Night Court — Season 6
Chaos in the Courtroom!
About this season
An eccentric fun-loving judge presides over an urban night court and all the silliness going on there.
Episodes (22)
1. Danny Got His Gun (2)
10.0Aired 26 October 1988 • 24 min
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.
2. Danny Got His Gun (3)
10.0Aired 26 October 1988 • 24 min
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.
3. Fire
10.0Aired 2 November 1988 • 24 min
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.
4. Harry and the Tramp
8.0Aired 9 November 1988 • 24 min
Harry learns in his courtroom that his date for a big social event is a porno movie star.
5. Educating Rhoda
10.0Aired 16 November 1988 • 24 min
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.
6. The Last Temptation of Mac
10.0Aired 23 November 1988 • 24 min
Christine wears herself out planning a Thanksgiving feast for the courthouse regulars and Mac faces the seduction of an attractive classmate.
7. The Law Club
10.0Aired 30 November 1988 • 24 min
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.
8. Night Court of the Living Dead
10.0Aired 14 December 1988 • 24 min
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.
9. The Night Court Before Christmas
10.0Aired 21 December 1988 • 24 min
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.
10. Mental Giant
10.0Aired 11 January 1989 • 24 min
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.
11. Rock-a-Bye Baby
10.0Aired 18 January 1989 • 24 min
Christine wears herself to a frazzle watching a neighbor's baby while the others monopolize her television watching a lacrosse game.
12. Clip Show (1)
10.0Aired 25 January 1989 • 24 min
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.
13. Clip Show (2)
10.0Aired 25 January 1989 • 24 min
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.
14. The Trouble is Not in Your Set
10.0Aired 1 February 1989 • 24 min
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.
15. The Game Show
10.0Aired 15 February 1989 • 24 min
With Judge Stone out of town, Judge Wilbur fills in.
16. This Old Man
10.0Aired 1 March 1989 • 24 min
Harry and the gang refuse to take Christine and her new beau seriously: he's old enough to be her father.
17. Strange Bedfellows
10.0Aired 8 March 1989 • 24 min
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.
18. From Snoop to Nuts (1)
7.5Aired 15 March 1989 • 24 min
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.
19. From Snoop to Nuts (2)
9.0Aired 22 March 1989 • 24 min
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.
20. Pen Pals
10.0Aired 12 April 1989 • 24 min
Roz falls in love with Christine's prison pen pal.
21. Not My Type
10.0Aired 26 April 1989 • 24 min
Christine accepts a date with Art the handyman, then regrets it, meanwhile Mac's children's story is lost in the courthouse computer.
22. Yet Another Day in the Life
10.0Aired 3 May 1989 • 24 min
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.