VHS : Moonlighting - The Pilot Episode
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starring: Cybill Shepherd, Bruce Willis, Allyce Beasley, Robert Ellenstein, James Karendirected by: Allan Arkush, Artie Mandelberg, Christopher T. Welch, Gerald Perry Finnerman, Jay Daniel
Audience Rating: NR (Not Rated)
Binding: VHS Tape
EAN: 9780764008603
Format: Color, Original recording reissued, Original recording remastered, Special Edition, NTSC
ISBN: 0764008609
Label: Starz / Anchor Bay
Manufacturer: Starz / Anchor Bay
Number Of Items: 1
Publisher: Starz / Anchor Bay
Release Date: January 25, 2000
Running Time: 93 minutes
Sales Rank: 35240
Studio: Starz / Anchor Bay
Theatrical Release Date: March 03, 1985
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Editorial Review:
Amazon.com essential video:
Some television ages well, some doesn't. For every Mary Tyler Moore Show that still rocks, there's a Family Ties that's painfully mired in its era. One would think this would be the case for Moonlighting, the detective series of the mid-1980s starring Cybill Shepherd (on a career rebound) and Bruce Willis (then unknown). The ingredients are all there: '80s fashion, hourlong TV mystery plots, Wayfarer sunglasses... Fortunately--and gloriously--this is not the case. As fresh as it was when it first aired, Moonlighting is a prime example of groundbreaking television at its peak and a timeless lesson in the science of star chemistry. Shepherd, as the ice-queen model Maddie Hayes, and Willis, as the 'do bears bear, do bees be?' hipster-doofus David Addison, were the quintessential match made in hell, thrown together under dubious circumstances. In this pilot episode, Shepherd, having discovered that her accountant has left her broke, proceeds to liquidate her assets, including the City of Angels Detective Agency, headed up by Willis. However, thanks to a dead body that pops out of an elevator, the two pair up to solve a case involving a broken watch and some pilfered Nazi loot, hoping to get some publicity (and cash) for their newly rechristened Blue Moon Investigations. The plot is negligible, involving a dead jogger, a mohawked hit man, and a sadistic henchman, but the mystery was never Moonlighting's selling point--it was the sparring, the swearing, the sparks that Willis and Shepherd created together. Watching these two at their best (before the series slid downhill when they finally slept together), you'll realize that neither has ever been paired with a better costar; they bring out something in each other that's undiluted antagonism mixed with irresistible attraction. Discounting some of Shepherd's fashion choices and hairstyles, and Willis's, well, hair (he had some), this is timeless farce and screwball comedy in the tradition of His Girl Friday, snappily penned by Glenn Gordon Carron. Also featuring Allyce Beasley as rhyming secretary Agnes DiPesto, the only supporting character in the series who could intrude upon the Shepherd-Willis repartee without upsetting their rhythm. --Mark Englehart
Customer Reviews
Average Rating: 
Rating:  - $15 for 1 Episode???
I wanted to get this DVD cause I liked the show but when I noticed that the pilot by itself is more than the whole Season 1 I said forget it. Some idiots on here are asking $41 for it new that is so crazy high I'm not even gonna comment on it. I want to get just this episode for myself but its gonna have to come WAY down in price. Under $10 at least.
Rating:  - FYI
SEASON TWO AND THREE STARTS WITH THE PILOT,SO WHY BY THE PILOT IF YOU DONT HAVE TO????????
Rating: - No flies on Dave and Maddie in the "Moonlighting" pilot
With the first two season of "Moonlighting" now out on DVD, the demand for just the pilot episode will be considerably less than before. But there is still something special about our introduction to Dave and Maddie, especially since it is more fun to remember the beginning of the series than to recall how it all ended. Written by Glen Gordon Caron and directed by Robert Butler, the "Moonlighting" pilot aired as a two-hour television movie on March 3, 1985 (in retrospect the "in like a lion, out ... Read More
Rating: - No Way!!
There's no way I would pay more than $20 for this dvd. I will wait to purchase this. Just like all dvd's this will be released again and with a new digitally remastered transfer. The prices for this is bordering on robbery. Just my 2 cents.
Rating: - THE GREATES NEWS FOR THIS YEAR
MOONLIGHTING SEASONS 1 & 2 ON DVD AS SOON AS I GOT THE EMAIL FOR PREORDER I ORDERED IT
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