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.

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.

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…

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)…

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…

With Judge Stone out of town, Judge Wilbur fills in.

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…

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.

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…

Harry learns in his courtroom that his date for a big social event is a porno movie star.

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…

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…

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…

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.

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 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 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…

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…

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…

Christine’s father makes plans to retire to Florida, but winds up living with her and hanging out with Dan.

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.