“I was moved by the craziness of New York Manhattan night court,” he said in E!’s 2002 documentary TV Tales: Night Court. Night Court creator Reinhold Weege-who passed away in 2012-sat on the bench with a group of New York City night court judges and developed a story around them. Real New York City judges inspired the series. Take a look behind-the-scenes of the award-winning sitcom. It was simply a show filled with idiosyncratic characters and big laughs. Unlike a lot of sitcoms, the characters didn’t change much, and the show didn’t push heavy-handed issues onto its audience.
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Stone (the late Harry Anderson), a judge/magician who presided over the court Christine Sullivan (Markie Post), a public defender and do-gooder (a few other women played a similar role before Post committed to Sullivan during the third season) womanizer/prosecutor Dan Fielding (John Larroquette) the sarcastic bailiff Roz Russell (Marsha Warfield) Mac Robinson, a moral court clerk (Charles Robinson) and Bull (Richard Moll), a bald, slightly dim bailiff.īarney Miller alumnus Reinhold Weege created the show, which aired for nine seasons, from Januto May 31, 1992. The workplace sitcom followed a group of misfits working at a Manhattan night court: Judge Harry T. Ratings lagged in the first couple of seasons, then it became a top 10 show … until NBC started shuffling it around to new nights. In the mid-1980s, Night Court was part of NBC’s illustrious Thursday night comedy block, which also included Cheers and, for a time, Family Ties.
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