Created by: Reinhold Weege
Starring: Harry Anderson, Karen Austin, John Larroquette, Paula Kelly, Richard Moll, Selma Diamond, Gail Strickland, Ellen Foley, Charles Robinson, Markie Post, Marsha Warfield
Angela Aames, Philip Abbott, Ray Abruzzo, John Achorn, Diane Adair, Rush Adams, Pamela Adlon, Barbara C. Adside, Michael Alaimo, Joe Alaskey, Wil Albert, Dolores Albin, Rhonda Aldrich, Bruno Alexander, Joe Alfasa, Tom Allard, Clint Allen, Gary Allen, Jeff Altman, Don Amendolia, Juli Andelman, Doug Anderson, Larry Anderson, Luke Andreas, Dorothy Andrews, Antar, Susan Anton, Bill Applebaum, Fred Applegate, John Aprea, Lee Arenberg, Joey Aresco, David Armstrong, Dannel Arnold, Lee Arnone-Briggs, Reid Asato, John Astin, Ford Austin, James Avery, Jack Axelrod, Beth Aylward, Candice Azzara, Parley Baer, Jim Bailey, Carl Ballantine, Bob Bancroft, Arnold Bankston, Steven R. Bannister, Jack Bannon, Brian Banowetz, Olivia Barash, Debbie Barker, Sharon Barr, Steven Barr, Robert V. Barron, J.J. Barry, Eddie Barth, Norman Bartold, Laura Bassett, John C. Becher, Billy Beck, Theresa Bell, Robert Bendall, Gregg Berger, Shelley Berman, Jason Bernard, Nat Bernstein, Albert T. Berry, Bibi Besch, Leslie Bevis, Raye Birk, Frank Birney, Shirley Blackwell, Douglas Blair, Mark Blankfield, Andrew Bloch, Dirk Blocker, Ann Bloom, Phil Bock, Boyd Bodwell, Earl Boen, Hal Bokar, Lou Bonacki, Bill Bonham, Frank Bonner, Dee Booher (Queen Kong), Elayne Boosler, Chris Bosley, Bud Bougie, Ron Boussom, Charles Bouvier, Don Bovingloh, Simmy Bow, Richard Boyer, William Boyett, Christian Brackett-Zika, John Braden, Marilyn Brandt, Dominick Brascia, Doru Brenner, Randy Brenner, Richard Brestoff, Mark Bringelson, Ritch Brinkley, Stanley Brock, Roy Brocksmith, Diana Brookes, Joel Brooks, Matthew Brooks, Elliott Broones, Richard Brose, Andre Rosey Brown, P.L. Brown, Roger Aaron Brown, Barbara Brownell, Philip Bruns, Suzanne Q. Burdeau, Dennis Burkley, John Burnside, Darrell Burris, Dick Butkus, Andrew Butler, Mary Cadorette, Cathy Cahn, David Michael Cain, Bill Calvert, Don Calfa, K Callan, John Calvin, Bill Capizzi, Carmine Caridi, Catherine Carlen, David Carlile, Jodi Carlisle, Victoria Carroll, Darwyn Carson, Johnny Carson, Susan Cash, Barbara Cason, Christopher Cass, Gerald Castillo, Madelyn Cates, Mary Jo Catlett, Hennen Chambers, Loyita Chapel, Jordan Charney, Anthony Charnota, Channing Chase, Tom Chatlos, Jeff Chayette, Don Cheadle, Eric Christmas, Gordon Clapp, Larry Clardy, Carolyn Ann Clark, Oliver Clark, Lana Clarkson, Marcello Clay, John Scott Clough, Richard Coca, Edward Coch Jr, Beatrice Colen, Burton Collins, Paul Collins, Frank Collison, Daureen Collodel, Vance Colvig Jr, Cristi Conaway, Gino Conforti, Kelly Connell, Luis Contreras, Daniel Cook, Elisha Cook Jr, Dee Cooper, John Copage, Natalie Core, Jeff Corey, Pat Corley, Gus Corrado, Robert Costanzo, Dan Cotter, Bob Courts, Suzanne Covington, Nikki Cox, Patrick Cranshaw, Ellen Crawford, James Cromwell, Patrick Cronin, Murphy Cross, Keene Curtis, Robin Curtis, Charles Cyphers, Blackie Dammett, Tim Dang, Kenneth Danziger, Cibby Danyla, Molly David, Lance Davis, Kristine DeBell, Paul DeCeglie, David De Lange, Jack DeLeon, Myles DeRussy, Patrick DeSantis, Juan De Villa, Steve DeVorkin, Mary Dean, Lezlie Deane, Marcia del Mar, John Del Regno, George DelHoyo, Jake Dengel, Rocco Di Nobile, John DiSanti, Denny Dillon, Susan Diol, Kenneth Dixon, Tona Dodd, Jack Dodson, Jeff Doucette, Jim Doughan, Lionel Douglass, Lynwood D. Douthett, Fran Drescher, Alice Drummond, Helen Duffy, Thomas F. Duffy, John Dullaghan, Jane Dulo, David Dunard, Angus Duncan, Gail Edwards, Daniel Elam, Alix Elias, Douglas Emerson, Jonathan Emerson, Cliff Emmich, Melba Englander, Robert Englund, Bill Evans, Troy Evans, Michael Fairman, Matthew Faison, Ron Fassler, Stephanie Faulkner, Bevis Faversham, Arlan Feiles, Ron Feinberg, Conchata Ferrell, Lou Ferrigno, Irena Ferris, Brian Fessenden, Jimmy Fields, Mike Finneran, Shirley Jo Finney, Bruce M. Fischer, Charles Fleischer, Miriam Flynn, Lois Foraker, Michael J. Fox, Richard Frank, William Frankfather, Al Frazier, Harry Frazier, Patty Freedman, Loren Freeman, Bruce French, Daniel Frishman, Sig Frohlich, Ben Frommer, Teresa Frost, Stephen Furst, Denise Gallup, Dian Gallup, Ben Ryan Ganger, Teresa Ganzel, Martin Garner, Joy Garrett, Buddy Gates, Larry Gelman, Howard George, Jay Gerber, Dan Gerrity, Donald Gibb, Cal Gibson, Louan Gideon, Jack Gilford, Richard Gilliland, Teresa Gilmore, Craig Gini, Mary Pat Gleason, George Golden, Lorry Goldman, Gabriel Gonzalez, Harold Gould, Andre Gower, Wayne Grace, Rorion Gracie, David Graf, Bruce Gray, Brian Greene, Daniel Greene, Eugene Greytak, Pam Grier, Chester Grimes, Michael Griswold, Max Grodenchik, Michael Gross, Gary Grossman, Corky Hages, Archie Hahn, Dao Hale, Doug Hale, Kevin Peter Hall, Shashawnee Hall, Florence Halop, Lou Hancock, Sonja Haney, Danna Hansen, Peter Hansen, Ernest Harada, Jeff Harlan, Deborah Harmon, Magda Harout, Jack L. Harrell, Estelle Harris, John Harris, Schae Harrison, Linda Hart, Harry Hart-Browne, Ben Hartigan, Teri Hatcher, Alan Haufrect, Dennis Haysbert, Sally-Jane Heit, Sandy Helberg, Randee Heller, Adam Hendershott, James Hendo, Tera Hendrickson, Tom Henschel, Alex Henteloff, Doris Hess, Brent Hinkley, Amy Hill, Andrew Hill Newman, I.M. Hobson, Basil Hoffman, Isabella Hofmann, Michael Hoit, Rebecca Holden, Anthony Holland, Arva Holt, Howard Honig, Tad Horino, Lew Horn, Marilyn Horn, Jason Horst, Keri Houlihan, D.D. Howard, Erik Howell, Linda Hoy, Kelly Hu, Mary-Margaret Humes, Michael Hungerford, Rif Hutton, Peter Iacangelo, John Ingle, Roger Ito, Gregory Itzin, Rosanna Iversen, Eugene Jackson, Jim Jackman, Laura Jacoby, Lisa Jakub, Clifton James, Harvey Jason, Michael Jeter, Heath Jobes, Roy Johns, Alan Johnson, Arte Johnson, Greg Allen Johnson, Jodi Johnson, Karl Johnson, Jack Jones, Jessie Jones, Renee Jones, Leslie Jordan, S. Marc Jordan, Jack Jozefson, Israel Juarbe, Gordon Jump, Peter Jurasik, Edgar Justice, Kalassu, David Kaufman, Neal Kaz, Paul Keith, Mimi Kennedy, Diane Kennerly, Paul Kent, Ken Kerman, Zale Kessler, Kenneth Kimmins, Bruce Kirby, Bill Kirchenbauer, Terry Kiser, James Kline, Kurt Knudson, Milt Kogan, Allan Kolman, Robert Korda, Chuck Kovacic, Mitch Kreindel, Paul Kreppel, Gary Kroeger, Denice Kumagai, Annette Kurek, Jack Kutcher, Ginger LaBrie, Suzanne LaRusch, Matthew Labyorteaux, Carlos Lacamara, Paul Lambert, Charles Lampkin, Judy Landers, Matt Landers, Sydney Lassick, Bobbi Jo Lathan, Mitchell Laurence, Jeremy Lawrence, Rickie Layne, Paul LeClair, Brianne Leary, Patti R. Lee, Phil Leeds, Nancy Lenehan, Jimmy Lennon Jr, Lu Leonard, Will Leong, Ed Levey, Charles Levin, Greg Lewis, Paul Lewis, Mimi Lieber, Paul Lieber, Kenneth Lloyd, Sam Lloyd, Chi Muoi Lo, Saverio LoMedico, Tony Longo, Arlene Lorre, Freeman Love, Curt Lowens, Andrew Lowery, Ronn Lucas, Vincent Lucchesi, Benny Luciano, Keye Luke, Joleen Lutz, John Lykes, Lilly Lyman, Janice Lynde, Doug MacHugh, James MacNerland, Melanie MacQueen, Cynthia Mace, Brandon Maciel, Tommy Madden, Joyce Mandel, Wesley Mann, Ruth Manning, Dinah Manoff, Eric Mansker, Ralph Manza, Jerry Maren, Kahlena Marie, Nancy Marlow, Maurice Marsac, Barney Martin, Marji Martin, Sandy Martin, Sebastian Massa, Raf Mauro, Dawson Mays, Cathy McAuley, Annette McCarthy, Rod McCary, Peggy McCay, Marsha McClelland, Marilyn McCoo, Charles McDaniel, Tricia McFarlin, Jack McGee, John McIntire, Logan McKarra, Debbie McLeod, Michael McManus, Courtenay McWhinney, Caroline McWilliams, Richard Mehana, Jon Menick, Micole Mercurio, Eda Reiss Merin, Richard Merson, Marsha Meyers, Jim Michael, Tom Michael, David Shawn Michaels, Michael Michaud, Jeanette Miller, Jed Mills, Candi Milo, Faith Minton, Mike Mitchell, Katherine Moffat, Debi A. Monahan, Paula Montes, King Moody, Molly Morgan, Jeanne Mori, Iona Morris, Ann Morrison, Karen Morrow, Jim Mouth, Marianne Muellerleile, Marti Muller, George Murdock, Jack Murdock, Henry Murph, Jude Mussetter, Louis Mustillo, Ken Myles, Charles Napier, James Nardini, Frances E. Nealy, Mark Neely, Audrie Neenan, Lissa Negrin, Craig Richard Nelson, Rob Neukrich, Peter Neushul, Tracy New, Dave Nicolson, Yana Nirvana, Henry Noguchi, Jeanette Nolan, Roger Nolan, Greg Norberg, Hope North, Audrianne Norwood, Louie Novoa, Kathye O'Brien, Patrick T. O'Brien, Susan O'Connor, Annie O'Donnell, Kathleen O'Hara, John O'Leary, Amy O'Neill, Barry O'Neill, Dick O'Neill, Betty Oakland, Deanna Olivier, Walter Olkewicz, Alan Oppenheimer, Gary Owens, Janis Paige, Stuart Pankin, James Paradise, Julie Paris, Dorothy Parke, Nancy Parsons, Robert Pastorelli, Tom Patrick, George Pentecoat, Raoul Perez, Bob Perlow, Joseph Perry, Lisa Pescia, Stack Pierce, Turk Pipkin, John S. Platt, Donna Ponterotto, Peggy Pope, Charlotte Portney, Pat Portus, Ray Pourchot, Lena Pousette, Karen Powell, Dennis A. Pratt, Shirley Prestia, Phil Proctor, Gregory Propst, Harold Pruett, Harry Pugh, Don Pugsley, Jan Rabson, Bobby Ramsen, Anne Ramsey, Logan Ramsey, Ellen Ratner, Jim Raymond, Nick Raymond, Della Reese, Marti Reese, Joe Regalbuto, Whitney Reis, Peter Renaday, Frieda Rentie, DeeDee Rescher, Allan Rich, Tessa Richarde, Jennifer Richards, Leoda Richards, Michael Richards, Branscombe Richmond, Patrick Richwood, Robert Ridgely, Jack Riley, Tony Rizzoli, Richard Roat, Beth Robbins, Michael D. Roberts, Diane Robin, Bumper Robinson, Jay Robinson, Tony Rocco, Mario Roccuzzo, Eugene Roche, Stan Rodarte, Marcia Rodd, Mark Rodney, Melody Rogers, Harper Roisman, Stephen Root, Margot Rose, Al Rosen, Marion Ross, Michael A. Ross, Ron Ross, Nicole Rosselle, Joseph Michael Roth, Jacqueline Rowen, Maria Rubell, Phil Rubenstein, Blanche Rubin, Dean Rubin, Steve Ruggles, Al Ruscio, Anthony Russell, Susan Ruttan, Fran Ryan, Paul Ryan, Ken Sagoes, Beverly Sanders, Henry G. Sanders, Richard Sanders, Peter Saputo, Bob Sarlatte, George Sasaki, Wendy Schaal, Kenneth J. Scherr, Vincent Schiavelli, Barbara Schillaci, Mark Schriver, Pete Schrum, Lana Schwab, Geoffrey Scott, Roger Scott, David Sederholm, Eileen Seeley, Bernard Sell, Albie Selznick, Matt Shakman, Cathy Shambley, Joe Shea, Pearl Shear, Alan Shearman, Michael Sheehan, Don Sherman, Bill Shick, Craig Shoemaker, Joseph R. Sicari, Steffanie Siebrand, Kevin Sifuentes, Hartley Silver, Tommy Simmons, Raymond Singer, Rico Skean, Ben Slack, Yakov Smirnoff, Eddie Smith, Essex Smith, Eve Smith, Hal Smith, Lionel Mark Smith, Marvin Smith, Walter Smith, Bill Snider, Juliet Sorci, Brent Spiner, Timothy Stack, Richard Stahl, John Bear Staible, Florence Stanley, Don Stark, Beau Starr, Mary Stavin, Cynthia Steele, Kerry Stein, Nathan Stein, Philip Sterling, Stevie Sterling, Nico Stevens, Stella Stevens, Lynne Marie Stewart, Diane Stilwell, Brian Stokes Mitchell, Leonard Stone, Kenny Studer, K.T. Sullivan, Sumant, Laura Summer, Bunny Summers, Leland Sun, Philip Suriano, Carol Ann Susi, Todd Susman, Carol Swarbrick, Ethel Sway, Warren Sweeney, Rachel Sweet, Walter Sylvest, Rita Taggart, Elisabeth Talbot-Martin, Professor Toru Tanaka, Cynthia Targosz, Brandon Tartikoff, Mark L. Taylor, Ron Taylor, Angelo Tiffe, Kenneth Tigar, Kenneth Tobey, Tony Todd, Mel Torme, Nick Toth, Arthur Tovey, Roger Trantham, Robert Trebor, Michael Tucci, Ann Turkel, B.J. Turner, Nick Ullett, Stanley Ullman, Sydney Urshan, William Utay, Kary Lynn Vail, Titos Vandis, Chick Vennera, Helen Verbit, Melanie Vincz, Nana Visitor, Sam Vlahos, Nedra Volz, Taunie Vrenon, Steve Wagner, Richard Wakasa, George D. Wallace, Marcia Wallace, Ray Walston, Lisa Waltz, Lyman Ward, Sandy Ward, Sela Ward, William Ward, Elliot Washington, Laura Waterbury, Perry Wayne, Chris Weatherhead, Dean Wein, Barry Weisman, Jack Wells, Rachel Wells, Wendy Wells-Gunkel, John Welsh, Jordan Wendkos, Gail Wenos, John Wheeler, Christina Whitaker, James Widdoes, Biff Wiff, David Wiley, Lee Wilkof, Tom Willett, Chino "Fats" Williams, Tom Williams, Ilona Wilson, Lisle Wilson, Turner Wilson Jr, Lawrence Wolf, Natalie Wood, Frank Woods, Gayle Woods, Gary Woodward, Lenore Woodward, Charles Woolf, Nicholas Worth, Larry Wright, Patrick Wright, Meg Wyllie, Biff Yeager, Erica Yohn, Clara York, Rebecca York, Adele Yoshioka, Anna Young, Lang Yun, Marty Zagon, Janet Zarish, Kate Zentall, Rick Zumwalt
193 episodes
(TV-PG - adult language, adult themes, adult situations)
PLOT:
An eccentric fun-loving judge presides over an urban night court and all the silliness going on there.
season 1 -
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. Harry must deal with a pair of volatile teenage runaways and an old man who believes he's the real Santa Claus. An office bet over what Harry's true age is leads to the discovery that he has a criminal record. Harry's "missing" mother and a beauty pageant operator appear in court. Bull feels misunderstood and quits in anger. A blind shoplifter awaiting trial keeps trying to give his police handler the slip. A rock is thrown through the courtroom window, with a death threat in Harry's name. A smitten prostitute waits for Harry in his chambers. Dan and Bull are at odds over the same woman, Harry throws his cap into the ring when he realizes the woman has a spare ticket for a Mel Torme concert. Lana starts acting crazy after overdosing on some medications. A Russian immigrant threatens to set himself and the courtroom on fire. Harry's relationship with a rock star leads to the courtroom being overrun by her fans. Bull is a walking zombie at work, and the court staff finds that he has been taking care of a baby for a neighbor who has apparently abandoned him. A woman must choose between her two husbands, one of whom was thought killed in Vietnam.
season 2 -
A young novice nun decides to leave her convent after becoming smitten with Harry. Bright young public defender Christine Sullivan finds out she still has a lot to learn after her first day in Harry's court, while Harry ends up throwing her overprotective father in jail for insulting him. On her first day, public defender Billie Young takes an aggressive stand in defense of her client against a powerful corporation, a stand that leads to her being jailed for contempt. A humble man with a $3 million lottery ticket wants Harry to give it away to the most worthy person. A school-aged computer whiz hacks into the school district's database and takes their permanent records hostage. When Bull becomes a volunteer father to a 13-year-old boy, he is in for a real surprise, he discovers the boy is a girl. Harry's nemesis, Judge Willard, has him tried before the Judicial Review Board on charges of unprofessional behavior. When an exclusive house of prostitution gets busted, Harry must decide whether to admit the madam's private diary as evidence in the case against her. Harry is struck down in the middle of session by crippling stomach pains, but stubbornly refuses medical treatment. A blizzard traps the gang inside the courthouse without supplies, and an electrical failure traps Dan in an elevator with a gay man who finds him very attractive. Mac marries a woman he met in Vietnam and Harry refuses to ignore his duties despite the loss of his sight. Feeling sorry for Harry on his birthday, Billie takes him to her apartment for a nightcap. They are held up by a burglar and spend the night tied together. Dan's extremely rustic parents come to visit him in Manhattan, embarrassing him all night until he disowns them. A group of mental patients fleeing their hospital run loose in the courtroom, with one, a mute, shutting herself in a closet with a revolver. Selma's old boyfriend, Marty, comes after her again. While Harry is shut in his office for an annual file review, his super-efficient replacement, Judge Kopelson, charms the entire staff, but a background check reveals him to be a fraud. A spiritual medium responds to Harry's contempt of court sentence by placing a curse on the courtroom. Harry thinks she's a phony, but Bull collapses, paralyzed, while Dan's accountant drops dead during an audit. Feeling dissatisfied with his job, Bull becomes interested in a wrestling promoter's offer. Billie breaks down when her boyfriend David is brought into court on a pickpocketing charge. Dan becomes engaged to an ugly duckling heiress, but everyone is surprised to hear him swear his feelings are genuine. When Mac's wife, Quon Le, is accidentally arrested, both realize how much they love each other and decide to live together. Meanwhile, Billie and Dan find themselves competing for a commission appointment. Yakov's brother wants to defect to the United States, in short order Harry's courtroom is overrun by a Russian circus troupe, agents of the KGB and CIA, and a pair of hot-tempered arms negotiators. When a wheelchair-bound protegee of Harry's expresses romantic interest in him, he becomes aware of some uncomfortable feelings about her disability.
season 3 -
Christine Sullivan is permanently assigned as the court's public defender. Grieving Selma's death, Bull goes on an all-night Bender with a group of circus performers and arrives the next day drunk and disorderly. A man claiming to be from Saturn holds the court hostage with a stolen handgun. Dan's hot date with Sheila goes awry when he inadvertently eats drugged food meant for the man. Christine is excited when her father, Jack, makes a date with an attractive young woman, but less so when Jack shows up in court on a charge of soliciting a prostitute. Mac's grandfather disinherits him after finding that he has married Quon Le, an Asian woman. Harry falls for Kim, a beautiful and free-spirited young woman. But then she appears in court, claiming to be a witch, with a tabloid reporter hovering in the background. Dan looks forward to a reunion with his old college buddy, but is shocked to find that he has undergone a transgender operation. The new district attorney shows up to observe Dan, who falls short of making a good first impression, and Flo receives attention from a potential suitor. A rock star wanders around the courtroom, trying to escape his crazed fans, his solicitous entourage, and his greedy psychiatrist. 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. After quitting, Harry is hanging out at a pool hall across the street from the courthouse. The gang have to talk him into coming back, even as his replacement creates a stir by dying during session. Bull is deeply in love with his new girlfriend, Renee. No one wants to be the one to tell him that she is actually a prostitute. 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. Some crazy substitute judge puts Dan and Mac in jail and appoints a wino and Florence as the court attorneys. The staff are surprised to discover that Leon, the shoe shine boy, is actually an orphan living in the courthouse. Rather than let him be sent to juvenile hall, Harry asks for custody of him. 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. Leon threatens to run away again when Juvenile Services attempts to take him from Harry and place him with a pair of geeky foster parents. Harry is so preoccupied that he misses a visit by Mel Torme, his idol. After being mugged, Christine becomes belligerent and mistrustful, and unable to do her job as a public defender. She has to rediscover her compassion when her mugger is trapped in the cafeteria and threatens hostages with a grenade. Meanwhile, Phil gets a hot stock tip from an old Wall Street buddy, and Dan nearly bankrupts himself trying to wheedle it out of him. Harry meets an elderly magician that he idolized as a child, and invites him to his apartment for a private performance. The gang arrives at Harry's apartment to find it stripped bare. Bull tries to hide a test monkey from a scientist, Dan romances an amnesiac woman. Florence is devastated to learn that she has reached mandatory retirement age. Hurricane Mel hits New York, trapping the staff inside the courthouse with four women in labor.
season 4 -
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 saves Christine from choking in the cafeteria. Convinced that she owes him her life, Christine asks how she can repay him. His answer is simple: sleep with him. 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 woman with Dissociative Identity Disorder whole personality switches without warning from a prude to a sexpot, and back again. Leon returns to Manhattan, but threatens to run away again if Harry reports him to the authorities. Dan plans to crash District Attorney Daniels's Halloween party. 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. Dan awakens from his coma, and Harry confronts him about his selfish and self-destructive behavior. Harry's temporary replacement carries a huge revolver with him everywhere he goes. When the new judge offers Dan a bribe, Dan becomes the reluctant pawn in a sting operation. While Harry's away, a female judge fills in for him and after Christine talks back to her in court, she is thrown in jail. When Harry offers to talk to her to get her to change her decision, he ends up sleeping with her. Dan quickly goes to pieces when an earthquake traps him and Roz in an elevator with a pair of sumo wrestlers. 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 estranged marriage with the trollish Ogg. Meanwhile, the Prince becomes smitten with Christine. On New Year's Eve, a sweet old man brought into the 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 claiming to be the year 1987 runs around the courthouse in a diaper. A sweet old lady comes into the courtroom and cheerfully confesses to murdering her husband. Harry is not sure he believes her. Mac goes over the edge when Quon Le spends all their money and then announces that they are having a baby. Christine is engaged to Bill, the world's most boring human being. When she gives signs of cold feet (including throwing up in Dan's briefcase) the others try to gently (or not so gently) talk her out of it. The court has to process an unusually large docket (200 cases) before midnight to head off a federal judge's general amnesty setting free all defendants not arraigned by then. A stray dog that Harry picked up bites Dan, putting him in fear of contracting rabies. Dan and Harry compete for the attentions of Christine's attractive friend Heather. Christine accuses her boss of sexual harassment, Harry and Bull participate in an elaborate scheme to get proof. Dan is slapped with a paternity suit, and his supposed son shows up at the courthouse to claim his father. While swearing in a group of immigrants as U.S. citizens, the gang is interrupted when Quon Le goes into labor at the same time Mac is struck down by an appendicitis and both are rushed to the hospital. Dan confidently expects to be nominated as a judge, but takes a blow when the committee picks Christine instead. Everyone else is happy for her, until they are told that Harry has been turned down for re-appointment. Christine tries to convince Harry to fight for his job, but Harry rejects her advice, planning instead to play the ultimate prank, a stunt so outrageous and crazy that it will get the attention of the entire city.
season 5 -
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. While preparing to attempt his outrageous stunt, Harry talks to and saves the life of a suicidal man. Christine realizes she cannot look at cases neutrally and goes back to being a defense attorney. Bull is struck by lightning and is clinically dead for a few minutes. After recovering, he says God has told him to give away everything he owns to the poor. After Roz dumps her boyfriend, Christine tries to make friends in order to comfort her. The two end up sharing a wild night at a male strip club. 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. 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. 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. Dan is crushed when he is afflicted by impotence. Harry hires Joy, a blind woman, as his personal assistant, whose abrasive manner drives nearly everyone to thoughts of homicide. 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. 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. A blizzard outside and a broken boiler inside puts the court staff and all the defendants in danger of freezing to death. A man with a grudge handcuffs a dynamite-filled briefcase to Dan's arm. Bull walks around the courtroom in a blindfold, trying to empathize with Joy's blindness. Christine's father, Jack, retires his taxicab and trades his apartment for a motor home, but stays with Christine while his RV is being outfitted. He soon drives her crazy, especially by making best friends with Dan. Buddy's patronizing younger brother, Phil, convinced 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. Christine is furious when she finds out that Harry is forcing the entire staff to attend her party celebrating Charles and 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 out that Bob is in the Witness Protection Program and has a hit man after him, forcing them to barricade the apartment. The court staff has to finish 207 cases by midnight. If they do, the 207th defendant, a Texas millionaire with a gambling compulsion, will pay the money to save an orphanage from foreclosure. An old girlfriend from college visits Harry at the courthouse. They end up in a passionate clinch in his chambers, with Harry in a half-dressed condition, when she lets slip that she's married. 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. Roz is ordered to enroll in an anger management group. At the first session, the group is taken hostage by a scared teenager fleeing a failed armed robbery. Harry starts feeling his game when a young Turk breaks his record as the youngest judge ever appointed, and vies for his title as the courtroom's greatest prankster. 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 multi-million-dollar lawsuit. It is revealed 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 Caribbean 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.
season 6 -
season 6 -
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. 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. 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. 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 she is an adult film actress. 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. An attractive classmate of Mac's goes after him and Christine does too much preparing Thanksgiving dinner for the courthouse. Dan is elated to be offered membership in New York's most exclusive lawyer's club, but he wrestles with his conscience when the leading member romances Christine as part of a club competition. Two eccentric defendants pass through the courtroom: a man who has awakened from a 20-year coma, and an obsessed inventor attached to his self-aware computer. While collecting for Toys For Toddlers, Bull accidentally takes a truckload of toys belonging to a Scrooge-like factory owner, who demands that they be returned. Since Roz has already passed them out, she refuses to take them back, and Harry has no choice but to jail her. After the court staff participate in a research study for a think tank, Bull is diagnosed with a super-genius intelligence, and is offered a post at the think tank. Christine gladly agrees to take care of a friend's baby for the weekend, but the experience turns out to be the opposite of what she expected. Harry enthusiastically pulls the staff into an office bet on his old college lacrosse team. A city accountant audits the court's expenses. leading to a series of flashbacks. Near the end of the audit, the staff and the accountant are taken hostage in Harry's office by a circus clown with a gun. 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. Bull is encouraged to appear on a game show to win enough money to save a boys' club's gymnasium. To help him get over his jitters, Dan hypnotizes him, but inadvertently plants an obscene trigger phrase in his mind. Everyone pokes fun at Christine's relationship with Ted, a senior citizen. On election night for the state assembly race. Dan, to his own surprise, has a passionate evening with his opponent, Joan Hobson. 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. Christine has a prison pen pal who escapes and Roz falls for him. Mac loses his story in the justice computer and Christine accepts then rejects a date from the janitor. Dan hopes to catch the last plane out of town on a day when the courtroom is flooded with cases, and with water.
season 7 -
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. 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. Dan receives a death threat and demands police protection. Sparks fly between Christine and the undercover detective sent to the courthouse. Bull carries a video camera everywhere around with him, filming his average night for his mother. 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. Dan gets more than he bargained for when he foolishly agrees to take Bull to a private singles club. 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. Broke after losing his car, Dan is living in his office. 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 mother was sick, Roz can't be her normally forceful self, and instead conscripts Mac to masquerade as her fiance. A Zsa Zsa-like widow is detained at the courthouse when her diamond necklace is swallowed by another defendant's dog. Harry and Mac decide to market one of Quon Le's snack inventions. Christine has an unexpected visitor. 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. Dan is suspended from work while prepping 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. 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 famous pseudonym. Christine's relationship with Tony goes through a rocky phase when his devotion to his job as a cop cuts down on their time together. 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. A man claiming to be from the future (and armed with a working laser gun) takes the courtroom hostage, while two street punks are holding Dan. Bull tries the whole range of remedies for getting rid of his hiccups. 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. Trying to deal with Tony's absence, Christine discovers she is pregnant. Dan's girlfriend convinced him to appear as a shock-host of a talk show. Mac and Quon Le's planned vacation to Graceland encounters problems. Mel Torme can't appear at Harry's birthday party because Harry sent him to jail. Harry works on a visa extension for Yakov, and Mac buys a defective washing machine. Roz could be sued with the help of Bull's cousin after Bull shoots himself with her gun. With Tony absent, Harry, Bull and Dan all volunteer as Christine's Lamaze coach. At their first class, Christine is tormented by visions of her child as a younger version of each of them. A man asks Harry to help stop the marriage of his girlfriend to another man. A TV reporter is watching everyone in the court and they have to be on their toes. Christine is stuck in Ana elevator as she goes into labor.
season 8 -
When Christine returns after her baby's birth, she must deal with her replacement's legacy and Dan wants Bull to date his visiting sister. For Harry, it's love at first sight when he lays eyes on Margaret Turner, a bossy news reporter assigned to the courthouse. When she appears not to know he exists, he is so desperate to make an impression that he turns to Dan for advice. Dan is won at a bachelor auction by a lecherous old woman and Christine has doubts about her marriage. 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, whose own obituary has appeared in the paper. 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. Mac tells how he almost lost his life in Vietnam. Bull tells two stories, confusing himself with the protagonists of "Superman" and "Jack and the Beanstalk". Dan tells how he lost his virginity to a client's young wife in Louisiana. When the staff shifts to day hours Roz becomes unbearably perky. Christine also feels a personality change is in order. Dan has a date at the opera and some weirdos think that Bull is their god. Christine searches for a nanny, and Harry's childhood bully appears in his court. Art is the topic as Christine meets a street artist and Mac and Dan bond with their passions for photography. The First Amendment gets tested with the offensive material of a stand-up comic.
season 9 -
season 7 -
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. 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. Dan receives a death threat and demands police protection. Sparks fly between Christine and the undercover detective sent to the courthouse. Bull carries a video camera everywhere around with him, filming his average night for his mother. 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. Dan gets more than he bargained for when he foolishly agrees to take Bull to a private singles club. 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. Broke after losing his car, Dan is living in his office. 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 mother was sick, Roz can't be her normally forceful self, and instead conscripts Mac to masquerade as her fiance. A Zsa Zsa-like widow is detained at the courthouse when her diamond necklace is swallowed by another defendant's dog. Harry and Mac decide to market one of Quon Le's snack inventions. Christine has an unexpected visitor. 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. Dan is suspended from work while prepping 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. 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 famous pseudonym. Christine's relationship with Tony goes through a rocky phase when his devotion to his job as a cop cuts down on their time together. 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. A man claiming to be from the future (and armed with a working laser gun) takes the courtroom hostage, while two street punks are holding Dan. Bull tries the whole range of remedies for getting rid of his hiccups. 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. Trying to deal with Tony's absence, Christine discovers she is pregnant. Dan's girlfriend convinced him to appear as a shock-host of a talk show. Mac and Quon Le's planned vacation to Graceland encounters problems. Mel Torme can't appear at Harry's birthday party because Harry sent him to jail. Harry works on a visa extension for Yakov, and Mac buys a defective washing machine. Roz could be sued with the help of Bull's cousin after Bull shoots himself with her gun. With Tony absent, Harry, Bull and Dan all volunteer as Christine's Lamaze coach. At their first class, Christine is tormented by visions of her child as a younger version of each of them. A man asks Harry to help stop the marriage of his girlfriend to another man. A TV reporter is watching everyone in the court and they have to be on their toes. Christine is stuck in Ana elevator as she goes into labor.
season 8 -
When Christine returns after her baby's birth, she must deal with her replacement's legacy and Dan wants Bull to date his visiting sister. For Harry, it's love at first sight when he lays eyes on Margaret Turner, a bossy news reporter assigned to the courthouse. When she appears not to know he exists, he is so desperate to make an impression that he turns to Dan for advice. Dan is won at a bachelor auction by a lecherous old woman and Christine has doubts about her marriage. 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, whose own obituary has appeared in the paper. 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. Mac tells how he almost lost his life in Vietnam. Bull tells two stories, confusing himself with the protagonists of "Superman" and "Jack and the Beanstalk". Dan tells how he lost his virginity to a client's young wife in Louisiana. When the staff shifts to day hours Roz becomes unbearably perky. Christine also feels a personality change is in order. Dan has a date at the opera and some weirdos think that Bull is their god. Christine searches for a nanny, and Harry's childhood bully appears in his court. Art is the topic as Christine meets a street artist and Mac and Dan bond with their passions for photography. The First Amendment gets tested with the offensive material of a stand-up comic.
season 9 -
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