Episode
Moonlighting: The Man Who Cried Wife
Overview
A man hires Dave and Maddie to find his wife, who's been making mysterious late night phone calls to him, the same wife he's sure he killed and buried in the forest.
Details
- Series
- Moonlighting
- Season
- Season 3
- Episode
- Episode 2
- Air date
- 1986-09-30
- Runtime
- 46 min
Episode context
The Man Who Cried Wife is Episode 2 in Season 3 of Moonlighting. It aired on 1986-09-30. The runtime is 46 min.
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Episode 1: The Son Also Rises
David's estranged father makes a surprise visit to announce his upcoming wedding and to introduce his bride-to-be, who comes as a shock to David.
Episode 3: Symphony in Knocked Flat
Dave and Maddie agree to each arrange what they consider to be an ideal evening for the other, but the concert tickets Dave buys from a scalper get them into nothing but trouble.
More episodes from this season
Episode 4: Yours, Very Deadly
Dave and Maddie are hired by a married woman to find the man she has been sharing a torrid romantic correspondence with and make sure he understands the arrangement is over.
Episode 5: All Creatures Great and ... Not So Great
A priest asks Dave and Maddie to find a woman he's become infatuated with during confession and whose latest revelation was her intention to kill herself.
Episode 6: Big Man on Mulberry Street
Maddie becomes consumed with curiosity when David announces he must fly back to New York to attend the funeral of his former wife's brother.
Episode 7: Atomic Shakespeare
A boy hoping to watch Moonlighting but forced to study Shakespeare instead daydreams about the cast performing their own version of The Taming of the Shrew complete with Petruchio Dave and Kate Maddie.
Episode 8: It's a Wonderful Job
A depressed Maddie gets a chance to see what her life and the rest of Blue Moon staff would be like if she had sold the agency as she originally intended.
Episode 9: The Straight Poop
Rona Barrett investigates the rumors about discord among the principals at the Blue Moon Detective agency.
Episode 10: Poltergeist III—Dipesto Nothing
Ms. Dipesto tries to solve a haunted house case refused by Dave and Maddie to show Bert Viola that she's just as good a detective as he is.
Episode 11: Blonde on Blonde (1)
Maddie's strange mood has David worried so he spends the evening following her, but ends up involved in a murder.
Episode 12: Sam & Dave (2)
Dave and Maddie quarrel over Sam as they keep watch on a man for his mistress, who's convinced he's two-timing her-with his wife.
Episode 13: Maddie's Turn to Cry (3)
Maddie feels more and more confused about Sam and Dave after an all-night stakeout with Dave ends in an early morning proposal from Sam.