Night Court: Season 6
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.
Episode Guide
Season 6 Progress Shield
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
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
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
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.
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.
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.
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.
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
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.
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.
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.
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
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
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
The Game Show
Feb 15, 1989 · 24 min
With Judge Stone out of town, Judge Wilbur fills in.
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.
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.
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.
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
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.
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