7.1/10127 votes#1 - Life With Buddy
Season 7 Episode 1 - Aired 9/27/1989
Buddy leaves the institution and moves in with Harry while Dan and his real estate agent scheme to take over a dying man's Park Avenue apartment.
Director: Jim Drake
Writer: N/A
7.3/10116 votes#2 - If I Were a Rich Man
Season 7 Episode 2 - Aired 10/11/1989
Dan plans to swindle a billionaire land developer and Mac agrees to host a cosmetics party for Quon Le.
Director: Jim Drake
Writer: Gary Murphy
7.1/10121 votes#3 - The Cop and the Lady
Season 7 Episode 3 - Aired 10/18/1989
Christine falls for the gorgeous piece of beefcake assigned to protect Dan when the sleazy DA receives several death threats.
Director: Jim Drake
Writer: Neil Thompson, Nancy Steen
7.6/10126 votes#4 - Come Back to the Five and Dime, Stephen King, Stephen King
Season 7 Episode 4 - Aired 10/25/1989
On Halloween night, Harry loses his new bat, Tito, and an exorcist's curse resurrects the unquiet spirit of a defendant from fifty years earlier.
Director: N/A
Writer: N/A
7.3/10114 votes#5 - Blue Suede Bull
Season 7 Episode 5 - Aired 11/1/1989
Harry embarrasses Christine in front of a very pro-feminist judge with his trick handcuffs while Dan repays a debt to Bull by taking him out on the town for a swinging evening.
Director: Jim Drake
Writer: N/A
7.5/10117 votes#6 - For Love or Money
Season 7 Episode 6 - Aired 11/8/1989
Buddy proposes to a wealthy, fun loving widow while Dan tries to hide the fact that he's been reduced to living in his office.
Director: Jim Drake
Writer: Neil Thompson, Nancy Steen
6.9/10120 votes#7 - Auntie Maim
Season 7 Episode 7 - Aired 11/15/1989
Roz drafts Mac to pose as her fiancé when her overbearing auntie comes to visit and Dan meets an aging actress who teaches him some new tricks in an elevator.
Director: Jim Drake
Writer: N/A
7.4/10123 votes#8 - Attack of the Mac Snacks
Season 7 Episode 8 - Aired 11/22/1989
Harry and Mac team up to market one of Quon Le's snack concoctions and Christine's stingy uncle pays her a visit.
Director: Jim Drake
Writer: N/A
7.5/10111 votes#9 - Branded (1)
Season 7 Episode 9 - Aired 11/29/1989
Dan becomes the target for first a job offer, then disbarment proceedings when a wealthy lawyer seeks to get charges against his son dropped, and Christine and Roz become diet buddies.
Director: Jim Drake
Writer: N/A
7.5/10112 votes#10 - Branded (2)
Season 7 Episode 10 - Aired 12/6/1989
Dan becomes the target for first a job offer, then disbarment proceedings when a wealthy lawyer seeks to get charges against his son dropped, and Christine and Roz become diet buddies.
Director: Jim Drake
Writer: N/A
7.4/10111 votes#11 - Passion Plundered
Season 7 Episode 11 - Aired 12/20/1989
Dan and Harry each vie for the attentions of a attractive reporter doing a story on Harry's courtroom and Roz gets swept off her feet by three Boldavian brothers.
Director: Jim Drake
Writer: N/A
7.0/10109 votes#12 - Amore or Less
Season 7 Episode 12 - Aired 1/3/1990
Christine finds everyone too busy to help her our with her new romance so she turns to two feuding advice columnists.
Director: Jim Drake
Writer: N/A
7.3/10114 votes#13 - Razing Bull
Season 7 Episode 13 - Aired 1/17/1990
Bull chains himself to the entrance of an old theater scheduled to be demolished and the ensuring efforts to save the building reveals a secret life from Mac's past.
Director: Jim Drake
Writer: N/A
7.4/10111 votes#14 - Futureman
Season 7 Episode 14 - Aired 1/24/1990
Dan is held hostage in the courtroom by two thugs but a man from the future-- VHK 937-- appears on a mission to save him.
Director: N/A
Writer: Leonard Mlodinow
7.0/10100 votes#15 - Wedding Bell Blues (1)
Season 7 Episode 15 - Aired 2/7/1990
Christine makes an impulsive decision at her farewell dinner with beau Tony, one that has severe repercussions when he leaves on an assignment he may not return from.
Director: Jim Drake
Writer: Gary Murphy
7.4/1098 votes#16 - Wedding Bell Blues (2)
Season 7 Episode 16 - Aired 2/14/1990
Christine makes an impulsive decision at her farewell dinner with beau Tony, one that has severe repercussions when he leaves on an assignment he may not return from.
Director: Jim Drake
Writer: Gary Murphy
7.3/10109 votes#17 - The Talk Show
Season 7 Episode 17 - Aired 2/21/1990
Dan finds a new niche in life as the host of a shock-TV show and Mac and Quon Le may lose out on their Graceland vacation.
Director: Jim Drake
Writer: Neil Thompson, Nancy Steen
7.6/10112 votes#18 - Melvin and Harold
Season 7 Episode 18 - Aired 2/28/1990
Plans for Mel Torme to appear at Harry's 40th birthday party are derailed when Harry puts his idol behind bars for failing to pay a parking ticket.
Director: Jim Drake
Writer: N/A
7.2/10111 votes#19 - The Glasnost Menagerie
Season 7 Episode 19 - Aired 3/7/1990
Harry helps Yakov get a visa extension for his father and Mac buys a washing machine with an attitude problem.
Director: N/A
Writer: N/A
7.0/10101 votes#20 - I Said Dance!
Season 7 Episode 20 - Aired 3/14/1990
Roz faces a lawsuit and no job after Bull borrows her gun and shoots himself in the foot, thanks to his sue-happy lawyer cousin.
Director: Jim Drake
Writer: N/A
7.8/10114 votes#21 - 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
7.8/10110 votes#22 - 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
7.6/10106 votes#23 - A Closer Look
Season 7 Episode 23 - Aired 4/11/1990
Harry, his court and co-workers come under the sharp journalistic eye of a TV reporter doing a story on typical night court events.
Director: N/A
Writer: N/A
7.8/10113 votes#24 - 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
The Best Episodes of Night Court Season 7
Every episode of Night Court Season 7 ranked from best to worst. Discover the Best Episodes of Night Court Season 7!
An eccentric fun-loving judge presides over an urban night court and all the silliness going on there.
Genre:Comedy
Network:NBC
Season 7 Ratings Summary
"Life With Buddy" is the best rated episode of "Night Court" season 7. It scored 7.1/10 based on 127 votes. Directed by Jim Drake and written by N/A, it aired on 9/27/1989. This episode is rated 0.2 points higher than the second-best, "If I Were a Rich Man".