Night Court

1All You Need Is Love

The staff of a Manhattan arraignment court is surprised by the arrival of a maverick young judge named Harry Stone; his first ruling, that a feuding couple should go to dinner with the attorneys, results in a fight breaking out that injures Dan.

2Santa Goes Downtown

3The Former Harry Stone

4Welcome Back, Momma

5The Eye of the Beholder

6Death Threat

7Once in Love with Harry

8Quadrangle of Love

9Wonder Drugs

10Some Like It Hot

11Harry and the Rock Star

12Bull's Baby

13Hi Honey, I'm Home

1The Nun

2Daddy for the Defense

3Billie and the Cat

4Pick a Number

5The Computer Kid

6Bull Gets a Kid

Bull takes part in a foster-father program for underprivileged kids and shows his adoptive son, Andy, around the courtroom. But Billie discovers that Andy is really a girl in disguise. Dan pleads with Mac to give up his baseball tickets to land a date with a sports fan.

7Harry on Trial

8Harry and the Madam

Harry experiences an unusual chemistry with a charismatic madam whose brothel has been raided, and wrestles with his conscience about whether to admit her diary into evidence; Bull takes exception to Mac's family tradition of fattening a live turkey in preparation for Thanksgiving.

9Inside Harry Stone

10The Blizzard

11Take My Wife, Please

12The Birthday Visitor

13Dan's Parents

14Nuts About Harry

15An Old Flame

16The Gypsy

17Battling Bailiff

18Billie's Valentine

19Married Alive

20Mac and Quon Le: Together Again

After Quon Le, Mac's legal wife, is caught sharing house with a group of prostitutes, she says she loves him and wants to live with him as his real wife. Billie and Dan compete for Harry's favor, wanting a letter of recommendation for a special mayoral post, but Billie takes it unusually badly when Dan gets the letter.

21World War III

22Walk, Don't Wheel

1Hello, Goodbye

2The Hostage

3Dads First Date

4Mac and Quon Le: No Reservations

5Halloween, Too

6Best of Friends

7Dans Boss

8Up on the Roof

9Wheels of Justice: Part 1

A budget crisis in the state legislature freezes the paychecks of all city employees, including the court staff. Harry faces his own crisis when the law forces him to side with a sleazy landlord against a poor cleaning lady and her unstable son. When the son is shot during an attempted armed robbery, Harry quits.

10Wheels of Justice: Part 2

11Walk Away, Renee

12Dans Escort

Dan makes some extra money by hiring himself out as an escort to wealthy ladies, but is shocked when one of his clients wants him to go all the way and sleep with her. Yakov eagerly awaits the arrival of his wife and children from Russia, but panics when she doesn't show up.

13The Night Off

15The Apartment

Hijinks ensue when Harry throws a birthday party for Dan at his apartment, including Christine getting trapped in a magician's box, Quon Le's Vietnamese family threatening mass suicide, and Mrs. Lund from Juvenile Services arriving to check on Leon at the same time as a stripper.

16Leon, We Hardly Knew Ye

19Monkey Business

21Hurricane: Part 1

22Hurricane: Part 2

1The Next Voice You Hear...

Harry finds a random piece of information that leads him to track down his long-lost mother. He finds out that she's dead, but accepts the news calmly. When Christine asks him how he cannot feel loss, he coldly retorts that it's impossible to feel loss over someone who abandoned him before he ever knew her. This leads to a visit from Buddy Ryan, Harry's stepfather, who met his mother in a mental hospital... and he wasn't on the staff.

2Giving Thanks

3Author, Author

Bull is horrified to be told that his entry in a children's book contest was unintentionally violent, horrifying, and obscene. He breaks both hands punching holes in the wall, then goes to hide at the Natural History Museum. Dan is enticed by a schizophrenic woman whose personality switches without warning from a prude to a sexpot, and back again.

4Halloween II: The Return of Leon

5Dan's Operation: Part 1

Dan is hospitalized for surgery on a minor ulcer, but refuses to stay in the hospital. Insisting on returning to work, he eventually collapses and must return to the hospital in an even more serious condition. After foolishly attempting relations with Sheila while in his hospital bed, he falls into a coma.

6Dan's Operation: Part 2

7The New Judge

8Contempt of Courting

Christine butts heads with Judge Eve Gardner, Harry's temporary replacement. When Christine is thrown in jail for contempt of court, she asks Harry to go talk to the judge. To his own surprise, Harry ends up sharing a night of passion with her.

9Earthquake

10Prince of a Guy

A woman arrested for swimming naked in Central Park claims to be a princess from a tropical island; Harry is convinced to help her escape her arrogant brother, the Prince, and her arranged marriage with the trollish Ogg. Meanwhile, the prince becomes smitten with Christine.

11New Year's Leave

On New Year's Eve, a sweet old man brought into court on a minor charge turns out to be a convicted felon who has escaped prison to visit Times Square in memory of his wife; another man runs around the courthouse in a diaper, claiming to be the spirit of the new year.

12Murder

13Baby Talk

14The Modest Proposal

15A Day in the Life

In the first of several "day in the life" episodes, the court has to process an unusually large docket (200 cases) before midnight - in this episode, to head off a federal judge's general amnesty setting free all defendants not arraigned by then.

16Rabid

17Christine's Friend

18Caught Red Handed

19Paternity

20Here's to You, Mrs. Robinson

21Her Honor: Part 1

22Her Honor: Part 2

1Her Honor: Part 3

Harry prepares for the ultimate prank, not knowing that Christine has convinced the mayor to give him his job back. Christine gets nauseous during her first day as a judge, while Dan and Mac have to stall a stuffy mayoral aide sent to swear Harry back in.

2Her Honor: Part 4

As part of his grand prank, Harry prepares to hang-glide from the Brooklyn Bridge to the Statue of Liberty. He gets side-tracked when he meets Gus Melman, who's about to commit suicide by jumping. Back at the courthouse, Dan has to masquerade as Harry for his swearing-in ceremony.

3Death of a Bailiff

4Ladies Night

5Safe

While practicing an escape act for his Halloween party, Harry accidentally locks himself inside a safe and nearly suffocates to death; Dan thinks it's a joke when a man in a devil costume gives him $100 in exchange for his soul, but becomes afraid when the man seems to know everything about his past life.

6Mac's Dilemma

Mac faces a dilemma when an old Army buddy who saved his life in Vietnam asks him to delete his prior record to avoid sending him back to prison. A Japanese businessman drops dead in court, and Bull installs the body in a motorized wheelchair to take it to the morgue, leading to it wandering all around the courthouse.

7Who Was That Mashed Man?

An aged actor famous for his Lone Ranger-type character refuses to take off his mask, even after his studio obtains a court order barring him from appearing as the character in public. He threatens to commit suicide by dropping a two-ton air conditioner on himself. Dan is tortured by the closeness of District Attorney Daniels's very sexy, very willing, and very off-limits niece, Kitty.

8No Hard Feelings

9Constitution: Part 1

Roz is diagnosed with diabetes, and the new limitations on her lifestyle lead her to quit in frustration. When she accidentally takes an overdose of insulin, she wanders around the courthouse in a delirious stage, in danger of falling into a coma or dying. Meanwhile, a crazy man holds an original draft of the Constitution hostage with a cigarette lighter.

10Constitution: Part 2

A delirious Roz is frolicking around on the edge of the courthouse roof, and Dan, Christine, and Roz's doctor have to talk her down to medicate her. Down in the courtroom, Harry has to stand between the crazy hostage taker and a squad of trigger-happy federal agents.

11Let It Snow

12Dan, the Walking Time Bomb

13Hit the Road, Jack

14I'm OK, You're Catatonic/Schizophrenic

Buddy's patronizing younger brother, Phil, convinces him to commit himself to a mental hospital for the rest of his life. Harry angrily objects. Meanwhile, Dan has accidentally destroyed Harry's entire collection of Mel Torme records, but tries to make up for it by shackling the man himself in Harry's office until Harry returns from Buddy's hearing.

15Chrizzi's Honor

Christine is furious when she finds out that Harry is forcing the entire staff to attend her party celebrating Charles & Diana's wedding anniversary. In the cafeteria, she meets a man with like interests, Bob, whom she invites. On the night of the party she finds that Bob is in the Witness Protection Program and has a hit man after him, forcing them to barricade the apartment.

16Another Day in the Life

17Heart of Stone

18Russkie Business

Yakov needs a visa to re-visit the Soviet Union and see his sick mother. When he is denied, Harry takes up his cause, but is stunned by the arrival of a beautiful Russian consul. Christine is crippled by embarrassment when Harry makes an offhand remark about a near-invisible birthmark over her eye.

19Jung and the Restless

20Top Judge

21Mac's Millions

Mac quits after inheriting $2 million from his grandfather's will. The courtroom is plunged into chaos by his incompetent replacement, Eddie, but Mac soon wishes for his job back after an accident at Quon Le's restaurant leads to a multimillion-dollar lawsuit.

22Danny Got His Gun: Part 1

It is revealed in this episode that Dan is a captain in the U.S. Army Reserves. When ordered to report for duty, he is terrified that he is being sent to a war zone, and goes to absurd lengths to get out of it. When he finds out his assignment is on a Carribean island with a buxom female officer, he changes his mind, but all his tricks catch up with him and as punishment he is reassigned to the Arctic Circle. A few days later, the court receives a message that his plane has crashed in Alaska, and he is presumed dead.

1Danny Got His Gun: Part 2

Dan has been rescued by an Eskimo family, but is cut off from the outside world. Back in New York, the court staff reads his will and tries to cope with his death. When Dan accidentally shoots down a small plane trying to signal it with a flare gun, the doctor inside breaks both hands, leaving Dan as the only one who can operate on a young Eskimo woman who has come down with appendicitis.

2Danny Got His Gun: Part 3

Dan operates on Kista, and after a tense night of waiting, finds that she has survived. At the same time, radio contact is made, and Dan is on his way home. He arrives, disguised by his beard, winter clothes, and scruffy appearance, in time to attend his own funeral.

3Fire

On election night, Dan is running as a candidate for the state assembly. Christine is furious to learn that Harry has voted for him, touching off a fierce argument between them about what she sees as sexism. Then a fire consumes an upper floor of the courthouse, driving the staff to the basement morgue.

4Harry and the Tramp

Harry needs a date to attend a banquet where he will accept a humanitarian award. He is pleasantly surprised by a chance meeting at the newsstand with a woman who shares some interests with him, and she accepts his invitation. But Harry gets cold feet when he finds out that Diane is an adult film actress.

5Educating Rhoda

While handling a group of trainee bailiffs, Bull becomes smitten with one, Rhoda, smitten enough to overlook her spectacular incompetence. One thing he can't ignore is when she accidentally loses custody of a psychotic woman who acts out roles in movies. The woman is next reported entering a cheap hotel with Dan.

6The Last Temptation of Mac

7The Law Club

8Night Court of the Living Dead

9The Night Court Before Christmas

While collecting for Toys For Toddlers, Roz accidentally takes a truckload of toys belonging to a Scrooge-like factory owner, who demands that they be returned. Since she has already passed them out, Roz refuses to take them back, and Harry has no choice but to jail her.

10Mental Giant

11Rock-a-Bye Baby

12Clip Show: Part 1

13Clip Show: Part 2

14The Trouble Is Not in Your Set

While a cable show is filming the proceedings in the courtroom, a sweet old lady appears in court with a hand grenade, asking for the staff's help in freeing her husband from prison. When they realize that her "husband" is a character on a soap opera, they are not sure how to deal with her.

15The Game Show

16This Old Man

17Strange Bedfellows

18From Snoop to Nuts: Part 1

Harry plays up the role of an embittered judge hurting for cash, as part of a sting to nail gangster Marty Cologne. Christine, following Harry around, is taken in by the act, and tells Buddy, who reveals to Harry that he is his biological father. When Buddy lets slip the truth about the sting to Cologne, the gangster sends a pair of hit men to the courthouse.

19From Snoop to Nuts: Part 2

20Pen Pal

21Not My Type

22Yet Another Day in the Life

A water pipe bursts in the holding cells, forcing the court staff to keep the inmates handcuffed in the hallways on the upper floors. The Court must finish its docket by midnight to relieve the pressure, while searching for three violent offenders who have escaped their bonds and gone missing.

1Life with Buddy

Buddy is released from the mental hospital, and Harry invites him to live with him, unintentionally letting himself in for a world of aggravation. Dan hovers over a rent-controlled Park Avenue apartment, waiting eagerly for its elderly owner to pass on.

2If I Were a Rich Man

Bull saves the life of billionaire Jordan King, earning a spare-time job with him. Overhearing the details of a real estate deal King has going, Dan swoops in and buys the land, expecting to make a killing. Meanwhile, Quon Le's devotion to her new job selling cosmetics on commission forces Mac to help her, or face bankruptcy.

3The Cop and the Lady

4Come Back to the Five and Dime, Stephen King, Stephen King

On Halloween, Mac finds a decades-old file stuck behind his desk drawer, on a case that was never finished because the defendant dropped dead in the middle of his trial. Soon, a series of poltergeist-style events convinces Harry that the man's ghost is haunting the courtroom. With the help of a medium, Harry and the staff hold a trial for a spirit.

5Blue Suede Bull

Dan's prize new Mercedes is repossessed; after Bull has an angry argument with Rhoda, his girlfriend, he promises Dan the money he needs to get it back, if Dan takes him to a famous singles club. Christine receives a courtroom visit from a feminist judge whom she idolizes, but who gets the wrong impression when Harry asks Christine's help in performing a magic trick.

6For Love or Money

Buddy starts dating Amanda Caswell, a millionaire's widow. Harry is happy for his dad, but when he hears they are engaged, he wonders if Amanda knows everything about his father's background. Dan, broke after losing his car, is living in his office.

7Auntie Maim

Roz's pushy Aunt Ruth comes to visit her, trying for the umpteenth time to set her up with a man. Knowing that Ruth once took care of her whole family while her father was sick, Roz can't be her normally forceful self, and instead conscripts Mac to masquerade as her fiancé. A Zsa Zsa-like widow is detained at the courthouse when her diamond necklace is swallowed by another defendant's dog.

8Attack of the Mac Snacks

9Branded: Part 1

Dan receives a job offer from the most prestigious law firm in New York, and, as a favor to the hiring partner, arranges an early hearing for the senior partner's son, who is appearing on a shoplifting charge. Dan later finds out that the boy is a repeat offender, and the job offer was a scam. Dan brings a bribery charge against the hiring partner's son, but ends up facing disbarment for blackmail.

10Branded: Part 2

Dan is suspended from work while preparing for his disbarment hearing. Broke, he is forced to take a job waiting tables in a French restaurant under an assumed name. He has lost the will to defend himself, but his friends go to the hearing to stick up for him. Meanwhile, Roz and Christine's co-dieting is causing some weird behavior in both of them.

11Passion Plundered

An attractive reporter comes to the courthouse to interview Harry; a jealous Dan listens to one of her tape recordings, and is shocked to find a steamy message on it. Unknown to either Harry or Dan, Christine finds out that the reporter is a lesbian, who publishes romance novels under a pseudonym.

12Amore or Less

13Razing Bull

An old vaudeville theater that Harry and Bull both remember fondly is targeted for demolition; Bull takes the extreme route and shackles himself to the front doors, while Harry tries to organize a benefit concert with the theater's old performers. In doing so, it is revealed that Mac used to be one of the Starlites.

14Futureman

15Wedding Bell Blues: Part 1

Tony announces that he is taking a job with the DEA and leaving for South America; on the spur of the moment, he proposes to Christine over dinner, and they are married in the restaurant. Meanwhile, Art is forced to leave his job during a dispute between the union and the city. In the hands of his pencil-pushing replacement, the courthouse quickly goes to pieces.

16Wedding Bell Blues: Part 2

17The Talk Show

18Melvin and Harold

19The Glasnost Menagerie

20I Said Dance!

21My Three Dads

22Still Another Day in the Life

23A Closer Look

24The Blues of the Birth

1A Family Affair: Part 1

2A Family Affair: Part 2

3When Harry Met Margaret

4Can't Buy Me Love

5Death Takes a Halloween

A defendant pulled in on a minor charge claims to be the Angel of Death, and says that Harry has to release him. Harry jails him for contempt of court, but begins to feel uncertain as reports come in of people miraculously surviving fatal accidents all over the city. Even more worried is Dan, who own obituary has appeared in the paper.

6Crossroads: Part 1

A possibly-toxic chemical is spilled in the courtroom, forcing the gang to spend the night there in quarantine. Each of them tells a story about the turning point in their life that led them to the courtroom. Harry gave up his career as a magician after the only agent interested in him dropped dead; Christine lost the "Miss Buffalo" beauty pageant; Roz started out as a stewardess, but discovered her real calling after knocking out a hijacker.

7Crossroads: Part 2

The turning-point stories continue. Mac tells how he almost lost his life in Vietnam; Bull tells two stories, confusing himself with the protagonists of "Superman" and "Jack & The Beanstalk"; Dan tells how he lost his virginity to a client's young wife in Louisiana.

8Day Court

9A Night Court at the Opera

10Nobody Says Rat Fink Anymore

11Jail Bait

12It's Just a Joke

13Bringing Down Baby

14Presumed Insolvent

15Mama Was a Rollin' Stone

1) Bull's mother, Henrietta "Hank" Shannon pulls into port to meet the gang. 2) Dan spends money freely after being told that he is the only person named in Phil's will. However, in a cruelly ironic twist, it turns out he has been named as trustee of The Phil Foundation, sitting on $8.1 million that he has to give away.

16Attachments Included

17Alone Again, Naturally

18Hey Harry, F'Crying Out Loud--It Is a Wonderful Life... Sorta

Harry loses all interest in life after Margaret leaves him. An angel (in the shape of Mel Torme) shows him what life would be like in the court without him: Dan is a rich and corrupt judge, Bull is his stooge candidate for mayor, Mac and Christine are the beaten-down court attorneys, and Roz goes to prison for resisting one of Dan's business enterprises. When Harry sees Dan seduce Christine, he chooses to live again, and the angel sends him on his way with a rousing performance of "Start All Over Again."

19To Sleep, No More

20With a Little Help from My Friends

21Mac Takes a Vocation

22Harry's Fifteen Minutes

23Where There's a Will, There's a Tony: Part 1

24Where There's a Will, There's a Tony: Part 2

1A Guy Named Phantom: Part 1

2A Guy Named Phantom: Part 2

3My Life as a Dog Lawyer

4Puppy Love

5Pop Goes the Question

6Guess Who's Listening to Dinner?

7Looking for Mr. Shannon

8Teacher's Pet

9The System Works

10Get Me to the Roof on Time

11Santa on the Lam

Mr. Billachi, an elderly former department store Santa, is brought into court for attacking the robot that replaced him. Disheartened by the commercialism of Christmas, he announces his intention to commit suicide, and Dan is the unlikely person who has to convince him that Christmas is still a time of giving and goodwill. His task is made harder by the fact that his normally cheerful co-workers are all complaining loudly about the mess-ups in their holiday plans.

12Shave and a Haircut

1) Harry finally becomes buddies with Mel Torme by convincing him to appear as "Man of the Year" at his old fraternity's annual dinner. When he learns that the "Man of the Year" is actually meant to be the victim of a hazing at a public rally, he desperately tries to talk Mel out of it. 2) Dan is employing Will as a bounty hunter and raking in reward money, but bites off more than he can chew when he sends Will after "Eddie the Machete." 3) Bull gets a Walkman and listens to books on tape around court.

13A New York Story

14Undressed for Success

15Poker? I Hardly Know Her

16Party Girl: Part 1

17Party Girl: Part 2

18To Sir with... Ah, What the Heck... Love

19P.S. Do I Know You?

20Opportunity Knock Knocks: Part 1

21Opportunity Knock Knocks: Part 2

22The 1992 Boat Show