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"Hello, Goodbye"
Season 3, Episode 1
#36 in series (193 episodes)
Series: Night Court
Network/Country: NBC-TV / United States
Air date September 26, 1985
Production code 185711
Written by: Reinhold Weege
Directed by: Jeff Melman
Guest stars: William Utay
Ron Ross
Lana Clarkson
Cynthia Steele
Ford Austin
Charlotte Portney
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Hello, Goodbye was the series opening episode of Season 3 of Night Court, also the 36th overall series episode. Written by series creator Reinhold Weege, and directed by Jeff Melman, the episode, which aired on NBC-TV, first aired on September 26, 1985. 

Synopsis[]

Everyone tries to adjust to Selma's death as Harry interviews possible replacements, but Bull goes on a drinking binge instead. Florence Halop joins the cast as new court bailiff Florence Kleiner. Markie Post joins the cast permanently as Christine Sullivan.


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Storyline[]

Christine Sullivan is permanently assigned as the court's public defender in place of the departed Billie Young, much to the delight of both Harry and Dan; meanwhile, in grief over Selma's death, Bull goes on an all-night bender with a group of circus performers and shows up the next day drunk-and-disorderly.  Meanwhile, after a search for a new female bailiff, Harry finds an almost carbon copy of the deceased Selma Hacker in the equally feisty, acerbic, diminuitive Florence Kleiner (Florence Halop).

Plot Summary[]

Night Court begins its third season as Judge Harry T. Stone (Harry Anderson) and his staff resign themselves to the death of caustic, chain-smoking courtroom matron Selma Hacker (actress Selma Diamond had passed away a few months after shooting wrapped on Season Two). Taking things hardest is bailiff Bull (Richard Moll), who goes out on a drunken bender--only to be hauled back into court with a batch of bibulous circus performers. This episode marks the first appearance of Florence Halop as Selma's equally cranky replacement Florence Kleiner; as a bonus, Markie Post joins the cast in the previously recurring role of public defender Christine Sullivan, replacing Ellen Foley as Billie Young.

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