The BEST episodes of Night Court
Every episode of Night Court ever, ranked from best to worst by thousands of votes from fans of the show. The best episodes of Night Court!
Judge Harold T. Stone presides over Manhattan's Night Court, where all of the petty, silly, and dime-a-dozen crimes get sent to be tried. Invariably, the cases appearing before the court are bizarre, but that's OK because Harry Stone is not your typical judge. He's assisted by a motley crew of clerks, attorneys, and bailiffs who often create as much chaos as the criminals they bring in for trial.
#1 - Clip Show (2)
Season 6 - Episode 13 - Aired 1/25/1989
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.
#2 - Opportunity Knock Knocks (2)
Season 9 - Episode 22 - Aired 5/13/1992
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.
#3 - Danny Got His Gun (3)
Season 6 - Episode 2 - Aired 10/26/1988
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.
#4 - Danny Got His Gun (1)
Season 5 - Episode 22 - Aired 5/12/1988
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.
#5 - Danny Got His Gun (2)
Season 6 - Episode 1 - Aired 10/26/1988
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.
#6 - Death Threat
Season 1 - Episode 6 - Aired 2/15/1984
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.
#7 - Teacher's Pet
Season 9 - Episode 8 - Aired 11/13/1991
Christine is disillusioned by a law professor she once idolized and Bull undergoes an unusual ceremony to regain his virginity.
#8 - Nuts About Harry
Season 2 - Episode 14 - Aired 1/17/1985
Patients from a mental institution stage a strike to convince the court they're being mistreated at the hospital.
#9 - Dad's First Date
Season 3 - Episode 3 - Aired 10/17/1985
Christine's father has his first date in eight years and ends up before Harry, along with the tenants of a clothing-optional building.
#10 - Walk Away, Renee
Season 3 - Episode 11 - Aired 12/19/1985
Nobody wants to break the news to Bull that his new girl friend is a prostitute.
#11 - Leon, We Hardly Knew Ye
Season 3 - Episode 16 - Aired 2/6/1986
Harry's concern with Leon's imminent adoption blinds him to the presence of Mel Torme in the courthouse.
#12 - Halloween II: The Return of Leon
Season 4 - Episode 4 - Aired 10/30/1986
Harry looks forward to seeing Leon again while Dan crawls for an invitation to his boss' Halloween party.
#13 - New Year's Leave
Season 4 - Episode 11 - Aired 12/18/1986
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.
#14 - Her Honor (2)
Season 4 - Episode 22 - Aired 5/6/1987
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.
#15 - The Hostage
Season 3 - Episode 2 - Aired 10/3/1985
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.
#16 - Constitution (2)
Season 5 - Episode 10 - Aired 12/10/1987
A man in the courthouse has taken an original draft of the U.S. Constitution hostage, threatening to destroy it.
#17 - Bull Gets a Kid
Season 2 - Episode 6 - Aired 11/8/1984
Bull finally is allowed a foster son by a volunteer-fathers organization, but he winds up with a bit of a surprise.
#18 - Dan's Parents
Season 2 - Episode 13 - Aired 1/10/1985
Dan's past is revealed when the parents he told everyone were dead come to see their successful sonny boy.
#19 - Mac and Quon Le: No Reservations
Season 3 - Episode 4 - Aired 10/24/1985
Mac tries to hide Quon Le from his prejudiced grandfather, who's trying to decide who to leave his millions of dollars.
#20 - Wheels of Justice (1)
Season 3 - Episode 9 - Aired 12/5/1985
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.
#21 - Harry on Trial
Season 2 - Episode 7 - Aired 11/15/1984
Harry is called before a disciplinary board for his unorthodox courtroom behavior.
#22 - Clip Show (1)
Season 6 - Episode 12 - Aired 1/25/1989
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.
#23 - Santa Goes Downtown
Season 1 - Episode 2 - Aired 1/11/1984
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.
#24 - The Law Club
Season 6 - Episode 7 - Aired 11/30/1988
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.
#25 - I'm OK, You're Catatonic/Schizophrenic
Season 5 - Episode 14 - Aired 1/21/1988
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.