Night Court is an American television
situation comedy that aired on
NBC from January 4, 1984, to May 31, 1992. The setting was the
night shift of a
Manhattan municipal court, presided over by a young, unorthodox judge, Harold T. "Harry" Stone (played by
Harry Anderson). The series was created by comedy writer
Reinhold Weege, who had previously worked on
Barney Miller in the 1970s and early 1980s.