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Night Court: Season 6

22 episodes Premiered Oct 26, 1988 Updated Sep 26, 2026
Previously on Night Court

Season 6 Lore Primer

Key plot threads, lore context, and character stakes you need to remember before diving into this season.

  • ⚡ Directly follows the overarching narrative developments of Night Court Season 5.
  • ⚡ Faction dynamics and core character alliances shift under escalating external stakes.
  • ⚡ Crucial mysteries introduced previously reach key turning points and narrative reckonings.
  • ⚡ Sets up serialized story arcs that build directly toward the climactic season finale.
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Season 6 Episodes

Episode Guide

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Season 6: Filler vs. Essential Canon

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S6·E1 Mytharc

Danny Got His Gun (2)

Oct 26, 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 cann

S6·E2 Filler

Danny Got His Gun (3)

Oct 26, 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 perfo

S6·E3 Core

Fire

Nov 2, 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

S6·E4 Core

Harry and the Tramp

Nov 9, 1988 · 24 min

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

S6·E5 Core

Educating Rhoda

Nov 16, 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.

S6·E6 Core

The Last Temptation of Mac

Nov 23, 1988 · 24 min

Christine wears herself out planning a Thanksgiving feast for the courthouse regulars and Mac faces the seduction of an attractive classmate.

S6·E7 Core

The Law Club

Nov 30, 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.

S6·E8 Core

Night Court of the Living Dead

Dec 14, 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 c

S6·E9 Core

The Night Court Before Christmas

Dec 21, 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.

S6·E10 Core

Mental Giant

Jan 11, 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.

S6·E11 Core

Rock-a-Bye Baby

Jan 18, 1989 · 24 min

Christine wears herself to a frazzle watching a neighbor's baby while the others monopolize her television watching a lacrosse game.

S6·E12 Filler

Clip Show (1)

Jan 25, 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

S6·E13 Filler

Clip Show (2)

Jan 25, 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 recor

S6·E14 Core

The Trouble is Not in Your Set

Feb 1, 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 par

S6·E15 Core

The Game Show

Feb 15, 1989 · 24 min

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

S6·E16 Core

This Old Man

Mar 1, 1989 · 24 min

Harry and the gang refuse to take Christine and her new beau seriously: he's old enough to be her father.

S6·E17 Core

Strange Bedfellows

Mar 8, 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.

S6·E18 Core

From Snoop to Nuts (1)

Mar 15, 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.

S6·E19 Mytharc

From Snoop to Nuts (2)

Mar 22, 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 missi

S6·E20 Core

Pen Pals

Apr 12, 1989 · 24 min

Roz falls in love with Christine's prison pen pal.

S6·E21 Mytharc

Not My Type

Apr 26, 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.

S6·E22 Mytharc

Yet Another Day in the Life

May 3, 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 midnigh

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