of them were hardly stunners, with a few following predictable paths. It was never really about the cases though; it was always about Maddie and David. The war wasn’t out there on the streets; it was in the offices of the Blue Moon detective agency. Maddie and David were always at loggerheads, one always had to be right and one had to be wrong, their values and philosophies on life differed. Maddie was accustomed to success and wealth while David was too cool to care; he lived for the moment and always kept a positive outlook.
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