The John Larroquette Show - Season 1

First aired: 9/2/1993 24 episodes

Episodes

1. Pilot

Aired: 9/2/1993

Recovering alcoholic John Hemingway takes the job of night manager in a seedy bus station, where a robbery and a missing bus test his resolve to stay sober.

2. Thirty Day Chip

Aired: 9/7/1993

John goes 30 days without alcohol, and wants to get back together with his wife. Before he can reach her, she serves him with divorce papers.

3. Celibate!

Aired: 9/14/1993

John is not about to celebrate when his sponsor orders him to be celibate -- especially when it's for six long months.

4. This is Not a Step

Aired: 9/21/1993

John's mother, an inveterate con artist, begs him to bail her out of jail, and then becomes the obvious suspect when a batch of credit card slips goes missing from the bus station.

5. The Unforgiven

Aired: 9/28/1993

John takes stock of himself while helping a runaway teen realize that she can go home.

6. Pros and Cons

Aired: 10/5/1993

A fellow con artist from John's drinking days offers to cut him in on a lucrative real-estate scam; a bounty hunter is taking an incredibly naive Mississippi teenager to face a ten-year sentence.

7. Jumping Off the Wagon

Aired: 10/12/1993

Badgered by an extortionist, bedeviled by a work slowdown and befuddled by his sponsor's drinking, John feels like he's teetering on a ""tightrope of sobriety.""

8. The Past Comes Back

Aired: 10/26/1993

A startled John begins questioning his sexuality after another male alcoholic visits to make amends -- by apologizing for seducing him.

9. There's a Mister Hitler Here to See You

Aired: 11/2/1993

John's given food for thought when an old writer friend bases his first book on John's bacchanalian past, a neo-Nazi named Steve Hitler demands to charter a bus, with support from the ACLU, and a sleazy health inspector threatens Dexter with blackmail.

10. Amends

Aired: 11/23/1993

John tries to make amends to ex-wife Carol and son Tony he ran out on.

11. Newcomer

Aired: 12/7/1993

John's passionate love affair hits a snag when his perfect woman joins AA -- and must be celibate for six months.

12. My Hero

Aired: 12/14/1993

John's nephew Bobby learns the meaning of tough love when he shows up at the bus station for a wild evening with the man who taught him to drink.

13. God

Aired: 12/21/1993

John gets hooked into a crap game and finds himself being forced to pray at gunpoint by Mahalia; Dexter discovers that his new girlfriend is a hooker.

14. The Big Slip

Aired: 1/4/1994

John's order to train his boss's harebrained nephew, who been in AA for a year but is still a basketcase.

15. Death and Dishonor

Aired: 1/11/1994

John's son tries to form a father-son relationship; Chester disappears and is found dead; John must deal with a battle to the death between Mahalia and her sister Linda, who stole Mahalia's first husband.

16. Don't Drink and Drive Nuclear Waste

Aired: 1/18/1994

Entrusted for a few moments with the official United State inch, John can't resist peeking -- and damages it; meanwhile, he worries over a bus driver who drinks but denies it.

17. Eggs

Aired: 1/30/1994

Hemingway and Dexter get stuck together in a crummy motel with a cage full of chickens; when a baby is abandoned in the station dumpster, Officer Eggers kidnaps it.

18. Another Average Night

Aired: 2/1/1994

John's girlfriend turns out to be married -- when her husband confronts John with a gun; Mahalia's estranged husband arrives.

19. Dirty Deeds

Aired: 2/1/1994

At a drag show, John runs into his old college roommate, who's playing Marlene Dietrich; Mahalia is targeted anew by a blackmailer she thought she'd paid off.

20. John and Carol

Aired: 2/8/1994

Carol is furious when Tony leaves her to stay with John; Mahalia worries about her brooding son Dante.

21. Grit

Aired: 3/15/1994

Officer Eggers develops a crush on John after he rescues her from a gunman; Dexter's business languishes after a customer puts a curse on the diner.

22. Date Night

Aired: 3/22/1994

Dexter is outraged when his sister strikes up a friendship with Hemingway, Mahalia is overjoyed to hear her first boyfriend is coming to visit, Carly reports to Hemingway that she was sent out on a house call -- to his son.

23. Wasted Lives

Aired: 3/29/1994

John accidentally gets high on marijuana brownies, Hampton gets an unusual request from his long-estranged father, actor Joe Pesci studies a homeless man living at the bus station as research for a role.

24. A Dark and Stormy Night

Aired: 4/12/1994

Hemingway is feeling suicidal on his birthday, but discovers new meaning when the entire bus station is held host age by a gun-toting lunatic.