Night Court Cast Then and Now (2023)
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- The sitcom Night Court ran from 1985 to 1992, and even earned a reboot that's coming in 2022. But a lot has changed since the original cast was on the air. Let's take a look at the Night Court cast then and now to see how they've changed through the years.
00:00 - Intro
0:19 - Selma Diamond as Selma Hacker
1:24 - Florence Halop as Florance "Flo" Kleine
2:29 - John Astin as Buddy Ryan
3:36 - Paula Kelly as Liz Williams
4:42 - Ellen Foley as Billie Young
5:43 - Markie Post as Christine Sullivan
6:50 - Marsha Warfield as Rosalind "Roz" Russell
7:55 - Karen Austin as Lana Wagner
9:00 - Charles Robinson as Macintosh "Mac" Robinson
10:07 - Richard Moll as Nostradamus "Bull" Shannon
11:11 - John Larroquete as Reinhold Daniel Fielding Elmore
12:16 - Harry Anderson as Judge Harold "Harry" T. Stone
Honorable Judge Harry T. Stone is a young, hip, jeans-wearing liberal eccentric presiding over the night shift of a Manhattan courtroom -- which means his views on various cases aren't always normal, nor are his judgments. Helping him manage the chaos is not-so-bright yet softhearted courtroom guard Bull and egotistical prosecutor Dan Fielding. Also part of Stone's crew are passionate public defender Christine Sullivan and calm court clerk Mac, who joined the show in its third and second seasons, respectively.
Show featured over five cast changes within the first year. Six female leads were featured before Markie Post was settled on. Post was the producers original choice in season two, but could not get out of her The Fall Guy (1981) contract. Gail Strickland played the public defender in the pilot episode before being replaced by Paula Kelly, who was then replaced in season two by Ellen Foley before Post joined in season three. Two court clerks were featured, first Karen Austin, then Charles Robinson. Three bailiff changes were Selma Diamond, who died after the show's second season, Florence Halop, who died the following year, then Marsha Warfield, who remained until the show's finish. The only cast members to remain from the pilot until the finale were Harry Anderson, John Larroquette, and Richard Moll.
After Selma Diamond passed away following the completion of Season 2, she was replaced by Florence Halop, due largely to the fact that she had comedy timing and mannerisms similar to Selma. However, when Florence passed away after completing just one season (Season 3), it was decided by the producers to hire a younger actress for the role, and Marsha Warfield was hired as Roz.
The series was originally set to debut at the start of the 1983-84 season. NBC, concerned about Harry Anderson's lack of acting experience, decided to delay the show. NBC ended up cancelling every new series that premiered that September, and the show was picked up as a mid-season replacement.
John Larroquette was approached during Season 6 about starring in Madhouse (1990). However, executive producer Reinhold Weege would not allow him the time off to make the film. Because of delays in the film, Larroquette was approached again during Season 7. This time Weege and the film's producers worked out a schedule that would allow Larroquette to work on both projects simultaneously. Mondays to Thursdays Larroquette would rehearse for the series during the day and work on the film all night. On Friday nights the series would tape its episodes. As soon as taping finished, he would go to the film's set and work all weekend.
Over the shows 9 seasons four different actresses played the public defender role. Gail Strickland played Sheila Gardiner in the pilot only in 1984. For the rest of the first season Paula Kelly played Liz Williams. Kelly earned an Emmy nomination for best supporting actress for the 1983-84 season for her work but it was never made publicly clear as to why she was let go from the series after season one. Starting with season two producers wanted Markie Post in the role and even had her on as a guest star as Christine Sullivan in the the second episode of season two. Post was unable to get out of contract with the series The Fall Guy and thus producers hired Ellen Foley to play Billie Young during the 1984-85 season. As season three began in 1985, Post become available and thus she replaced Foley playing Christine Sullivan from 1985 to 1992, the duration of the series.
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There was so much talent on this show. It's difficult to find a complete set, just individual seasons. It's still very funny and has aged well.
I loved Night Court. Those guys used to crack me up. One of the best on TV.
A great show with a great cast. This cast always made me feel happy and comfortable, a real pleasure to watch. Markie Post, what a beauty.
I loved watching Night Court when I was a kid.. The cast that’s still living looks good...
I watched reruns of this show whenever possible. I worked nights when it was live. Great show
During my spring break back in 1987. My professor was able to get tickets for me and my friends, for a taping of Night Court. It was the last show of the 1986-87 season. It was the best part of the trip.
Appreciate the compilation.
You realize, of course, that you used a clip of Markie Post for the Ellen Foley segment .. I understand Foley was only on for a short time, but ...
Marsha (Roz) looks awesome! RIP Markie...you were my favorite character on Night Court
One of the BEST shows from back in the day. 😉
I always thought of this show as darker even though it really wasn't. They did a good job at keeping that Night vibe. It just seemed very different. It's a classic just like the rest of them!!
Thanks for watching!
Markie Post and Karen Austin look fabulous
Markie Post passed on in 2021, from cancer. RIP A great lady and actress.
It was a great show, i just loved Selma Diamond dead pan character. Rest well to all who passed, and thanks for the laughs.
Like 4 cast members died of cancer didn't they? Charlie Robinson passed away since this video too! RIP Charlie Robinson.
And a babe with nice titties!
@@wdsftygt but even better legs.
The only surviving cast members are Richard Moll and John Larroquette.
Markie Post, RIchard Moll, and John Larroquette look great. RIP Harry Anderson.
RIP Markie Post, Charles Robinson, and Harry Anderson, Paula Kelly, Selma Diamond, and Florence Halop.
NICELY DONE!!! LOVE how you put in CLIPS of the actors from the show, that helps a LOT with remembering who they were besides just their name on the show or real life for that matter. Thanks for that. This was one of my FAVORITE shows.
WOW, Richard Moll looks amazing, very handsome, who would of thought
Gawd Markie Post is such a foxy lady
Markie Post aged well, just like a bottle of fine wine.
bet shed still be fun to play with ;)
@@scooterdogg7580 Slick Willy thought so.
Bill Clinton tapped that in the Lincoln Bedroom.
@@richardm3023 So did Hillbag
@@wiemerguy1 Nice Call!!!!
Thanks for putting this on. I so glad to see so many, still with us. You know Hollywood should give all these actors, a second look. They act so natural. I would say John Larroquette was my favorite. He put the swam back in swami.
Was a truly great show.
RIP Harry Anderson
Night Court was one of very few sitcoms I really liked. Have a great day everyone.
Marsh was a trash comedian , sorry but she was!
Sad about Harry's passing and throught that John was the funniest guy ever and great with the ladies lol
Night Court and Cheers. Great 80’s classics.
Thanks for doing this, I love it!! It brings back so good memories
If anyone ever knew about Marky Post, she used to be one of the staff on the TV game show Split Second back in the seventies because if you go on TH-cam to the last episode, everyone is being introduced, & she’s one of the people
Wow I didn't know. I remember the Kennedy version of split second. Thanks for the info
Markie Post was gorgeous, then and now. Age didn't harm her hardly at all.
Fantastic series. Love Markie Post then and still do, she is gorgeous.
Remember her first gig? No Googling
@@lavanderwilliams794 : Do not need to. Sexy as hell.
Her tv show was The Fall Guy. Her a Heather Thomas were to die for.
@@McPh1741 ❤️
My two favorite ladies from the show Markie Post and the late great Paula Kelly
I met Markie Post some twenty years ago. Long story, but we had to talk for a little while. She had just arrived back in the U. S. from overseas on a long airplane flight. As I recall, she had been travelling with her two grade school aged children. She was exhausted and not with stage make up. Probably not a fresh face in any form. She was the nicest person anyone could wish and she looked as good as she did on television.
Wow! She seems really nice, OldManMontgomery
@@FactsVerse She was nice, personable and charming. If she was faking, she was very good at it; at the time I was paid to spot and do something about fakes.
Takes me back. My late father (1913-2008) was very picky about what TV he watched. He loved Night Court, which always kind of surprised me, knowing my Dad.
I remember John Lauroquette winning an Emmy for his portrayal, holding it up and stating it made “great julienne fries!” He is a very funny man.
Ellen Foley, the public defender before Markie Post, was the singer with Meatloaf on Paradise by the Dashboard Light. That song was awesome and Ellen was HOT!
Thanks for watching, David!
@@FactsVerse thanks for your channel!
Great show! Love the "now" picture of Marsha Warfield and that she still has that wonderful sarcastic smile. 😏 Heh heh heh...
I loved this show so much each and every character.
All these years later Markie Poast is still a lovely woman!
She really is, Michael!
Had a big crush on her as a teen and as you say, she is still a beautiful woman today!
@@briansauer6695 Damned we all did!
Same. Sad that she passed in Aug 2021.
She past away last year
I was 9 when that show came out, anyone els remember that episode where Harry and some other guy were having a “Joke off”, and Dan was always put in front of all the pranks? Lol
How about Brent Spiner ( Data - Star Trek ) playing a hick , now that was hilarious. I was 25 when it first aired
First one of these "Then and Now" vids that I actually learned something.
I didn't know Harry had passed. Second I didn't know that Richard Moll wasn't really bald and I found out Markie Post is still Gorgeous even at 70. Good video. Thanks.
I LOVE NIGHT COURT THIS IS MY FAVORITE SHOW
I loved night court so much. Thanks for the remembering,
Loved how John Larroquette and Markie Post played off of one another. RIP Markie. 🙏
Good to see Markie Post didn't have nine facelifts to make herself look like a surprised catfish like so many others that were TV stars back in that time.
Ellen and Markie will never look anything but fantastic.
I knew Harry Anderson early 2000s he lived in New Orleans he was a regular at Walgreens where I worked very nice and approachable guy sure sorry when I heard he passed
Markie post had the prettiest legs ever!
prettiest legs pretty face and a really banging body damn that body
@@lawrencefrazier2044 Bill Clinton would agree
I want the complete series one day I loved watching the reruns
Really loved this show...They were all so funny especially Dan Fielding.
John Larroquette on the NEW "Night Court" is just as wonderful as he was on the show 30 years ago!
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I love this show so much!! It’s hilarious. Rewatching it now. Almost through it. The whole cast was extremely funny.
I met Markie Post back in the 80's when I was a limo driver. Just a lovely person.
I always love her hairstyles back in the 80s..
Great video loved the show back in the day
Markie still has it going on. Cripes she was so hot back in the 80's.
Best theme tune. Just jammed to it 5 times in a row!!!!! Then watched the Family Guy joke of Bill Clinton playing it with thr secret service. Hahahahah classic.
We agree
I loved that show and all the cast were great. The ones still with us all are still sharp .
Who's your favorite from the show, Annette?
@@FactsVerse Richard Moll. "Bull". Was my favorite character.
The story behind John larraoquette
Was in the show neither was his biological name or last name was on his birth certificate. First name I know in reality. Reingholdt
Last name I do not know. It was revealed that his birth year 1943 he leagally changed to 47. He also revealed on the air with a talk show host. Larroquette Louisiana was the name of the town he lived in. That’s where he got his last name.
@@viqarkagzi3922 interesting.
I love watching this TV show. I'm looking at it right now.
Markie post looks great,,,,❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️
fyi Note error: The first clip after introduction for Ellen Folley, you used clip of Markie Post.
I second that ! You blew it!
Agree
I was born in 1980, I literally grew up with this show, I really loved this video, also, I got about 300 more grey hairs while watching it as I realized 1985 was 36 years ago. WTF have I done with my life? I think I'm having a crisis...oh, Night Court, great show, I need to watch one on Cheers now so I can go jump off a bridge.
VERY ENJOYABLE THANK YOU
Nice to see all these cast members again. Does any one know what group was playing the back ground music during the video?
You forgot these.
Gail Strickland as public defender Sheila Gardner in the pilot.
Mike Finneran as Art.
Martin Garner as Bernie
Terry Kiser as Al Craven
Jason Bernard as Judge Willard
Rita Taggart as Carla Bouvier
Ron Ross as Dirk the wimpy baliff
Denice Kumagui as Qoun Le Duc Robinson as Mac's wife
Mel Torme as himself
William Utay as Phil Sanders
Brent Spiner as Bob Wheeler
Annie O'Donnell as June Wheeler
Leslie Bevis as Sheila
Yakov Smirnoff as Yakov
Eugene Roche as Jack Sullivan
Dan Frischman as DA Vincent Daniels, Dan's boss.
Bumper Robinson as Leon
Ray Abruzzo as Tony Giuliano
Mary Cadorette as Margarett Turner, Harry's girlfriend
S. Marc Jordan as Jack Griffin, the blind man
Joleen Lutz as Lisette Hochiester the ditzy stenographer
Gilbert Godfrey as Oscar Brown who filled in for Dan as times.
Floerence Stanley as Judge Margaret Wilbur who filled in for Harry. The only character that crossed over from My Two Dads
These are mostly supporting cast except for Gail Strickland. I mentioned them because they were part of the central storylines of the characters involved.
You forgot Mac’s wife , Art the maintenance man and the silly stenographer from the last few seasons.
Night Court was awesome I'm glad NBC will be bringing it back.
I didn't know that.
@@vince7735 Yep, it's coming back next season.
I loved that show, they really made me laugh.i always thought "judge harry" was handsome. And just loved bull.
Great ride down memory lane as I grew up watching this as it was one of my faves.
However, your footage of Ellen Foley was wrong as it was with Markie Post instead and I had to keep turning up and down my volume as the sound levels were different between show footage and the music you added in between footage.
John Astin played Gomez Addams on the television series The Addams Family, & also played The Riddler on Batman television series from the 1960’s.
Pretty sure the Riddler was played by Frank Gorshin.
Loved that show
Marsha Warfield is FUCKIN' HILARIOUS; been a fan of her since D.C. CAB (my ALL-TIME FAVORITE MOVIE).
This was the funniest show on television.Period.Harry's dad hanging the Christmas broccoli.
But Im feeling much better now 😂
Who edits these videos? Introduced Ellen Foley...showed a clip of Markie Post. Introduced Richard Moll...showed a clip of Barry Bostwick???
John Astin the original Gomez Adams from the 1960s Adams family show!! snap!!!! snap!!!!
Loved it !.. best part, no dirt on them
@4:50 you have a shot of Marky Post, where you have it saying its Ellen Foley.
4:42 The clip is wrong, It says that its Ellen Foley, but its clearly Markie Post.
That episode with the slow talker made me laugh so much. Than his dad showed up, walking slow. Made me laugh so much more.
The clip of Ellen Foley is actually a clip of Markie Post
🤷♂️
they do that on purpose to generate comments from me and you
I loved Bull! I wanted to be his friend.
I’m amazed! I don’t remember John asked in being on night court!
Who's your favorite from the cast, Hell raiser X?
Wooops. 4:42 That's Markie.
Markie Post still looks great!!
Hell I still would with her
Thumbnail, "That's Markie Post !"
I haven't thought of this show in years.
Dat thumbnail, tho
Nice Rack 👍
I never forgot this show!
In the new updated version John Larroquette reprises his role, it would be great if Marcia Warfield and Richard Moll get to reprise their roles as well, or were they asked to appear, or did each one decline the offer. Marcia I know is doing nightclub appearances, not sure what Richard is up to. But between the two they made the show work . Harry Anderson R.I.P and the rest of the cast that is longer with us.
why do you have a clip of markie post in ellen's segment? that being said, thanks for this. i miss this show
one of my favorite shows
I Remember watching it back in the day .now watching old sitcoms makes me wonder why .
Kinda depressing seeing them older or passed away
because those shows didnt suck like the new ones do 2day.
Ya put Markie Post as the scene for Ellen Foley. Like A Bat Out Of Hell.
The theme song was cool.
The clip with Charlie Robinson may have been the funniest episode ever.......”Other Pocket”
Sadly he just passed away.
The clip u showed from the show was not Ellen Folley, it was Markie Post.
Nothing about Denice Kumagai, who played Quon Le Robinson? She was one of my favorites.
She was in Gilmore Girls as Lanes Aunt
um that video clip u show with the slow motion guy you do know that is Markie Post not Ellen Foley right? lol
Great actress in everything she does!!
i kinda wished you included kwan lee as well
Your video clip for Ellen Foley is actually Markie Post
MARKIE!..That's All Folks! 😛
It's sad that more of the stars of this show have passed since this video was made. You may want to do an update.
You showed a clip of Makie Post when you were talking about Ellen Foley
They HAVE to get Astin back as Buddy on this continuation show!
Marsha Warfield played on the Richard Pryor show she was fine as hell
The Ellen Foley part shows videos from Markie Post! Facts Verse should check that out...
The Spin City clip of Ellen Foley is a clip of Markie Post. The “now” clip of Richard Moll is actually of Barry Bostwick who played the Mayor in Spin City.
RIP Paula Kelly
Great show, ahead of it's time.😆