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.

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.

In this penultimate episode of the series, Dan Fielding (John Larroquette) attempts to secure an interview with a high-society newspaper columnist to boost his social standing. However, his plan backfires when the columnist becomes more interested in Roz Russell (Marsha Warfield) instead.

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.

Meanwhile, Dan is dealing with the fallout of this situation—especially given the familial ties and how it affects his relationship with his sister and with Bull. The episode plays on the awkward dynamics between friendship, family, and workplace connection, while maintaining the comedic tone the series is known for.

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

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.

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.

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

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

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

Nobody wants to break the news to Bull that his new girl friend is a prostitute.

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.

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

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.

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

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

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.

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.

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.

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.

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

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.

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.

The courtroom crew try to help Bull when a neighbor leaves her baby with him.

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

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

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

Christine decides to quit after she's mugged in the cafeteria, but a man takes her hostage in the courtroom before she can leave.

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.

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

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.

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.

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

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

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.

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.

Mac considers doing an underwear commercial for some quick cash and Roz entrusts some personal treasures to Dan.

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.

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 uses a little hocus pocus to convince Bull he's cured of a gypsy curse.

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

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 in the courtroom.

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

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

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.

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

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

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.

Billie's new boyfriend turns out to be a professional problem for her, despite his romantic accomplishments.

Christine goes into labor while trapped in an elevator with Buddy and a squeamish courtroom visitor.

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

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.

Bull quits his job in frustration and becomes a professional wrestler.

Dan's past is revealed when the parents he told everyone were dead come to see their successful sonny boy.

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.

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

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.

Everyone gets their two cents in when a comic's offensive routine sparks a First Amendment debate.

Roz faces a lawsuit and no job after Bull borrows her gun and shoots himself in the foot, thanks to his sue-happy lawyer cousin.

The episode juggles the interplay between Harry’s reaction to Christine and Tony’s reconciliation efforts, Christine’s feelings and decisions, and Dan’s shifting identity in his foundation role — all while maintaining the comedic courtroom backdrop that the series is known for.

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

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.

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

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.

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.

When a chemical spill forces Judge Harry T. Stone (portrayed by Harry Anderson) and his courthouse team to remain inside the courtroom, the episode uses this setup as the frame for a series of flashbacks

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.

An old flame of Harry's drops by to renew their relationship but neglects to tell him she's married.

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.

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

Christine Sullivan (Markie Post) confronts her political opponent's office to address his aggressive campaign tactics. Despite their initial adversarial relationship, they find common ground and get along well. However, after Christine leaves, her opponent unexpectedly dies of a heart attack.

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

The others try to pull Bull out of the dumps when he's turned down by a charitable organization because his size and appearance are intimidating to others.

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.

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.

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.

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.

While waiting for the outcome of his disbarment hearing, Dan tries to find something to fill his time and self-worth; he takes a job working as a waiter at a fancy French restaurant.

Roz steals the show and Dan's spot with the in-crowd when a gossip columnist discovers her and Lisette tries to deal with her erotic dreams about Harry.

Harry throws a surprise birthday for Dan whose date is extremely anxious to be home by midnight.

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.

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.

Billie's birthday dinner for Harry is disrupted by an insecure intruder.

Dan demands that Christine sleep with him after he saves her life with the Heimlich maneuver.

Christine and Roz visit a male strip joint to do some female bonding, but Harry and the guys show up just as the show gets going.

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.

Roz hosts a makeup-poker party while Harry redecorates his office and Dan dallies with a courtroom cutie.

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.

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

Harry helps a young man appearing before his court stop his girl friend's marriage to a prefab preppie.

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

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

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

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

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

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 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.

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.

A hooker develops a crush on Harry and Dan loses a city council position to a dead man.

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

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.

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 records, and the show uses flashbacks to highlight many of the bizarre, memorable moments from previous episodes.

Dan's plan takes an unexpected turn when he "kidnaps" Christine Sullivan (Markie Post), leading her to the courthouse's subterranean levels. As the night unfolds, the mystery deepens, and the true identity of the thief is revealed.

Dan and Roz are trapped in an elevator with two hungry sumo wrestlers just convicted in Harry's court.

Harry's distracted from a courtroom full of ventriloquists and their dummies by the delivery of a letter from his mother, mailed fifteen years earlier.

Harry gets riled when a supreme court judge woos Mac away to serve as a vote-getting token on his staff and Dan hires an English valet in an attempt to replace Phil.

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 Harry's crown as the ""King of the Courtroom Cutups.""

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

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

Quon Le appears before the court for prostitution and Harry has to choose between Billie and Dan for the mayoral commission.

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.

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.

Christine accepts a date with Art the handyman, then regrets it, meanwhile Mac's children's story is lost in the courthouse computer.