All episodes Season 9 S09E22 1992-05-31 30 min 1980s NBC

Night Court

The 1992 Boat Show

TV Flash files “The 1992 Boat Show” as a desk essential hour — Night Court (1984–1992) on NBC, season 9, episode 22, aired 1992-05-31, 30 min.

From the desk

How this hour is filed

This leaf is S09E22: listed hour 193 of 193 in the Night Court guide, last listed hour of season 9. It aired 1992-05-31 (30 min). The listed hour before it is “Opportunity Knock Knocks (2)” (S09E21). No later hour is listed in this guide.

Essential hour

Essential hour: “The 1992 Boat Show”. The 1992 Boat Show is the closer's junket title: nine seasons of after-hours oddballs adjourned; the Emmy streak remains.

Night Court — The 1992 Boat Show (S09E22)

Catalog log

Broadcast listing — not a TV Flash recap.

Roz steals the show and Dan's spot with the in-crowd when a gossip columnist discovers her and Lisette tries to deal with her erotic dreams about Harry.

Viewer FAQ

Where does The 1992 Boat Show sit in the Night Court guide?

S09E22 is listed hour 193 of 193 — last listed hour of season 9, season 9 episode 22.

When did Night Court S09E22 air?

The 1992 Boat Show aired 1992-05-31 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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