[1] It centers on Maddie Hayes (Cybill Shepherd), a former model who loses most of her financial assets due to her accountant's embezzlement but unexpectedly finds that she owns a detective agency.
She teams up with cocky, chauvinistic investigator David Addison (Bruce Willis) to run the agency and becomes embroiled in various unusual cases.
[4][5] The show became notorious for failing to have a new episode ready to air each week, due to on-set problems including script issues and friction between actors and producers.
[2][11] After being stripped of most of her financial assets by her embezzling accountant, former model Maddie Hayes discovers that she owns a number of money-losing businesses that were maintained as tax write-offs, including City of Angels detective agency.
This episode is a tribute to 1940s film noir, shot mostly in black and white on location at the Aquarius Theater, called "Flamingo Cove" in the show.
He imagines the regular characters enacting a version of William Shakespeare's play The Taming of the Shrew in period costume and setting but in the style of an episode of the show.