Season 8 - Episode Guide

Part one of two. Christine returns to the courtroom as a new mother and has problems due to the person who did her job while she was on leave; Dan starts receiving strange calls from a woman named Donna who he claims to not know; Harry receives a letter telling him he never finished school which would nullify his being able to be a practicing judge.

Dan learns that Bull slept with his visiting sister, and Bull decides to marry Dan's sister in order to regain his trust.

Harry may lose the woman of his dreams when he starts taking Dan's advice on how to date her. Mac has a run of bad luck and Quan Lee gives him her villages remedies for it.

Dan confidently struts his stuff at a charity bachelor auction with unexpected results, while Christine is a bundle of nerves over leaving her child and Tony. 

The Night Court group expect Harry's annual Halloween Tricks and off the wall pranks. Dan becomes scheduled to be the next victim of a defendant known as "The Spirit Of Death".

Part one of two. When the staff is quarantined for the night, they spend the hours reminiscing about turning points in their lives that led them to being hired at the night court.

Part two of two. The turning-point stories continue. 

The Night Court crew is assigned to Day Court for a week and Roz starts acting strangely, Christine has marriage issues and tries to change herself.

Dan tries to win Margaret from Harry on a night at the opera; Mac makes a startling discovery while eating lunch; Religious zealots determine that Bull is their god.

 Christine loses her babysitter when the woman turns up in the courtroom and has problems finding a new nanny. Harry has a bad flashback to when he was in school when the bully who picked on him turns up in his courtroom.

A street artist helps raise Christine's spirits, but his crush on her may land him jail time for repeat offenses. Meanwhile, Mac indulges a passion for photography, and so does Dan when he uses Mac's camera to take pictures of his latest sexual conquest.

A comics off-color humor stirs up a First Amendment debate among the staffers and a man of the cloth, as well as other courtroom observers. Bull publishes a book.

Roz goes after the mother of a TV brat that is shooting a TV pilot in the building.

Dan looks at Phil the bum in a whole new light when the bum rescues a defendant who's been left penniless by the late 1980s savings and loan crisis.

Dan anticipates a windfall from Phil the bum's will but gets a surprise instead. Meanwhile, Bull anxiously awaits a visit from his mother, an old salt due to retire from the sea and come live with her sonny boy.

Christine finds herself tense over finalizing her divorce, Harry is nervous about moving in with Margaret, Dan is frustrated over what to do with the Phil Foundation money, and Bull follows his mother's advice and looks for a wife - with the help of a matchmaker.

Harry gets a wealth of conflicting advice when he confides in his friends that he thinks Margaret is about to propose marriage, but Margaret has a bombshell that's bigger than Harry's proposal. Meanwhile, Christine has a divorce party.

Harry loses all interest in life after Margaret leaves him. An angel (in the shape of Mel Tormé) shows him what life would be like in the court without him.

The court staff worries that Dan's insomnia over spending all his time preparing for the Phil Foundation banquet may be affecting his sanity. Meanwhile, Bull wins a high-end toupee in a cereal contest, and his new hair attracts all the women who once thought he was weird and repulsive.

Roz tries Christine's "happy therapy" and sets the group back several months. Meanwhile, Jack's son finally admits to himself and his dad that running the newsstand isn't for him, and Dan's dealing with the Phil Foundation opens his eyes to all of society's ills.

When a State Supreme Court Justice woos Mac to clerk in his court, chaos soon follows in Harry's court. However, not long after having a conversation with the Justice, Harry begins to worry that Mac's new job has to do with the color of skin instead of with his job ability. Dan hires a valet who soon begins to drive him crazy.

When Harry gets placed on a list of New York's most interesting people, the fame and attention goes to his head. As a result, when he gets set up on a date with a pretty model on the same night as he made plans with Christine, he lies to get out of it, and as a result, Christine gets mad when she finds out about it.

Part one of two. Harry experiences some very mixed emotions when Tony tries to win Christine back, and the transformed Dan gets some help in running the Phil Foundation, from Phil's twin brother Will.

Part two of two. Dan has a plan to save the Phil Foundation and Harry doesn't like Christine getting close to her ex.