Moonlighting is a film written and directed by Jerzy Skolimowski in 1982. Films are produced by recording actual people and objects with cameras, or by creating them using animation techniques and/or special effects. ... Jerzy Skolimowski (b. ... 1982 (MCMLXXXII) is a common year starting on Friday of the Gregorian calendar. ...
It stars Jeremy Irons as "Nowak", a Polish builder leading a team working illegally in London. It is set in the early 1980s at the time of the Solidarity protests in Poland. Jeremy Irons Jeremy Irons (born September 19, 1948) is an Oscar winning British actor. ... Part of the London skyline viewed from the South Bank London is the most populous city in the European Union, with an estimated population on 1 January 2005 of 7. ... The 1980s, in its most obvious sense, was the decade between 1980 and 1989. ... Solidarity (Polish Solidarność) is a Polish trade union federation founded in September 1980 at the Gdańsk Shipyards, originally led by Lech Wałęsa. ...
Moonlighting is a television series that first aired on ABC in the United States from 1985 to 1989 with a total of 66 episodes.
Although Moonlighting was a hit in the Nielsen ratings in its early seasons, the show's ratings began to decline after the season three finale, which infamously had Maddie and David consummate their relationship after three years of romantic tension.
Moonlighting is popularly cited as an example of a television show jumping the shark due to the two sleeping together, which many felt destroyed the sexual tension that drove the show.
Moonlighting, an hour-long episodic series which aired on ABC from 1985 to 1989, signaled the emergence of dramedy as a television genre.
A full appreciation of the sophistication of Moonlighting required a level of cultural literacy (both popular and classic) rarely required by prime time television series, which was one reason the series drew accolades from critics early on.
Moonlighting's use of these metatextual practices signifies its recognition of the traditions that have shaped it and its self-conscious comments on its departure from those traditions--characteristics typically attributed to works regarded as highly artistic.
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