Order is in the Night Court! The NBC sitcom has wrapped up its second new season after returning more than 30 years after the original series ended. But the new Night Court features an almost entirely new cast: The only one left from the '80s version was John Larroquette, who won four consecutive Emmy Awards for Outstanding Supporting Actor in a Comedy Series for his performance as Dan Fielding.
What happened to the original cast of Night Court?
Like the original, the new Night Court follows a judge who "presides over the night shift of a Manhattan courthouse and tries to bring order to the group of eccentrics and cynics," as NBC explains. This time around, however, that judge is Abby Stone (Melissa Rauch), daughter of Harry Stone, the magistrate from the original, played by Harry Anderson.
Anderson died in 2018, and many of the show’s other Night Court cast members have also passed away, including Richard Moll, Charles Robinson, Markie Post, Selma Diamond, Florence Halop, S. Marc Jordan and Paula Kelly. But we do have updates on other actors from the first Night Court — which ran for nine seasons between 1984 and 1992 — minus Mike Finneran, who faded from the spotlight in the mid-’90s.
Night Court, Seasons 1 & 2, Out Now, Peacock
