evan@pedsgo.UUCP (Evan Marcus) (01/09/86)
I started watching Moonlighting in the middle of this season, and while I have been able to figure out most the background (she was robbed by her accountant of all her liquid assets, leaving just Blue Moon, her car, and her house and she was forced to work there to make any money), there is one thing I haven't been able to figure. Who is Addison? All I can figure is that he ran the place alone until she showed up, but even that doesn't really make too much sense. Why do they have such a big (incompetent) staff? Also, why doesn't she (Maddie) just go back into modeling? And is there any reason why Miss DiPesto speaks in limericks all the time? Plus, is there anybody who has watched more than one episode and doesn't like the show? Everybody I have spoken to has quickly fallen in love with it. -- NAME: Evan L. Marcus UUCP: ...vax135!petsd!pedsgd!pedsgo!evan USnail: CONCURRENT Computer Corporation (formerly Perkin-Elmer DSG) M/S 308, 106 Apple St., Tinton Falls, NJ 07724 MA BELL:(201) 758-7357 LIVE: "Hey, Evan" QUOTE: I'd rather have this bottle in front of me than a frontal lobotomy.
ma@hropus.UUCP (Miguel Abdo) (01/09/86)
I watched the first run of the show; the movie from which the series was based. You seem to have learned a fare amount about the program on your own. However, I can only provide some background. Addison was, in fact, running the agency on his own; however, he was supposed to lose money so that it could be used as a tax writeoff. When Maddie lost all her money, she wanted to sell the agency, but he convinced her that he could also make money, if that is what she wanted. There was some murder, I don't remember the details, which the two of them solved and therefore she decided to keep the agency. As to why she didn't go back to modeling, maybe she was too old. This is just my opinion as to a good scenario, since I don't recall any mention of it in the show. What I don't get is how when the show first premiered halfway through the 84 season, it seemed to have flopped, and when it was re-released in 85, it became such a popular show. From the few shows I have seen this year, they didn't change the format. Hope I was able to enlighten you. Miguel
lo@harvard.UUCP (Bert S.F. Lo) (01/10/86)
In article <209@hropus.UUCP>, ma@hropus.UUCP (Miguel Abdo) writes: > What I don't get is how when the show first premiered halfway > through the 84 season, it seemed to have flopped, and when it was > re-released in 85, it became such a popular show. From the few > shows I have seen this year, they didn't change the format. > > Miguel Late in the 84-85 season, Moonlighting showed up as a 6 week tester. I don't think ABC intended for it to last beyond that. But when it came out, the TV critics gave it good reviews and someone pleaded for a second chance for the show. So they rebroadcast the 6 episodes during the late summer when no one has anything new on and it came up consistently top 10. So that's how it goes. During the regular season, people refuse to stoop to watching ABC, and in the late summer, when they're all too tired to go out and everything on NBC and CBS is a repeat, they try ABC. That's how shows like Moonlighting can be resuscitated. Unfortunately, shows like Filthy Rich (CBS) also reach normal season prime time this way. By the way, during the initial broadcast, I missed a couple of the episodes. Could anyone who saw them tell me what they were about? I remember the one with the watch and the diamonds, the one with Laura and Paul, the one with the Murder Train and the one that ends with a cream pie fight. ::: :::::: ::: ::: ::: :::: ::: ::: :::: ::: :: ::: :::: :::: :::: ::::::::::::::::::::::::::: Bert S.F. Lo ::::::::::::::::::::::::::: ::::::::::::::::::::::::::: lo@harvard.HARVARD.EDU ::::::::::::::::::::::::::: :::: :::: :::: ::: :: ::: :::: ::: ::: :::: ::: ::: ::: :::::: :::