Q 01/05

On which network did the original Night Court air from 1984 to 1992?

A) NBC

B) CBS

C) ABC

D) Fox

Answer · why

A) NBC

NBC. The show arrived in January 1984 as a mid-season replacement, and within three years the stopgap had climbed into the Nielsen top ten.

Q 02/05

What was Judge Harry Stone's full first name?

A) Henry

B) Harold

C) Harrison

D) Harvey

Answer · why

B) Harold

Harold T. Stone was played by Harry Anderson, a real-life magician who worked the trade into the character.

Q 03/05

Night Court's creator had previously written for which police sitcom?

A) Car 54, Where Are You?

B) Police Squad!

C) Barney Miller

D) The Andy Griffith Show

Answer · why

C) Barney Miller

Barney Miller. Weege wrote and produced for the precinct comedy, then set his own show in an after-hours courtroom, insisting he had seen real ones th...

Q 04/05

What is prosecutor Dan Fielding's real first name?

A) Rutherford

B) Roland

C) Reginald

D) Reinhold

Answer · why

D) Reinhold

Reinhold. The series revealed he was born Reinhold, to rustic parents he had told everyone were dead, and the name was a nod to the show's creator, Re...

Q 05/05

What is the middle name of Night Court bailiff Aristotle "Bull" Shannon?

A) Nostradamus

B) Napoleon

C) Nicodemus

D) Norbert

Answer · why

A) Nostradamus

Nostradamus. Aristotle Nostradamus Shannon looked far fiercer than he was: in season one a charity turns the gentle bailiff away because his size and ...