The premiere of NBC’s Night Court on Tuesday will feature an on-screen reunion. According to TV Line, the original characters on the old Night Court, Dan Fielding, played by John Larroquette (The Librarians, Stripes), and Roz, played by Marsha Warfield (9-1-1, The Richard Pryor Show), reunite. Warfield’s reprisal of her role on the NBC sitcom had Larroquette feeling nostalgic for their times before on set.
“It was just like the old bicycle thing,” said Larroquette to TVLine. “It was immediate and intimate and hilarious to be with her again.” Larroquette then adds that their reunion was bittersweet too saying: “When we looked at each other, we realized we were the only two [main actors] left from the original… The last time I saw her was at [co-star] Markie Post’s memorial. So it was happy to see her in circumstances where we got to work together again, instead of just being in a place where we had to be, because of our love of the people who had passed.”
This is not the first time Warfield has come back. She also appeared during the season one finale of the new Night Court, where her character, Roz, is a defendant in Dan’s courtroom in New Orleans after an unruly bachelorette party. During Tuesday’s premiere, fans will see Roz and Dan reconnecting, and in one way or another, they both find their way to Abby Stone’s courtroom in New York City. Stone is portrayed by Melissa Rauch (The Big Bang Theory, Batman, and Harley Quinn).
“It was such a dream, like a dream of dreams, to have her on the show,” Rauch said excitedly. Rauch also said that Warfield’s first appearance during the season finale was “one of my favorite moments ever at a live taping of a show. Watching Marsha come out and seeing her stand across from John… I had tears streaming down my face.”
Rauch continued to be ecstatic when she was on scene with Warfield during the season two premiere and said: “Getting to be in the [judge’s] chambers, there’s a couch in that room that is the couch from the original [series], and standing there with John and Marsha, I had to be like, ‘Keep your chill, keep your chill,’ because it was just so, so exciting to get to be in a scene with the two of them.”
Night Court airs every Tuesday night at 8/7c p.m. on NBC.