Moonlighting: Seasons 1 and 2 [6 Discs] (1985) Reviews

Establishing its premise with a two-hour "TV movie" opener, Moonlighting segues swiftly into its first season, which though short (only seven episodes) is very, very sweet, especially whenever stars Cybill Shepherd and Bruce Willis take the viewers into their confidence to assure them that "it's only a TV show" -- and that their characters, fashion model Maddie Hayes and private eye David Addison, are fully aware that they're not real. Business at the Blue Moon Detective Agency is quite brisk if not terribly profitable during season one, beginning with David and Maddie trying to figure out how to tell their client that his long-lost son is a hired killer. In later episodes, Maddie suspects that a designer's secrets are being "telepathically" stolen; a popular talk-show host is apparently murdered in mid-broadcast; and David and Maddie dutifully notify the police that they've stumbled across a dead body, only to have the corpse disappear right under their noses. Perhaps the highlight of the season is an elaborate, inside-joke-laden spoof of Agatha Christie's Murder on the Orient Express, in which David and Maddie find themselves on a train populated exclusively by suspicious-looking detective fiction stereotypes. ~ Rovi