The John Larroquette Show

Season 1

1993 24 Episodes
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E1

Pilot

30 min Sep 02, 1993 10.0

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.

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E2

Thirty Day Chip

30 min Sep 07, 1993 10.0

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.

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E3

Celibate!

30 min Sep 14, 1993 10.0

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

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E4

This is Not a Step

30 min Sep 21, 1993 10.0

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.

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E5

The Unforgiven

30 min Sep 28, 1993

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

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E6

Pros and Cons

30 min Oct 05, 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.

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E7

Jumping Off the Wagon

30 min Oct 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.""

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E8

The Past Comes Back

30 min Oct 26, 1993

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

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E9

There's a Mister Hitler Here to See You

30 min Nov 02, 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.

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E10

Amends

30 min Nov 23, 1993

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

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E11

Newcomer

30 min Dec 07, 1993

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

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E12

My Hero

30 min Dec 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.

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E13

God

30 min Dec 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.

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E14

The Big Slip

30 min Jan 04, 1994

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

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E15

Death and Dishonor

30 min Jan 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.

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E16

Don't Drink and Drive Nuclear Waste

30 min Jan 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.

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E17

Eggs

30 min Jan 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.

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E18

Another Average Night

30 min Feb 01, 1994

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

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E19

Dirty Deeds

30 min Feb 01, 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.

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E20

John and Carol

30 min Feb 08, 1994

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

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E21

Grit

30 min Mar 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.

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E22

Date Night

30 min Mar 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.

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E23

Wasted Lives

30 min Mar 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.

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E24

A Dark and Stormy Night

30 min Apr 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.