Night Court

- Season 8

(1990)

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.

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, who 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.

The turning-point stories continue. Mac tells how he almost lost his life in Vietnam; Bull tells two stories, confusing himself with the protagonists of "Superman" and "Jack & 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 become 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 Admendment gets tested with the offensive material of a stand up comic.

Roz goes after the mother of a TV brat that is shooting a TV pilot in the building.

Phil the wino saves someone left penniless from the S&L scandals.

Bull's mother, Henrietta "Hank" Shannon, pulls into port to meet the gang. Dan, after being told that he's the only person named in Phil's will and spending money freely, in a cruelly ironic twist it seems that he's been named as a trustee of the Phil Foundation, in charge of, and required to give away, $8.1 million.

Christine is worried about her divorce and Bull is looking for a matchmaker.

Is Harry about to be proposed to?

Harry loses all interest in life after Margaret leaves him. An angel (in the shape of Mel Torme) shows him what life would be like in the court without him: Dan is a rich and corrupt judge, Bull is his stooge candidate for mayor, Mac and Christine are the beaten-down court attorneys, and Roz goes to prison for resisting one of Dan's business enterprises. When Harry sees Dan seduce Christine, he chooses to live again, and the angel sends him on his way with a rousing performance of "Start All Over Again."

Dan suffers major guilt pains over how he is using the money in the Phil Foundation.

When Christine has Roz join her happy therapy group, the group has a major backslide.

A Supreme Court Judge steals Mac as court clerk for appearances.

After being placed on a list of interesting New York City men, conceited Harry lies to get out of a date with Christine.

Tony tries to win Christine back while Dan goes though a transformation while running the Phil Foundation.

Tony tries to win Christine back while Dan goes though a transformation while running the Phil Foundation.