Season 8 Breakdown

Normal Episodes: 24
TV Specials: 0
TV Movies: 0

Night Court Season 8 (1990-1991)

Night Court A Family Affair (1) 8x01 A Family Affair (1)
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 ...
Sep. 28, 1990
Night Court A Family Affair (2) 8x02 A Family Affair (2)
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 ...
Oct. 05, 1990
Night Court When Harry Met Margaret 8x03 When Harry Met Margaret
Harry's first date with Margaret Turner, the new court reporter, turns into a disaster when he follows Dan's advice.
Oct. 12, 1990
Night Court Can't Buy Me Love 8x04 Can't Buy Me Love
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 ...
Oct. 19, 1990
Night Court Death Takes a Halloween 8x05 Death Takes a Halloween
On Halloween, Harry locks up a defendant known as the Spirit of Death, and people, including next scheduled victim Dan, stop dying.
Oct. 26, 1990
Night Court Crossroads (1) 8x06 Crossroads (1)
When the staff is quarantined for the night, they spend the hours reminiscing about turning points in their lives.
Nov. 02, 1990
Night Court Crossroads (2) 8x07 Crossroads (2)
When the staff is quarantined for the night, they spend the hours reminiscing about turning points in their lives.
Nov. 02, 1990
Night Court Day Court 8x08 Day Court
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 ...
Nov. 09, 1990
Night Court A Night Court at the Opera 8x09 A Night Court at the Opera
Dan tries to win over Margaret during a night at the opera and Bull acquires disciples convinced that he's their god.
Nov. 16, 1990
Night Court Nobody Says Rat Fink Anymore 8x10 Nobody Says Rat Fink Anymore
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.
Nov. 23, 1990
Night Court Jail Bait 8x11 Jail Bait
A street artist helps raise Christine's spirits, and Mac and Dan indulge a passion for photography.
Dec. 07, 1990
Night Court It's Just a Joke 8x12 It's Just a Joke
Everyone gets their two cents in when a comic's offensive routine sparks a First Amendment debate.
Dec. 14, 1990
Night Court Bringing Down Baby 8x13 Bringing Down Baby
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.
Jan. 04, 1991
Night Court Presumed Insolvent 8x14 Presumed Insolvent
Dan looks at Phil the wino in a whole new light when the bum rescues a defendant left penniless by the S&L crisis.
Jan. 23, 1991
Night Court Mama Was a Rollin' Stone 8x15 Mama Was a Rollin' Stone
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 ...
Jan. 30, 1991
Night Court Attachments Included 8x16 Attachments Included
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 ...
Feb. 06, 1991
Night Court Alone Again, Naturally 8x17 Alone Again, Naturally
Harry gets a wealth of conflicting advice when he confides in his friends that he thinks Margaret is about to propose marriage.
Feb. 13, 1991
Night Court Hey Harry, F'Crying Out Loud-- It is a Wonderful Life ... Sorta 8x18 Hey Harry, F'Crying Out Loud-- It is a Wonderful Life ... Sorta
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.
Feb. 27, 1991
Night Court To Sleep, No More 8x19 To Sleep, No More
Dan suffers all the pangs of a guilty conscience over misuse of the Phil Foundation funds. Bull tries out a toupee, the Shatner 2000.
Mar. 06, 1991
Night Court With a Little Help From My Friends 8x20 With a Little Help From My Friends
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.
Mar. 13, 1991
Night Court Mac Takes a Vocation 8x21 Mac Takes a Vocation
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.
Mar. 20, 1991
Night Court Harry's Fifteen Minutes 8x22 Harry's Fifteen Minutes
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 ...
Apr. 03, 1991
Night Court Where There's a Will, There's a Tony (1) 8x23 Where There's a Will, There's a Tony (1)
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 Wi ...
May. 01, 1991
Night Court Where There's a Will, There's a Tony (2) 8x24 Where There's a Will, There's a Tony (2)
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 Wi ...
May. 08, 1991

Season 8 Characters

Judge Harry T. Stone played by Harry Anderson
Dan Fielding played by John Larroquette
Mac Robinson played by Charles Robinson
Nostradamus 'Bull' Shannon played by Richard Moll
Rosalind 'Roz' Russell played by Marsha Warfield
Christine Sullivan played by Markie Post
Lisette Hocheiser played by Joleen Lutz
Margaret Turner played by Mary Cadorette
Bum played by Raf Mauro
Quon Le Robinson played by Denice Kumagai
Wanda Flinn played by Cathy McAuley
Tony Giuliano played by Ray Abruzzo
Mr. Hampton played by Milton James
Jack Griffin played by S. Marc Jordan
Himself played by Jack Jones
Spring played by Jacalyn O'Shaughnessy
Miss Crombie played by Fran Ryan
Woman played by Candi Milo
J. Anthony played by Murphy Dunne
Mugger played by Gregory Itzin
Foley played by Jack Bannon
Donna played by Susan Diol
Deyoung played by Phil Proctor

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Season 8 Videos

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Season 8 Quotes

08x10 - Nobody Says Rat Fink Anymore Season 8 / Episode 10: - Nobody Says Rat Fink Anymore

Court Clerk MacIntosh 'Mac' Robinson: [Dan teased Harry about his old school bully] Like you don't get scared when you hear, "I think that's my husband at the door."
Dan Fielding: [naturally flinches] What?
08x07 - Crossroads (2) Season 8 / Episode 7: - Crossroads (2)

Christine Sullivan: Dan, Dan, Dan...
Dan Fielding: Yeah, yeah, yeah, I know. I throw my life away for sex. But, you know, I thought I'd at least get to die having it.
Roz Russell: Don't look at me, or you'll die trying to have it.
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Season 8 Trivia

  • Episode 24 - The title is based on the proverb: "Where there's a will, there's a way".
  • Episode 23 - Season 8 was to be the last. Harry and Christine were to marry, Dan becoming a priest, among other big cast shake-ups. At the last minute NBC renewed the show one more season, and the Harry/Christine romance never came to fruition, the Dan character going after Christine in the series finale instead.
  • Episode 05 - The title refers to the movie Death Takes a Holiday.
  • Episode 22 - The title refers to 15 minutes of fame an expression coined by the American artist Andy Warhol meaning that everyone will be famous for that short span of time.
  • Episode 02 - The title is from the TV series Family Affair (1966).

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