Episode
Moonlighting: Funeral for a Door Nail
Overview
A depressed man hires a hit man to kill him after his wife dies, then desperately seeks Dave and Maddie's help to call him off when he sees his supposedly dead wife alive.
Details
- Series
- Moonlighting
- Season
- Season 2
- Episode
- Episode 17
- Air date
- 1986-04-29
- Runtime
- 46 min
Episode context
Funeral for a Door Nail is Episode 17 in Season 2 of Moonlighting. It aired on 1986-04-29. The runtime is 46 min.
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