My Fair David

Episode aired Oct 29, 1985
TV-PG
50m

IMDb RATING

7.4/10

315

YOUR RATING

Bruce Willis and Cybill Shepherd in My Fair David (1985)

Comedy Drama Mystery Romance

A wealthy woman comes to David and Maddie when her son is kidnapped. They are hired to negotiate the price of the ransom and to get her stepson back safely. Things are further complicated wh... Read allA wealthy woman comes to David and Maddie when her son is kidnapped. They are hired to negotiate the price of the ransom and to get her stepson back safely. Things are further complicated when the stepson is kidnapped a second time.A wealthy woman comes to David and Maddie when her son is kidnapped. They are hired to negotiate the price of the ransom and to get her stepson back safely. Things are further complicated when the stepson is kidnapped a second time.

Director
- Will Mackenzie
Writers
- Glenn Gordon Caron
- Bruce Franklin Singer
Stars

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IMDb RATING

7.4/10

315

YOUR RATING

Director
- Will Mackenzie
Writers
- Glenn Gordon Caron
- Bruce Franklin Singer
Stars

See production info at IMDbPro

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Trivia
David says sarcastically to Maddie, "Yeah, you're a regular Jan Murray." Jan Murray (1916-2006) was a Borscht Belt comedian in the 1930s who moved on to perform at Las Vegas venues in the 40s, host game shows in the 50s and 60s, and appear regularly on TV as a panelist and guest star in the 60s through the 80s.

Goofs
The position of a strand of Maddie's necklace changes several times while she is talking to David in the car.

Quotes
Agnes DiPesto: Blue Moon Detective Agency.
[answering the phone]
Agnes DiPesto: Domestic entanglement's our forte. / If he plays around, we'll track him down. / We'll catch him with his fling, take shots of the whole thing. / Black-and-white and color too. Big ones, little ones...

Connections
Featured in The 38th Annual Primetime Emmy Awards (1986)

Soundtracks
Limbo Rock
Written by Kal Mann and Billy Strange
Performed by Chubby Checker and Bruce Willis

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Featured review

9/10

Character beats are so fun, plot doesn't matter...

...and in many ways, this episode is the full realization of the 30s screwball comedy vision of Moonlighting.

Yes, the mechanics of the plot are flawed, clunky. But the character beats are so fun and funny that the plot doesn't matter. This is why it's a 9. The kidnapping-ransom plot is a sideshow, like many of the shenanigans of those 30s films. But the banter and character is 10+. And think about how many shows the reverse is true. How many detective procedurals have you seen where the mystery mechanics are a 10 but the character beats are just OK. So many. And yet any mystery fan will eat it up. But Moonlighting is the reverse. It is character and comedy first, mystery second. And from that perspective this episode is strong, very strong.