All Episodes of The John Larroquette Show
Browse all episodes of The John Larroquette Show
All Episodes of The John Larroquette Show
Browse all episodes of The John Larroquette Show
Season 1
8.2/1062 votesPilot
Season 1 Episode 1 - 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.
Director: John Whitesell
Writer: Don Reo
- 7.8/1049 votes
Thirty Day Chip
Season 1 Episode 2 - 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.
Director: John Whitesell
Writer: Don Reo
- 7.4/1047 votes
Celibate!
Season 1 Episode 3 - 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.
Director: John Whitesell
Writer: Unknown
- 7.7/1049 votes
This is Not a Step
Season 1 Episode 4 - 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.
Director: John Whitesell
Writer: Mitchell Hurwitz
- 7.6/1044 votes
The Unforgiven
Season 1 Episode 5 - Aired 9/28/1993
John takes stock of himself while helping a runaway teen realize that she can go home.
Director: John Whitesell
Writer: Unknown
- 7.5/1044 votes
Pros and Cons
Season 1 Episode 6 - 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.
Director: John Whitesell
Writer: Bill Richmond
- 7.3/1043 votes
Jumping Off the Wagon
Season 1 Episode 7 - 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.""
Director: John Whitesell
Writer: Brenda Hampton
- 7.7/1048 votes
The Past Comes Back
Season 1 Episode 8 - Aired 10/26/1993
A startled John begins questioning his sexuality after another male alcoholic visits to make amends -- by apologizing for seducing him.
Director: John Whitesell
Writer: Don Reo
- 7.6/1044 votes
There's a Mister Hitler Here to See You
Season 1 Episode 9 - 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.
Director: John Whitesell
Writer: Unknown
- 8.2/1047 votes
Amends
Season 1 Episode 10 - Aired 11/23/1993
John tries to make amends to ex-wife Carol and son Tony he ran out on.
Director: John Whitesell
Writer: Don Reo
- 7.5/1065 votes
Newcomer
Season 1 Episode 11 - 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.
Director: John Whitesell
Writer: Don Reo
- 7.4/1041 votes
My Hero
Season 1 Episode 12 - 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.
Director: John Whitesell
Writer: Bill Richmond
- 7.2/1041 votes
God
Season 1 Episode 13 - 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.
Director: John Whitesell
Writer: Unknown
- 7.9/1042 votes
The Big Slip
Season 1 Episode 14 - 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.
Director: John Whitesell
Writer: Unknown
- 8.1/1043 votes
Death and Dishonor
Season 1 Episode 15 - 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.
Director: John Whitesell
Writer: Don Reo
- 7.4/1041 votes
Don't Drink and Drive Nuclear Waste
Season 1 Episode 16 - 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.
Director: John Whitesell
Writer: Unknown
- 7.5/1042 votes
Another Average Night
Season 1 Episode 18 - 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.
Director: John Whitesell
Writer: Unknown
- 8.1/1043 votes
Dirty Deeds
Season 1 Episode 19 - 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.
Director: John Whitesell
Writer: Don Reo
- 7.5/1043 votes
John and Carol
Season 1 Episode 20 - Aired 2/8/1994
Carol is furious when Tony leaves her to stay with John; Mahalia worries about her brooding son Dante.
Director: John Whitesell
Writer: Unknown
- 7.9/1043 votes
Grit
Season 1 Episode 21 - 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.
Director: John Whitesell
Writer: Unknown
- 7.5/1042 votes
Date Night
Season 1 Episode 22 - 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.
Director: John Whitesell
Writer: Don Reo
- 7.4/1042 votes
Wasted Lives
Season 1 Episode 23 - 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.
Director: John Whitesell
Writer: Mitchell Hurwitz
- 7.7/1046 votes
A Dark and Stormy Night
Season 1 Episode 24 - 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.
Director: Greg Antonacci
Writer: Don Reo