I had no interest in this when it was on, and now, after seeing the first season, I'm glad I never did. This has to rank as one of worst shows of its type ever made. Give me Diana Rigg and The Avengers any day over this garbage. First, the two leads have zero in the way of acting ability and Willis is one of the most unattractive men in the history of cinema or TV. I'm speaking in terms of the whole package. He is not only physically repellent but he has all the charm and personality of a trained monkey...and that's an insult to all monkeys. And Cybil should have stuck to modeling, as that is her only (questionable) 'talent'. I don't know if she ever learned how to act, I see she's still working in TV, but here she has zero like her co- star. The attempts at humorous repartee are pathetic. I literally wanted to punch Willis' lights out every time he opened his mouth, and I'm not a violent person. As to the stories, they are limp, pathetic, and totally uninteresting. A TOTAL WASTE OF TIME!!!

OK, maybe Unbreakable is near it as far as roles he should have ran like the wind from, other than that, the worst crap he ever acted in.His role reads like it was written by failed middle aged woman who has no concept of real relationships between men and women. Perhaps woman that married guy she did not really click with and reads romance novels.His character is a WEAK man. They went for type of a guy that never really grew up, would be good with children, is sensitive ... in other words shallow dream of a lonely woman, a beta, not a real man at all and not what mentally well adjusted woman would want.I hated the show, my wife hated the show, my sister hated the show, my mother hated the show, and I could not find a single person on my FB friends list who could say a nice thing about this piece of crap.Receptionist character is horrible too. Nobody sane would stay 5 minutes in room with her.Cybil's character is just typical failure of a lonely middle aged woman who still thinks she has it, when she lost it long time ago.Very unmemorable show, which is why after 30 years there are so few votes on it.My personal biggest objection is amount of breaking fourth wall they do. It felt like cheap comedy act that gets boo'd, not something starring Bruce Willis. Disappointing!

This is one of the best shows ever!! Certainly,one of ABC's most excellent in it's history!! How original!! How creative!! How likable!! and last, but certainly not least, HOW TALENTED!!.. Dave (Bruce Willis) and Maddie (Cybil Shepherd) have had tremendous careers, yet, surprisingly enough, the television show "Moonlighting" could be what they are best known for!! The unorthodox originality of this series astutely amused the television audience for four years.. It was a very "Guy" program that really appealed to women as well!! Bruce Willis is a box office legend now!! Back then, his career not exactly thriving, he was on the verge of being a bar-back at a Los Angeles Nightclub, until, he was chosen for the role of Dave on "Moonlighting" !!! Cybil Shepherd, originally became known for her beauty, this started with the sultry notoriety she attained in the movie "Taxi Driver"!! When cast for "Moonlighting" she became enormously popular on this T.V. Show!! Two famous lines of Cybil's which have left an indelible impression on me are: 1)"I like having money, I don't like to have to balance a checkbook" and, 2) "So go back to your pathetic life!!" (The second one not was said on "Moonlighting") Everything on this show was a joke and a half, nothing was serious, in fact, in so many episodes, Maddie's seriousness was the most convincing form of comic relief to the entire genre of this series!!! "Moonlighting" engaged in the dramatic use of "asides" to the television audience as a way of cultivating a camaraderie with the small screen viewer... It was very effective!!! You had to like Bruce Willis in this T.V. Show, or else, there was something wrong with you!! When someone is likable, they have an enormous leverage over those who like him!! The 1980's was a period for resumed innocence, nefarious chicanery always assumed a playful demeanor!! This flippant and auspicious approach of deliberate insincerity, gave the "Eighties Man" a tailor made invitation to be new and improved, yet, he could still be a "Guy"!! Nothing was normal about "Moonlighting" including the fact that it was one of the best television shows ever made... The theme song to "Moonlighting", by Al Jareau, was very popular!! You want conventionalism, you are not going to get it with "Moonlighting" this show was about as conventional as playing Calypso Music at a funeral!!

Let me tell you the sad story of an innovative TV show that had a lot of promise. It featured one of the hottest blonde bombshells of the time and it launched her male lead into eventual stardom. It was an off-the-wall show about two unlikely people becoming reluctant partners in a detective agency that is about to go bankrupt because former model Madelyn Hayes's (sexy Cybill Shephard) accountant took her money and ran. This show was different, in that you didn't know whether it was supposed to be a romantic comedy or a detective show. It turned out being both. It was off-the-wall with some of the cases they took and with these inside jokes they did. The charm of this show was that it looked like something you would see in a MAD magazine.(My personal favorite: "You can't barge in there like that!" ADDISON: Oh, no? Tell that to the script writers.By the way, WHAT SCRIPT WRITERS? One reason for the show's demise, I think, was that people got tired of waiting for the script writers to come up with something new. They kept showing the same two episodes a season over and over. This was a show with a lot of promise and because of infighting among the cast and crew and lazy script writers, it crashed. The few scripts that did come out were great, very innovative, and different. Two people learning how to be detectives on the fly was a pretty good idea. Just when you thought they knew what they were doing, they would screw up. This stuff was hilarious, and the stories kept your interest as well. A shame such a great show suffered such a sad fate because the people involved with it didn't know what to do with it.