Night Court is an American television situation comedy with e setting was the night shift of a Manhattan municipal court, presided over by a young, unorthodox judge. In the opening of the first season, Harold T. Stone becomes a night court judge in New York City; working with him are court clerk Lana Wagner, prosecutor Dan Fielding, public defender Sheila Gardner; and bailiffs Bull Shannon and Selma Hacker. In his first case, he has to settle a dispute involving a woman threatening her husband with gunfire.