Night Court

Roz tries Christine's ""happy therapy"" and sets the group back several months and Jack's son finally admits to himself and his dad that running the newsstand isn't for him.

Dan suffers all the pangs of a guilty conscience over misuse of the Phil Foundation funds. Bull tries out a toupee, the Shatner 2000.

An angel appears in the guise of Mel Torme to show Harry how dismal the courtroom would be if he'd never been born, especially with Dan as the corrupt judge in charge.

Harry gets a wealth of conflicting advice when he confides in his friends that he thinks Margaret is about to propose marriage.

Christine finds herself tense over finalizing her divorce, Harry is nervous about moving in with Margaret, and Bull follows his mother's advice and looks for a wife-with the help of a matchmaker.

Dan anticipates a windfall from Phil the wino's will but gets a surprise instead. Bull anxiously awaits a visit from his mother, an old salt due to retire from the sea and come live with sonny boy.

Dan looks at Phil the wino in a whole new light when the bum rescues a defendant left penniless by the S&L crisis.

Roz loses yet another battle with courtesy and tact when she tells off the mother of an obnoxious child star shooting a tv pilot in the courtroom.

Everyone gets their two cents in when a comic's offensive routine sparks a First Amendment debate.

A street artist helps raise Christine's spirits, and Mac and Dan indulge a passion for photography.

Harry has to summon the courage to face a bully from his childhood who is brought before him in court, and Christine searches high and low for the perfect nanny.

Dan tries to win over Margaret during a night at the opera and Bull acquires disciples convinced that he's their god.

Roz surprises everyone by becoming unbearably perky when the staff is temporarily assigned to daytime hours, and Christine decides she must totally change her personality to hang onto Tony and her marriage.

When a chemical spill forces Judge Harry T. Stone (portrayed by Harry Anderson) and his courthouse team to remain inside the courtroom, the episode uses this setup as the frame for a series of flashbacks

When the staff is quarantined for the night, they spend the hours reminiscing about turning points in their lives.

On Halloween, Harry locks up a defendant known as the Spirit of Death, and people, including next scheduled victim Dan, stop dying.

Dan is thrilled when he offers himself as a prize at a bachelor auction, until he sees the lecherous old woman who bids highest for him; and Christine is beginning to have doubts about her marriage to Tony.

Harry's first date with Margaret Turner, the new court reporter, turns into a disaster when he follows Dan's advice.

Meanwhile, Dan is dealing with the fallout of this situation—especially given the familial ties and how it affects his relationship with his sister and with Bull. The episode plays on the awkward dynamics between friendship, family, and workplace connection, while maintaining the comedic tone the series is known for.

Christine comes back from having her baby and has to deal with the shadow of her replacement, good 'ole Ted. Harry tries to avoid the tutor arranged to help him pass a crucial high school history test. Meanwhile Dan's sister comes to visit, and Dan asks Bull to take her out to see the sights of New York, unaware that his baby sister is a chip off the old Fielding block.

Roz faces a lawsuit and no job after Bull borrows her gun and shoots himself in the foot, thanks to his sue-happy lawyer cousin.

Harry helps Yakov get a visa extension for his father and Mac buys a washing machine with an attitude problem.

Plans for Mel Torme to appear at Harry's 40th birthday party are derailed when Harry puts his idol behind bars for failing to pay a parking ticket.

Dan finds a new niche in life as the host of a shock-TV show and Mac and Quon Le may lose out on their Graceland vacation.

Christine (played by Markie Post) finds out she is pregnant, and the episode deals with the fallout of that revelation.

Christine makes an impulsive decision at her farewell dinner with beau Tony, one that has severe repercussions when he leaves on an assignment he may not return from.

Dan is held hostage in the courtroom by two thugs but a man from the future-- VHK 937-- appears on a mission to save him.

Bull chains himself to the entrance of an old theater scheduled to be demolished and the ensuring efforts to save the building reveals a secret life from Mac's past.

Christine finds everyone too busy to help her out with her new romance so she turns to two feuding advice columnists.

Dan and Harry each vie for the attentions of a attractive reporter doing a story on Harry's courtroom and Roz gets swept off her feet by three Boldavian brothers.

While waiting for the outcome of his disbarment hearing, Dan tries to find something to fill his time and self-worth; he takes a job working as a waiter at a fancy French restaurant.

Dan becomes the target for first a job offer, then disbarment proceedings when a wealthy lawyer seeks to get charges against his son dropped, and Christine and Roz become diet buddies.

Harry and Mac team up to market one of Quon Le's snack concoctions and Christine's stingy uncle pays her a visit.

Roz drafts Mac to pose as her fiancé when her overbearing auntie comes to visit and Dan meets an aging actress who teaches him some new tricks in an elevator.

Buddy proposes to a wealthy, fun loving widow while Dan tries to hide the fact that he's been reduced to living in his office.

Harry embarrasses Christine in front of a very pro-feminist judge with his trick handcuffs while Dan repays a debt to Bull by taking him out on the town for a swinging evening.

On Halloween night, Harry loses his new bat, Tito, and an exorcist's curse resurrects the unquiet spirit of a defendant from fifty years earlier.

Christine falls for the gorgeous piece of beefcake assigned to protect Dan when the sleazy DA receives several death threats.

Dan plans to swindle a billionaire land developer and Mac agrees to host a cosmetics party for Quon Le.

Buddy leaves the institution and moves in with Harry while Dan and his real estate agent scheme to take over a dying man's Park Avenue apartment.

Harry works undercover to get the goods on a mobster and earns a contract on his life when Buddy spills the beans about it and about Harry's real father.

Dan finally meets his opponent for the state assembly seat on election day and sparks fly; Harry gives his cold to Mel Torme in exchange for two concert tickets.

Harry and the gang refuse to take Christine and her new beau seriously: he's old enough to be her father.

With Judge Stone out of town, Judge Wilbur fills in.

A woman who can't tell where her life begins and television ends interrupts the proceedings brandishing a gun and demanding that her husband be released from prison and given a pardon.

The staff of the night court are coping with a city audit of the court’s finances. The auditor is digging into the oddities of Judge Harry T. Stone’s (Harry Anderson) expense records, and the show uses flashbacks to highlight many of the bizarre, memorable moments from previous episodes.

A city auditor tries to investigate some of the more bizarre expenses attributed to Harry's court (via flashbacks) but he's interrupted by a clown wielding a gun and threatening to shoot everyone.

Christine wears herself to a frazzle watching a neighbor's baby while the others monopolize her television watching a lacrosse game.

Bull scores very high on an I.Q. test and is offered a cushy job at a think-tank trying to communicate mentally with test animals.

Buddy comes to visit Harry for the holidays and Roz is arrested for appropriating a sled full of toys and distributing them to needy children.

An inventor runs away from court to avoid being committed to Bellevue, a man just out of a 20 year coma appears before the bench, and Christine fences with her replacement when a computer error declares her dead.

Dan has to choose between Christine and membership in an exclusive law club when his sponsor demands his silence about his plans to seduce her to win a bet.

Christine wears herself out planning a Thanksgiving feast for the courthouse regulars and Mac faces the seduction of an attractive classmate.

Bull falls for a sweet, but inept bailiff trainee who allows a psychotic prisoner to steal her gun, who promptly makes a date with Dan.

Harry learns in his courtroom that his date for a big social event is a porno movie star.

A fire breaks out in the building so everyone is forced to retreat to the morgue for safety, but this doesn't stop Dan from watching the election results for his race for the state assembly.

Meanwhile, Dan is actually alive, stranded with an Eskimo family and pulled into performing surgery: when the only available doctor’s hands are broken, Dan has to step in and perform an appendectomy on one of his rescuers.

Meanwhile, in the arctic rescue scenario, Dan accidentally fires a flare-gun at a small plane signalling to him; the pilot in the plane is injured (both hands broken) and thus cannot perform a critical operation. Because of that, Dan becomes the only person available who can operate on a young Eskimo woman suffering from appendicitis.

Yakov returns for some help in getting a visa to return to Russia to visit his mother.

An old flame of Harry's drops by to renew their relationship but neglects to tell him she's married.

Panic grips the courtroom as the gang races to clear 207 cases in one session so a millionaire will donate money to save an orphanage and so Dan can win an office pool for the most convictions.

A very nice stranger on the run from the mob crashes Christine's anniversary party in honor of Charles and Diana.

Dan ties up Mel Torme so Harry can meet him but the judge is preoccupied with trying to keep his stepfather Buddy out of a mental hospital.

Christine's father makes plans to retire to Florida, but winds up living with her and hanging out with Dan.

Dan frantically tries to rid himself of a briefcase containing a timebomb that someone has handcuffed to his wrist while Joy demands that Bull treat her as he would a sighted woman. Also Dan's real name is also revealed to the staff.

A blizzard traps everyone inside the courthouse and cancels holiday plans, including a visit from Bull's mother, the skipper of a garbage scow.

Harry tries to talk sense to Roz, a recently diagnosed diabetic whose convinced her life is over, and handle a desperate man holding an original draft of the Constitution hostage in the courtroom.

Harry tries to talk sense to Roz, a recently diagnosed diabetic whose convinced her life is over, and handle a desperate man holding an original draft of the Constitution hostage in the courtroom.

Harry hires a blind assistant whose abrasive sense of humor put everyone on edge and Dan struggles with impotence when her meets a seductive prospective employer.

Dan's sadistic boss asks him to look out for his very attractive niece while Harry tries to prevent a TV hero of yesteryear from killing himself.

An old friend asks Mac to lose his court records and a Japanese man about to be honored by the governor dies while in custody.

Harry traps himself inside a safe while practicing a magic trick and Dan is pursued by a little devil who seems to know all about him.

Christine and Roz visit a male strip joint to do some female bonding, but Harry and the guys show up just as the show gets going.

Bull decides to give away all his worldly goods after hearing God's voice when he's struck by lightning on the roof of the courthouse.

While preparing to attempt his outrageous stunt, Harry talks to and saves the life of a suicidal man.

Christine nervously takes the bench as Dan and Mac try to cover for the newly reinstated Harry, who's planning the greatest gag of all time.

Harry helps Christine fight sexual harassment from her boss and Dan comes on to a woman who has taken a vow of celibacy.

Harry's really depressed when Christine's old friend seems to prefer Dan as does his idol, Mel Torme.

Harry asks Dan to care for his new dog, who saved his life from a fire, but the mutt bites Dan and raises a rabies scare that could cost him his life.

NBC programming chief Brandon Tartikoff posts bail for a Neilsen family as the gang rushes to adjudicate 200 cases in one session.

Harry is depressed and unhappy when Christine announces that she plans to marry a nice, dull guy.

Mac goes on a drunken spree in a cowboy bar after Quon Le spends them into bankruptcy and then announces her pregnancy.

Harry has to deal with a woman who confesses to him that she killed her husband that morning, a detective who can't get used to working without his partner and a morose Dan who was rejected as a sperm bank donor.

Harry deals sympathetically with an escaped felon whose only wish is to spend New Year's Eve in Times Square to celebrate his 42nd wedding anniversary.

Harry tries to prevent the forced marriage of a Polynesian princess while her brother auctions off Christine.

Dan and Roz are trapped in an elevator with two hungry sumo wrestlers just convicted in Harry's court.

Harry returns and finds a lovely woman substituting on the bench for him, who likes him a lot and jails Christine for mouthing off about perceived mistreatment of a client.

Dan makes a friend out of the judge substituting until he realizes the man is trying to bribe him, and his friends talk him into wearing a wire to entrap the man.

Dan refuses to admit his surgery has weakened him and he overexerts himself into a coma.

Dan refuses to admit his surgery has weakened him and he overexerts himself into a coma.

Harry looks forward to seeing Leon again while Dan crawls for an invitation to his boss' Halloween party.

Bull tries his hand at writing a children's story; however, the results are a trifle strong for the editors he submits it to.

Dan demands that Christine sleep with him after he saves her life with the Heimlich maneuver.

Harry's distracted from a courtroom full of ventriloquists and their dummies by the delivery of a letter from his mother, mailed fifteen years earlier.

Abby finds herself in charge of two runaway teens; a surprise appearance upends Abby's world.

Abby suspects the courthouse's new "Fun judge" may not be as fun as he seems.

On the night of the blood moon, Abby and Gurgs help Julianne with a surprising romantic prospect; Wyatt finds himself in hot water when he fills in as Dan's replacement.

Abby gets more than she bargained for when she offers to help Wyatt's friend stay sober for the night; Dan and Julianne battle for the best prize in Gurgs' annual evidence locker lottery.

Abby's friendship with her ex-boyfriend's mother leads to romantic complications; when Julianne's wealthy aunt passes away, the gang vies for a piece of her inheritance.

Dan goes up against Julianne to defend the Wheelers and his professional reputation; Abby's love life takes an exciting turn when she meets a handsome man in the courthouse, but there's a catch.

At the behest of producer Sy Hoffman, Dan and Abby work together to turn Dan's memoir into a musical; Wyatt tries to help Julianne stay cool when her ex-lover turns up at the courthouse.

Harry's old magician's assistant appears in the courthouse and puts Dan and Abby in a tough position. Gurgs, Flobert and Julianne are determined to fire up Wyatt's lukewarm life.

Abby is thrilled when Roz temporarily returns to her job as bailiff, but must make things right when Roz starts ruffling everyone's feathers; Dan co-opts Gurgs' assistant to help realize his dream of becoming a best-selling author.

Gurgs tries to make the courthouse boring to avoid being humiliated again by 'Dr. Nitelife', an online influencer. Abby is stuck taking care of her friend Heather's baby.

Dan must defend his job after he gets a bad review on one of the city's new satisfaction kiosks; Abby and Gurgs receive some shocking information from Wyatt's daughter.

Abby gets more than she bargained for when Julianne invites her to a join a women's empowerment group; Dan and Flobert compete over whose advice will help Gurgs secure a promotion.

After learning that Jake has never been in a long-term relationship, Abby is determined to find his secret dealbreaker; Dan and Julianne go head to head to prove they don't have feelings for each other.

Abby is thrilled when Mayim Bialik appears in the courtroom, but she begins to wonder if the situation is more sinister than it seems; Dan hunts for a mystery man guilty of forgoing basic etiquette.

Abby's holiday plans are derailed after a murder mystery performer causes chaos in the courthouse. Gurgs and Wyatt find themselves at odds over office etiquette.

When a citywide sanitation strike makes its way into the courthouse, Abby must find a way to solve it. Julianne shows Dan how to make the most out of the strike.

Abby's attempts to bring Jake and Dan closer leave her feeling like a third wheel; Gurgs has a bone to pick when she catches Julianne smoking in the courthouse.

Suspecting Dan might be her boyfriend's father, Abby does some investigating. A blast from Dan's past resurfaces as the court's new prosecutor.

Billie's new boyfriend turns out to be a professional problem for her, despite his romantic accomplishments.

Bull quits his job in frustration and becomes a professional wrestler.

Harry uses a little hocus pocus to convince Bull he's cured of a gypsy curse.

Selma's old beau wants to rekindle their romance and a substitute judge makes a mockery of the judicial system.

Patients from a mental institution stage a strike to convince the court they're being mistreated at the hospital.

Roz finds herself in court after her wedding venue falls through, prompting Abby to offer up the courthouse for the big day. Dan strikes up a connection with a wedding guest who has ties to his past, only to realize that his reputation precedes him.

When Gurgs' royal boyfriend pays a surprise visit, she questions their compatibility. Dan defends his family's honor after he discovers a feud that dates back centuries.

Surprises are in store for Dan when the Wheelers return to court after more than 30 years. Abby seeks a psychic in hopes of ending an argument she had with her late father.

Dan weasels his way into a legendary underground Navy poker game during Fleet Week. Abby makes things complicated for Wyatt when she rules against the ruthless PTA president of his kids' school.

Abby finds she has a crush on the HR rep who's come to teach the Night Court crew about respect in the workplace. Wyatt gets more than he bargained for when he asks Dan for a thank-you.

Gurgs asks Dan to defend a disgraced Broadway producer he despises. Abby helps Olivia mourn the death of her fake doorman.

It's Fashion Week in New York as Abby gets caught in a whirlwind romance with a famous fashion designer. A high-profile defendant offers to make Dan's dreams come true, but it comes at a cost to Olivia.

When a childhood friend comes to visit, Abby is forced to confront the fact that she might actually dislike someone. Dan embraces Comic-Con and finds a potential love connection with a woman who has sworn to destroy him.

Abby learns her ex is seeing someone and confronts her feelings head on... by trying to find the city's best pickle. Dan discovers that new friends aren't always good for your health. Olivia finds herself trapped in a legal love triangle.

When a cybercriminal hacks the courthouse server, the crew has to figure out who's behind it before all their secrets are revealed. Gurgs welcomes Wyatt, the new clerk, with suspicion.

Abby and Dan try to undo some drastic budget cuts by taking on City Hall and a bureaucrat who lives to say "no." Olivia and Gurgs stumble on a business opportunity and quickly realize why friendship and discontinued soda don't mix.

Dan helps Roz with an investigation that goes awry as they find themselves pleading their case in front of Abby. Gurgs regales the court with stories of her London adventures. Olivia tries to establish a side gig as a sports agent.

It's Christmastime at Night Court. Abby enlists Dan on her quest to track down a little girl's letter to Santa. Gurgs' gift for Dan isn't what she expected. Olivia is haunted by a witness who believes herself to be the Ghost of Christmas Present.

When Abby lands a meeting with the New York City district attorney to talk about her ideas for reform, Dan invites himself along to share his expertise in the art of “backroom dealing.” Gurgs teaches Neil a lesson in confidence.

When the court is overrun with cases from a wedding expo gone awry, the team looks to help Abby plan her wedding. A wedding planner shows Dan the finer things in life. Olivia and Gurgs wrestle over who will serve as maid of honor.

When Abby's fiancé, Rand, learns she's struggling to connect with Olivia, he encourages Abby to embrace a side of herself she rarely shows. Dan and Gurgs team up to save his favorite thing in the courthouse: a bench.

Abby tries to get the court featured on a popular podcast, but the host only has eyes for Dan, who soon learns that being the center of attention can have its downsides.

A blood moon brings out some of the weirdest cases New York has to offer along with a surprise visitor: Abby's mom, who's carrying some secrets. Gurgs suspects Dan knows more than he's letting on. Olivia and Neil stumble on the truth.

When a train delay causes issues, Abby sees an opportunity to serve underground justice. Gurgs tries to stall the proceedings so Abby can meet her favorite celebrities, Johnny Weir and Tara Lipinski, but Dan has dinner reservations he won't give up.

Gurgs’s tween nephew and some of his fellow students visit the court for a school project. Things get out of hand for Abby, Dan and the night court team when the kids reveal their true motive is to grind the wheels of justice to a halt.

In desperate need of a new apartment, Abby turns to Gurgs and her unconventional real estate skills. Dan helps Olivia prepare for the biggest case of her career and a shot at redemption.

With Abby’s encouragement, Dan attempts to venture back into the dating world, but reigniting his love life proves more complicated than he anticipated. Gurgs and Olivia search for a new office and find something they weren’t expecting.

After Abby makes a mistake in the courtroom, she decides to adopt an all-business approach to get things back on track, but her new style catches everyone off guard.

Abby pushes Dan Fielding to embrace his new role as public defender. Neil gets on board with Abby's quest to improve the courtroom and quickly realizes why trying is for the birds.

Judge Abby Stone follows in the footsteps of her late father Judge Harry Stone as she takes over the night shift of a Manhattan arraignment court. When the court finds itself in need of a public defender, Abby sees potential in an unlikely candidate from her father’s past: former night court prosecutor Dan Fielding.