--- description: Breaking news and analysis from time.com. Politics, world news, photos, video, tech reviews, health, science, and entertainment news. title: Moonlighting image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt16a77e7e0bff4c8b/69869f2b361760fce590d6a5/t100_tv_moonlighting1.jpg?branch=production&width=2400&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 --- Aug 12, 2014 # _Moonlighting_ by [TIME Staff](/author/time-staff/) ## TIME Staff Update your preferences in [Account Settings](/account/preferences/) Close  Everett _Moonlighting_ was a show about solving crimes in the same way that _Cheers_ was a show about mixing drinks. The draw of this romantic dramedy was the screwball interplay between cocky private eye David Addison (Bruce Willis) and tough-talking ex-model Maddie Hayes (Cybill Shepherd). Their on-again, off-again relationship—which, like most such TV romances, was best when it was off-again—was by far the show’s most intriguing mystery. But the greatest attraction was the show’s flights of fancy: musical episodes, takeoffs on _The Honeymooners_ and _The Taming of the Shrew_ and the occasional fantasy sequence involving Dr. Joyce Brothers and Ray Charles. The show’s on-screen bickering was reflected in backstage chaos, and viewers drifted away after a couple seasons, but it was a crazy love affair while it lasted. [Get This TV Series](http://www.amazon.com/dp/B0007XBMA2/?tag=timecom-20 "undefined") ```json [{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"Article","@id":"https://time.com/collections/all-time-100-tv-shows/3103656/moonlighting/","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://time.com/collections/all-time-100-tv-shows/3103656/moonlighting/"},"headline":"Moonlighting","datePublished":"2014-08-12T14:49:47.000Z","dateModified":"2026-03-02T23:01:31.423Z","description":"","url":"https://time.com/collections/all-time-100-tv-shows/3103656/moonlighting/","keywords":["Comedy","Romance","drama"],"thumbnailUrl":"https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt16a77e7e0bff4c8b/69869f2b361760fce590d6a5/t100_tv_moonlighting1.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=1200:675&height=675","author":[{"@type":"Person","name":"TIME Staff","jobTitle":null,"url":"https://time.com/author/time-staff/"}],"creator":"TIME Staff","articleSection":"","image":[{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt16a77e7e0bff4c8b/69869f2b361760fce590d6a5/t100_tv_moonlighting1.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=1200:675&height=675","width":1200,"height":675}],"publisher":{"@type":"Organization","name":"Time","url":"https://time.com/","logo":{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://time.com/images/logo.png","width":528,"height":156},"foundingDate":"March 3, 1923","sameAs":["https://www.facebook.com/time","https://www.instagram.com/time/?hl=en","https://twitter.com/time","https://www.pinterest.com/timemagazine"]}},{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"BreadcrumbList","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"item":{"@id":"https://time.com/collections/all-time-100-tv-shows/3103656/moonlighting/","name":"Moonlighting"}}]},{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"VideoObject","name":"Moonlighting","description":"The draw of this romantic dramedy was the screwball interplay between cocky private eye David Addison and tough-talking ex-model Maddie Hayes","thumbnailUrl":"https://cdn.jwplayer.com/v2/media/otgr1zNH/poster.jpg?width=720","uploadDate":"2007-09-04T21:56:35.000Z","contentUrl":"https://cdn.jwplayer.com/manifests/otgr1zNH.m3u8","embedUrl":"https://time.com/collections/all-time-100-tv-shows/3103656/moonlighting/","duration":"PT29S","potentialAction":{"@type":"SeekToAction","target":"https://time.com/collections/all-time-100-tv-shows/3103656/moonlighting/?jw_start={seek_to_second_number}","startOffset-input":"required name=seek_to_second_number"}}] ```