Moonlighting - It's a Wonderful Job Part 1 of 6

Maddie faces turmoil on Christmas Eve when she insists her employees work. As TV Series with Christmas episodes go, this is one of the absolute best-well written and well acted. It is a good example of why this show was one of the best in it's first two seasons. Also, lot's of TV series have used the plot of It's a Wonderful Life to get a message across, but none have done it as exceptionally well as this. One of my favorites, can you tell?

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Film & Animation

Tags:

• Merry
• Christmas
• Happy
• Holidays

[TinyDancer500]

Fantastic, thank you so much! When this show was running on all cylinders, such as this, it was the best darn thing on the tube, IMHO.

[Christmasfellow2008]

I totally agree with your assessment.

[JASONRJEGAN]

i still have this episode on vhs tape , its over 20 years old now but i still watch it every christmas . its a beautiful piece of television and always makes me think of what could have been .xx

[rockyramirez75]

This opening scene of this video is great to watch to remind you how much life sucked before cell phones.

[mcjazz1232]

Don't you mean 26 years?

[anw510]

Wow! Can't believe it's already been 25 years since this aired. It still looks good now 25 years later.

[amyp923]

25 years to the day that it first aired (according to IMDB 12/16/85) and this is still my favorite Christmas episode of any show, ever. In the first few years after it aired I rewatched this so many timesthat I still remembered huge chunks of dialogue and even how the actors read their lines. Some wonderful writing on this show (but co-writer of this episode Carl Sautter gone too soon, RIP).

[ROSKER48]

any more episodes of moonlighting? I was 11 -13 when i watched this ...i used to love it !

[crazeejimmee]

ANGELYNE!

[fromthesidelines]

Well, 'thinlizzybone', it's supposed to be about a gorgeous ex-fashion model who's partnered with a "hip" private detective in a small agency she originally bought as a tax write-off- and Maddie and David don't always see eye to eye with each other on business and personal affairs, but they DO have a mutual respect for each other, as they slog through various cases and their growing personal relationship. This episode is a nod to "It's A Wonderful Life" {what would life be like WITHOUT Maddie?}.

[thinlizzybone]

What the hell was this show about?

[bjroberts65]

BEST show....EVER!!!

[Goddess7913]

Love this show!!!!!! Why did show like this have to die out 4 B.S.?