Night Court revival
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Definitely true, or at least mostly true. The Wheelers bought the newsstand in the finale of the 1986-7 season. They were clearly being set up as an ongoing presence, but then they were gone without explanation at the start of the next season. It was immediately obvious to me just as a viewer that they'd had to drop the character when Spiner took the TNG gig.
I remember reading in TV Guide or a similar publication that the producers had to change June and Bob Wheelers home state of West Virginia to Yugoslavia because the state of West Virginia complained about how it was being portrayed on national television.
Oddly enough, one of our local afternoon disc jockeys here in Seattle is a West Virginia native, and he occasionally jokes that the Wheelers portrayal is not far from the truth.
Oddly enough, one of our local afternoon disc jockeys here in Seattle is a West Virginia native, and he occasionally jokes that the Wheelers portrayal is not far from the truth.
I mean, he lost an election to a dead guy. Ambition can only get you so far...
I'd be fine if they said the whole last season was a dream...
Yeah, he's been in The Librarians, The Brink, Me Myself and I, the Murphy Brown revival, the new Twilight Zone, even Joey back in the day. He's doing fine.
For an actor work is better than no work. And very few strike gold in a series more than once. Which is a bad omen for a rebooted Night Court, which should be streaming so Dan Fielding can be Dan Fielding.
Do we want him to be? Even though the original series acknowledged that his behavior was immoral and awful, a character like his original self would be very inappropriate in the post-MeToo era, making light of something we now understand to be deeply traumatizing for a lot of people. It seems wise to let him stay reformed, as he was late in the original series, rather than reverting to his old misbehavior. They'd have to find another way to make him funny, but with an actor of Larroquette's brilliance playing him, it shouldn't be too hard to pull that off.
Maybe those "lot of people" shouldn't watch the show then. Everything is potentially traumatizing to somebody and the whole point was always laughing at Dan, not with him.
Still the best Dan Fielding moment.
Looks more like a sequel/revival than a total reboot (
), as some were thinking. If they got Larroquette back (he's comedy gold and his eponymous show from the 1990s is a tad underrated, too...) and it's also starring Rauch... I'll tune in on day 1. Big brownie points if they can get the Wheeler clan back... ditto for Roz, Marsha Warfield and John had some great onscreen chemistry...The original show's best days were probably seasons 4-7... Dan and Roz were probably the best double-act from the 1980s... still liked season 2 with Ellen Foley...
Good point, I'd forgotten that. I do hope they get her back for guest appearances. And of course Richard Moll too.
Wow, 22,022. That better be way more than enough production time to get it right. ;-)
Shoosh.
Last I'd read, he wasn't keen on the show - but that was nine years ago - https://www.tmz.com/2013/01/23/night-court-richard-moll-no-reunion-video/ - and it's not impossible for him to have changed his mind. Even Patrick Stewart was done with Captain Picard for a while but he changed his mind...
I'd hope he'd return. Or any surviving cast, main or recurring or even the occasional one-off in some way. The show's special, and an underdog that made it to the top of the hill.
This will always be one of my favorite scenes form the show. Dan had to abstain from sex for two weeks for a sperm test. Larroquette absolutely kills it in this scene. You can see why he won for Emmys in a row.
"Better safe than sorry, guys!"
LOL, he's talking with the librarian from Ghostbusters!
I'll up the ante:
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