8.0/10181 votes#1 - 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
7.8/10181 votes#2 - 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
7.2/10159 votes#3 - Author, Author
Season 4 Episode 3 - Aired 10/16/1986
Bull tries his hand at writing a children's story; however, the results are a trifle strong for the editors he submits it to.
Director: Jeff Melman
Writer: N/A
6.9/10147 votes#4 - Halloween II: The Return of Leon
Season 4 Episode 4 - Aired 10/30/1986
Harry looks forward to seeing Leon again while Dan crawls for an invitation to his boss' Halloween party.
Director: Tim Steele
Writer: Linwood Boomer
7.4/10159 votes#5 - Dan's Operation (1)
Season 4 Episode 5 - Aired 11/6/1986
Dan refuses to admit his surgery has weakened him and he overexerts himself into a coma.
Director: Jeff Melman
Writer: Bob Stevens
7.6/10160 votes#6 - Dan's Operation (2)
Season 4 Episode 6 - Aired 11/13/1986
Dan refuses to admit his surgery has weakened him and he overexerts himself into a coma.
Director: Jeff Melman
Writer: Bob Stevens
7.2/10154 votes#7 - The New Judge
Season 4 Episode 7 - Aired 11/20/1986
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.
Director: Jeff Melman
Writer: N/A
7.1/10157 votes#8 - Contempt of Courting
Season 4 Episode 8 - Aired 11/27/1986
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.
Director: Jeff Melman
Writer: N/A
7.5/10159 votes#9 - Earthquake
Season 4 Episode 9 - Aired 12/4/1986
Dan and Roz are trapped in an elevator with two hungry sumo wrestlers just convicted in Harry's court.
Director: Jeff Melman
Writer: N/A
7.1/10168 votes#10 - Prince of a Guy
Season 4 Episode 10 - Aired 12/11/1986
Harry tries to prevent the forced marriage of a Polynesian princess while her brother auctions off Christine.
Director: N/A
Writer: N/A
7.3/10156 votes#11 - New Year's Leave
Season 4 Episode 11 - Aired 12/18/1986
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.
Director: John Larroquette
Writer: N/A
7.5/10158 votes#12 - Murder
Season 4 Episode 12 - Aired 1/8/1987
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.
Director: Jeff Melman
Writer: Reinhold Weege
6.8/10143 votes#13 - Baby Talk
Season 4 Episode 13 - Aired 1/15/1987
Mac goes on a drunken spree in a cowboy bar after Quon Le spends them into bankruptcy and then announces her pregnancy.
Director: Jeff Melman
Writer: N/A
6.7/10143 votes#14 - The Modest Proposal
Season 4 Episode 14 - Aired 1/29/1987
Harry is depressed and unhappy when Christine announces that she plans to marry a nice, dull guy.
Director: Jeff Melman
Writer: N/A
8.5/10225 votes#15 - 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
7.2/10145 votes#16 - Rabid
Season 4 Episode 16 - Aired 2/12/1987
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.
Director: Jim Drake
Writer: N/A
7.4/10152 votes#17 - Christine's Friend
Season 4 Episode 17 - Aired 2/19/1987
Harry's really depressed when Christine's old friend seems to prefer Dan as does his idol, Mel Torme.
Director: Jim Drake
Writer: Bob Stevens
7.3/10151 votes#18 - Caught Red Handed
Season 4 Episode 18 - Aired 2/26/1987
Harry helps Christine fight sexual harassment from her boss and Dan comes on to a woman who has taken a vow of celibacy.
Director: N/A
Writer: N/A
7.5/10143 votes#19 - Paternity
Season 4 Episode 19 - Aired 3/18/1987
Dan is served with a paternity suit and Bull runs for union rep against a very tough lady.
Director: Jim Drake
Writer: N/A
7.2/10151 votes#20 - Here's to You, Mrs. Robinson
Season 4 Episode 20 - Aired 3/25/1987
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.
Director: Jim Drake
Writer: N/A
7.6/10149 votes#21 - Her Honor (1)
Season 4 Episode 21 - Aired 4/29/1987
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.
Director: Jeff Melman
Writer: Linwood Boomer
7.7/10144 votes#22 - Her Honor (2)
Season 4 Episode 22 - Aired 5/6/1987
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.
Director: Jeff Melman
Writer: Linwood Boomer
The Best Episodes of Night Court Season 4
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An eccentric fun-loving judge presides over an urban night court and all the silliness going on there.
Genre:Comedy
Network:NBC
Season 4 Ratings Summary
"The Next Voice You Hear..." is the best rated episode of "Night Court" season 4. It scored 8/10 based on 181 votes. Directed by Jeff Melman and written by Reinhold Weege, it aired on 10/2/1986. This episode is rated 0.2 points higher than the second-best, "Giving Thanks".