Night Court: Game Show


10:30 pm - 11:00 pm, Saturday, July 25 on WNYW Catchy Comedy (5.5)

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Game Show

Season 6, Episode 15

A faulty hypnotic suggestion leaves Bull in a cold sweat during the grand-prize round of a TV game show he's competing in to help fund a playground for underprivileged kids. Fleck: Robert Ridgely. Chip: Tony Longo.

repeat 1989 English HD Level Unknown
Comedy Sitcom

Cast & Crew
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John Larroquette (Actor) .. Dan Fielding
Richard Moll (Actor) .. Bull Shannon
Robert Ridgely (Actor) .. Fleck
Tony Longo (Actor) .. Chip
Florence Stanley (Actor) .. Judge Wilbur
Marty Zagon (Actor) .. Charles Stempel
Peter Saputo (Actor) .. Thomas Van Doren
Brent Hinkley (Actor) .. Jeffrey Zane
Deanna Booher (Actor) .. Nadine ("Queen Kong")
Leonard B. Kaufman (Actor) .. Newscaster

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Did You Know..
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John Larroquette (Actor) .. Dan Fielding
Born: November 25, 1947
Birthplace: New Orleans, Louisiana, United States
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Trivia: American actor John Larroquette began gaining public attention as a disc jockey. For several years, he paid the bills with TV and movie voiceovers, notably as the (uncredited) narrator of Tobe Hooper's The Texas Chainsaw Massacre (1974). Larroquette started getting on-camera assignments in the mid 1970s, making his network TV bow in the role of Dr. Paul Herman in the prime time weekly Doctors' Hospital (1975-76); this was followed by a two-year stint as Robert Anderson on the Robert Conrad TV vehicle Black Sheep Squadron (1976-78). From 1984 through 1992, Larroquette portrayed assistant DA and self-styled ladies man Dan Fielding on the popular sitcom Night Court, a role which won him four Emmy awards. In 1994, the actor starred in his own series, The John Larroquette Show, playing an erudite recovering alcoholic who manages a St. Louis bus depot.His film career never quite matched the success he found on the small- screen, but he had small parts in The Twilight Zone Movie and Choose Me before he reached the height of his Night Court Fame. He was a friend to Bruce Willis in the Blake Edwards comedy Blind Date and appeared opposite his fellow NBC sitcom star Kirstie Alley in the flop Madhouse. He was one o the adult leads in the 1994 version of Richie Rich. As the '90s came to a close he returned to the small-screen in Payne, an attempt to update the classic British series Fawlty Towers. As the new century began, Larroquete could be seen in The 10th Kingdom, and a few years later he lent his voice as the narrator of the remake of The Texas Chainsaw Massacre - just as he did for the original thirty years before. He appeared in diverse projects such as Beethoven's 5th, and the 2006 Southland Tales. He scored a recurring role for a couple of seasons on Boston Legal.
Richard Moll (Actor) .. Bull Shannon
Born: January 13, 1943
Birthplace: Pasadena, California, United States
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Trivia: Six feet tall by the time he was twelve, Richard Moll would eventually peak at 6'8". To ward off jokes about his height, Moll adopted the "class clown" pose in school, eventually developing a taste for play-acting. Moving from his hometown of Pasadena to Hollywood in 1968, Moll spent the next decade or so with various theatrical troupes, and for a while toured schools in the role of Abraham Lincoln. Whenever he made the movie and TV casting rounds, Moll was greeted with an astonished "What a monster!"; thus, a monster he became, playing a steady succession of "bikers and snake men and one-eyed mutants." He was one of the title characters in the 1972 TV movie Gargoyles, was seen as an abominable snowman in Caveman (1981), and played various and assorted hulking goons in such adventure flicks as Metalstorm (1982) and The Sword and the Sorceror (1984). He was finally allowed to exhibit his "human" side--not to mention his considerable flair for light comedy--as court guard Bull Shannon on the long-running (1984-92) TV sitcom Night Court. Back to monstrosities and villains again in the 1990s--this time by choice rather than necessity-- Richard Moll has continued appearing in sizeable (in more ways than one) TV guest-star roles, and has lent his vocal talents to the role of Harvey Dent, aka Two-Face, in Batman: The Animated Series.
Robert Ridgely (Actor) .. Fleck
Born: December 24, 1931
Died: February 08, 1997
Trivia: American actor Robert Ridgely's first television job was the part of Kimbro in the 1962 wartime drama The Gallant Men. He later played a Ted Baxter-ish anchor man on Domestic Life (1984), and was earlier featured as an unctuous talent-show emcee in Jonathan Demme's Melvin and Howard (1979). Ridgely showed up in a brace of Mel Brooks films during the early '90s, including Life Stinks (1991) and Robin Hood: Men in Tights (1993), and was featured in Michael Keaton's Multiplicity and Tom Hanks' That Thing You Do! Although he was always busy in front of the cameras, the actor was best-known as one of show business' most prolific and versatile voice-over artists. Ridgely's extensive TV-cartoon resumé included the title roles in Flash Gordon: The Greatest Adventure of All (1979), Tarzan, Lord of the Jungle (1980), and Thundarr the Barbarian (1982) Ridgely made his final film appearances in Boogie Nights and Fire Down Below (both 1997). He died of cancer in 1997 at the age of 65.
Tony Longo (Actor) .. Chip
Born: January 01, 1962
Trivia: An actor of imposing stature, Tony Longo has played many roles that utilized his substantial frame. Born in New Jersey, Longo began his acting career by making appearances on TV shows like Laverne & Shirley and CHiPS, a plan that would prove extremely fruitful as the actor would wrack up countless such appearances over the coming decades. Additionally, Longo extended his efforts toward movies, as well, playing roles in films like The Cooler and The Violent Kind.
Marsha Warfield (Actor)
Born: March 05, 1954
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Trivia: Burly black comedienne Marsha Warfield is best remembered for playing the caustic bailiff Roz on the popular television sitcom Night Court. Warfield made her film debut in the television movie The Marva Collins Story (1981). Prior to that she was a member of the sketch comedy cast on the short-lived, controversial Richard Pryor Show (1977). In addition to acting, Warfield is also a funny standup comedienne who often uses graphic language and descriptions of sex to describe the foibles of male/female interactions. Following the end of Night Court, Warfield hosted a short-lived talk show in 1990.
Florence Stanley (Actor) .. Judge Wilbur
Born: July 01, 1924
Died: October 03, 2003
Birthplace: Chicago, Illinois, United States
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Trivia: The raspy-voiced actress who endeared herself to television viewers as the wife of Abe Vigoda's character in the popular sitcom Barney Miller (as well as the short-lived spin-off Fish), Florence Stanley found most of her success on the small screen. A Chicago native and graduate of Northwestern University, Stanley moved to New York City shortly after finishing college and kicked off an acting career on Broadway. Stanley followed roles in Fiddler on the Roof and The Glass Menagerie with stints at both the Manhattan Theater Club and the New York Shakespeare Festival. In June 1950, she made her television debut in an episode of the popular drama series Studio One; years later, she loaned her already distinct voice to the '60s series Dark Shadows (as the sobbing Josette). Although subsequent appearances in The Day of the Dolphin (1973) and The Prisoner of Second Avenue (1974) found her feature career blossoming, her role in Barney Miller gave Stanley the most exposure she had received to date. She took a ten-year hiatus from the screen after Fish, triumphantly returning to TV in Night Court and Mr. Belvedere in 1987. Stanley returned to feature work the same year with a small role in the Shelley Long/Bette Midler comedy Outrageous Fortune. The comeback provided her career with something of a second wind, and the 1990s found the veteran actress increasingly busy with roles in such high-profile features as Trapped in Paradise (1994), A Goofy Movie (1995), and Bulworth (1998). Stanley never entirely abandoned the small screen, and the late '90s and early 2000s found her alternating between TV roles in Malcolm in the Middle and NYPD Blue, with feature work in Atlantis: The Lost Empire (2001), its small-screen spin-off, and Down With Love (2003). Behind the scenes, the longtime actress was also a member of the League of Professional Theater Women as well as the motion picture and television academies. Stanley died of complications from a stroke October 3, 2003, in Los Angeles. She was 79.
Marty Zagon (Actor) .. Charles Stempel
Born: October 14, 1925
Peter Saputo (Actor) .. Thomas Van Doren
Brent Hinkley (Actor) .. Jeffrey Zane
Born: April 12, 1962
Birthplace: Boston, Massachusetts
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Deanna Booher (Actor) .. Nadine ("Queen Kong")
Leonard B. Kaufman (Actor) .. Newscaster

Before / After
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Night Court
10:00 pm
Cheers
11:00 pm