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★ 7.5/10•1985•46m•TV-PG•Comedy•Drama•Mystery
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Detectives with a heart

After being duped and going bankrupt, model Maddie is convinced by David to become a partner in a detective agency. Together they solve various cases, while getting comfortable with each other.

Roger Director · Writer

Glenn Gordon Caron · Creator

StatusEnded
Runtime46m
LanguageEN
First Air DateMar 3, 1985

Episodes

Episode 1 - PilotE193m

Pilot

After an embezzling accountant leaves her penniless, ex-model Maddie Hayes decides to sell the few failing businesses she still owns, among them a detective agency. But private eye David Addison wants to keeps his job, so he persuades a reluctant Maddie to form a partnership. Their first case gives them little to go on: Maddie gets a broken watch from a dying man.

Mar 3, 1985

Episode 2 - Gunfight at the So-So CorralE249m

Gunfight at the So-So Corral

Dave and Maddie face a difficult situation when they have to tell their client that the son he hired them to find is a notorious contract killer.

Mar 5, 1985

Episode 3 - Read the Mind... See the MovieE346m

Read the Mind... See the Movie

Maddie believes that a client's design secrets are being pilfered from the astral plane by a psychic.

Mar 12, 1985

Episode 4 - The Next Murder You HearE450m

The Next Murder You Hear

Maddie becomes infatuated with a radio talk-show host who has apparently been murdered while he was on the air.

Mar 19, 1985

Episode 5 - Next Stop MurderE548m

Next Stop Murder

Maddie and Dave get trapped on a train filled with mystery buffs when they try to deliver Agnes on time for her big weekend solving a make-believe murder staged by a famous author.

Mar 26, 1985

Episode 6 - The Murder's in the MailE642m

The Murder's in the Mail

Dave and Maddie find a dead body as they try to collect money for a collection agency, but it disappears without a trace when they try to report it.

Apr 2, 1985

Actors

Cybill Shepherd

Cybill Shepherd

Maddie Hayes

Bruce Willis

Bruce Willis

David Addison

Allyce Beasley

Allyce Beasley

Agnes DiPesto

Curtis Armstrong

Curtis Armstrong

Herbert Viola

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