{"id":187548,"date":"2023-01-15T21:31:02","date_gmt":"2023-01-15T21:31:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/harchi90.com\/john-larroquettes-dan-fielding-is-back-on-nbc\/"},"modified":"2023-01-15T21:31:02","modified_gmt":"2023-01-15T21:31:02","slug":"john-larroquettes-dan-fielding-is-back-on-nbc","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/harchi90.com\/john-larroquettes-dan-fielding-is-back-on-nbc\/","title":{"rendered":"John Larroquette’s Dan Fielding is back on NBC"},"content":{"rendered":"
Disorder in the court: “Night Court” is back in session after three decades.<\/p>\n
The comedy’s eight-year run chronicling the oddball-filled night shift of a New York City courtroom ended in 1992. But the sitcom returns to NBC Tuesday (8 EST\/PST) with a double-episode premiere.<\/p>\n
The familiar courtroom is the same, but the personnel has changed. Many original “Night Court” cast members have died, including Markie Post (public defender Christine Sullivan) in 2021, and Harry Anderson, who died in 2018 and will forever remembered by fans as the magic trick-loving Judge Harry T. Stone.<\/p>\n
John Larroquette, 75, who won two Emmys playing narcissistic prosecutor Dan Fielding, returns with a white beard. Burned-out Fielding is recruited as public defender by the new presiding judge, the late Stone’s grown and equally eccentric daughter Abby (“Big Bang Theory” star Melissa Rauch).<\/p>\n\n
“I’m now 75, not the 35-year-old who started playing that character. I can’t do the physical comedy I used to do,” says Larroquette. “Hopefully, with wit and intellect, we have found other ways for him to be funny, not just the clown that he was in the ’80s. But it’s a new world.”<\/p>\n
Larroquette spoke to USA TODAY about answering the “Night Court” call.<\/p>\n
RIP Harry Anderson: <\/strong>Quirky Judge Harry Stone on ‘Night Court’ dies at 65<\/p>\n