If I ever decide to grow up, I want to be just like Dan Fielding ...
I always thought Night Court was a cute little show.
John Larroquette was great. Richard Moll, who played Bull, was bizarre but sweet. I remember how odd it was that Selma Diamond and Florence Halop who played essentially the same character - the cranky old lady who kept Bull in line - both died of lung cancer in real life after playing their roles for only one or two seasons each. And I always thought Markie Post was one of the cutest all-American women on TV in the late 1980s.
If I ever decide to grow up, I want to be just like Dan Fielding ...
Selma was on for about the first two seasons until her passing in May 1985. I recall how closely around that time, Nicholas Colasanto (Coach from Cheers) and Dolph Sweet (Chief Kanisky from Gimme A Break) also died. Flo Halop was on for only one season before her passing in July 1986 (terminal cancer and also massive stroke).
I enjoyed the show and Markie was great eye candy.
The whole show was superbly cast.
What a great collection of misfits.
Harry Anderson the man had the same hopeful outlook on life that Judge Stone did.
During Katrina he refused to evacuate until the local FD told him they were bugging out.
He tried to help rebuild NO but was beat down by the politics.
Richard Moll, Aristotle Nostradamus Shannon, was filming a sci-fi flick and had shaved his head. The NC producers loved the look so he kept it.
Bull was the lovable gentle giant simpleton who brought a childish sense of humor to the show. How could a bailiff lose a prisoner? Bull could. Wearing glasses with mirrors to see who was sneaking up on him? Bull did it.
No one else could have pulled it off.
Reinhold Daniel Fielding Elmore.
John Larroquette played the smarmy butt kissing low moraled ladies man lawyer to a T.
Selma Diamond was in seasons 1 and 2.
Florence Halop was in season 3.
They were the perfect foil to Bull’s childish innocence.
Marsha Warfield was cast as Roz because the producers didn’t want to cast another older woman just to have her leave due to death or bad health.
Charles Robinson, Mac, was the one “normal” person in the cast.
When the show ended Charles quit acting and started directing. Just like Mac wanted to do.
The producers originally wanted Markie Post but she was contracted on The Fall Guy. When that show ended she moved to NC.
It really broke my heart when I found out Markie is a lesbian.
The characters who wandered in and out of Judge Stone’s court room were hilarious.
The show did what a tv show should do. It entertained.