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.
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.
Tuesday, August 6
Razing Bull
Season 7 • Episode 13
Bull chains himself to a condemned theater.
Tuesday, August 6
Futureman
Season 7 • Episode 14
A lunatic with a ray gun attempts to save Dan from a pair of punks with knives.
Wednesday, August 7
Wedding Bell Blues
Season 7 • Episode 15
Christine receives and accepts an unexpected marriage proposal from Officer Tony Giuliano.
Wednesday, August 7
Wedding Bell Blues
Season 7 • Episode 16
A pregnant Christine tries in vain to reach her new husband in South America.
Thursday, August 8
The Talk Show
Season 7 • Episode 17
Talk-show host Dan must grill guest Christine.
Thursday, August 8
Melvin and Harold
Season 7 • Episode 18
Harry's lousy day gets worse when he is forced to jail Mel Torme for contempt.
Friday, August 9
The Glasnost Menagerie
Season 7 • Episode 19
Old friend of the court Yakov asks for his father's visa to be extended.
Friday, August 9
I Said Dance!
Season 7 • Episode 20
Bull is persuaded to sue when he accidentally shoots himself in the foot with Roz's gun.
Monday, August 12
Branded
Season 7 • Episode 9
Dan's future hangs in the balance when he attempts to get a shady law firm chief disbarred.
Monday, August 12
Branded
Season 7 • Episode 10
Dan, now waiting tables at a French restaurant, is convinced to attend his disbarment hearing.
Monday, August 12
Passion Plundered
Season 7 • Episode 11
Harry is pleased to discover that a female journalist has taken an interest in him.
Monday, August 12
Amour or Less
Season 7 • Episode 12
Christine's detective beau keeps breaking dates.
Monday, August 12
Razing Bull
Season 7 • Episode 13
Bull chains himself to a condemned theater.
Monday, August 12
Futureman
Season 7 • Episode 14
A lunatic with a ray gun attempts to save Dan from a pair of punks with knives.
Monday, August 12
Wedding Bell Blues
Season 7 • Episode 15
Christine receives and accepts an unexpected marriage proposal from Officer Tony Giuliano.
Monday, August 12
Wedding Bell Blues
Season 7 • Episode 16
A pregnant Christine tries in vain to reach her new husband in South America.
Monday, August 12
The Talk Show
Season 7 • Episode 17
Talk-show host Dan must grill guest Christine.
Monday, August 12
Melvin and Harold
Season 7 • Episode 18
Harry's lousy day gets worse when he is forced to jail Mel Torme for contempt.
Monday, August 12
The Glasnost Menagerie
Season 7 • Episode 19
Old friend of the court Yakov asks for his father's visa to be extended.
Monday, August 12
I Said Dance!
Season 7 • Episode 20
Bull is persuaded to sue when he accidentally shoots himself in the foot with Roz's gun.
Monday, August 12
My Three Dads
Season 7 • Episode 21
Harry, Bull and Dan all pitch in to help at Christine's Lamaze class.
Monday, August 12
Still Another Day in the Life
Season 7 • Episode 22
The court tries to conduct business while loud construction work takes place upstairs.
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