The John Larroquette Show

1993 - 1996

Pilot

2nd September 1993

Episode 1

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.

Thirty Day Chip

7th September 1993

Episode 2

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.

Celibate!

14th September 1993

Episode 3

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

This is Not a Step

21st September 1993

Episode 4

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.

The Unforgiven

28th September 1993

Episode 5

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

Pros and Cons

5th October 1993

Episode 6

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.

Jumping Off the Wagon

12th October 1993

Episode 7

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.""

The Past Comes Back

26th October 1993

Episode 8

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

There's a Mister Hitler Here to See You

2nd November 1993

Episode 9

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.

Amends

23rd November 1993

Episode 10

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

Newcomer

7th December 1993

Episode 11

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

My Hero

14th December 1993

Episode 12

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.

God

21st December 1993

Episode 13

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.

The Big Slip

4th January 1994

Episode 14

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

Death and Dishonor

11th January 1994

Episode 15

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.

Don't Drink and Drive Nuclear Waste

18th January 1994

Episode 16

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.

Eggs

30th January 1994

Episode 17

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.

Another Average Night

1st February 1994

Episode 18

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

Dirty Deeds

1st February 1994

Episode 19

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.

John and Carol

8th February 1994

Episode 20

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

Grit

15th March 1994

Episode 21

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.

Date Night

22nd March 1994

Episode 22

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.

Wasted Lives

29th March 1994

Episode 23

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.

A Dark and Stormy Night

12th April 1994

Episode 24

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.

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John Larroquette•Liz Torres•Daryl Mitchell

The John Larroquette Show is an American television sitcom .The show was a vehicle for John Larroquette following his run as Dan Fielding on Night Court. The series takes place in a seedy bus terminal in St. Louis, Missouri and originally focused on the somewhat broken people who worked the night shift, and in particular, the lead character's battle with alcoholism.

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Carly Watkins

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Elizabeth Berridge

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