Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #17810 in DVD
• Released on: 2009-06-22
• Rating: Suitable for 12 years and over
• Format: PAL
• Number of discs: 4
• Running time: 663 minutes

Synopsis
Representing the point at which American television reached a level of mature artistry, MOONLIGHTING took the medium to new heights of sophistication while maintaining a sense of light-hearted fun. Fusing the drama and comedy genres while offering convoluted plotlines filled with 'serious' situations and cultural references, the show delivered laughs according to the tropes of more straightforward sitcoms. The show is focused on uncompromising former model Maddie Hayes (Cybill Shepherd, THE LAST PICTURE SHOW), who loses her fortune to an embezzling accountant; all she has left are a few money-losing businesses retained as tax write-offs. Among these is the Blue Moon Detective Agency, which Maddie plans to sell off until the fast-talking detective David Addison (Bruce Willis, DIE HARD, THE SIXTH SENSE, PULP FICTION) convinces her that the business can turn a profit. The two form a partnership, solving the eccentric cases that are forever turning up at Blue Moon. Meanwhile, the wisecracking, smart, but slovenly David and the beautiful, icy, slightly snobbish Maddie navigate the growing romantic tension between them. This release includes every episode from the fourth series of the show.

Customer Reviews

THE DARK BEFORE THE STORM
Oh dear. Dearie me. The worst season of perhaps any TV series ever. Apart from the last two episodes, this series is to be endured rather than enjoyed. Behind the scenes situations should never jeapordise a series to this degree, but this is beyond a joke. Maddie's wedding/divorce, David in prison, the list of dead end pointless stories mount up. There are good points however. The penultimate episode doesn't feature Maddie or David at all and is all the better for it. The final episode "And the Flesh Was Made Word" was the first episode I saw when I was young, and so the slapstick scenes towards the end [including the jokes about the writer's strike] are really nostalgic. But these are small glimmers in a series that had failed to deliver. Series 5 would be miles better, but then, it could hardly be worse.

A Very Ordinary Series 4.
This was one of the shows everyone watched when they were growing up in the '80's. At the time it was screened it was totally original, and I really enjoyed watching it.

I've previously purchased the previous box-sets of the 1 & 2 Seasons and Season 3, which were just as good as I remember them to be, so I was really looking forward to watching this. This series is pretty poor in relation to what has gone before it.

I think the main problem here is the fact that the two main characters have very little screen time together, and as the whole show is built around the tension between the two leading charaters the whole show suffers.

If you want to see David Addison sulking, while trying to find his femine side, or Maddie Hayes searching her inner-self for 10 of these 14 episodes fill your boots.

All you get in the way of DVD extras is selected episode commentary. There's no booklet with the DVD either - It's as if the distributor has given up on this season too.