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Season Eight of Night Court goes into session with the first episode of a two-part story, as Judge Harry T. Stone (Harry Anderson) learns that, thanks to an unforeseen technicality, he must get a high-school diploma if he wants to keep his job. At the same time, public defender Christine Sullivan (Markie Post), returning to work after maternity leave, must do battle with a phantom, specifically the memory of her temporary replacement. And prosecutor Dan Fielding (John Larroquette) is receiving mysterious phone calls from a young woman named Donna (Susan Diol)--who turns out to be his long-lost sister. New to the series this season are Jolene Lutz) as scatterbrained court stenographer Lisette and S. Marc Jordan as blind, sarcastic newsstand owner Jack.