In the 1980s Brent Spiner's popular character, Bob Wheeler, brought the laughs to Night Court alongside Annie O'Donnell's June Wheeler. The Wheelers were a couple fraught with disastrous life circumstances that got worse with every episode in which they appeared.
Since Night Court was rebooted with Melissa Rauch in the title role as Judge Harry T. Stone's daughter, Abby Stone, last year, viewers have been wondering about the return of the hapless couple that appeared in eight episodes of the original series. Their hopes will be fulfilled as in a Star Trek: The Next Generation panel as part of Star Trek The Cruise VII, Spiner, after being asked whether he would reprise his role, confirmed that he had already filmed a return episode to the series.
Rauch, in an interview with UPI in Los Angeles, said it was a dream to be on set with Brent, who recently returned to his other popular character role, Lt. Commander Data, on the final season of Star Trek: Picard, and Annie and that she felt like she'd stepped into a time machine when she saw Bob and June approach the bench she now occupied. Joining them now is their daughter, played by Kate Micucci.
""It's like she's been a Wheeler all her life. It's comedic gold.""Melissa Rauch
Nyambi Nyambi, Rauch's co-star who portrays court clerk Wyatt, said it was going to be crazy to see the couple in their wardrobe and that it will feel like "trippy time travel." Fans of the original series will undoubtedly feel the same when Bob and June Wheeler make their entrance.
Night Court Season 2 airs Tuesdays at 8/7c on NBC and is available for streaming the next day on Peacock.