The John Larroquette Show
Season 1
199324 episodes
Episode 1
Pilot
Sep 2, 199330m
TMDB rating 10.0TMDB
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.
Episode 2
Thirty Day Chip
Sep 7, 199330m
TMDB rating 10.0TMDB
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.
Episode 3
Celibate!
Sep 14, 199330m
TMDB rating 10.0TMDB
John is not about to celebrate when his sponsor orders him to be celibate -- especially when it's for six long months.
Episode 4
This is Not a Step
Sep 21, 199330m
TMDB rating 10.0TMDB
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.
Episode 5
The Unforgiven
Sep 28, 199330m
John takes stock of himself while helping a runaway teen realize that she can go home.
Episode 6
Pros and Cons
Oct 5, 199330m
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.
Episode 7
Jumping Off the Wagon
Oct 12, 199330m
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.""
Episode 8
The Past Comes Back
Oct 26, 199330m
A startled John begins questioning his sexuality after another male alcoholic visits to make amends -- by apologizing for seducing him.
Episode 9
There's a Mister Hitler Here to See You
Nov 2, 199330m
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.
Episode 10
Amends
Nov 23, 199330m
John tries to make amends to ex-wife Carol and son Tony he ran out on.
Episode 11
Newcomer
Dec 7, 199330m
John's passionate love affair hits a snag when his perfect woman joins AA -- and must be celibate for six months.
Episode 12
My Hero
Dec 14, 199330m
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.
Episode 13
God
Dec 21, 199330m
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.
Episode 14
The Big Slip
Jan 4, 199430m
John's order to train his boss's harebrained nephew, who been in AA for a year but is still a basketcase.
Episode 15
Death and Dishonor
Jan 11, 199430m
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.
Episode 16
Don't Drink and Drive Nuclear Waste
Jan 18, 199430m
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.
Episode 17
Eggs
Jan 30, 199430m
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.
Episode 18
Another Average Night
Feb 1, 199430m
John's girlfriend turns out to be married -- when her husband confronts John with a gun; Mahalia's estranged husband arrives.
Episode 19
Dirty Deeds
Feb 1, 199430m
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.
Episode 20
John and Carol
Feb 8, 199430m
Carol is furious when Tony leaves her to stay with John; Mahalia worries about her brooding son Dante.
Episode 21
Grit
Mar 15, 199430m
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.
Episode 22
Date Night
Mar 22, 199430m
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.
Episode 23
Wasted Lives
Mar 29, 199430m
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.
Episode 24
A Dark and Stormy Night
Apr 12, 199430m
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.