Season 4

Night Court: Season 4
"Night Court" Season 4 DVD cover.
Program information
Episodes aired:
22
Dates aired:
October 2, 1986 - May 9, 1987
Network/Country:
NBC-TV / United States
Previous Season:
Season 3
Next Season:
Season 5

Night Court: Season 4

Season 4 of Night Court began with the episode "The Next Voice You Hear...", which aired on NBC-TV on October 2, 1986; the season's finale episode, "Her Honor: Part 2", which was part of a three-episode story story arc that would spill over into the start of Season 5, aired on May 6, 1987 as a total of 22 episodes were aired in the season. \

Description

The Emmy-Award NBC-TV winning sitcom continues its lighthearted look at the crazy cases and characters that appear in night court in mid-1980's-early 1990's New York city, where anything -- and everything -- happens. During Night Court's fourth season, Judge Harry T. Stone and his staff must comply with a federally mandated order to process a mind-boggling 200 cases before midnight or dismiss all charges against defendants. Can they do it? Also in this season, Mac Robinson (Charles Robinson) experiences what he thinks are sympathy pains when his wife Quon Le (Denice Kumagai) is pregnant; Dan Fielding (John Larroquette) uses his powers of persuasion to get invited to the District Attorney's Halloween party; and it's judicial upheaveal when Christine (Markie Post) is appointed a judge over Dan, and Harry is not reappointed at all! Marsha Warfield joins the cast as the seemingly gruff, but warm-hearted, but still no-nonsense, tough-as-nails new female bailiff Roz Russell.

Season 4 (1986-87)

Image	No. in season	No. in series	Title	Director(s)	Writer(s)	Original air date	Prod. code
	1	58	"The Next Voice You Hear..."	Jeff Melman	Reinhold Weege	October 2, 1986	185931
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. John Astin appears as Buddy Ryan. Roz Russell (Marsha Warfield) becomes the court's new bailiff after Flo's death.
	2	59	"Giving Thanks"	Jeff Melman	Teresa O'Neill	October 9, 1986	185935
Dan demands that Christine sleep with him after he saves her life with the Heimlich maneuver.
	3	60	"Author, Author"	Jeff Melman	Dennis Koenig	October 16, 1986	185933
Bull tries his hand at writing a children's story; however, the results are a trifle strong for the editors he submits it to.
	4	61	"Halloween II: The Return of Leon"	Tim Steele	Linwood Boomer	October 30, 1986	185934
Harry looks forward to seeing Leon again while Dan crawls for an invitation to his boss' Halloween party.
	5	62	"Dan's Operation (Part 1)"	Jeff Melman	Bob Stevens	November 6, 1986	185936
Dan refuses to admit his surgery has weakened him and he overexerts himself into a coma.
	6	63	"Dan's Operation (Part 2)"	Jeff Melman	Bob Stevens	November 13, 1986	185937
After Dan falls into a coma, his friends maintain a bedside vigil and reminisce about the good times they've had.
	7	64	"The New Judge"	Jeff Melman	Linwood Boomer	November 20, 1986	185939
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.
	8	65	"Contempt of Courting"	Jeff Melman	Tom Straw	November 27, 1986	185938
Harry returns and finds a lovely woman substituting on the bench for him, who likes him a lot and jails Christine for mouthing off about perceived mistreatment of a client.
	9	66	"Earthquake"	Jeff Melman	Dennis Koenig	December 4, 1986	185940
A mild earthquake traps Dan and Roz and two wrestlers in an elevator. Meanwhile Harry has to deal with three kids who are spitting images for Dan, Christine, and Harry himself.
	10	67	"Prince of a Guy"	Tim Steele	Tom Reeder	December 11, 1986	185941
Harry tries to prevent the forced marriage of a Polynesian princess while her brother auctions off Christine.
	11	68	"New Year's Leave"	John Larroquette	Tom Straw	December 18, 1986	185942
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.
	12	69	"Murder"	Jeff Melman	Reinhold Weege	January 8, 1987	185943
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.
	13	70	"Baby Talk"	Jeff Melman	Tom Reeder	January 15, 1987	185932
Mac goes on a drunken spree in a cowboy bar after Quon Le spends them into bankruptcy and then announces her pregnancy.
	14	71	"The Modest Proposal"	Jeff Melman	Howard Ostroff	January 29, 1987	185944
Harry scoffs when Christine announces her engagement.
	15	72	"A Day in the Life"	Thomas Klein	Nat Mauldin, Teresa O'Neill, Bob Stevens	February 5, 1987	185945
Harry must judge all his cases by midnight.
	16	73	"Rabid"	Jim Drake	Dennis Koenig	February 12, 1987	185946
The gang searches for a dog that saved Harry from a fire but has bitten Dan and may have given him rabies.
	17	74	"Christine's Friend"	Jim Drake	Bob Stevens	February 19, 1987	185947
Harry and Dan compete to take Christine's hot friend away to a romantic weekend getaway.
	18	75	"Caught Red Handed"	Howard Ritter andHarry Anderson	Harry Anderson	February 26, 1987	185948
Christine's new boss (Michael Gross) sexually harasses her. Meanwhile, Dan meets his match in a woman (Teresa Ganzel) who has sworn celibacy.
	19	76	"Paternity"	Jim Drake	Teresa O'Neill	March 18, 1987	185950
After a smart-mouthed kid claims to be his son, Dan is served with a paternity suit.
	20	77	"Here's to You, Mrs. Robinson"	Jim Drake	Tom Reeder	March 25, 1987	185949
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.Conchata Ferrell appears in this episode.
	21	78	"Her Honor (Part 1)"	Jeff Melman	Linwood Boomer	April 29, 1987	185951
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 Yugoslavia, become the proprietors of the concession stand.
	22	79	"Her Honor (Part 2)"	Jeff Melman	Craig Porter, Linwood Boomer	May 6, 1987	185952
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.