Night Court (1984)
TVPG
Sitcom
Judge Harry Stone presides over the night shift of a Manhattan courtroom.
Cast & Crew
Harry Anderson Harold T. "Harry" Stone
John Larroquette Dan Fielding
Richard Moll Nostradamus "Bull" Shannon
Markie Post Christine Sullivan
Charles Robinson MacIntosh "Mac" Robinson
Marsha Warfield Rosalind Jane "Roz" Russell
Selma Diamond Selma Hacker
Paula Kelly Liz Willi
Florence Halop Florence Kleiner
Karen Austin Lana Wagner
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Upcoming TV Airings
The airings below are based on a generic national schedule. Times and dates can vary by TV provider.
Friday, July 19
Rock-a-bye Baby
Season 6 • Episode 11
Motherhood loses its appeal when Christine baby-sits a friend's energetic infant.
Friday, July 19
The Trouble Is Not in Your Set
Season 6 • Episode 14
The staff mugs before courtroom TV cameras; guest Marion Ross.
Monday, July 22
Best of Friends
Season 3 • Episode 6
Dan's(John Larroquette) former college buddy (guest star Jim Bailey) has had a sex-change operation.
Monday, July 22
Dan's Boss
Season 3 • Episode 7
Dan is fired when he fails to get along with his diminutive new boss.
Monday, July 22
Up on the Roof
Season 3 • Episode 8
Harry deals with a rock star whose psychiatrist is only interested in the performer's money.
Monday, July 22
Wheels of Justice
Season 3 • Episode 9
Harry feels helpless when he's forced to rule against victims of circumstance.
Monday, July 22
Wheels of Justice
Season 3 • Episode 10
Harry returns to his job after coping with his inability to help a destitute defendant and her son.
Monday, July 22
Walk Away, Renee
Season 3 • Episode 11
Florence discovers that Bull's latest girlfriend is a prostitute.
Monday, July 22
Dan's Escort
Season 3 • Episode 12
Dan second job becomes problematic when the woman he's escorting demands that he sleep with her.
Monday, July 22
The Night Off
Season 3 • Episode 13
A substitute judge arrests the staff when Harry takes a night off.
Monday, July 22
Harry and Leon
Season 3 • Episode 14
Harry becomes a foster father to the courthouse shoeshine boy.
Monday, July 22
The Apartment
Season 3 • Episode 15
Mac's in-laws arrive from Vietnam and move in with him and Quon Le.
Monday, July 22
Leon, We Hardly Knew Ye
Season 3 • Episode 16
Harry loses custody of Leon and bungles a chance to meet Mel Torme.
Monday, July 22
The Muggee
Season 3 • Episode 17
Distraught after being mugged, Christine walks out on her job.
Monday, July 22
Could This Be Magic?
Season 3 • Episode 18
A has-been magician (Carl Ballantine) rejects Harry's advice.
Monday, July 22
Monkey Business
Season 3 • Episode 19
Bull hides an orangutan who has been introduced as evidence in a case.
Monday, July 22
Clip Show
Season 6 • Episode 12
Flashbacks recall how the court staff incurred expenses totaling $954,768.
Monday, July 22
Clip Show
Season 6 • Episode 13
A city auditor tries to investigate some of Harry's more bizarre expenses (via flashbacks).
Tuesday, July 23
The Retirement
Season 3 • Episode 20
Florence faces mandatory retirement from her job as courtroom bailiff.
Tuesday, July 23
The Hurricane
Season 3 • Episode 21
Several expectant mothers are stranded in the courtroom when a hurricane strikes the city.
Tuesday, July 23
The Hurricane
Season 3 • Episode 22
Four expectant mothers are stranded in the courtroom while a hurricane rages outside.
Tuesday, July 23
The Next Voice You Hear...
Season 4 • Episode 1
Harry receives a letter from his mother, who deserted him when he was a child.
Tuesday, July 23
Giving Thanks
Season 4 • Episode 2
Dan asks Christine to sleep with him as repayment for saving her life.
Tuesday, July 23
Author, Author
Season 4 • Episode 3
Bull runs away when his children's story is deemed too frightening for kids.
Tuesday, July 23
Halloween II: The Return of Leon
Season 4 • Episode 4
Leon makes a sudden appearance on Halloween.
Tuesday, July 23
Dan's Operation
Season 4 • Episode 5
Dan collapses when he returns to work too soon after having an operation.
Tuesday, July 23
Dan's Operation
Season 4 • Episode 6
Dan slips into a coma after an amorous former girlfriend pays him a visit in the hospital.
Tuesday, July 23
The New Judge
Season 4 • Episode 7
While Harry is away, the replacement judge offers Dan a bribe.
Tuesday, July 23
Contempt of Courting
Season 4 • Episode 8
A replacement judge (Ann Turkel) jails Christine on contempt charges.
Tuesday, July 23
Earthquake
Season 4 • Episode 9
A minor earthquake leaves Dan, Roz and two sumo wrestlers trapped in an elevator.
Tuesday, July 23
Prince of a Guy
Season 4 • Episode 10
Harry jeopardizes international relations when he refuses to release an island princess.
Tuesday, July 23
New Year's Leave
Season 4 • Episode 11
New Year's Eve brings assorted crazies before Harry.
Tuesday, July 23
The Game Show
Season 6 • Episode 15
Bull is on a game show; a cantankerous judge jails Dan for contempt.
Tuesday, July 23
This Old Man
Season 6 • Episode 16
The staff meets Christine's elderly suitor; an amorous dowager offers Dan a campaign contribution.
Wednesday, July 24
Strange Bedfellows
Season 6 • Episode 17
When Harry finally meets Mel Torme, he gives his idol the flu.
Wednesday, July 24
Pen Pal
Season 6 • Episode 20
Roz falls for Christine's convict pen pal, unaware that he escaped while on furlough.
Thursday, July 25
From Snoop to Nuts
Season 6 • Episode 18
Christine is suspicious when Harry secretly takes part in a government sting operation.
Thursday, July 25
From Snoop to Nuts
Season 6 • Episode 19
Harry's sting operation is successful; potential killers run loose in the courthouse.
Friday, July 26
Not My Type
Season 6 • Episode 21
Art enters reluctant date Christine in his lodge's beauty pageant.
Friday, July 26
Yet Another Day in the Life
Season 6 • Episode 22
Harry and the staff must try the overflow of cases by midnight.
Monday, July 29
Murder
Season 4 • Episode 12
A woman disrupts the court proceedings to confess to murdering her husband.
Monday, July 29
Baby Talk
Season 4 • Episode 13
Financial woes cause Mac to flee from wife and job.
Monday, July 29
The Modest Proposal
Season 4 • Episode 14
Christine shocks her coworkers when she announces that she is getting married.
Monday, July 29
A Day in the Life
Season 4 • Episode 15
Harry and the courtroom staff have until midnight to decide 200 cases.
Monday, July 29
Rabid
Season 4 • Episode 16
Dan faces the possibility of undergoing a rabies test after a stray dog bites him.
Monday, July 29
Christine's Friend
Season 4 • Episode 17
Harry and Dan try to impress Christine's friend. Guest appearance by Mel Torme.
Monday, July 29
Caught Red Handed
Season 4 • Episode 18
Christine's boss (Michael Gross) is accused of sexual harassment.
Monday, July 29
Paternity
Season 4 • Episode 19
A paternity suit names Dan as the father of a precocious 10-year-old.
Monday, July 29
Here's to You, Mrs. Robinson
Season 4 • Episode 20
Harry tries to administer the oath of citizenship to Quon Le before she gives birth.
Monday, July 29
Her Honor
Season 4 • Episode 21
Mac gets advance notice about the new judges list and discovers that Christine is one.
Monday, July 29
Her Honor
Season 4 • Episode 22
Harry plans a colossal stunt, not realizing that he has not been reappointed.
Monday, July 29
Her Honor
Season 5 • Episode 1
Christine assumes her new role as a judge; Harry prepares to launch his incredible stunt.
Monday, July 29
Her Honor
Season 5 • Episode 2
Harry ditches his stunt plans, opting instead to get his job back.
Monday, July 29
Death of a Bailiff
Season 5 • Episode 3
Bull has a near-death experience and insists God spoke to him.
Monday, July 29
Life With Buddy
Season 7 • Episode 1
Harry's life is thrown into turmoil when his eccentric father moves in with him.
Monday, July 29
If I Were a Rich Man
Season 7 • Episode 2
Bull saves a rich man's life, and Dan wants a piece of the action.
Tuesday, July 30
Ladies Night
Season 5 • Episode 4
After Roz and her boyfriend break up Christine decides to help Roz recover, so they go out together.
Tuesday, July 30
Safe
Season 5 • Episode 5
On Halloween, Dan believes he has sold his soul to the devil, and Harry gets locked inside a safe.
Tuesday, July 30
Mac's Dilemma
Season 5 • Episode 6
Arrested for assault, Mac's war buddy asks a favor.
Tuesday, July 30
Who Was That Mashed Man?
Season 5 • Episode 7
Harry tries to prevent a childhood hero's suicide.
Tuesday, July 30
No Hard Feelings
Season 5 • Episode 8
Dan's world has come crashing down: he's suffering from impotence.
Tuesday, July 30
Constitution
Season 5 • Episode 9
A man threatens to destroy a Constitution draft.
Tuesday, July 30
Constitution
Season 5 • Episode 10
Harry deals with the madman; Roz ends up on the roof.
Tuesday, July 30
Let It Snow
Season 5 • Episode 11
A Christmas Eve blizzard strands the staff in the courtroom with a group of defendants.
Tuesday, July 30
Dan, the Walking Time Bomb
Season 5 • Episode 12
Dan is handcuffed to a time bomb; Bull's blind girlfriend tries to heat up their relationship.
Tuesday, July 30
Hit the Road, Jack
Season 5 • Episode 13
Christine must tell her father, who moved in with her, that he has overstayed his welcome.
Tuesday, July 30
I'm Okay, You're Catatonic/Schizophrenic
Season 5 • Episode 14
Harry tries to keep his stepfather and another man out of a mental hospital. Mel Torme guest stars.
Tuesday, July 30
Chrizzi's Honor
Season 5 • Episode 15
Christine invites a stranger to her party, not realizing he's wanted by the mob.
Tuesday, July 30
Another Day in the Life
Season 5 • Episode 16
Panic grips the courtroom as the gang races to clear 207 cases in one session.
Tuesday, July 30
Heart of Stone
Season 5 • Episode 17
Dan, Harry and two women face embarrassment.
Tuesday, July 30
The Cop and the Lady
Season 7 • Episode 3
Christine falls for an undercover officer when they are locked in the court records vault together.
Tuesday, July 30
Come Back to the Five and Dime, Stephen King, Stephen King
Season 7 • Episode 4
Harry holds a seance to solve a 50-year-old case.
Wednesday, July 31
Blue Suede Bull
Season 7 • Episode 5
Dan returns a favor from Bull by agreeing to coach him in the arena of love.
Wednesday, July 31
For Love or Money
Season 7 • Episode 6
Buddy (John Astin) conceals his psychiatric history from his bride.
Thursday, August 1
Auntie Maim
Season 7 • Episode 7
Harry must deal with a flamboyant former actress accused of beating a policeman.
Thursday, August 1
Attack of the Mac Snacks
Season 7 • Episode 8
Junk-food marketers Harry and Mac face a recall.
Friday, August 2
Branded
Season 7 • Episode 9
Dan's future hangs in the balance when he attempts to get a shady law firm chief disbarred.
Friday, August 2
Branded
Season 7 • Episode 10
Dan, now waiting tables at a French restaurant, is convinced to attend his disbarment hearing.
Sunday, August 4
Russkie Business
Season 5 • Episode 18
A Soviet defector wants to visit his ailing mother.
Sunday, August 4
Jung and the Restless
Season 5 • Episode 19
Roz is ordered to undergo therapy after she's found to be insensitive.
Sunday, August 4
Top Judge
Season 5 • Episode 20
Harry's title of courtroom joker is threatened when a fun-loving judge arrives.
Sunday, August 4
Mac's Millions
Season 5 • Episode 21
Mac quits his job after he inherits $2 million -- then he's sued for over $4 million.
Sunday, August 4
Danny Got His Gun
Season 5 • Episode 22
Dan (John Larroquette) is called to active duty by his Army Reserve unit. With Harry Anderson.
Sunday, August 4
Danny Got His Gun
Season 6 • Episode 1
The court staff holds a memorial service for Dan (John Larroquette). With Harry Anderson.
Sunday, August 4
Danny Got His Gun
Season 6 • Episode 2
Dan performs an appendectomy on one of his rescuers because of an injury to the doctor's hands.
Monday, August 5
Fire
Season 6 • Episode 3
A courthouse fire thwarts last-minute campaigning by would-be assemblyman Dan.
Monday, August 5
Harry and the Tramp
Season 6 • Episode 4
Man-of-the-Month Harry unknowingly brings an ex-porno star to the dinner.
Monday, August 5
Educating Rhoda
Season 6 • Episode 5
A bungling bailiff trainee lets a psychotic mental patient escape.
Monday, August 5
The Last Temptation of Mac
Season 6 • Episode 6
Mac's amorous study partner gets him in trouble with Quon Le.
Monday, August 5
The Law Club
Season 6 • Episode 7
Dan wants to join a law club, whose president covets Christine.
Monday, August 5
Night Court of the Living Dead
Season 6 • Episode 8
Christine, declared dead by a computer, is relegated to assisting her replacement.
Monday, August 5
The Night Court Before Christmas
Season 6 • Episode 9
Roz faces Christmas in jail after defying a mean-spirited toy magnate.
Monday, August 5
Mental Giant
Season 6 • Episode 10
Bull's genius IQ score inspires him to take a think-tank job.
Monday, August 5
Rock-a-bye Baby
Season 6 • Episode 11
Motherhood loses its appeal when Christine baby-sits a friend's energetic infant.
Monday, August 5
Clip Show
Season 6 • Episode 12
Flashbacks recall how the court staff incurred expenses totaling $954,768.
Monday, August 5
Clip Show
Season 6 • Episode 13
A city auditor tries to investigate some of Harry's more bizarre expenses (via flashbacks).
Monday, August 5
The Trouble Is Not in Your Set
Season 6 • Episode 14
The staff mugs before courtroom TV cameras; guest Marion Ross.
Monday, August 5
The Game Show
Season 6 • Episode 15
Bull is on a game show; a cantankerous judge jails Dan for contempt.
Monday, August 5
This Old Man
Season 6 • Episode 16
The staff meets Christine's elderly suitor; an amorous dowager offers Dan a campaign contribution.
Monday, August 5
Passion Plundered
Season 7 • Episode 11
Harry is pleased to discover that a female journalist has taken an interest in him.
Monday, August 5
Amour or Less
Season 7 • Episode 12
Christine's detective beau keeps breaking dates.
Tuesday, August 6
Strange Bedfellows
Season 6 • Episode 17
When Harry finally meets Mel Torme, he gives his idol the flu.
Tuesday, August 6
From Snoop to Nuts
Season 6 • Episode 18
Christine is suspicious when Harry secretly takes part in a government sting operation.
Tuesday, August 6
From Snoop to Nuts
Season 6 • Episode 19
Harry's sting operation is successful; potential killers run loose in the courthouse.
Tuesday, August 6
Pen Pal
Season 6 • Episode 20
Roz falls for Christine's convict pen pal, unaware that he escaped while on furlough.
Tuesday, August 6
Not My Type
Season 6 • Episode 21
Art enters reluctant date Christine in his lodge's beauty pageant.
Tuesday, August 6
Yet Another Day in the Life
Season 6 • Episode 22
Harry and the staff must try the overflow of cases by midnight.
Tuesday, August 6
Life With Buddy
Season 7 • Episode 1
Harry's life is thrown into turmoil when his eccentric father moves in with him.
Tuesday, August 6
If I Were a Rich Man
Season 7 • Episode 2
Bull saves a rich man's life, and Dan wants a piece of the action.
Tuesday, August 6
The Cop and the Lady
Season 7 • Episode 3
Christine falls for an undercover officer when they are locked in the court records vault together.
Tuesday, August 6
Come Back to the Five and Dime, Stephen King, Stephen King
Season 7 • Episode 4
Harry holds a seance to solve a 50-year-old case.
Tuesday, August 6
Blue Suede Bull
Season 7 • Episode 5
Dan returns a favor from Bull by agreeing to coach him in the arena of love.
Tuesday, August 6
For Love or Money
Season 7 • Episode 6
Buddy (John Astin) conceals his psychiatric history from his bride.
Tuesday, August 6
Auntie Maim
Season 7 • Episode 7
Harry must deal with a flamboyant former actress accused of beating a policeman.
Tuesday, August 6
Attack of the Mac Snacks
Season 7 • Episode 8
Junk-food marketers Harry and Mac face a recall.
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