An office bet over what Harry's true age is leads to the discovery that he has a criminal record.

Harry's "missing" Mother and a beauty pageant operator appear in court.

Bull feels misunderstood and quits in anger; a blind shoplifter awaiting trial keeps trying to give his police handler the slip.

Dan and Bull are at odds over the same woman; Harry throws his cap into the ring when he realizes the woman has a spare ticket for a Mel Torme concert.

Lana starts acting crazy after overdosing on some medications.

A Russian immigrant threatens to set himself, and the courtroom, on fire.

Bull is a walking zombie at work, and the court staff finds that he has been taking care of a baby for a neighbor who has apparently abandoned him.

A woman must choose between her two husbands, one of whom was thought killed in Vietnam.

Bright young public defender Christine Sullivan finds out she still has a lot to learn after her first day in Harry's court, while Harry ends up throwing her overprotective father in jail for insulting him.

On her first day, Public Defender Billie Young takes an aggressive stand in defense of her client against a powerful corporation, a stand that leads to her being jailed for contempt.

A humble man with a $3 million lottery ticket wants Harry to give it away to the most worthy person.

A school-aged computer whiz hacks into the school district's database and takes their permanent records hostage.

When Bull becomes a Volunteer Father to a 13-year-old boy, he is in for a real surprise. He discovers the boy is a girl.

Harry's nemesis, Judge Willard, has him tried before the Judicial Review Board on charges of unprofessional behavior.

When an exclusive house of prostitution gets busted, Judge Harry Stone must decide whether to admit the madam's private diary as evidence in the case against her.

Mac marries a woman he met in Viet Nam and Harry refuses to ignore his duties despite the loss of his sight.

Dan's extremely rustic parents come to visit him in Manhattan, embarrassing him all night until he disowns them.

A group of mental patients fleeing their hospital run loose in the courtroom, with one, a mute, shutting herself in a closet with a revolver.

Selma's old boyfriend, Marty, comes after her again. While Harry is shut in his office for an annual file review, his super-efficient replacement, Judge Kopelson, charms the entire staff, but a background check reveals him to be a fraud.

A spiritual medium responds to Harry's contempt of court sentence by placing a curse on the courtroom. Harry thinks she's a phony, but Bull collapses, paralyzed, while Dan's accountant drops dead during an audit.

Feeling dissatisfied with his job, Bull becomes interested in a wrestling promoter's offer.

Billie breaks down when her boyfriend David is brought into court on a pickpocketing charge.

Dan becomes engaged to an ugly duckling heiress, but everyone is surprised to hear him swear his feelings are genuine.

When Mac's wife, Quon Le, is accidentally arrested, both realize how much they love each other and decide to live together. Meanwhile, Billie and Dan find themselves competing for a commission appointment.

Yakov's brother wants to defect to the United States; in short order Harry's courtroom is overrun by a Russian circus troupe, agents of the KGB and CIA, and a pair of hot-tempered arms negotiators.

When a wheelchair-bound protégée of Harry's expresses romantic interest in him, he becomes aware of some uncomfortable feelings about her disability.

Dan quickly goes to pieces when an earthquake traps him in an elevator with Roz and a pair of sumo wrestlers.

A woman arrested for swimming naked in Central Park claims to be a princess from a tropical island; Harry is convinced to help her escape her arrogant brother, the Prince, and her arranged marriage with the trollish Ogg. Meanwhile, the prince becomes smitten with Christine.

On New Year's Eve, a sweet old man brought into court on a minor charge turns out to be a convicted felon who has escaped prison to visit Times Square in memory of his wife; another man runs around the courthouse in a diaper, claiming to be the spirit of the new year.

A sweet old lady comes into the courtroom and cheerfully confesses to murdering her husband. Harry is not sure he believes her.

Christine is engaged to Bill, the world's most boring human being. When she gives signs of cold feet (including throwing up in Dan's briefcase) the others try to gently (or not-so-gently) talk her out of it.

Christine accuses her boss of sexual harassment; Harry and Bull participate in an elaborate scheme to get proof.

Dan is slapped with a paternity suit, and his supposed son shows up at the courthouse to claim his father.

While collecting for Toys For Toddlers, Bull accidentally takes a truckload of toys belonging to a Scrooge-like factory owner, who demands that they be returned. Since Roz has already passed them out, she refuses to take them back, and Harry has no choice but to jail her.

After the court staff participate in a research study for a think tank, Bull is diagnosed with a super-genius intelligence, and is offered a post at the think tank.

Christine gladly agrees to take care of a friend's baby for the weekend, but the experience turns out to be the opposite of what she expected. Harry enthusiastically pulls the staff into an office bet on his old college LaCrosse team.

Everyone pokes fun at Christine's relationship with Ted, a senior citizen.

On election night for the state assembly race, Dan, to his own surprise, has a passionate affair with his opponent, Joan Hobson.

Harry plays up the role of an embittered judge hurting for cash, as part of a sting to nail gangster Marty Cologne. Christine, following Harry around, is taken in by the act, and tells Buddy, who reveals to Harry that he is his biological father. When Buddy lets slip the truth about the sting to Cologne, the gangster sends a pair of hit men to the courthouse.

Harry must deal with his inept government handler, evading Marty Cologne's hit men, and confronting Buddy about his revelation.

Christine has a prison pen pal who escapes and Roz falls for him.

Mac loses his story in the justice computer and Christine accepts then rejects a date from the janitor.

Buddy is released from the mental hospital, and Harry invites him to live with him, unintentionally letting himself in for a world of aggravation. Dan hovers over a rent-controlled Park Avenue apartment, waiting eagerly for its elderly owner to pass on.

Bull saves the life of billionaire Jordan King, earning a spare-time job with him. Overhearing the details of a real estate deal King has going, Dan swoops in and buys the land, expecting to make a killing. Meanwhile, Quon Le's devotion to her new job selling cosmetics on commission forces Mac to help her, or face bankruptcy.

Dan receives a death threat and demands police protection. Sparks fly between Christine and the undercover detective sent to the courthouse. Bull carries a video camera everywhere around with him, filming his average night for his mother.

On Halloween, Mac finds a decades-old file stuck behind his desk drawer, on a case that was never finished because the defendant dropped dead in the middle of his trial. Soon, a series of poltergeist-style events convinces Harry that the man's ghost is haunting the courtroom. With the help of a medium, Harry and the staff hold a trial for a spirit.

Dan gets more than he bargained for when he foolishly agrees to take Bull to a private singles club.

Buddy, Harry's dad, meets a wealthy widow who was in Harry's court. At the time he's wearing a captain's outfit, which he does not explain is his work uniform. They start dating and soon Buddy tells Harry he proposed to her and wants him to marry them. Concerned that she doesn't know enough about Buddy, Harry talks to her, but she says she knows everything. But just before the wedding Christine realizes that she does not. Meanwhile, Dan has been living in his office after going broke because of a failed business deal. but the office manager finds out and gives him until the end of the day to find somewhere else or he'll be moved to a much less desirable location.

Roz's pushy Aunt Ruth comes to visit her, trying for the umpteenth time to set her up with a man. Knowing that Ruth once took care of her whole family while her father was sick, Roz can't be her normally forceful self, and instead conscripts Mac to masquerade as her fiancé. A Zsa Zsa-like widow is detained at the courthouse when her diamond necklace is swallowed by another defendant's dog.

Harry and Mac decide to market one of Quon Le's snack inventions. Christine has a unexpected visitor.

Dan receives a job offer from the most prestigious law firm in New York, and, as a favor to the hiring partner, arranges an early hearing for the senior partner's son, who is appearing on a shoplifting charge. Dan later finds out that the boy is a repeat offender, and the job offer was a scam. Dan brings a bribery charge against the hiring partner's son, but ends up facing disbarment for blackmail.

An attractive reporter comes to the courthouse to interview Harry; a jealous Dan listens to one of her tape recordings, and is shocked to find a steamy message on it. Unknown to either Harry or Dan, Christine finds out that the reporter is a lesbian, who publishes romance novels under a pseudonym.

Christine's relationship with Tony goes through a rocky phase when his devotion to his job as a cop cuts down on their time together.

A man claiming to be from the future (and armed with a working laser gun) takes the courtroom hostage, while two street punks are holding Dan. Bull tries the whole range of remedies for getting rid of his hiccups.

Tony announces that he is taking a job with the DEA and leaving for South America; on the spur of the moment, he proposes to Christine over dinner, and they are married in the restaurant. Meanwhile, Art is forced to leave his job during a dispute between the union and the city. In the hands of his pencil-pushing replacement, the courthouse quickly goes to pieces.

Dan's girlfriend convinces him to appear as a shock-host of a talk show. Mac and Quon Le's planned vacation to Graceland encounters problems.

Mel Torme can't appear at Harry's birthday party because Harry sent him to jail.

Harry works on a visa extension for Yakov, and Mac buys a defective washing machine.

Roz could be sued with the help of Bull's cousin after Bull shoots himself with her gun.

A man asks Harry to help stop the marriage of his girlfriend to another man.

A TV reporter is watching everyone in the court and they have to be on their toes.

Christine is stuck in an elevator as she goes into labor.

When Christine returns after her baby's birth, she must deal with her replacement's legacy, and Dan wants Bull to date his visiting sister.

When Christine returns after her baby's birth, she must deal with her replacement's legacy, and Dan wants Bull to date his visiting sister.

For Harry, it's love at first sight when he lays eyes on Margaret Turner, a bossy news reporter assigned to the courthouse. When she appears not to know he exists, he is so desperate to make an impression that he turns to Dan for advice.

Dan is won at a bachelor auction by a lecherous old woman and Christine has doubts about her marriage.

A defendant pulled in on a minor charge claims to be the Angel of Death, and says that Harry has to release him. Harry jails him for contempt of court, but begins to feel uncertain as reports come in of people miraculously surviving fatal accidents all over the city. Even more worried is Dan, whose own obituary has appeared in the paper.

Dan has a date at the opera and some weirdos think that Bull is their god.

Christine searches for a nanny, and Harry's childhood bully appears in his court.

Art is the topic as Christine meets a street artist and Mac and Dan bond with their passions for photography.

The First Admendment gets tested with the offensive material of a stand up comic.

Roz goes after the mother of a TV brat that is shooting a TV pilot in the building.

Phil the wino saves someone left penniless from the S&L scandals.

Bull's mother, Henrietta "Hank" Shannon, pulls into port to meet the gang. Dan, after being told that he's the only person named in Phil's will and spending money freely, in a cruelly ironic twist it seems that he's been named as a trustee of the Phil Foundation, in charge of, and required to give away, $8.1 million.

Christine is worried about her divorce and Bull is looking for a matchmaker.

Is Harry about to be proposed to?

Harry loses all interest in life after Margaret leaves him. An angel (in the shape of Mel Torme) shows him what life would be like in the court without him: Dan is a rich and corrupt judge, Bull is his stooge candidate for mayor, Mac and Christine are the beaten-down court attorneys, and Roz goes to prison for resisting one of Dan's business enterprises. When Harry sees Dan seduce Christine, he chooses to live again, and the angel sends him on his way with a rousing performance of "Start All Over Again."

Dan suffers major guilt pains over how he is using the money in the Phil Foundation.

When Christine has Roz join her happy therapy group, the group has a major backslide.

A Supreme Court Judge steals Mac as court clerk for appearances.

After being placed on a list of interesting New York City men, conceited Harry lies to get out of a date with Christine.

Tony tries to win Christine back while Dan goes though a transformation while running the Phil Foundation.

Tony tries to win Christine back while Dan goes though a transformation while running the Phil Foundation.

While Harry and Christine try to sort out their feelings, Dan kidnaps her.

Harry risks an international incident when he jails an arrogant diplomat from a tiny, obscure European nation. And Dan returns to duty but is forced to start out at the bottom, in dog law court.

Roz's husband shows up looking for a divorce.

Bull feels that he must perform a miracle before he marries Wanda.

Dan wants to break up with the daughter of an underworld kingpin.

Bull's bachelor party includes no money, no transportation and no Bull.

Christine's image of her law professor is shattered and Bull tries to regain his virginity.

Harry teaches a law class and Dan hires an artist to draw Christine.

At Bull and Wanda's wedding, Wanda refuses to wear Bull's mother's wedding dress, there's a fight over best man, and Christine over-organizes everything.

Mr. Billachi, an elderly former department store Santa, is brought into court for attacking the robot that replaced him. Disheartened by the commercialism of Christmas, he announces his intention to commit suicide, and Dan is the unlikely person who has to convince him that Christmas is still a time of giving and goodwill. His task is made harder by the fact that his normally cheerful co-workers are all complaining loudly about the mess-ups in their holiday plans.

Harry finally becomes buddies with Mel Torme by convincing him to appear as "Man of the Year" at an annual dinner. When he learns that the "Man of the Year" is actually meant to be the victim of a hazing at a public rally, he desperately tries to talk Mel out of it. Dan is employing Will as a bounty hunter and raking in reward money, but bites off more than he can chew when he sends Will after "Eddie the Machete." Bull gets a Walkman and listens to books on tape around court.

A defendant shows up owning several NYC landmarks and Dan gets to be a beauty contest judge.

Mac has been asked to do an underwear commercial.

Roz has a poker and makeup party, and Dan goes after a new courtroom employee.

Christine is asked to run for a political office.

Christine is asked to run for a political office.

Dan starts to brown-nose Harry to get a judgeship when Harry decides to teach full-time. Meanwhile, Art has asked Bull's mother to marry him.

Roz dreads meeting her pen pal when she was not entirely truthful with him.

Harry considers his future - Columbia Law School or touring with his idol, Mel Torme. Christine faces Election Day. Bull is being followed.

Dan tries to get into a newspaper society column, but the columnist is enchanted by Roz instead. Bull substitutes for Mac as court clerk. Lisette tells Christine about her erotic dreams featuring Harry.