# "Night Court" is getting a sequel series! **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Tags:** tv-shows-scripted\ **Created:** [December 18, 2020, 7:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/night-court-is-getting-a-sequel-series/928356 "2020-12-18T19:00:33Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 18\ **Page:** 3
**Author:** ![amarinth](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/3be4f8/32.png) [@amarinth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/amarinth)\ **Post date:** [December 19, 2020, 3:44am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/night-court-is-getting-a-sequel-series/928356/41 "2020-12-19T03:44:18Z")
> [@Dewey\_Finn](#): > > So some of the characters from Night Court were in one episode of 30 Rock? Why would you think they’d be in a 30 Rock reunion episode? It’s the other way around. The B-story of the 30 Rock episode was a Night Court reunion. A 30 Rock character was unhappy with how Night Court ended, so the actors played themselves filming an alternate final episode of Night Court. ---
**Author:** ![Snooooopy](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/ee7513/32.png) [@Snooooopy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Snooooopy)\ **Post date:** [December 19, 2020, 7:01am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/night-court-is-getting-a-sequel-series/928356/42 "2020-12-19T07:01:21Z")
If they’d like to give the younger Stone a talented but hopelessly unfashionable musician to have an overriding obsession with the way the elder stone idolized Mel Torme, I think Phil Collins would be a great call. I’m picturing the pilot episode ending with her rocking out to “Sussudio.” ---
**Author:** ![tricoteuse](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/tricoteuse/32/4334_2.png) [@tricoteuse](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/tricoteuse)\ **Post date:** [December 21, 2020, 2:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/night-court-is-getting-a-sequel-series/928356/43 "2020-12-21T14:01:15Z")
I read on I think TV Tropes that Richard Moll didn’t like how Bull was turned into more and more of a joke character. He and John Laroquette didn’t get along at all, and since JL and Harry Anderson were good friends there was a lot of tension between him and Anderson too. It amazes me how none of that showed up on camera. True professionals there! ---
**Author:** ![cochrane](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/cochrane/32/10441_2.png) [@cochrane](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/cochrane)\ **Post date:** [December 21, 2020, 3:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/night-court-is-getting-a-sequel-series/928356/44 "2020-12-21T15:39:08Z")
> [@Snooooopy](#): > > If they’d like to give the younger Stone a talented but hopelessly unfashionable musician to have an overriding obsession with the way the elder stone idolized Mel Torme, I think Phil Collins would be a great call. I’m picturing the pilot episode ending with her rocking out to “Sussudio.” Better yet if it’s a musician who will agree to appear in the show as him or herself, as Mel Torme did. ---
**Author:** ![Morgyn](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/morgyn/32/3041_2.png) [@Morgyn](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Morgyn)\ **Post date:** [December 21, 2020, 5:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/night-court-is-getting-a-sequel-series/928356/45 "2020-12-21T17:05:27Z")
Oh, that’s too bad. I loved Bull a lot. (ETA: Phil Collins is unfashionable?) ---
**Author:** ![Dewey\_Finn](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/dewey_finn/32/4222_2.png) [@Dewey\_Finn](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dewey_Finn)\ **Post date:** [December 21, 2020, 5:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/night-court-is-getting-a-sequel-series/928356/46 "2020-12-21T17:16:39Z")
Certainly Phil Collins isn’t contemporary (meaning present-day) music, much as how Mel Tormé’s music was old-fashioned when the original show aired. ---
**Author:** ![tricoteuse](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/tricoteuse/32/4334_2.png) [@tricoteuse](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/tricoteuse)\ **Post date:** [December 21, 2020, 6:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/night-court-is-getting-a-sequel-series/928356/47 "2020-12-21T18:00:05Z")
> [@Skywatcher](#): > > I’d like to know who they do plan to have handling prosecution, maybe it’s a brand new assistant DA of the opposite sex and is quite capable of taking down Dan should he go too far. I hope it’s Mack and Quon Lee’s daughter. ---
**Author:** ![cochrane](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/cochrane/32/10441_2.png) [@cochrane](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/cochrane)\ **Post date:** [December 21, 2020, 7:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/night-court-is-getting-a-sequel-series/928356/48 "2020-12-21T19:25:36Z")
I know it isn’t likely, but I’d like to see Harry and Christine’s marriage on _30 Rock_ become canon and Markie Post be a guest on the show. ---
**Author:** ![furryman](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/furryman/32/99_2.png) [@furryman](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/furryman)\ **Post date:** [December 21, 2020, 7:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/night-court-is-getting-a-sequel-series/928356/49 "2020-12-21T19:34:38Z")
I loved _Night Court_ and _The John Laroquette Show_. I think it would make more sense to do a new original sitcom rather than a sequel to Night Court. ---
**Author:** ![Cumberdale](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/8c91f0/32.png) [@Cumberdale](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cumberdale)\ **Post date:** [December 23, 2020, 6:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/night-court-is-getting-a-sequel-series/928356/50 "2020-12-23T18:48:33Z")
Loved _Night Court_ but would rather see them do something more like how they spun off Lou Grant from the Mary Tyler Moore show. Let it be its own show and not a retread of _Night Court._ ---
**Author:** ![Telemark](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/telemark/32/372_2.png) [@Telemark](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Telemark)\ **Post date:** [May 1, 2021, 10:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/night-court-is-getting-a-sequel-series/928356/51 "2021-05-01T22:08:00Z")
Update - Melissa Rauch to start as Abby Stone, Harry’s daughter. > **[Night Court: Melissa Rauch to Star as Harry's Daughter in NBC Sequel Series](https://www.yahoo.com/entertainment/night-court-melissa-rauch-star-011539315.html)** > > Melissa Rauch is trading in her lab coat for a judge’s robe: The Big Bang Theory alum will star as Judge Harry Stone’s daughter in NBC’s upcoming Night Court sequel series, according to our sister site Deadline. The follow-up series, which was first... ---
**Author:** ![aceplace57](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/aceplace57/32/3500_2.png) [@aceplace57](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/aceplace57)\ **Post date:** [May 1, 2021, 10:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/night-court-is-getting-a-sequel-series/928356/52 "2021-05-01T22:19:57Z")
Brent Spiner could guest as Bob Wheeler. He might be willing to appear a couple times. He turned down a recurring role on Night Court for Star Trek. ---
**Author:** ![Guest-starring\_Id](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/guest-starring_id/32/21736_2.png) [@Guest-starring\_Id](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Guest-starring_Id)\ **Post date:** [May 1, 2021, 11:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/night-court-is-getting-a-sequel-series/928356/53 "2021-05-01T23:43:25Z")
Trying to figure out why I always wanted to absolutely crush and destroy Harry Stone. Without finesse. ---
**Author:** ![Ike\_Witt](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ike_witt/32/283_2.png) [@Ike\_Witt](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ike_Witt)\ **Post date:** [May 1, 2021, 11:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/night-court-is-getting-a-sequel-series/928356/54 "2021-05-01T23:46:44Z")
> [@aceplace57](#): > > Brent Spiner could guest as Bob Wheeler. So, do you see him (Wheeler) as still down on his luck or as a unlikely billionaire? ---
**Author:** ![Little\_Nemo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/little_nemo/32/3120_2.png) [@Little\_Nemo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Little_Nemo)\ **Post date:** [May 1, 2021, 11:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/night-court-is-getting-a-sequel-series/928356/55 "2021-05-01T23:54:20Z")
John Larroquette is a talented actor. But I’d rather see him in a good original series than a remake of a show he was in forty years ago. ---
**Author:** ![Joey\_P](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/919ad9/32.png) [@Joey\_P](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Joey_P)\ **Post date:** [May 2, 2021, 12:40am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/night-court-is-getting-a-sequel-series/928356/56 "2021-05-02T00:40:15Z")
It’s great that they got John Larroquette, but at the risk of turning it into a reunion show, I really hope they manage to get at least Markie Post or Richard Moll. ---
**Author:** ![silenus](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/silenus/32/166_2.png) [@silenus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/silenus)\ **Post date:** [May 2, 2021, 1:42am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/night-court-is-getting-a-sequel-series/928356/57 "2021-05-02T01:42:03Z")
Moll is a definite No Fucking Way. ---
**Author:** ![Darren\_Garrison](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/darren_garrison/32/92_2.png) [@Darren\_Garrison](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Darren_Garrison)\ **Post date:** [May 2, 2021, 2:03am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/night-court-is-getting-a-sequel-series/928356/58 "2021-05-02T02:03:33Z")
Yeah, that might be hard voodoo. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/night-court-is-getting-a-sequel-series/928356.md?page=2)