Night Court

Harold T. Stone becomes a night court judge and settles a dispute involving a woman threatening her husband with gunfire.

Lana learns that Harry has a criminal record when she tries to find out his age to settle a bet.

The others try to pull Bull out of the dumps when hes turned down by a charitable organization because his size and appearance are intimidating to others.

A hooker develops a crush on Harry and Dan loses a city council position to a dead man.

Lana disrupts the proceedings after taking a powerful cold medicine.

Fans and reporters disrupt court proceedings when Harry dates a rock star, and tries to cope with a new court clerk.

Harry has to settle the legal status of a woman who remarried after her first husband was mistakenly declared dead, and who wants her back.

Bright young public defender Christine Sullivan finds out she still has a lot to learn after her first day in Harrys court, while Harry ends up throwing her overprotective father in jail for insulting him.

The courtroom becomes a circus when a meek little fellow chooses Harry to decide what worthy person will receive the money from his winning lottery ticket.

Bull finally is allowed a foster son by a volunteer-fathers organization, but he winds up with a bit of a surprise.

Harry feels a lot of official pressure when a notorious madame with a hot diary comes before his bench.

A blizzard traps everyone in the courthouse and Dan in an elevator with a man whos attracted to him.

Billies birthday dinner for Harry is disrupted by an insecure intruder.

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

Harry uses a little hocus pocus to convince Bull hes cured of a gypsy curse.

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

Quon Le appears before the court for prostitution and Harry has to choose between Billie and Dan for the mayoral commission.

A disabled law student takes Harrys refusal of her prom invitation as a slap against her handicap.

A strange little man charged with stealing electronic parts takes Dan hostage and demands the rest of the parts he needs to communicate with his home planet of Saturn.

Mac tries to hide Quon Le from his prejudiced grandfather, whos trying to decide who to leave his millions of dollars.

Dan has a real problem when his high school buddy comes to visit as a decidedly changed man.

Harry tries to free a rock star literally imprisoned by his overly solicitous entourage.

Everyone is in a financial crisis when the city cant pay its employees, Harry has to evict a woman and son, and a homeless couple from West Virginia tells their tale of woe.

Dan takes a job as a paid escort for a wealthy, lonely woman who expects a lot for her money, and Yakov appeals to Harry for help when his wife is arrested on a visit to the US.

Harry takes pity on the building shoeshine boy, who seeks refuge from a social worker trying to place him in another foster home.

Harrys concern with Leons imminent adoption blinds him to the presence of Mel Torme in the courthouse.

Harry decides to help his idol, a down-and-out magician, who goes on to help himself to Harrys possessions.

The staff tries everything they can think of to postpone Flos mandatory retirement.

The courtroom becomes a delivery room when Hurricane Mel traps four pregnant women.

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

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

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

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.

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

Harry has to deal with a woman who confesses to him that she killed her husband that morning, a detective who cant get used to working without his partner and a morose Dan who was rejected as a sperm bank donor.

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

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.

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

Quon Le plans to become a US citizen before her baby is born, but she and Mac are both rushed to the hospital with pains just as Harry begins the swearing-in ceremony.

Upon learning that he will not be reappointed as a judge, Harry disappears to perform an outrageous stunt. But he doesnt realize that Christine, who has taken over the night court, has gotten his job back.

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

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.

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 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.

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.

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 Dans real name is also revealed to the staff.

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.

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.

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

Harry becomes uncharacteristically glum and morose after an elderly judge dies after one of Harrys pranks, so his friends urge him to respond when a new judge lays claim to Harrys crown as the ""King of the Courtroom Cutups.""

Dan flip-flops on his active duty for the Army Reserve until he learns it will be in a tropical paradise with a beautiful lady officer.

Dans rescued by a group of friendly Eskimoes while his friends in New York plan a memorial service.

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

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

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.

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.

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

A woman who cant 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.

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

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 Harrys real father.

Roz falls in love with Christines prison pen pal.

The gang tries to set another record for cases adjudicated as the building slowly floods, causing prisoners to pile up in the hallways and Dan grinds his teeth to be off by midnight to catch a flight to anywhere.

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

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

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

Harry and Mac team up to market one of Quon Les snack concoctions and Christines stingy uncle pays her a visit.

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.

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

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.

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.

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

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 a young man appearing before his court stop his girl friends marriage to a prefab preppie.

Christine goes into labor while trapped in an elevator with Buddy and a squeamish courtroom visitor.

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 Dans 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.

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.

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

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.

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.

Everyone gets their two cents in when a comics offensive routine sparks a First Amendment debate.

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

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

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

Roz tries Christines ""happy therapy"" and sets the group back several months and Jacks son finally admits to himself and his dad that running the newsstand isnt for him.

Harry lets an article naming him one of New Yorks 10 most interesting men go to his head, and he disappoints Christine by fibbing to get out of a date. Dan tries to live up to his responsibilities as head of the Phil Foundation.

Harry experiences some very mixed emotions when Tony tries to win Christine back, and the transformed Dan gets some help in running the Phil Foundation, from Phils twin brother Will.

Harry and Christine are both confused over their feelings for each other, but before they can work them out, the deranged Dan kidnaps Christine at a courthouse costume party.

Roz stuns her co-workers when her uptown husband pays a visit to secure a divorce so he can marry again.

Dan tries to break up with the daughter of a crime boss, who insists Dan reconsider over dinner-and that he bring along Christine.

Christine is disillusioned by a law professor she once idolized and Bull undergoes an unusual ceremony to regain his virginity.

Bulls wedding day threatens to fall apart when bride Wanda refuses to wear Mother Hanks wedding gown, Harry and Art quarrel over being best man and Christine over-organizes everything.

Harry goes all out to get Mel Torme to accept a man-of-the-year award unaware that its all a prank and Dan and Will turn into bounty hunters.

Mac considers doing an underwear commercial for some quick cash and Roz entrusts some personal treasures to Dan.

A political consultant persuades Christine to run for Congress, Dan becomes a sexual surrogate, and Macs video of Bulls wedding achieves a certain distinction.

Dan begins kissing up to Harry as part of his campaign to replace Harry on the bench when he becomes a full time law professor and Art the handyman becomes a surrogate dad to Bull when he starts dating Bulls mama.

Harry contemplates a variety of job offers, Dan anticipates life on easy street with a wealthy bride, Bull deals with some really out-of-town visitors, and Christine contemplates the agony of defeat.

Roz steals the show and Dans spot with the in-crowd when a gossip columnist discovers her and Lisette tries to deal with her erotic dreams about Harry.