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Night Court Season 6 Episodes
Season 6 Episode Guide
22 Episodes 1988 - 1989
Episode 1
Danny Got His Gun: Part 2
Wed, Oct 26, 198830 mins
Dan has been rescued by an Eskimo family, but is cut off from the outside world. Back in New York, the court staff reads his will and tries to cope with his death. When Dan accidentally shoots down a small plane trying to signal it with a flare gun, the doctor inside breaks both hands, leaving Dan as the only one who can operate on a young Eskimo woman who has come down with appendicitis.
Episode 2
Danny Got His Gun: Part 3
Wed, Oct 26, 198830 mins
Dan operates on Kista, and after a tense night of waiting, finds that she has survived. At the same time, radio contact is made, and Dan is on his way home. He arrives, disguised by his beard, winter clothes, and scruffy appearance, in time to attend his own funeral.
Episode 3
Fire
Wed, Nov 2, 198830 mins
On election night, Dan is running as a candidate for the state assembly. Christine is furious to learn that Harry has voted for him, touching off a fierce argument between them about what she sees as sexism. Then a fire consumes an upper floor of the courthouse, driving the staff to the basement morgue.
Episode 4
Harry and the Tramp
Wed, Nov 9, 198824 mins
Harry needs a date to attend a banquet where he will accept a humanitarian award. He is pleasantly surprised by a chance meeting at the newsstand with a woman who shares some interests with him, and she accepts his invitation. But Harry gets cold feet when he finds out that Diane is an adult film actress.
Episode 5
Educating Rhoda
Wed, Nov 16, 198830 mins
While handling a group of trainee bailiffs, Bull becomes smitten with one, Rhoda, smitten enough to overlook her spectacular incompetence. One thing he can't ignore is when she accidentally loses custody of a psychotic woman who acts out roles in movies. The woman is next reported entering a cheap hotel with Dan.
Episode 6
The Last Temptation of Mac
Wed, Nov 23, 198830 mins
An attractive classmate of Mac's goes after him and Christine does too much preparing Thanksgiving dinner for the courthouse.
Episode 7
The Law Club
Wed, Nov 30, 198830 mins
Dan is elated to be offered membership in New York's most exclusive lawyer's club, but he wrestles with his conscience when the leading member romances Christine as part of a club competition.
Episode 8
Night Court of the Living Dead
Wed, Dec 14, 198830 mins
Two eccentric defendants pass through the courtroom: a man who has awakened from a 20-year coma, and an obsessed inventor attached to his self-aware computer.
Episode 9
The Night Court Before Christmas
Wed, Dec 21, 198830 mins
While collecting for Toys For Toddlers, Bull accidentally takes a truckload of toys belonging to a Scrooge-like factory owner, who demands that they be returned. Since Roz has already passed them out, she refuses to take them back, and Harry has no choice but to jail her.
Episode 10
Mental Giant
Wed, Jan 11, 198924 mins
After the court staff participate in a research study for a think tank, Bull is diagnosed with a super-genius intelligence, and is offered a post at the think tank.
Episode 11
Rock-a-Bye Baby
Wed, Jan 18, 198930 mins
Christine gladly agrees to take care of a friend's baby for the weekend, but the experience turns out to be the opposite of what she expected. Harry enthusiastically pulls the staff into an office bet on his old college LaCrosse team.
Episode 12
Clip Show: Part 1
Wed, Jan 25, 198930 mins
A city accountant audits the court's expenses, leading to a series of flashbacks. Near the end of the audit, the staff and the accountant are taken hostage in Harry's office by a circus clown with a gun.
Episode 13
Clip Show: Part 2
Wed, Jan 25, 198930 mins
Even under Beepo's gun, the audit continues, as do the flashbacks.
Episode 14
The Trouble Is Not in Your Set
Wed, Feb 1, 198930 mins
While a cable show is filming the proceedings in the courtroom, a sweet old lady appears in court with a hand grenade, asking for the staff's help in freeing her husband from prison. When they realize that her "husband" is a character on a soap opera, they are not sure how to deal with her.
Episode 15
The Game Show
Wed, Feb 15, 198930 mins
Harry's away so Judge Wilbur (from My Two Dads (1987)) fills in. Bull is collecting for a kids charity. When a game show host comes into court, he offers Bull a chance to be a contestant. Bull chooses not to go because he gets nervous in front of cameras. So Dan offers to hypnotize him. And when Dan inadvertently instructs Bull to do something to Judge Wilbur, he finds himself in lock up. And implants an obscene trigger phrase to get Bull to relax.
Episode 16
This Old Man
Wed, Mar 1, 198930 mins
Everyone pokes fun at Christine's relationship with Ted, a senior citizen.
Episode 17
Strange Bedfellows
Wed, Mar 8, 198930 mins
On election night for the state assembly race, Dan, to his own surprise, has a passionate evening with his opponent, Joan Hobson.
Episode 18
From Snoop to Nuts: Part 1
Wed, Mar 15, 198930 mins
Harry plays up the role of an embittered judge hurting for cash, as part of a sting to nail gangster Marty Cologne. Christine, following Harry around, is taken in by the act, and tells Buddy, who reveals to Harry that he is his biological father. When Buddy lets slip the truth about the sting to Cologne, the gangster sends a pair of hit men to the courthouse.
Episode 19
From Snoop to Nuts: Part 2
Wed, Mar 22, 198930 mins
Harry must deal with his inept government handler, evading Marty Cologne's hit men, and confronting Buddy about his revelation.
Episode 20
Pen Pal
Wed, Apr 12, 198930 mins
Christine has a prison pen pal who escapes and Roz falls for him.
Episode 21
Not My Type
Wed, Apr 26, 198930 mins
Mac loses his story in the justice computer and Christine accepts then rejects a date from the janitor.
Episode 22
Yet Another Day in the Life
Wed, May 3, 198930 mins
A water pipe bursts in the holding cells, forcing the court staff to keep the inmates handcuffed in the hallways on the upper floors. The Court must finish its docket by midnight to relieve the pressure, while searching for three violent offenders who have escaped their bonds and gone missing.