8.5/10225 votesLoading...#1 - A Day in the Life
Season 4 Episode 15 - Aired 2/5/1987
NBC programming chief Brandon Tartikoff posts bail for a Neilsen family as the gang rushes to adjudicate 200 cases in one session.
Director: N/A
Writer: Bob Stevens, Nat Mauldin
8.3/10174 votesLoading...#2 - Another Day in the Life
Season 5 Episode 16 - Aired 2/18/1988
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.
Director: Jeff Melman
Writer: Gary Murphy
8.2/10185 votesLoading...#3 - Who Was That Mashed Man?
Season 5 Episode 7 - Aired 11/19/1987
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.
Director: Jeff Melman
Writer: N/A
8.2/10169 votesLoading...#4 - Yet Another Day in the Life
Season 6 Episode 22 - Aired 5/3/1989
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.
Director: N/A
Writer: Neil Thompson, Nancy Steen
8.1/10157 votesLoading...#5 - I'm OK, You're Catatonic/Schizophrenic
Season 5 Episode 14 - Aired 1/21/1988
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.
Director: N/A
Writer: Scott Rubenstein, Leonard Mlodinow
8.0/10232 votesLoading...#6 - Dan's Parents
Season 2 Episode 13 - Aired 1/10/1985
Dan's past is revealed when the parents he told everyone were dead come to see their successful sonny boy.
Director: Jeff Melman
Writer: Reinhold Weege
8.0/10210 votesLoading...#7 - Hello, Goodbye
Season 3 Episode 1 - Aired 9/26/1985
Everyone tries to adjust to Selma's death as Harry interviews possible replacements, but Bull goes on a drinking binge instead.
Director: Jeff Melman
Writer: Reinhold Weege
8.0/10180 votesLoading...#8 - The Next Voice You Hear...
Season 4 Episode 1 - Aired 10/2/1986
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.
Director: Jeff Melman
Writer: Reinhold Weege
8.0/10145 votesLoading...#9 - Death of a Bailiff
Season 5 Episode 3 - Aired 10/15/1987
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.
Director: Jeff Melman
Writer: N/A
7.9/10205 votesLoading...#11 - Harry on Trial
Season 2 Episode 7 - Aired 11/15/1984
Harry is called before a disciplinary board for his unorthodox courtroom behavior.
Director: Jeff Melman
Writer: Reinhold Weege, Chris Cluess
7.9/10184 votesLoading...#12 - The Wheels of Justice (1)
Season 3 Episode 9 - Aired 12/5/1985
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.
Director: Alan Bergmann
Writer: Jeff Reno, Ron Osborn
7.9/10141 votesLoading...#13 - The Night Court Before Christmas
Season 6 Episode 9 - Aired 12/21/1988
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.
Director: N/A
Writer: N/A
7.8/10170 votesLoading...#15 - The Wheels of Justice (2)
Season 3 Episode 10 - Aired 12/12/1985
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.
Director: Alan Bergmann
Writer: Nat Mauldin
7.8/10188 votesLoading...#16 - Hurricane (2)
Season 3 Episode 22 - Aired 5/8/1986
The courtroom becomes a delivery room when Hurricane Mel traps four pregnant women.
Director: Jeff Melman
Writer: Reinhold Weege
7.8/10179 votesLoading...#17 - Giving Thanks
Season 4 Episode 2 - Aired 10/9/1986
Dan demands that Christine sleep with him after he saves her life with the Heimlich maneuver.
Director: Jeff Melman
Writer: Teresa O'Neill
7.8/10146 votesLoading...#18 - Her Honor (3)
Season 5 Episode 1 - Aired 9/17/1987
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.
Director: Jeff Melman
Writer: Linwood Boomer
7.8/10147 votesLoading...#19 - Danny Got His Gun (3)
Season 6 Episode 2 - Aired 10/26/1988
Dan's rescued by a group of friendly Eskimoes while his friends in New York plan a memorial service.
Director: Jeff Melman
Writer: N/A
7.8/10117 votesLoading...#20 - My Three Dads
Season 7 Episode 21 - Aired 3/28/1990
While attending childbirth class with her three coaches, Christine imagines her child as it grows up influenced by each of the eager proxy fathers.
Director: N/A
Writer: Neil Thompson, Nancy Steen
7.8/10111 votesLoading...#21 - Still Another Day in the Life
Season 7 Episode 22 - Aired 4/4/1990
Harry helps a young man appearing before his court stop his girl friend's marriage to a prefab preppie.
Director: N/A
Writer: N/A
7.8/10115 votesLoading...#22 - The Blues of the Birth
Season 7 Episode 24 - Aired 5/2/1990
Christine goes into labor while trapped in an elevator with Buddy and a squeamish courtroom visitor.
Director: N/A
Writer: Gary Murphy
7.8/10108 votesLoading...
7.8/10105 votesLoading...#24 - To Sleep, No More
Season 8 Episode 19 - Aired 3/6/1991
Dan suffers all the pangs of a guilty conscience over misuse of the Phil Foundation funds. Bull tries out a toupee, the Shatner 2000.
Director: Jim Drake
Writer: Mike Underwood
7.7/10198 votesLoading...#25 - Dan's Boss
Season 3 Episode 7 - Aired 11/14/1985
Dan's life becomes a living hell as he tries to butter his new boss; a little person with a very nasty personality.
Director: Jeff Melman
Writer: Bob Stevens
The Best Episodes of Night Court
Every episode of Night Court ranked from best to worst. Let's dive into the Best Episodes of Night Court!
An eccentric fun-loving judge presides over an urban night court and all the silliness going on there.
Genre:Comedy
Network:NBC
Best Episodes Summary
"A Day in the Life" is the best rated episode of "Night Court". It scored 8.5/10 based on 225 votes. Directed by N/A and written by Bob Stevens, Nat Mauldin, it aired on 2/5/1987. This episode scored 0.2 points higher than the second highest rated, "Another Day in the Life".
