Episode
Moonlighting: Between a Yuk and a Hard Place
Overview
Maddie takes on several new cases in an effort to bury her sorrow, including one where a woman is convinced that her husband is still in love with someone from his past.
Details
- Series
- Moonlighting
- Season
- Season 5
- Episode
- Episode 2
- Air date
- 1988-12-13
- Runtime
- 46 min
Episode context
Between a Yuk and a Hard Place is Episode 2 in Season 5 of Moonlighting. It aired on 1988-12-13. The runtime is 46 min.
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Episode 1: A Womb With a View
An angel from above visits Baby Hayes as he waits to be born and gives him the low down on his parents and their relationship.
Episode 3: The Color of Maddie
Maddie and David struggle to find a new footing for their relationship while working on a case for a woman whose husband of one week returns after a ten year absence.
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Episode 4: Plastic Fantastic Lovers
Maddie and David are hired by a disfigured man who has become a recluse and needs the detectives' help in proving that a plastic surgeon wantonly caused his disfiguration.
Episode 5: Shirts and Skins
The office divides along gender lines when Maddie takes on a case for a woman who shot her boss for sabotaging her career when she refused his sexual advances.
Episode 6: Take My Wife, For Example
A ruthless divorce lawyer comes to Blue Moon for help in reconciling a couple she helped split up, and Maddie tries to buy David a present.
Episode 7: I See England, I See France, I See Maddie's Netherworld
Dave and Maddie keep company with a popular corpse and visit a graveyard when a man seeking a bodyguard drops dead in their office.
Episode 8: Those Lips, Those Lies
Maddie is sympathetic while David is skeptical when his brother shows up asking for help tracking down his fiancee's former partner, who has absconded with all their company assets.
Episode 9: Perfetc
Maddie resists, but David plunges ahead when a dying burglar asks for their help in proving he committed the perfect crime 25 years earlier.
Episode 10: When Girls Collide (1)
David goes beyond the call of duty to help entertain Maddie's cousin Annie, and Maddie realizes that David may be over his obsession with her.
Episode 11: In 'N Outlaws
Burt pouts and frantically tries to solve the crime when Agnes is forced to miss his family reunion because she won't vote to convict a man of murdering his partner / lover.
Episode 12: Eine Kleine Nacht Murder
As the sole eyewitness to a murder, Maddie is given police protection. But David suspects that her handsome young bodyguard is setting her up for death.
Episode 13: Lunar Eclipse
Dave breaks it off with Annie when her husband comes to California, everyone attends the wedding of Burt and Agnes, and the agency closes its doors for a final time as everyone tries to figure out why it all had to end.