music friday: atomic shakespeare

On this date in 1986, the television series Moonlighting broadcast the episode "Atomic Shakespeare". It featured the regular cast in a version of The Taming of the Shrew. Here, David Addison/Petruchio (Bruce Willis) sings a Rascals' song while Maddie Hayes/Kate (Cybill Shepherd) is tied up.

Comments

[Tomás]

What an episode! That show was such a big deal in our house.

[Steven Rubio]

Our house, too! I spent most of my ten years in the factory working swing shift, which means a decade missing all prime-time TV on Mon-Fri. Moonlighting debuted not long after I finally quit that job. Same with Miami Vice.