Harold T. Stone becomes a night court judge and settles a dispute involving a woman threatening her husband with gunfire.
The season is merry as Harry deals with a man in a red suit charged with trespassing and tries to restore the faith of a pair of cynical teenage runaways.
Lana learns that Harry has a criminal record when she tries to find out his age to settle a bet.
A woman who claims to be Harry's long lost mother and a beauty pageant operator appear before the court.
The others try to pull Bull out of the dumps when he's turned down by a charitable organization because his size and appearance are intimidating to others.
Things are thrown into an uproar when Harry receives a threat via a rock thrown through the window and a bomb is discovered in the courtroom.
A hooker develops a crush on Harry and Dan loses a city council position to a dead man.
Dan, Harry, and Bull all compete for the same pretty attorney.
Lana disrupts the proceedings after taking a powerful cold medicine.
A Russian that is charged with selling stolen property would rather burn down the courtroom and everyone in it than go to jail.
Fans and reporters disrupt court proceedings when Harry dates a rock star, and tries to cope with a new court clerk.
The courtroom crew try to help Bull when a neighbor leaves her baby with him.
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.
An impressionable young nun decides to leave her order after meeting Harry.
A brand new public defender has a rough first day in court, thanks to Harry and her over-protective father.
Harry sends public defender Billie Young to jail for refusing to reveal the whereabouts of a cat her client is accused of kidnapping.
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.
A precocious computer whiz barricades himself in Harry's office and threatens to wipe out all his school's records.
Bull finally is allowed a foster son by a volunteer-fathers organization, but he winds up with a bit of a surprise.
Harry is called before a disciplinary board for his unorthodox courtroom behavior.
Harry feels a lot of official pressure when a notorious madame with a hot diary comes before his bench.
Harry is reluctant to have surgery for his ulcer symptoms.
A blizzard traps everyone in the courthouse and Dan in an elevator with a man who's attracted to him.
Mac marries Quon Le, a girl he knew in Vietnam, and Harry conducts court despite temporary blindness.
Billie's birthday dinner for Harry is disrupted by an insecure intruder.
Dan's past is revealed when the parents he told everyone were dead come to see their successful sonny boy.
Patients from a mental institution stage a strike to convince the court they're being mistreated at the hospital.
Selma's old beau wants to rekindle their romance and a substitute judge makes a mockery of the judicial system.
Harry uses a little hocus pocus to convince Bull he's cured of a gypsy curse.
Bull quits his job in frustration and becomes a professional wrestler.
Billie's new boyfriend turns out to be a professional problem for her, despite his romantic accomplishments.
His friends believe the worst when Dan starts dating a homely, gauche woman who's heir to $40 million.
Quon Le appears before the court for prostitution and Harry has to choose between Billie and Dan for the mayoral commission.
Harry searches for Yakov's brother, a Russian circus defector. Meanwhile, Soviet and American agents negotiate an arms agreement.
A disabled law student takes Harry's refusal of her prom invitation as a slap against her handicap.
Everyone tries to adjust to Selma's death as Harry interviews possible replacements, but Bull goes on a drinking binge instead.
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.
Christine's father has his first date in eight years and ends up before Harry, along with the tenants of a clothing-optional building.
Mac tries to hide Quon Le from his prejudiced grandfather, who's trying to decide who to leave his millions of dollars.
Harry falls hook, line and sinker for a beautiful woman.
Dan has a real problem when his high school buddy comes to visit as a decidedly changed man.
Dan's life becomes a living hell as he tries to butter his new boss; a little person with a very nasty personality.
Harry tries to free a rock star literally imprisoned by his overly solicitous entourage.
Everyone is in a financial crisis when the city can't pay its employees, Harry has to evict a woman and son, and a homeless couple from West Virginia tells their tale of woe.
Nobody wants to break the news to Bull that his new girl friend is a prostitute.
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.
A crazy judge brought in to substitute for Harry imprisons Dan and Mac for contempt and appoints Florence and Phil the wino as the defense and prosecuting attorneys.
Harry takes pity on the building shoeshine boy, who seeks refuge from a social worker trying to place him in another foster home.
Harry throws a surprise birthday for Dan whose date is extremely anxious to be home by midnight.
Harry's concern with Leon's imminent adoption blinds him to the presence of Mel Torme in the courthouse.
Christine decides to quit after she's mugged in the cafeteria, but a man takes her hostage in the courtroom before she can leave.
Harry decides to help his idol, a down-and-out magician, who goes on to help himself to Harry's possessions.
Bull tries to save a baby orangutan from animal-research experiments.
The staff tries everything they can think of to postpone Flo's mandatory retirement.
The courtroom becomes a delivery room when Hurricane Mel traps four pregnant women.
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.
Dan demands that Christine sleep with him after he saves her life with the Heimlich maneuver.
Bull tries his hand at writing a children's story; however, the results are a trifle strong for the editors he submits it to.
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.
After Dan falls into a coma, his friends maintain a bedside vigil and reminisce about the good times they've had.
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.
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 and Roz are trapped in an elevator with two hungry sumo wrestlers just convicted in Harry's court.
Harry tries to prevent the forced marriage of a Polynesian princess while her brother auctions off Christine.
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 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.
Mac goes on a drunken spree in a cowboy bar after Quon Le spends them into bankruptcy and then announces her pregnancy.
Harry is depressed and unhappy when Christine announces that she plans to marry a nice, dull guy.
NBC programming chief Brandon Tartikoff posts bail for a Neilsen family as the gang rushes to adjudicate 200 cases in one session.
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's really depressed when Christine's old friend seems to prefer Dan as does his idol, Mel Torme.
Harry helps Christine fight sexual harassment from her boss and Dan comes on to a woman who has taken a vow of celibacy.
Dan is served with a paternity suit and Bull runs for union rep against a very tough lady.
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.
Dan thinks he will become a new judge, but Christine is awarded the position. However, Harry discovers that his name is not on the judge reappointment list. Meanwhile the Wheelers, the hick couple from West Virginia, become the proprietors of the concession stand.
Upon learning that he will not be reappointed as a judge, Harry disappears to perform an outrageous stunt. But he doesn't realize that Christine, who has taken over the night court, has gotten his job back.
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.
While preparing to attempt his outrageous stunt, Harry talks to and saves the life of a suicidal man.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
A man in the courthouse has taken an original draft of the U.S. Constitution hostage, threatening to destroy it.
A blizzard traps everyone inside the courthouse and cancels holiday plans, including a visit from Bull's mother, the skipper of a garbage scow.
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.
Christine's father makes plans to retire to Florida, but winds up living with her and hanging out with Dan.
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.
A very nice stranger on the run from the mob crashes Christine's anniversary party in honor of Charles and Diana.
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.
An old flame of Harry's drops by to renew their relationship but neglects to tell him she's married.
Yakov returns for some help in getting a visa to return to Russia to visit his mother.
The gang joins Roz in an encounter group she's required to attend to temper her hostile attitude at work, and they see a new side to their co-worker.
Harry becomes uncharacteristically glum and morose after an elderly judge dies after one of Harry's pranks, so his friends urge him to respond when a new judge lays claim to Harry's crown as the "King of the Courtroom Cutups."
Mac quits after inheriting $2 million from his grandfather, leaving his friends at the mercy of the most incompetent court clerk in New York.
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.
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.
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.
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.
Harry learns in his courtroom that his date for a big social event is a porno movie star.
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.
Christine wears herself out planning a Thanksgiving feast for the courthouse regulars and Mac faces the seduction of an attractive classmate.
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.
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.
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.
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.
Christine wears herself to a frazzle watching a neighbor's baby while the others monopolize her television watching a lacrosse game.
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.
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 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.
With Judge Stone out of town, Judge Wilbur fills in. Bull is trying to raise money for his kids @ the rec hall. In a case, Mr. Van Doren & Mr. Stempel each claim that they had the correct answer to a game show question. But Bull had the right answer. The game show host was impressed that he invites Bull to be on his game show, "What Am I?". But Bull gets nervous over pressure, so Dan tries hypnotic suggestion that actually works. He quips he'd want to see Judge Wilber stuffed in a mail chute. Minutes later, they find Bull hypnotized, carrying Judge Wilbur with her. She gets wise & sends Dan to jail! In the jail area, the gang reads the hypnotics book trying to hypnotise Bull. Christine mentions that when he hears a certain word or phrase, Bull will be completely calm. Dan sees a sexy female baliff & says "I Want To Be Your Love Slave!". They were disgusted that Dan gave him a profane phrase. Bull is now on the game show, competing against two other contestants. Bull gets nerv
Harry and the gang refuse to take Christine and her new beau seriously: he's old enough to be her 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 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.
Harry’s longtime friend/father-figure Buddy Ryan (John Astin) inadvertently reveals the sting operation to Cologne, thereby placing Harry and the courthouse staff — and their mission — in serious danger.
Roz falls in love with Christine's prison pen pal.
Christine accepts a date with Art the handyman, then regrets it, meanwhile Mac's children's story is lost in the courthouse computer.
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.
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.
Dan plans to swindle a billionaire land developer and Mac agrees to host a cosmetics party for Quon Le.
Christine falls for the gorgeous piece of beefcake assigned to protect Dan when the sleazy DA receives several death threats.
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.
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.
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.
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.
Harry and Mac team up to market one of Quon Le's snack concoctions and Christine's 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.
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 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.
Christine finds everyone too busy to help her our with her new romance so she turns to two feuding advice columnists.
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.
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.
Christine (played by Markie Post) finds out she is pregnant, and the episode deals with the fallout of that revelation.
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.
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.
Harry helps Yakov get a visa extension for his father and Mac buys a washing machine with an attitude problem.
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.
While attending childbirth class with her three coaches, Christine imagines her child as it grows up influenced by each of the eager proxy fathers.
Harry helps a young man appearing before his court stop his girl friend's marriage to a prefab preppie.
Harry, his court and co-workers come under the sharp journalistic eye of a TV reporter doing a story on typical night court events.
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 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.
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.
Harry's first date with Margaret Turner, the new court reporter, turns into a disaster when he follows Dan's advice.
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.
On Halloween, Harry locks up a defendant known as the Spirit of Death, and people, including next scheduled victim Dan, stop dying.
When the staff is quarantined for the night, they spend the hours reminiscing about turning points in their lives.
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
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.
Dan tries to win over Margaret during a night at the opera and Bull acquires disciples convinced that he's their god.
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.
A street artist helps raise Christine's spirits, and Mac and Dan indulge a passion for photography.
Everyone gets their two cents in when a comic's offensive routine sparks a First Amendment debate.
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.
Dan looks at Phil the wino in a whole new light when the bum rescues a defendant left penniless by the S&L crisis.
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.
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.
Harry gets a wealth of conflicting advice when he confides in his friends that he thinks Margaret is about to propose marriage.
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.
Dan suffers all the pangs of a guilty conscience over misuse of the Phil Foundation funds. Bull tries out a toupee, the Shatner 2000.
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.
Harry gets riled when a supreme court judge woos Mac away to serve as a vote-getting token on his staff and Dan hires an English valet in an attempt to replace Phil.
Harry lets an article naming him one of New York's 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 Phil's twin brother Will.
The episode juggles the interplay between Harry’s reaction to Christine and Tony’s reconciliation efforts, Christine’s feelings and decisions, and Dan’s shifting identity in his foundation role — all while maintaining the comedic courtroom backdrop that the series is known for.
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.
Dan's plan takes an unexpected turn when he "kidnaps" Christine Sullivan (Markie Post), leading her to the courthouse's subterranean levels. As the night unfolds, the mystery deepens, and the true identity of the thief is revealed.
Harry brings the country to the brink of war by jailing a diplomat from a small but belligerent nation, and Dan returns to duty.
Roz stuns her co-workers when her uptown husband pays a visit to secure a divorce so he can marry again.
Wanda learns on the anniversary of their first date that Bull must perform a miracle before he can marry her.
Dan tries to break up with the daughter of a crime boss, who insists Dan reconsider over dinner-and that he bring along Christine.
Bull's bachelor party turns into a disaster when the guys are stranded at a motel with no money and no transportation, and where Bull is kidnapped.
Christine is disillusioned by a law professor she once idolized and Bull undergoes an unusual ceremony to regain his virginity.
Harry has his hands full when he agrees to teach a law course with a eclectic group of students and Dan hires an artist to do some very special sketches of Christine.
Bull's wedding day threatens to fall apart when bride Wanda refuses to wear Mother Hank's wedding gown, Harry and Art quarrel over being best man and Christine over-organizes everything.
On Christmas Eve Dan tries to show a disillusioned Santa that the holiday spirit still exists as Harry tries to get away from a depressing lonely soul he's befriended.
Harry goes all out to get Mel Torme to accept a man-of-the-year award unaware that it's all a prank and Dan and Will turn into bounty hunters.
Harry uncovers a city financial snafu when a defendant proves he owns several prominent landmarks and Dan enjoys being a beauty pageant judge.
Mac considers doing an underwear commercial for some quick cash and Roz entrusts some personal treasures to Dan.
Roz hosts a makeup-poker party while Harry redecorates his office and Dan dallies with a courtroom cutie.
A political consultant persuades Christine to run for Congress, Dan becomes a sexual surrogate, and Mac's video of Bull's wedding achieves a certain distinction.
Christine Sullivan (Markie Post) confronts her political opponent's office to address his aggressive campaign tactics. Despite their initial adversarial relationship, they find common ground and get along well. However, after Christine leaves, her opponent unexpectedly dies of a heart attack.
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 Bull's mama.
Roz dreads meeting a male pen pal who's expecting someone just a little different than the real Roz.
Roz steals the show and Dan's spot with the in-crowd when a gossip columnist discovers her and Lisette tries to deal with her erotic dreams about Harry.
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.
In this penultimate episode of the series, Dan Fielding (John Larroquette) attempts to secure an interview with a high-society newspaper columnist to boost his social standing. However, his plan backfires when the columnist becomes more interested in Roz Russell (Marsha Warfield) instead.
A featurette on the origins of Night Court by Creator/Executive Producer Reinhold Weege and Harry Anderson.
