Night Court (2023 TV series)

*Night Court*
Night Court
	Season 1 promotional poster
Genre	Sitcom
Created by	Reinhold Weege
Developed by	Dan Rubin
Starring	Melissa Rauch; India de Beaufort; Kapil Talwalkar; Lacretta; John Larroquette; Nyambi Nyambi; Wendie Malick;
Theme music composer	Jack Elliott
Composer	Benjamin Sword Larroquette
Country of origin	United States
Original language	English
No. of seasons	3
No. of episodes	47
Production
Executive producers	Pamela Fryman; Winston Rauch; Melissa Rauch; Dan Rubin; Lon Zimmet; Mathew Harawitz; John Larroquette (seasons 2–3); Leila Strachan; Mona Garcea; Lindsey Shockley;
Producers	John Larroquette (season 1); Suzy Mamann Greenberg; Josh Corey & Brian Kratz; Pixie Wespiser; Julie Mandel-Folly; Caroline Fox;
Cinematography	Christian La Fountaine; Wayne Kennan; Erik Carter;
Editors	Kirk Benson; Chris Poulos; Stephen Prime; Jordan Beal;
Camera setup	Multi-camera
Running time	21–23 minutes
Production companies	After January Productions; Secret Bird; Universal Television; Warner Bros. Television Studios;
Original release
Network	NBC
Release	January 17, 2023 –; May 6, 2025
Related
	Night Court (1984–1992)

Night Court is an American sitcom, a revival of the series of the same name that originally aired from 1984 to 1992. It premiered on NBC on January 17, 2023.^[1] In February 2023, the series was renewed for a second season which then premiered on December 23, 2023.^[2]^[3]^[4] In May 2024, the series was renewed for a third season which premiered on November 19, 2024.^[5]^[6]^[7] In May 2025, the series was canceled after three seasons due to low viewership.^[8]

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Season	Episodes	Originally released		Rank	Average viewership (in millions)	Ref
Season	Episodes	First released	Last released	Rank	Average viewership (in millions)	Ref
1	16	January 17, 2023 (2023-01-17)	May 9, 2023 (2023-05-09)	38	5.46	^[14]
2	13	December 23, 2023 (2023-12-23)	March 26, 2024 (2024-03-26)	58	3.85	^[15]
3	18	November 19, 2024 (2024-11-19)	May 6, 2025 (2025-05-06)	TBA	TBA	TBA

No. overall	No. in season	Title	Directed by	Written by	Original release date	Prod. code	U.S. viewers (millions)
1	1	"Pilot"	Pamela Fryman	Dan Rubin	January 17, 2023 (2023-01-17)	T11.10152	7.55^[16]
Abby Stone, daughter of late Judge Harry Stone, takes over the night court. Like her father, she is interested in the defendants as people and wants to take time to administer justice, much to the annoyance of the overworked courthouse staff. When the public defender quits, Abby recruits Dan Fielding, the former assistant district attorney and her father's friend, to fill the role. Dan, who has been working as a process server after losing his wife, is reluctant, but agrees to fill in for a few weeks. Meanwhile, Gurgs tries to track down a courthouse vandal.
2	2	"The Nighthawks"	Pamela Fryman	Dan Rubin	January 17, 2023 (2023-01-17)	T12.17502	6.94^[16]
Dan, who is used to being a prosecutor, has difficulty caring about his clients. When Abby insists he try harder, Dan bribes Gurgs to interview his clients for him. Only after connecting with a mentally ill defendant does Dan begin to take his work seriously, leading Abby to predict he will stay on for a long time. Meanwhile, Abby encourages the staff to bring their own touches to the courtroom with somewhat disastrous results, Olivia is stalked by a stenographer determined to be her best friend, and the custodian deals with a pigeon infestation.
3	3	"Just Tuesday"	Anthony Rich	Mathew Harawitz	January 24, 2023 (2023-01-24)	T12.17505	5.17^[17]
In her efforts to remedy a defendant's newly chronic criminality, Abby accidentally outs him as an undercover cop. Fearing her personal approach is doing more harm than good, she becomes unrelentingly businesslike in the courtroom. When Dan tries to remedy this overcorrection, Abby holds him in contempt. Dan realizes that Abby's sensitivity to being of service stems from the fact that, like Dan's late wife, Abby is a recovering alcoholic. She confides that her drinking cost her a lot of time with her father, though he lived long enough to see her thrive in recovery. Dan tells her that Harry would never have felt let down by her. She returns to her previous demeanor. Meanwhile, Olivia struggles to adapt when the police officers withdraw the perks she had been enjoying. Believing this is an unreasonable response to the courtroom incident, she confronts the officers, only to inadvertently reveal the ethically questionable perks to an Internal Affairs representative, whose presence was the actual reason for the change.
4	4	"Dan v. Dating"	Anthony Rich	Lon Zimmet	January 31, 2023 (2023-01-31)	T12.17504	4.77^[18]
When Abby learns that Dan is being hit on by multiple women, including his client, she suggests to Dan that he start dating again. He then hits it off with a woman named Julianne (Wendie Malick) who gives him her number. Dan arranges a date. Abby and Neil then go to spy on them, finding Dan alone at the restaurant. Upon learning that Dan didn't even text the woman, Neil sends the message he wrote but didn't send. Upon learning that Julianne is only interested in sex, Dan takes her home, but is only able to talk about his late wife. Julianne admits that she is a career criminal who wanted to ruin Dan's life for prosecuting her years ago, but finds him too pathetic for revenge. Meanwhile Gurgs and Olivia move into an abandoned office, but Olivia has trouble dealing with Gurgs' outgoing personality.
5	5	"The Apartment"	Mark Cendrowski	Leila Strachan	February 7, 2023 (2023-02-07)	T12.17503	4.22^[19]
Frustrated by her less-than-ideal living situation, Abby enlists Gurgs to help her use the court system to find a vacant apartment. They locate an ideal place, but the landlord refuses to rent to Abby when he realizes that she is a judge. Abby, increasingly frustrated by her life and not being able to spend time with her long-distance fiancé, takes Dan's advice to stop bottling up her anger and destroys her office. Meanwhile, Olivia runs into a lawyer who almost hired her for a prestigious job until she made a fool out of herself after the interview. Dan, who has memories of an embarrassing interview of his own, encourages Olivia to prove herself in court, which proves a moot point when the lawyer sends someone else to court in her stead.
6	6	"Justice Buddies"	Anthony Rich	Azie Dungey	February 14, 2023 (2023-02-14)	T12.17506	3.78^[20]
Gurgs' 12-year-old nephew Xavier and some classmates visit the court. Gurgs is hoping to bond with her nephew, but realizes the children only want to protest the arrest of a social justice activist who was arrested for vandalizing a statue of Christopher Columbus. Abby asks Gurgs to convince the children to stop their protest chants; instead, Gurgs joins them. In the end, Abby conspires with Dan to allow the children to legally protest, and Xavier decides the justice system isn't totally flawed, especially with Gurgs as a part of it. Meanwhile, Olivia spars with a middle school girl who is after her job, Neil takes romantic advice from one of the students, and Dan enjoys having one of the kids as a flunky.
7	7	"Train Court"	Leonard R. Garner Jr.	Lon Zimmet & Julianne Turkel	February 21, 2023 (2023-02-21)	T12.17515	3.69^[21]
When Abby discovers she and Olivia take the same subway, she's determined to buddy up, so Olivia can teach her to be a 'true New Yorker'. When the train is delayed, Olivia begins to panic. In order to distract her, Abby holds an impromptu trial on the train over a stolen seat. Meanwhile, a substitute judge takes over the court. When Gurgs realizes Abby's heroes Tara Lipinski and Johnny Weir are witnesses in a case, she's determined to delay the case until Abby can arrive, while Dan tries to expedite court to make a dinner reservation. Dan ultimately sides with Gurgs and draws out the hearing until Abby can arrive, only to realize she already knows the pair. As a peace offering, Gurgs fixes Dan a meal of the Louisiana Bayou food of his youth.
8	8	"Blood Moon Binga"	Pamela Fryman	Rebecca Delgado Smith & Jessica Elaina Eason	February 28, 2023 (2023-02-28)	T12.17507	3.56^[22]
On a blood moon night with weird cases, Abby's mother Gina shows up for a surprise visit. After introducing herself to Abby's staff, it is revealed that she and Dan know each other. Olivia and Neil stumble onto the truth, which was that Gina was arrested years ago for running an illegal gambling ring and was brought in front of Harry's court with Dan prosecuting. After serving her sentence, Harry and Gina reconnected, fell in love, married, and moved to upstate New York, where Abby (revealed to be short for Abracadabra per Harry's wishes) was born. Abby was unaware of any of this but forgives her mother for the deception.
9	9	"Two Peas on a Pod"	Kelly Park	Mathew Harawitz & Lon Zimmet	March 7, 2023 (2023-03-07)	T12.17510	3.93^[23]
Remecca, a podcaster Abby admires, appears in the court as a witness and Abby convinces her to do an episode about the court. When Dan admits to malfeasance during his 1980s run for city council, his career is put in jeopardy. Abby's attempts to smooth things over backfire when she admits that Dan was a friend of her father's, and Remecca threatens to call Abby out for cronyism. Dan agrees to a tell-all interview if Remecca leaves Abby alone. Meanwhile, Olivia convinces Neil to pose as her boyfriend in hopes that Remecca would cover the story of their illicit workplace romance. Remecca's podcast is ultimately cancelled when her sound man exposes her past as an obnoxious shock jock.
10	10	"Marathon-Thon-Thon-Thon-Thon"	Joanna Kerns	Teleplay by : Jessica Elaina Eason & Rebecca Delgado Smith Story by : Shawn Parikh	March 14, 2023 (2023-03-14)	T12.17514	3.55^[24]
Abby's fiance, Rand, shows up to help her train for a marathon. When Abby tries to get Olivia to join her, Rand takes it upon himself to cultivate a friendship between them. Abby and Olivia both overdo their training, causing them to drop out of the race before the first mile. Meanwhile, Dan is furious when the courthouse plans to remove his favorite bench. He eventually admits to Gurgs that it's because he carved his initials in it the day he won his first court case, and it's been an island of stability in his life.
11	11	"Ready or Knot"	Robbie Countryman	Shawn Parikh	March 28, 2023 (2023-03-28)	T12.17509	3.39^[25]
A riot at a bridal expo brings a number of wedding businesspeople to the courthouse, causing Abby to start thinking about her own wedding, which was delayed by her father's death. Olivia and Gurgs vie to be Abby's maid of honor, while a wedding planner becomes obsessed with planning Dan's theoretical wedding. Abby trades a reservation at her dream venue in exchange for performing a wedding that night in the courtroom but breaks down upon realizing her father will not be at her own wedding. Dan suggests they hold the wedding on the courthouse roof, where he and Abby's father had a lot of good times.
12	12	"DA Club"	Lynda Tarryk	Bennett Webber	April 4, 2023 (2023-04-04)	T12.17508	3.29^[26]
Abby meets district attorney Jeff Dewitt at his exclusive lawyers club to discuss how his tough-on-crime stance is hurting society. Dan - his old associate and fellow club member - shows up to watch out for Abby and realizes Dewitt is planning on using Abby as a soft-on-crime scapegoat for his next election. Abby threatens to expose Dewitt's extramarital affair unless he takes her crime proposals seriously. Meanwhile Olivia (aided by Gurgs and Neil) attempts to gain membership in the club.
13	13	"Past Apps"	Betsy Thomas	Josh Corey & Brian Kratz	April 11, 2023 (2023-04-11)	T12.17511	2.77^[27]
An app developer named Brock appears as a witness in court and pitches his new dating app. Dan tries to get the gang to invest, but Abby accidentally reads Brock's sealed file and discovers he was once convicted of fraud. Dan worms the information out of Abby but still wants to invest (as years ago he missed out on a chance to be a ground floor investor in what would become Facebook) and actually brings one of Brock's old victims on board. Abby gets Brock's records unsealed and reveals his criminal record at the investors' party, but Brock announces he's already cut his past victims in on the profits of his new venture. Brock kicks the courtroom crew out, including Olivia, who was attempting to seduce Brock, and Gurgs, who was pitching her own app. Mark Zuckerberg then buys the app for $2 billion, costing everyone a fortune. Gurgs lets it slip to Abby about Neil's secret crush on her.
14	14	"When Abby Met Gabby"	Joanna Kerns	Azie Dungey & Stacy Adelman	April 25, 2023 (2023-04-25)	T12.17512	2.86^[28]
Now aware of Neil's crush on her, Abby (with Olivia's help) tries to find a way to tell him she isn't interested without hurting his feelings. They run into Gabby - Neil's high school crush who has similar interests and personality traits as Abby and is coming off a divorce - and attempt to set Neil and Gabby up on a date. The date is successful, but it leaves Abby questioning whether her and Rand will wind up the same way as Gabby and her ex-husband. Meanwhile, Gurgs blames herself after someone in the courtroom throws a drink at Dan and becomes overly protective of him.
15	15	"The Honorable Dan Fielding, Part 1"	Pamela Fryman	Leila Strachan & Marc Carusiello	May 2, 2023 (2023-05-02)	T12.17513	3.02^[29]
Dan accepts an offer to be a judge in his native Louisiana. He (reluctantly) attends his going away party arranged by Abby and Rand, who are having their own issues - namely Abby getting distracted by work matters, thus neglecting Rand. Among the work matters is an elderly lady who appeared in court on charges she set fire to a nursing home when she lit the candles on her boyfriend's birthday cake. After letting her off with a small fine to pay the damages, Abby is then asked by the lady to help spring her boyfriend from the nursing home. The errant escape attempt results in Abby getting arrested and calling Dan to bail her out. Meanwhile, Olivia attempts to assist Gurgs to pass the bailiff's supervisor test, and winds up getting her a job at Scotland Yard.
16	16	"The Honorable Dan Fielding, Part 2"	Joanna Kerns	Caroline Fox & Bennett Webber	May 9, 2023 (2023-05-09)	T12.17516	2.42^[30]
Dan bails Abby out of jail, and prepares to defend her in court, with the case prosecuted by Abby's nemesis Jeff Dewitt, who pressures Olivia to assist him or else lose her job. Even with all that is working against her, Abby resists resorting to Dan's hardball defense tactics, including implicating Louise - the lady from the nursing home to get Abby into the mess to start with - even after Louise wore a wire (at Dewitt's insistence) to implicate Abby. On top of her legal issues, Abby has a heart-to-heart talk with Rand, and they mutually agree to break off their engagement, as Abby loves her job in NYC, and Rand wants to remain upstate. During Abby's trial, Rand convinces numerous people - including Abby's co-workers and people who appeared before Abby in court - to be character witnesses on her behalf, including Olivia. who puts her friendship with Abby above her own job. Louise testifies that Dewitt had threatened to blackmail her unless she wore the wire to try to implicate Abby. The judge dismisses the charges against Abby. Dan - though having some second thoughts - bids farewell to NYC and goes back to Louisiana to become a judge, where one of the first cases in front of him involves Roz Russell, a former co-worker who served as a bailiff in Harry's court.

No. overall	No. in season	Title	Directed by	Written by	Original release date	Prod. code	U.S. viewers (millions)
17	1	"A Night Court Before Christmas"	Anthony Rich	Bennett Webber	December 23, 2023 (2023-12-23)	T12.17908	2.58^[31]
Dan and Abby pretend to be Santa and an elf for a girl named Virginia who still believes. Olivia is tormented by a witness who believes she is the Ghost of Christmas Present. Gurgs arranges a video greeting to Dan from his hero, Kareem Abdul-Jabbar, and is shocked when he shows up in person.
18	2	"The Roz Affair"	Pamela Fryman	Dan Rubin	January 2, 2024 (2024-01-02)	T12.17901	3.77^[32]
Dan catches up with Roz - who became a private investigator after leaving Harry's court years ago - during her imprisonment in New Orleans (for getting into a fight at her bachelorette party). Roz then asks Dan to come back to New York to assist her in an investigation to see if her fiance was cheating on her. Dan bungles the investigation, leading to him and Roz pleading their case in front of Abby. After paying a fine for damages and having heart-to-heart talks with Roz and Abby, Dan moves back to NYC to resume his role as the defense attorney in Abby's court. Meanwhile, Neil left NYC to move with his girlfriend to Lake Tahoe, leaving Flobert to serve as court clerk, Gurgs regales the court with stories of her London adventures and Olivia tries to establish a side gig as a sports agent.
19	3	"Form Fetish"	Anthony Rich	Mathew Harawitz	January 9, 2024 (2024-01-09)	T12.17902	3.38^[33]
A city hall bureaucrat named Linda takes delight in denying the court needed amenities following budget cuts. Dan tries sucking up to her by hiring her slacker/gamer son as the new court clerk. Meanwhile, Olivia and Gurgs find a cache of a discontinued, high-caffeine soda in a storeroom, and then sell it at a markup. After Linda's son fails as clerk, Abby and Dan (after chugging several cans of Olivia and Gurgs' soda) then fill out the hundreds of forms Linda forced upon them, giving her no choice but to approve their requests.
20	4	"Just the Fax, Dan"	Pamela Fryman	Lon Zimmet	January 16, 2024 (2024-01-16)	T12.17903	3.43^[34]
A hacker seizes control of the court's computers and the staff's personal devices, threatening via fax (as there was an old fax machine left over in Abby's chamber from her father's time as judge), to expose their secrets unless a certain defendant is found guilty. Dan tries to negotiate with the hacker, Abby tries to delay court, and Gurgs suspects Wyatt, the new court clerk (who turns out just to be a harried single father). The hacker is revealed to be the defendant's teenage son, who wants revenge for his father's philandering.
21	5	"Hold the Pickles, Keep the Change"	Pamela Fryman	Chuck Tatham	January 23, 2024 (2024-01-23)	T12.17904	2.95^[35]
Upon learning her ex-fiance has a girlfriend, Abby ignores Wyatt's advice to start dating again and instead throws her efforts into creating the perfect pickle. Olivia attempts to date an ambulance-chasing attorney, but is thwarted by his legal partner, who wants him to focus on business. Gurgs is concerned about Dan and Flobert's less than healthy eating habits.
22	6	"Wrath of Comic-Con"	Anthony Rich	Leila Strachan	January 30, 2024 (2024-01-30)	T12.17905	3.02^[36]
As various cosplaying defendants appear in court stemming from incidents at the NYC Comic-Con, Abby's childhood friend Heather comes to visit, and is forced to confront the fact that she might actually dislike Heather due to her annoying habits. Julianne returns to torment Dan, and he takes advantage of having the numerous costumed Comic-Con attendees around the courtroom to disguise himself as a Klingon from Star Trek to hide from her. But when Julianne (herself dressed as Catwoman) runs into the disguised Dan, they have a conversation where they actually hit it off until she realizes it's Dan and gets taken away by the police due to starting a fire earlier in the day. Wyatt wants to go to Comic-Con as Morpheus from The Matrix to try to meet women but instead goes as a character from Paw Patrol as he is forced to take his kids when he could not find a babysitter, and Gurgs instead goes as Morpheus.
23	7	"A Crime of Fashion"	Lynda Tarryk	Lindsey Shockley	February 6, 2024 (2024-02-06)	T12.17906	3.31^[37]
Various fashionistas are appearing in court stemming from incidents during New York Fashion Week. Among them is designer Martini Toddwalls, who is hiding in Abby's chambers to avoid the paparazzi. Abby finds him, they hit it off, go on a date, and spend the night together. But after the garish feathered robe Toddwalls designs for her causes Abby to be attacked by a peacock in the courtroom, Abby breaks it off with him. Meanwhile, the fashion critic Dan is representing in court shows him ways to get people to leave him alone, and after Dan accidentally mixed up Olivia's dry cleaning with clothes meant to go to charity (forcing Olivia to wear a 1980s era outfit with shoulder pads to work), they scheme to get her clothes back from the nonprofit discount store they were sent to.
24	8	"Broadway Danny Gurgs"	Ren Bell	Julie Mandel-Folly	February 13, 2024 (2024-02-13)	T12.17907	2.91^[38]
Years after Dan invested $5,000 in a Broadway play that flopped, he is forced to defend the producer of the play in court in order to get Gurgs (who is an admirer of the producer) an audition. Olivia had been bribing a doorman to have her deliveries sent to the Central Park West apartment building where he works to make it appear that she lives in the upscale neighborhood. But when the doorman dies, Olivia feels real sadness at the loss of a friend.
25	9	"Taught and Bothered"	Ren Bell	Shawn Parikh	February 20, 2024 (2024-02-20)	T12.17910	2.51^[39]
A handsome courtroom observer catches Abby's eye, and it turns out to be Jake, a city human resources official. To try to get closer to him, Abby drags the rest of the court staff to Jake's Saturday HR seminar. During the seminar, Jake talks about how relationships in the workplace shouldn't be too personal, which clashes with Abby's overly personal philosophy, and this difference in opinion causes riffs among the other staff (Olivia and Gurgs regarding shared living quarters, and Dan and Wyatt over saying "thank you"). After an argument, Abby and Jake wind up making out in her chambers. Meanwhile, Flobert is trying to sell time shares in Cleveland to the court staff.
26	10	"Chips Ahoy"	Phill Lewis	Jessica Elaina Eason & Rebecca Delgado Smith	March 5, 2024 (2024-03-05)	T12.17909	2.88^[40]
As numerous sailors appear in court due to incidents occurring during NYC Fleet Week, Dan arranges a clandestine poker game in the courthouse basement, and scores big until Gurgs and Olivia (a card sharp in her own right) help the sailors win back their money. Separately, Jasmine - a pushy local PTA president who Wyatt is intimidated by through their dealings regarding Wyatt's kids - also appears in court and when found guilty by Abby starts bullying Wyatt. When Abby tells Wyatt to stand up to Jasmine, Jasmine instead gets turned on, as nobody had ever stood up to her like that before. Eventually, when Jasmine comes on too strong to Wyatt, Abby challenges her to a pop-a-shot contest on a basketball arcade game, which is won by Abby, and thus making Jasmine back off of Wyatt.
27	11	"Wheelers of Fortune"	Phill Lewis	Kim Tran	March 12, 2024 (2024-03-12)	T12.17911	3.05^[41]
Bob and June Wheeler - frequent defendants in Harry's court - appear before Abby for the first time (much to Dan's chagrin), and as in the past, bad luck and calamity follow them (including a section of the courtroom's plaster ceiling falling on Abby's head). Abby - who was fascinated by the stories her father told her about the Wheelers - asks them to put her in touch with a prominent psychic they have connections with to try to contact her dad in the afterlife (even going so far as babysitting the Wheeler's adult daughter in return). Abby eventually meets with the psychic, who turns out to be a fraud. When Dan tries to console Abby over being let down by the psychic, he unknowingly utters a phrase that Abby and Harry used to share between them, leading to he and Abby bonding over Harry's memory (with Dan even becoming a bit emotional remembering his old friend). Meanwhile Olivia buys a house thought to be haunted, and Gurgs asks Wyatt to help remove a perceived curse.
28	12	"The Duke's a Hazard"	Kelly Park	Teleplay by : Lauren Halberg & Alex Sobotowski Story by : Julianne Turkel	March 19, 2024 (2024-03-19)	T12.17912	2.81^[42]
Alistair Tully, the British Duke who Gurgs has had a long-distance relationship with since her visit to Scotland Yard, arrives in NYC to surprise Gurgs. Gurgs hides in the janitor's closet (which she turned into a mini girl cave), as while she loves the Duke, she doesn't like all of the royal trappings that come with him. Realizing this, Tully asks Abby to show him how "normal people" live to put Gurgs at ease. After the Duke visits the subway and gets tickets to a New York Rangers hockey game, Gurgs appreciates what he is willing to go through to be with her and accepts the date. Meanwhile Dan and the Duke's butler Duncan renew a feud their families had centuries ago in England, and Olivia attempts to hook up with a palace guard who accompanied the Duke on his trip.
29	13	"The Best Dan"	Lynda Tarryk	Caroline Fox	March 26, 2024 (2024-03-26)	T12.17913	2.81^[43]
Roz returns to court to deal with a last-minute legal issue regarding her wedding venue. When she loses both the case and the venue, she is persuaded by Abby to hold her wedding at the courthouse, to which Roz reluctantly agrees. At the wedding reception, Abby and Jake try to keep their casual relationship from getting too deep, but the ambiance of the wedding proves too much and they become more involved with each other. Jake then introduces Abby to his mother, who reveals Jake was a result of a short relationship she had with someone who works at the courthouse (heavily implied to be Dan). Also at the reception, Dan runs into Katie, the sister of Dan's late co-worker/friend Christine Sullivan. They hit it off at first (with Katie not realizing it was Dan), but once she finds out, she lashes out at him due to his past history with Christine and not attending her funeral. Dan confides in Abby that he wanted a relationship with Christine but once she warmed up to the idea, he began to believe he wasn't good enough for such a good person and he ran away. He said that his relationship with Christine is what made him ready to eventually settle down with his wife Sarah. He also revealed he was at Christine's funeral but stayed inconspicuous so as not to make a scene given their history. Katie overhears this and makes peace with Dan. Meanwhile, Gurgs, Olivia, Wyatt, and Flobert try to find out who keeps sabotaging Roz's wedding, and it turns out to be Devin, a lawyer who was passed over for a partnership in the law firm run by Roz's fiance.

No. overall	No. in season	Title ^[44]^[45]	Directed by	Written by	Original release date ^[44]^[45]	Prod. code	U.S. viewers (millions)
30	1	"The Judge's Boyfriend's Dad, Part 1"	Phill Lewis	Dan Rubin	November 19, 2024 (2024-11-19)	T12.19301	2.52^[46]
Abby continues to agonize over the possibility that Jake may be Dan's son. To know for sure, she talks to Jake's mother Susan, However, when Abby finds Susan in a heavily medicated state in the hospital (after Susan had breast enlargement surgery), Susan mentions she also had a relationship with a judge who happened to be a magician (implying Harry, which would mean Abby and Jake would be half-siblings). To clear things up once and for all, she collects DNA from herself, Jake, and Dan (including having Flobert hide in a garbage can to collect Dan's DNA from a coffee cup). The DNA tests reveal Harry isn't the father, but Dan may still be in play. Meanwhile, Dan's nemesis Julianne returns, as she has been named the court's new prosecutor (after Olivia left to take a job with a law firm), and though he thinks she is still seeking to torment him, the rest of the court staff seem convinced she has turned over a new leaf.
31	2	"The Judge's Boyfriend's Dad, Part 2"	Phill Lewis	Lindsey Shockley	November 26, 2024 (2024-11-26)	T12.19302	2.39^[47]
While Harry was shown not to be Jake's father by the DNA test, the results on Dan were inconclusive, so while another DNA test was being evaluated, Abby tries to get Dan and Jake to bond. After some reluctance, the two men do start bonding over things like fixing Dan's squeaky chair and going tie shopping. They bond so well, that Abby starts feeling left out. Eventually, the DNA test showed that Dan wasn't Jake's father, and while attending a New York Yankees baseball game with Abby (using a ticket originally meant for Jake), Dan confesses he liked the idea of being someone's father and felt a bit of a father-daughter relationship with Abby. Meanwhile, Gurgs catches Julianne smoking on the courthouse balcony, and after some taunting back and forth, Gurgs tries to get former smoker Wyatt to get Julianne to stop and instead reignites his old habit. Julianne then confesses she wasn't actually smoking on the balcony outside Abby's office but was trying to eavesdrop on conversations amongst the staff to try to get an edge in court, but all they ever talked about was their personal lives.
32	3	"The Hole Truth"	Anthony Rich	Lon Zimmet	December 3, 2024 (2024-12-03)	T12.19304	2.27^[48]
NYC is in the midst of a city-wide sanitation worker strike, affecting the court staff in various ways. Courthouse janitor Bert is keeping the courtroom free of garbage, but when Abby makes a flippant remark after learning that Bert throws the trash into a hole in the courthouse basement, Bert takes offense and joins the sanitation worker strike. As trash is piling up in the courthouse (and driving germaphobe/neat freak Wyatt crazy) Abby finds out - through dumpster diving - that Bert's beloved pet alligator died. Abby then arranges a funeral in the basement for the gator, which Bert is thankful for and resumes her work as the sanitation strike had ended. But when the casket encased gator is thrown into the hole where the trash is thrown in, it severed a power line, plunging the city into a blackout. Meanwhile, Dan and Julianne start to bond as they were able to walk the city in peace due to the strike and the smell of the piled-up garbage keeping people away, using expired ear drops found in the trash with the side effect of losing the sense of smell to block out the stench.
33	4	"Feliz NaviDead"	Phill Lewis	Mathew Harawitz	December 17, 2024 (2024-12-17)	T12.19303	2.07^[49]
As various holiday related cases come through Abby's court at Christmas time, one in particular grabs her interest, when a pushy vacuum salesman won't leave a customer alone, and after the lights briefly went out and came back on, the defendant disappears. A harried NYPD detective then explains that the salesman was actually an actor who performs at murder mystery parties and got too deep into his role. Once the actor is found, Abby tries to convince him to go to jail with the detective by having the rest of the court staff play characters in the story he is stuck in (including Dan as a female southern belle). During the performance in the courthouse cafeteria, the lights go out again, and upon coming back on, the actor appears to be stabbed in the back with a dagger. A mortified Dan then reveals he set the whole thing up as a Christmas present for murder mystery enthusiast Abby, but he didn't expect it to get out of hand. Abby then reveals that she knew what Dan was planning, so she hired another actor to play the detective, and that the stabbing was fake. Once everybody left, the actors playing the defendant and the detective implied amongst themselves that they were actually angels sent from Heaven to spread Christmas cheer (which Flobert overhears and is freaked out by). Meanwhile, Gurgs takes offense when Wyatt places her coat over top of his brand-new coat on the cafeteria coat rack to protect it from getting dirty/stolen.
34	5	"Mayim Worst Enemy"	Jody Margolin Hahn	Laura Gutin Peterson	January 14, 2025 (2025-01-14)	T12.19312	2.16^[50]
Actress Mayim Bialik appears in court due to a dispute at a restaurant, and Abby is thrilled to see her, having been a fan of hers since watching Blossom in her youth. Abby is at first excited to become friends with Bialik, but then Bialik starts to become clingier and more obsessed with Abby, which Julianne notices as classic signs of stalker behavior, which terrifies Abby. Abby and the rest of the courthouse crew then go to Bialik's apartment to confront her, but Bialik has remodeled the apartment into an exact replica of Abby's office and holds everyone hostage. Bialik then reveals she was doing character research for an upcoming Broadway play where she is playing a stalker, and releases everybody after apologizing to them. Meanwhile, Dan becomes obsessed with finding the identity of a man who didn't hold the elevator door open for him, using a discarded pocket square to try to figure out who it was, which also winds up being staged by Bialik as part of her character research.
35	6	"The Jakeout"	Anthony Rich	Caroline Fox	January 21, 2025 (2025-01-21)	T12.19306	1.96^[51]
At the six-month mark of their relationship, Abby wonders why Jake (who stated this was the longest relationship he had ever been in) won't allow her to attend his weekly pick-up basketball games at the gym. When Abby, Gurgs, and Wyatt stakeout the gym - following a smoke bomb distraction by Gurgs - they grab Jake's gym bag, and once back at the courthouse, they find an Abby-sized doll dressed in a cheerleader outfit. After assuming it was a sex doll, Abby learns from Jake (who assumed the doll was stolen and not already in Abby's possession), that he is a male cheerleader, and used the doll for practice for an upcoming competition in Florida, and he never told Abby because the fact he was a male cheerleader was a deal breaker in his past relationships. Abby then tells Jake she supports his cheerleading, and even helps him practice for his routine, but after running into Gurgs and Wyatt in the elevator with the doll and learning the truth, Jake breaks up with Abby. Meanwhile, Dan and Julianne play cat-and-mouse trying to deny any attraction to each other, including hiring people to pose as their dates.
36	7	"Rebound and Down"	Linda Mendoza	Jessica Elaina Eason & Rebecca Delgado Smith	January 28, 2025 (2025-01-28)	T12.19307	1.72^[52]
Abby buries herself in her work to try to get over breaking up with Jake, including taking on increased caseloads and shifts. After taking a pass on a date with an escort Wyatt tried to set her up with, Abby instead agrees to go to a meeting of Julianne's support group, which is revealed to be a front for a pyramid scheme where Julianne has everyone selling scented candles. Despite not liking being part of Julianne's scam, Abby does like being around the other women, so she reluctantly goes along with it. Abby eventually tires of Julianne's scheme and convinces the other women to break away from Julianne and form an actual support group. Abby though quickly tires of hearing the other ladies' sob stories and gives them back to Julianne where she hatches a new scheme to sell scrunchies. Meanwhile, Dan and Flobert help Gurgs prep for her interview to become chief bailiff, which she aces (despite their help) and gets the job.
37	8	"Age Against the Machine"	Nikki Lorre	Bennett Webber	February 4, 2025 (2025-02-04)	T12.19308	1.78^[53]
Dan defends a young TikTok influencer in court, and she gives him a bad review on a new satisfaction kiosk that had been installed in the courtroom. A young city official named Tad takes note of this and wants to observe if elder statesman Dan can still handle his job. Despite attempts to try to show he can hang with the young crowd (including going to a rock concert with Julianne), Dan shows his age when he returns to work after the concert as he has trouble hearing due to the loud music and is limping from getting jostled in the mosh pit. Dan and Julianne then see Tad in his office and as he is about to recommend Dan be replaced, notice Tad looking at viral videos with senior citizens looking foolish on his phone, and threaten to accuse Tad of ageism unless he leaves Dan alone, which he agrees to. Meanwhile, Wyatt's daughter spreads a rumor that someone in the courtroom has a crush on her father, with Abby and Gurgs accusing each other. Wyatt (after being hooked up to a lie detector) then says that he made the story up to look like big shot in front of his ex-wife.
38	9	"AB-ventures in Babysitting"	Anthony Rich	Lon Zimmet	February 11, 2025 (2025-02-11)	T12.19305	2.07^[54]
Abby's annoying friend Heather returns, having recently become a new mother. Abby then winds up getting suckered into babysitting the little guy while his mom goes out for a night on the town. Abby has trouble trying to get the baby to stop crying, but Dan shows a surprising touch at getting him to calm down. When Heather returns (after her big "night out" was actually just eating hot dogs in the park) she and Abby talk about the baby, and realize that for all Heather's quirks, she is actually a decent mother, and Abby even eventually finds a way to bond with the baby by blowing raspberries. Meanwhile, Gurgs tries not to have the courtroom be in its usual crazy state when a TikTok influencer comes in, but when a case involving a circus breaks down into chaos, the influencer eats it up and Gurgs shrugs it off, embracing the insanity.
39	10	"Pension Tension"	Gail Lerner	Shawn Parikh	February 18, 2025 (2025-02-18)	T12.19309	1.88^[55]
Roz returns, lamenting the fact she is three service days short of being able to collect a pension from the city. Abby then temporarily hires her as a second bailiff to reach her pension eligibility, but Roz's old school, roughhouse, and salty style rubs the court staff the wrong way, leading to Abby trying to fire her, but instead (due to being intimidated by Roz), hires her full time. In the cafeteria - where what was supposed to be Roz's retirement party was hastily turned into a welcome back celebration - a dustup between Roz and Julianne forces Abby's hand and winds up firing Roz after all. Roz then admits that was her plan all along...work long enough to collect her pension, and then get a severance check on top of it. Meanwhile, Dan and Gurgs hire an assistant who winds up dumping her work on them in return for promises of favors by her influential father. They then assume they were getting played by the young lady and dump her, but it winds up she was telling the truth, leaving Dan and Gurgs empty handed.
40	11	"Abracadabra Alaka-Dan"	Roger Christiansen	Julianne Turkel	February 25, 2025 (2025-02-25)	T12.19310	1.81^[56]
Harry's former magician's assistant Starla visits the courtroom, gifting Abby a box used in her father's act. Both Abby and Dan get their arm stuck in the box, with Starla saying she'd release them if they give her Harry's book of secrets (kept by Abby in her office behind a phony collection of law books) so she could start her own magic act. Abby then feigns giving Starla the book and handcuffs her to the desk, leading to a stalemate. While everyone is trapped Starla admits to being jealous of Abby due to Harry saying his daughter was the most magical thing that ever happened in his life, while Abby confesses she was jealous of Starla because she'd see Starla do the act with her father, while Abby herself was never any good at magic. When Dan holds Abby's hand inside the box to comfort her, it triggers the mechanism to open it, and they were freed. Meanwhile, Julianne tries to get Wyatt to lighten up after he adopts a new cynical attitude. After several failed attempts, a batch of "special" brownies does the trick.
41	12	"A Little Night Court Music"	Ren Bell	Julie Mandel-Folly & Bennett Webber	March 11, 2025 (2025-03-11)	T12.19314	1.71^[57]
As Dan continues to be frustrated by the continual rejection of his memoir by publishers, his old nemesis Sy Huffman visits the courthouse, and offers to turn Dan's life story into a Broadway play, with Dan having complete creative control. Dan agrees, and Huffman then seeks a financial backer. But when a potential investor insists her granddaughter be given the lead role in the play, Huffman then decides to turn the play into the story of Abby's life to accommodate the new lead actress. Dan then cuts ties with Huffman, and - with help from the rest of the court staff - moves to take matters into his own hands, leading to a musical number performed by the staff, viewed by a courthouse audience of potential backers. The staff's performance causes Huffman to reconsider and agree to back the play as is, but Huffman then is arrested by the FBI on fraud charges, leading to the play being scrapped.
42	13	"A Few Good Hens"	Jody Margolin Hahn	Lenny Len & Etan Manasse-Piha	March 25, 2025 (2025-03-25)	T12.19311	1.95^[58]
Bob and June Wheeler return to the courthouse, needing Dan to defend them on charges their chickens caused damage to a nearby massage parlor. Julianne then ups the ante by challenging Dan to show his mettle as a lawyer with a wager, which he accepts. Dan thinks he has the case won when he gets the Wheelers' daughter - who is also an executive with a chicken feed company - to confess the feed is filled with steroids, which caused the chickens to become overly aggressive, and thus the Wheelers were not liable for the damage. However the Wheelers accept the plea offer Julianne offered, resulting in Dan losing both the case and the bet. The Wheelers then reveal they took the plea to score a cash settlement from the feed company, and when they offer Dan a cut, he declines so as not to have any of the "Wheeler Curse" that would go along with it. Meanwhile, Abby meets Crash, a tall, handsome, Ivy League educated, charity volunteer who she falls for instantly. But Crash is soon revealed to be Bob and June's son, thus despite all his other attributes, he still has the "Wheeler Curse" and all the calamity that comes with it, forcing Abby to break it off.
43	14	"Hot to Trot"	Ren Bell	Teleplay by : Beau Batchelor & Sophia Crisafulli Story by : Alex Sobotowski	April 1, 2025 (2025-04-01)	T12.19313	1.66^[59]
In an attempt to get back together with Jake, Abby befriends his mother Susan and the ladies start hanging out together. Susan then throws a 1970s themed birthday party for herself, where she invites Abby in hopes of Jake reuniting with her and dumping his current girlfriend Lucy. Jake realizes what his mother and Abby were up to and tells Abby he is happy with Lucy, but would like to be friends with Abby, which Abby begrudgingly accepts while a tipsy Susan begins to bond with Lucy. Meanwhile, Julianne's wealthy eccentric aunt dies and leaves her with a horse. Disappointed she didn't get any money, Julianne then gives the horse to Flobert. After going over the will more carefully, it is learned the horse is worth millions, and Dan tries to worm his way into being Flobert's money manager to get a cut of the horse's value for himself. However Flobert decides to let the horse run loose, taking off towards New Jersey, leading to a mad chase to catch the animal (and the money).
44	15	"Passing the Bar"	Lynda Tarryk	Jessica Elaina Eason & Rebecca Delgado Smith & Lindsey Shockley	April 22, 2025 (2025-04-22)	T12.19315	1.56^[60]
Wyatt passes the bar exam and officially becomes a lawyer, throwing a party at a nearby bar. He invites his old college buddy Goose, who is a recovering alcoholic, with Abby (a recovering alcoholic herself) agreeing to keep an eye on him. In rapid fire succession after going to the party, Goose loses his job, sees his girlfriend cheat on him, and can't order his favorite mozzarella sticks. After losing sight of Goose at the party, Abby worries all this calamity will cause him to start drinking, when Dan arrives and talks about how he dealt with his late wife Sarah's recovery from alcoholism, revealing that sometimes you just have to let it go and let whatever happens happen, with Wyatt revealing that he is tired of constantly bailing Goose out of trouble. Goose - who had stepped out to talk with his sponsor on the phone - overhears Wyatt and agrees with him that he had to take responsibility for his own behavior. Wyatt and Goose then make amends, and the party goes off without a hitch. Meanwhile, Gurgs runs a lottery for items out of the evidence locker, with Dan, Julianne, and Flobert all scheming to try to get a good number to have their pick of the items.
45	16	"Blood Moonstruck"	Ren Bell	Lon Zimmet & Shawn Parikh	April 29, 2025 (2025-04-29)	T12.19316	1.74^[61]
On the night of the blood moon, Abby and Gurgs help Julianne with a surprising romantic prospect.
46	17	"Funnest Judge in the City"	Nikki Lorre	Mathew Harawitz & Laura Gutin Peterson	May 6, 2025 (2025-05-06)	T12.19317	1.90^[62]
Abby suspects the courthouse's new "fun judge" (Michael Urie) may not be as fun as he seems. Gurgs must regain control when her new courthouse welcome video, starring Roz, takes on a life of its own.
47	18	"A Decent Proposal"	Phill Lewis	Dan Rubin & Caroline Fox	May 6, 2025 (2025-05-06)	T12.19318	1.63^[62]
Abby finds herself in charge of two runaway teens; a surprise appearance (Simon Helberg) upends Abby's world.

Season	Timeslot (ET)	Episodes	First aired		Last aired		TV season
Season	Timeslot (ET)	Episodes	Date	Viewers (millions)	Date	Viewers (millions)	TV season
1	Tuesday 8:00 p.m. (1, 3–16) Tuesday 8:30 p.m. (2)	16	January 17, 2023 (2023-01-17)	7.55^[16]	May 9, 2023 (2023-05-09)	2.42^[30]	2022–23
2	Saturday 8:35 p.m. (1) Tuesday 8:00 p.m. (2–13)	13	December 23, 2023 (2023-12-23)	2.58^[31]	March 26, 2024 (2024-03-26)	2.81^[43]	2023–24
3	Tuesday 8:30 p.m. (1–16, 18) Tuesday 8:00 p.m. (17)	18	November 19, 2024 (2024-11-19)	2.52^[46]	May 6, 2025 (2025-05-06)	1.63^[62]	2024–25

Night Court (2023 TV series)

Premise

Cast and characters

Main cast

Recurring

Notable guest stars

Episodes

Series overview

Season 1 (2023)

Season 2 (2023–24)

Season 3 (2024–25)

Production

Development

Casting

Filming

Release

Broadcast

Home media

Reception

Critical response

Ratings

Overall

Season 1

Season 2

Season 3

Notes

References

External links

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Viewership and ratings per episode of *Night Court*
No.	Title	Air date	Rating/share (18–49)	Viewers (millions)	DVR (18–49)	DVR viewers (millions)	Total (18–49)	Total viewers (millions)	Ref.
1	"The Judge's Boyfriend's Dad, Part 1"	November 19, 2024	0.3/3	2.52	0.1	0.74	0.4	3.26	^[46]
2	"The Judge's Boyfriend's Dad, Part 2"	November 26, 2024	0.3/4	2.39	0.1	0.75	0.4	3.14	^[47]
3	"The Hole Truth"	December 3, 2024	0.3/3	2.27	0.1	0.77	0.3	3.04	^[48]
4	"Feliz NaviDead"	December 17, 2024	0.2/3	2.07	0.1	0.66	0.3	2.72	^[49]
5	"Mayim Worst Enemy"	January 14, 2025	0.2/3	2.16	0.1	0.72	0.3	2.88	^[50]
6	"The Jakeout"	January 21, 2025	0.2/2	1.96	0.1	0.65	0.3	2.61	^[51]
7	"Rebound and Down"	January 28, 2025	0.2/2	1.72	0.1	0.67	0.3	2.43	^[52]
8	"Age Against the Machine"	February 4, 2025	0.2/3	1.78	0.1	0.61	0.3	2.39	^[53]
9	"AB-ventures in Babysitting"	February 11, 2025	0.3/4	2.07	0.1	0.64	0.3	2.71	^[54]
10	"Pension Tension"	February 18, 2025	0.3/3	1.88	0.1	0.60	0.3	2.48	^[55]
11	"Abracadabra Alaka-Dan"	February 25, 2025	0.2/3	1.81	0.1	0.57	0.3	2.37	^[56]
12	"A Little Night Court Music"	March 11, 2025	0.2/3	1.71	0.1	0.55	0.3	2.25	^[57]
13	"A Few Good Hens"	March 25, 2025	0.2/3	1.95	0.1	0.64	0.3	2.60	^[58]
14	"Hot to Trot"	April 1, 2025	0.2/3	1.66	TBD	TBD	TBD	TBD	^[59]
15	"Passing the Bar"	April 22, 2025	0.2/2	1.56	TBD	TBD	TBD	TBD	^[60]
16	"Blood Moonstruck"	April 29, 2025	0.2/3	1.74	TBD	TBD	TBD	TBD	^[61]
17	"Funnest Judge in the City"	May 6, 2025	0.2/3	1.90	TBD	TBD	TBD	TBD	^[62]
18	"A Decent Proposal"	May 6, 2025	0.2/2	1.63	TBD	TBD	TBD	TBD	^[62]