I expect Dan Fielding got promoted, and demoted again for sexual harassment, probably within a week. That could have happened dozens of times since the original Night Court.
And it would be buckets of awesome to have Bob Wheeler come back, along with some of the other recurring characters from the original.
John Astin is still kicking around and I hear he’s feeling muuch better now.
I liked the show. But I was pretty young and have not seen it in a long time. I’m not sure how well it aged - if it was good, or if I was green and just thought it was good.
It’s in fairly constant reruns on the Laff channel, if you can pick it up. It’s both broadcast OTA, and probably on your local cable system, too. And yes, it’s still as hilarious.
I saw that in the article. “Harry Anderson died in 2018.” Did I know that? Jeez, I seriously cannot keep track of who is alive and who is dead anymore.
[Checks pulse. Nope, I’m good!]
Please find a place for Richard Moll!
Richard Moll is on the record as saying he doesn’t want any part of a Night Court reunion.
Nobody here mentioned The John Larroquette Show, which should have made him that star if the network hadn’t destroyed it. He played a recovering alcoholic reduced to being the night manager of a bus depot. Yeah, it was the dark side of Night Court.
That was the problem. The darker the show got, the more brilliant it became. But it lightened up for the second season, which still was pretty good. And got lighter again for the third season, which was OK. Then it got farcically comic-strip for the fourth season, which was an abomination.
It was too early to be possible on network tv. If they could have done it on cable, it could have stayed as it was the first year and maybe become legendary.
He was even great on the Librarians.
Best part of the show, IMHO. It certainly wasn’t Noah Wyle.
When the prostitute/girlfriend took over the bar I knew the shark molestation had begun.
This show would be a huge treat for me if they released it on DVD.
You might check the various streaming services. It might be available there.
I was stuck in California a couple of years ago in a house with no cable and managed to watch a bunch of reruns of Night Court and it’s still a funny show. I don’t think Fielding would play as well to a modern audience and I hope they don’t give us the exact same character audiences loved in the 80s and 90s. I hope the new version doesn’t bury as many bailiffs as the first one.
That could be exactly why this character is in the show: having to deal with #MeToo and barely succeeding. 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.
He wasn’t in the “30 Rock” reunion episode, I noticed. But then again, neither was John Larroquette.
Lingering bad feelings of some sort, or does he just not want to shave his head?
Larroquette was busy with another role. He would have been in it if he were available.
Were either Richard Moll or John Larroquette in 30 Rock? I don’t remember them.
IIRC it was just Markie, Harry and Mac (and, of course Jenna as the warewolf lawyer)
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 on reruns, if you get the right tv channels…
Some of it still works. Some doesn’t. In the first few seasons, the show was trying to figure out what it was and sometimes it didn’t quite make it. There’s a lot of “this was edgy in the 80s” plotlines that seem very dated now. There’s a lot of “casual” sexism, homophobia, gay panic, and transphobia that (hopefully) wouldn’t still fly today. A lot of the Dan Fielding parts are pretty cringey. And in the final seasons, it kind of goes off the rails and nothing makes sense.
A reboot could be fun. With the right cast.