All episodes Season 8 S08E18 1991-02-27 30 min 1980s NBC

Night Court

Hey Harry, F'Crying Out Loud-- It is a Wonderful Life ... Sorta

TV Flash files “Hey Harry, F'Crying Out Loud-- It is a Wonderful Life ... Sorta” as hour 165 of 193 in the TV Flash guide — Night Court (1984–1992) on NBC, season 8, episode 18, aired 1991-02-27, 30 min.

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How this hour is filed

This leaf is S08E18: listed hour 165 of 193 in the Night Court guide, hour 18 of 24 in season 8. It aired 1991-02-27 (30 min). The listed hour before it is “Alone Again, Naturally” (S08E17). Next is “To Sleep, No More” (S08E19).

Night Court — Hey Harry, F'Crying Out Loud-- It is a Wonderful Life ... Sorta (S08E18)

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Broadcast listing — not a TV Flash recap.

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.

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Where does Hey Harry, F'Crying Out Loud-- It is a Wonderful Life ... Sorta sit in the Night Court guide?

S08E18 is listed hour 165 of 193 — hour 18 of 24 in season 8, season 8 episode 18.

When did Night Court S08E18 air?

Hey Harry, F'Crying Out Loud-- It is a Wonderful Life ... Sorta aired 1991-02-27 and is listed at 30 minutes.

Is it a legal sitcom or vaudeville?

Vaudeville in a courtroom. Cases exist to parade eccentrics through Harry's night shift; the legal workplace is the carnival tent, not a civics lesson.

In the series

Why this series still plays

Larroquette's Fielding is a comic monsterpiece, and the ensemble farce still snaps. Harry Anderson's magic-loving judge runs Manhattan night court like a jazz set while Bull, Roz, and the after-hours weirdos process the city. Peak NBC multi-cam oddball energy on Must See's late slot. Court is adjourned; the Emmy streak remains.

Manhattan after hours, a judge who does magic, a prosecutor vacuuming Emmys like they were parking tickets. NBC's Night Court (1984–1992) put Harry Anderson's hanging-judge charm at the calm eye of a storm: John Larroquette's Dan Fielding, Richard Moll's Bull, Markie Post's Christine, later Marsha Warfield's Roz. Reinhold Weege's workplace as carnival, eccentric cases as the city's processor. **Larroquette's Fielding is a comic monsterpiece** — the heat-check, not a footnote. Nine seasons, 193 episodes, Must…

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