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Christine's father has his first date in eight years and ends up before Harry, along with the tenants of a clothing-optional building.

NBC programming chief Brandon Tartikoff posts bail for a Neilsen family as the gang rushes to adjudicate 200 cases in one session.

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 office pool for the most convictions.

Harry has to deal with a woman who confesses to him that she killed her husband that morning, a detective who can't get used to working without his partner and a morose Dan who was rejected as a sperm bank donor.

Harry uncovers a city financial snafu when a defendant proves he owns several prominent landmarks and Dan enjoys being a beauty pageant judge.

The staff tries everything they can think of to postpone Flo's mandatory retirement.

The season is merry as Harry deals with a man in a red suit charged with trespassing and tries to restore the faith of a pair of cynical teenage runaways.

Harry contemplates a variety of job offers, Dan anticipates life on easy street with a wealthy bride, Bull deals with some really out-of-town visitors, and Christine contemplates the agony of defeat.

Harry looks forward to seeing Leon again while Dan crawls for an invitation to his boss' Halloween party.

Harry searches for Yakov's brother, a Russian circus defector. Meanwhile, Soviet and American agents negotiate an arms agreement.

A strange little man charged with stealing electronic parts takes Dan hostage and demands the rest of the parts he needs to communicate with his home planet of Saturn.

His friends believe the worst when Dan starts dating a homely, gauche woman who's heir to $40 million.

Dan's sadistic boss asks him to look out for his very attractive niece while Harry tries to prevent a TV hero of yesteryear from killing himself.

Mac tries to hide Quon Le from his prejudiced grandfather, who's trying to decide who to leave his millions of dollars.

Harry is called before a disciplinary board for his unorthodox courtroom behavior.

A crazy judge brought in to substitute for Harry imprisons Dan and Mac for contempt and appoints Florence and Phil the wino as the defense and prosecuting attorneys.

Upon learning that he will not be reappointed as a judge, Harry disappears to perform an outrageous stunt. But he doesn't realize that Christine, who has taken over the night court, has gotten his job back.

Harry falls hook, line and sinker for a beautiful woman.

Christine comes back from having her baby and has to deal with the shadow of her replacement, good 'ole Ted. Harry tries to avoid the tutor arranged to help him pass a crucial high school history test. Meanwhile Dan's sister comes to visit, and Dan asks Bull to take her out to see the sights of New York, unaware that his baby sister is a chip off the old Fielding block.

Everyone is in a financial crisis when the city can't pay its employees, Harry has to evict a woman and son, and a homeless couple from West Virginia tells their tale of woe.

Roz dreads meeting a male pen pal who's expecting someone just a little different than the real Roz.

Quon Le plans to become a US citizen before her baby is born, but she and Mac are both rushed to the hospital with pains just as Harry begins the swearing-in ceremony.

Harold T. Stone becomes a night court judge and settles a dispute involving a woman threatening her husband with gunfire.

Bull tries his hand at writing a children's story; however, the results are a trifle strong for the editors he submits it to.

Harry deals sympathetically with an escaped felon whose only wish is to spend New Year's Eve in Times Square to celebrate his 42nd wedding anniversary.

Dan is served with a paternity suit and Bull runs for union rep against a very tough lady.

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.

Bright young public defender Christine Sullivan finds out she still has a lot to learn after her first day in Harry's court, while Harry ends up throwing her overprotective father in jail for insulting him.

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.

A blizzard traps everyone in the courthouse and Dan in an elevator with a man who's attracted to him.

Harry is depressed and unhappy when Christine announces that she plans to marry a nice, dull guy.

Christine comes back from having her baby and has to deal with the shadow of her replacement, good 'ole Ted. Harry tries to avoid the tutor arranged to help him pass a crucial high school history test. Meanwhile Dan's sister comes to visit, and Dan asks Bull to take her out to see the sights of New York, unaware that his baby sister is a chip off the old Fielding block.

Bull finally is allowed a foster son by a volunteer-fathers organization, but he winds up with a bit of a surprise.

Fans and reporters disrupt court proceedings when Harry dates a rock star, and tries to cope with a new court clerk.

Dan thinks he will become a new judge, but Christine is awarded the position. However, Harry discovers that his name is not on the judge reappointment list. Meanwhile the Wheelers, the hick couple from West Virginia, become the proprietors of the concession stand.

Dan plans to swindle a billionaire land developer and Mac agrees to host a cosmetics party for Quon Le.

Harry feels a lot of official pressure when a notorious madame with a hot diary comes before his bench.

Harry sends public defender Billie Young to jail for refusing to reveal the whereabouts of a cat her client is accused of kidnapping.

An old friend asks Mac to lose his court records and a Japanese man about to be honored by the governor dies while in custody.

While preparing to attempt his outrageous stunt, Harry talks to and saves the life of a suicidal man.

The courtroom becomes a delivery room when Hurricane Mel traps four pregnant women.

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

Dan makes a friend out of the judge substituting until he realizes the man is trying to bribe him, and his friends talk him into wearing a wire to entrap the man.

Harry's concern with Leon's imminent adoption blinds him to the presence of Mel Torme in the courthouse.

Roz surprises everyone by becoming unbearably perky when the staff is temporarily assigned to daytime hours, and Christine decides she must totally change her personality to hang onto Tony and her marriage.

Harry helps Christine fight sexual harassment from her boss and Dan comes on to a woman who has taken a vow of celibacy.

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.

Bull tries to save a baby orangutan from animal-research experiments.

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

Harry asks Dan to care for his new dog, who saved his life from a fire, but the mutt bites Dan and raises a rabies scare that could cost him his life.

A Russian that is charged with selling stolen property would rather burn down the courtroom and everyone in it than go to jail.

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.

Patients from a mental institution stage a strike to convince the court they're being mistreated at the hospital.

Dan tries to win over Margaret during a night at the opera and Bull acquires disciples convinced that he's their god.

Dan refuses to admit his surgery has weakened him and he overexerts himself into a coma.

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.

Christine finds herself tense over finalizing her divorce, Harry is nervous about moving in with Margaret, and Bull follows his mother's advice and looks for a wife-with the help of a matchmaker.

Wanda learns on the anniversary of their first date that Bull must perform a miracle before he can marry her.

Harry experiences some very mixed emotions when Tony tries to win Christine back, and the transformed Dan gets some help in running the Phil Foundation, from Phil's twin brother Will.

Roz tries Christine's ""happy therapy"" and sets the group back several months and Jack's son finally admits to himself and his dad that running the newsstand isn't for him.

Dan is thrilled when he offers himself as a prize at a bachelor auction, until he sees the lecherous old woman who bids highest for him; and Christine is beginning to have doubts about her marriage to Tony.

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

When the staff is quarantined for the night, they spend the hours reminiscing about turning points in their lives.

Bull's bachelor party turns into a disaster when the guys are stranded at a motel with no money and no transportation, and where Bull is kidnapped.

Harry brings the country to the brink of war by jailing a diplomat from a small but belligerent nation, and Dan returns to duty.

Roz loses yet another battle with courtesy and tact when she tells off the mother of an obnoxious child star shooting a tv pilot in the courtroom.

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.

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

Harry embarrasses Christine in front of a very pro-feminist judge with his trick handcuffs while Dan repays a debt to Bull by taking him out on the town for a swinging evening.

On Halloween, Harry locks up a defendant known as the Spirit of Death, and people, including next scheduled victim Dan, stop dying.

Dan begins kissing up to Harry as part of his campaign to replace Harry on the bench when he becomes a full time law professor and Art the handyman becomes a surrogate dad to Bull when he starts dating Bull's mama.

A political consultant persuades Christine to run for Congress, Dan becomes a sexual surrogate, and Mac's video of Bull's wedding achieves a certain distinction.

A very nice stranger on the run from the mob crashes Christine's anniversary party in honor of Charles and Diana.

A political consultant persuades Christine to run for Congress, Dan becomes a sexual surrogate, and Mac's video of Bull's wedding achieves a certain distinction.

Dan and Harry each vie for the attentions of a attractive reporter doing a story on Harry's courtroom and Roz gets swept off her feet by three Boldavian brothers.

While attending childbirth class with her three coaches, Christine imagines her child as it grows up influenced by each of the eager proxy fathers.

Harry gets a wealth of conflicting advice when he confides in his friends that he thinks Margaret is about to propose marriage.

Harry experiences some very mixed emotions when Tony tries to win Christine back, and the transformed Dan gets some help in running the Phil Foundation, from Phil's twin brother Will.

An angel appears in the guise of Mel Torme to show Harry how dismal the courtroom would be if he'd never been born, especially with Dan as the corrupt judge in charge.

Harry lets an article naming him one of New York's 10 most interesting men go to his head, and he disappoints Christine by fibbing to get out of a date. Dan tries to live up to his responsibilities as head of the Phil Foundation.

Dan becomes the target for first a job offer, then disbarment proceedings when a wealthy lawyer seeks to get charges against his son dropped, and Christine and Roz become diet buddies.

Roz drafts Mac to pose as her fiancé when her overbearing auntie comes to visit and Dan meets an aging actress who teaches him some new tricks in an elevator.

Dan anticipates a windfall from Phil the wino's will but gets a surprise instead. Bull anxiously awaits a visit from his mother, an old salt due to retire from the sea and come live with sonny boy.

When the staff is quarantined for the night, they spend the hours reminiscing about turning points in their lives.

Dan finds a new niche in life as the host of a shock-TV show and Mac and Quon Le may lose out on their Graceland vacation.

Harry's first date with Margaret Turner, the new court reporter, turns into a disaster when he follows Dan's advice.

Harry traps himself inside a safe while practicing a magic trick and Dan is pursued by a little devil who seems to know all about him.

Harry goes all out to get Mel Torme to accept a man-of-the-year award unaware that it's all a prank and Dan and Will turn into bounty hunters.

A woman who claims to be Harry's long lost mother and a beauty pageant operator appear before the court.

Christine makes an impulsive decision at her farewell dinner with beau Tony, one that has severe repercussions when he leaves on an assignment he may not return from.

Harry has to summon the courage to face a bully from his childhood who is brought before him in court, and Christine searches high and low for the perfect nanny.

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.

Christine falls for the gorgeous piece of beefcake assigned to protect Dan when the sleazy DA receives several death threats.

Dan has a real problem when his high school buddy comes to visit as a decidedly changed man.

Mac quits after inheriting $2 million from his grandfather, leaving his friends at the mercy of the most incompetent court clerk in New York.

A street artist helps raise Christine's spirits, and Mac and Dan indulge a passion for photography.

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.

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.

Harry tries to free a rock star literally imprisoned by his overly solicitous entourage.

Buddy proposes to a wealthy, fun loving widow while Dan tries to hide the fact that he's been reduced to living in his office.

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

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.

Harry's really depressed when Christine's old friend seems to prefer Dan as does his idol, Mel Torme.

Everyone tries to adjust to Selma's death as Harry interviews possible replacements, but Bull goes on a drinking binge instead.

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.

Christine finds everyone too busy to help her out with her new romance so she turns to two feuding advice columnists.

Roz stuns her co-workers when her uptown husband pays a visit to secure a divorce so he can marry again.

Bull chains himself to the entrance of an old theater scheduled to be demolished and the ensuring efforts to save the building reveals a secret life from Mac's past.

Christine makes an impulsive decision at her farewell dinner with beau Tony, one that has severe repercussions when he leaves on an assignment he may not return from.

Harry helps Yakov get a visa extension for his father and Mac buys a washing machine with an attitude problem.