The John Larroquette Show - Season 1
Season 1
Network
DatesSep 2, 1993 - Apr 12, 1994
Episodes
Season 1Episode 130 min
Pilot
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.
Sep 2, 1993
Season 1Episode 230 min
Thirty Day Chip
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.
Sep 7, 1993
Season 1Episode 330 min
Celibate!
John is not about to celebrate when his sponsor orders him to be celibate -- especially when it's for six long months.
Sep 14, 1993
Season 1Episode 430 min
This is Not a Step
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.
Sep 21, 1993
Season 1Episode 530 min
The Unforgiven
John takes stock of himself while helping a runaway teen realize that she can go home.
Sep 28, 1993
Season 1Episode 630 min
Pros and Cons
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.
Oct 5, 1993
Season 1Episode 730 min
Jumping Off the Wagon
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.""
Oct 12, 1993
Season 1Episode 830 min
The Past Comes Back
A startled John begins questioning his sexuality after another male alcoholic visits to make amends -- by apologizing for seducing him.
Oct 26, 1993
Season 1Episode 930 min
There's a Mister Hitler Here to See You
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.
Nov 2, 1993
Season 1Episode 1030 min
Amends
John tries to make amends to ex-wife Carol and son Tony he ran out on.
Nov 23, 1993
Season 1Episode 1130 min
Newcomer
John's passionate love affair hits a snag when his perfect woman joins AA -- and must be celibate for six months.
Dec 7, 1993
Season 1Episode 1230 min
My Hero
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.
Dec 14, 1993
Season 1Episode 1330 min
God
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.
Dec 21, 1993
Season 1Episode 1430 min
The Big Slip
John's order to train his boss's harebrained nephew, who been in AA for a year but is still a basketcase.
Jan 4, 1994
Season 1Episode 1530 min
Death and Dishonor
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.
Jan 11, 1994
Season 1Episode 1630 min
Don't Drink and Drive Nuclear Waste
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.
Jan 18, 1994
Season 1Episode 1730 min
Eggs
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.
Jan 30, 1994
Season 1Episode 1830 min
Another Average Night
John's girlfriend turns out to be married -- when her husband confronts John with a gun; Mahalia's estranged husband arrives.
Feb 1, 1994
Season 1Episode 1930 min
Dirty Deeds
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.
Feb 1, 1994
Season 1Episode 2030 min
John and Carol
Carol is furious when Tony leaves her to stay with John; Mahalia worries about her brooding son Dante.
Feb 8, 1994
Season 1Episode 2130 min
Grit
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.
Mar 15, 1994
Season 1Episode 2230 min
Date Night
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.
Mar 22, 1994
Season 1Episode 2330 min
Wasted Lives
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.
Mar 29, 1994
Season 1Episode 2430 min
A Dark and Stormy Night
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.
Apr 12, 1994
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