TV series
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.
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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.
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Episode 1
Dave's older brother shows up unexpectedly, flashing a big roll of money and determined to impress a bemused Maddie, unaware that he's pursued by a drug dealer who wants his money back.
Directed by Peter WernerWritten by Glenn Gordon CaronGuest stars Beau Billingslea, Jonathan Stark, Terry Wills, Charles Rocket, Ed O'Ross, Russell Hines, Patrick Alan, Adriano Rebora
Episode 2
A mysterious veiled woman asks Dave and Maddie to find the man who disfigured her twenty years ago on her wedding day-so she can marry him.
Directed by Christopher LeitchWritten by Roger DirectorGuest stars Paul Willson, Dennis Christopher, Joel Polis, Jim Doughan, Judith Hansen, Howard Mann, Richard Kuhlman, C. Thomas Howell
Episode 3
Maddie learns through the near-suicide of a friend where her embezzling accountant has fled to and immediately flies after him, determined to get her money back.
Directed by Christian I. Nyby IIWritten by Ali Marie Matheson, Kerry EhrinGuest stars Rick Fitts, Mark Lonow, Charles Seixas, Alan Blumenfeld, Robert Z'Dar, Anthony Gordon, Tony Giorgio, Anthony Alexander
Episode 4
Dave and Maddie each dream their own solutions to an unsolved 1946 murder case after hearing the story while finishing an investigation.
Directed by Peter WernerWritten by Debra Frank, Carl SautterGuest stars Jack Bannon, Orson Welles, Phil Rubenstein, Raleigh Bond, Francis X. McCarthy, Freeman King, Bill Handy, Nick DeMauro
Episode 5
Maddie bets David that he can't act like a mature responsible professional for one full week while they deliver ransom money for the mother of a kidnapped concert pianist.
Directed by Will MackenzieWritten by Bruce Franklin SingerGuest stars Barbara Bain, Robert Joy, Billy Drago, Will Nye, Irwin Keyes, Jonathan Ames
Episode 6
Maddie fears David's old flame is using him when she returns and asks him for help with a bad marriage.
Directed by Peter WernerWritten by Ron Osborn, Jeff RenoGuest stars Richard McGonagle, Tyra Ferrell, Dana Delany, Dianne Turley Travis, Joel Colodner, Bill Marcus, James A. Williams, Freddie Dawson
Episode 7
Dave and Maddie argue over whether to help a young woman who claims to be a leprechaun find the pot of gold she insists her father has hidden for her in Los Angeles.
Directed by Peter CraneWritten by Debra Frank, Carl Sautter, Frank DandridgeGuest stars David Patrick Kelly, Danny Dayton, Sam Whipple, Robert Alan Browne, Vivian Bonnell, Billy Beck, Alexandra Johnson
Episode 8
Maddie becomes obsessed by the portrait done of her by an artist she never knew and who killed himself upon completing it.
Directed by Peter WernerWritten by Ali Marie Matheson, Kerry EhrinGuest stars Dan Lauria, John Calvin, Paul Rudd, Gary Carlos Cervantes
Episode 9
Dave busies himself finding an important phone index for a hapless young executive while Maddie mulls over an offer to sell the agency to a competitor.
Directed by Christian I. Nyby IIWritten by Roger DirectorGuest stars Mark Linn-Baker, George Coe, Sid Conrad, Gene Ross, J.D. Hall, Mindi Iden, Jeffrey Lampert
Episode 10
Ms. Dipesto finds a baby left in her apartment by a woman named Mary fleeing from the hit men who killed her husband, and Dave and Maddie quarrel over using the agency phones as a "Santa hot line."
Directed by Peter WernerWritten by Glenn Gordon CaronGuest stars Richard Belzer, John Hostetter, Brian Libby, Leslie Wing, James Avery, Daniel Chodos, Ralph Meyering Jr.
Episode 11
Dave and Maddie compete to fulfill their client's unusual request: find him a possible mate fitting his very specific requirements.
Directed by Will Mackenzie, Christian I. Nyby IIWritten by Ron Osborn, Jeff RenoGuest stars Sydney Lassick, Julie Hayek, Terri Lynn Doss, Larry Stewart, Bunny Summers, Nora Heflin, Deborah Wakeham, Lieux Dressler
Episode 12
A restless Ms. Dipesto gets a chance for danger and excitement when she gets a piece of paper from a mysterious man while attending a ball in Dave and Maddie's place.
Directed by Christopher HiblerWritten by Debra Frank, Carl SautterGuest stars Jim Haynie, Marshall R. Teague, Charlie Stavola, Bill Marcus, Douglas Warhit, Bob Goldstein, Joe Carafello, John Durbin
Episode 13
Dave and Maddie agree to "corpse-sit" for an escape artist's widow, who believes her dead husband's threats to come back and get even with her.
Directed by Will MackenzieWritten by Scott S. GordenGuest stars Eddie Quillan, K Callan, J.A. Preston, F. William Parker, Dominic Barto, Hettie Lynne Hurtes, David Ellzey, Barry Cutler
Episode 14
Maddie worries about her parents' strange behavior, so Dave tails her father to see if he's having an affair.
Directed by Christopher HiblerWritten by Debra Frank, Bruce Franklin SingerGuest stars Robert Webber, Eva Marie Saint, Rosanna Huffman, Kate Murtagh, Dante D'Andre, Eduardo Ricard, Tammy Brewer, Alain Saint-Alix
Episode 15
A sick old man asks Dave and Maddie to be the "expert" witnesses at his murder.
Directed by Paul KrasnyWritten by Ron Osborn, Jeff RenoGuest stars Ellen Geer, Michael MacRae, Roberts Blossom, Maurice Sneed, Judith Searle, Corinne Carroll
Episode 16
Dave uses information passed on to him from a prostitute with an important client who talks in his sleep to solve several big cases.
Directed by Christopher HiblerWritten by Debra Frank, Carl SautterGuest stars Lisa Blount, David Ankrum, Steven Keats, David Wells, Frantz Turner, Clinton Allmon
Episode 17
A depressed man hires a hit man to kill him after his wife dies, then desperately seeks Dave and Maddie's help to call him off when he sees his supposedly dead wife alive.
Directed by Allan ArkushWritten by Ron Osborn, Charles H. Eglee, Jeff Reno, Jonathan LemkinGuest stars Leslie Ackerman, Allan Arkush, Granville Van Dusen, Jeffrey DeMunn, Charles Walker, Patty Lotz
Episode 18
Dave hires an unlucky con woman who accidentally became a heroine when she stopped an assassination attempt against a United States senator, but who is still pursued by a determined crooked cop.
Directed by Peter WernerWritten by Roger DirectorGuest stars Judd Nelson, David Paymer, Billy Barty, Edie McClurg, Marianne Muellerleile, Whoopi Goldberg, Gerry Gibson, Leigh Webb
Episode information updated Sep 17, 2026
Cybill ShepherdMaddie Hayes
Bruce WillisDavid Addison
Allyce BeasleyAgnes DiPesto
Curtis ArmstrongHerbert Viola
Virginia MadsenLorraine Anne Charnock
Robert WebberAlexander Hayes
Eva Marie SaintVirginia Hayes
Jack BlessingMacGillicudy
ABCUnited States
ABC Circle FilmsUnited States
