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Moonlighting

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TyneTeas · 27/12/2018 23:55

Remember watching this fondly as a teenager.

Would it stand today or be 'of its time'?

(en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Moonlighting_(TV_series))

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TyneTeas · 27/12/2018 23:56

Clicky link

en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Moonlighting_(TV_series)

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BlackAmericanoNoSugar · 28/12/2018 00:06

I suspect that it would seem very dated today. I loved it at the time, but the storylines were very clunky indeed and I think that the viewing public are more sophisticated with their expectations now.

WowserBowser · 28/12/2018 00:10

It was my favourite programme ever. I watched it repeatedly for years. I was such a big fan that I could over look how shit some of it was Grin

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TyneTeas · 28/12/2018 00:34

Maddy seemed such a strong positive character at the (impressionable teen) time

Don't remember the detail though and suspect it would not be as I remember Sad

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TyneTeas · 28/12/2018 09:37

"Some walk by night
Some fly by day..."

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Rockbird · 28/12/2018 10:01

Loved it. Was a total farce but I don't (don't) care! Always laughed at the way Maddie's high heels morphed into trainers whenever she had to run Xmas Grin

Rockbird · 28/12/2018 10:02

*didnt (don't)

hugoagogo · 28/12/2018 10:06

I absolutely loved it and woe betide my boyfriend if he rang when it was on.
I was obsessed with David and the way they would run away holding hands?!Hmm
not at all sure it would hold up Sad

bruffin · 28/12/2018 10:08

I loved Moonlighting. There was another series created by Glenn Gordan Caron called Now and Again, which only lasted one series because the tv companies didnt know how to classify it. Same quirkiness and had load of fan fiction on line back in the 90s

WowserBowser · 28/12/2018 10:40

My favourite seasons were 2 and 3. It went down hill when Cybill got pregnant and they sent her away to Chicago Sad and when she met Denis Duggan and married him on the train.

And yes to the trainers Grin Cybill was quite bad was really. Oh how I loved them both.

I also had the sound track on tape cassette.

WowserBowser · 28/12/2018 10:40

Bad ass!!! She was bad ass

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TyneTeas · 28/12/2018 11:56
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TheEfficientBaxter · 30/12/2018 20:26

I remember this series fondly.

I always coveted Maddie's house and her BMW.

Bruce Willis, as David, was the first man I seriously lusted after! Blush

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TyneTeas · 30/12/2018 20:38

It was my teen's appreciation of BW in Die Hard that reminded me of him in Moonlighting GrinBlush

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bluebump · 30/12/2018 20:40

I used to love this!

Ali1cedowntherabbithole · 30/12/2018 20:45

Yep - I loved it at the time. Still can’t here “Be my baby” without thinking of that scene, though the slaps don’t stand up at all well with hindsight.

In my defence I was a teenager at the time.

LadyHooHa · 30/12/2018 20:50

OMG. I haven't thought about Moonlighting in donkey's years. But I so wanted them to snog!!!!

TheEfficientBaxter · 30/12/2018 22:47

Is it being shown anywhere on Freeview?

I've only got a VHS tape of the feature-length film that kicked off the first series.

It's the story of how David and Maddie first met, and why they started working together.

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TyneTeas · 31/12/2018 00:16

I think that's us all coming round to yours then Baxter Grin

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dudsville · 31/12/2018 01:07

I binge re-watched the whole thing about 15 yrs ago when recovering from an op. So many scenes come to my mind even still!

ThePonderer · 02/01/2019 17:26

Ah, Moonlighting. When I was a young, wistful, romantic teenager this was my favourite programme. I bought one of those big rectangular clutch bags so I could tuck it under my arms like Maddie Hayes, even though it doesn't look so great if you're accessorising it with an anorak and jeans.

A few years ago I got the complete set of DVDs and I have to say, no, it doesn't really bear up well. Almost every episode contains something wonderful - snappy dialogue, or great physical comedy - but it's just a bit too schmaltzy and heavy-handed.

And after the third season, almost unbearable to watch...

hugoagogo · 03/01/2019 08:06

The pilot is on you tube.Wink

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TyneTeas · 03/01/2019 17:00

Ooooo Grin

(Scared to watch but might have to!)

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DaedricLordSlayer · 03/01/2019 21:10

I was just reading this thread, and reminiscing, whilst scrolling the tv channels, I couldn't believe the coincident that moonlighting is on a now!

But it isn't. sorry, I flicked over all excited and it turns out to be an old British film Sad

Freshprincess · 03/01/2019 21:26

I binged watched most of it on YouTube last year (also after Die Hard rekindled my BW crush).

I think it's still pretty watchable, but obviously very dated. The cases they solve are all a bit daft and don't translate to modern day, not surprisingly as it's the 80s. It would probably be much more serious if they were to remake it now. The last series is terrible, but it's fairly widely acknowledged that they were all phoning it in.

BW is so good in it, shame he never did any more comedy after he became a big action hero.

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