ABC and
Cybill Shepherd originally wanted him for the role of "David Addison"
in
Moonlighting (1985), but show creator and writer,
Glenn Gordon Caron, rejected him for the
then-unknown
Bruce Willis (both screen test were filmed -- two scenes each
with actress
Mary-Margaret Humes playing "Maddie Hayes" -- on September 7, 1984.)
His screen test, along with
Bruce Willis, appears at the end of the pilot
episode DVD release.