8.2/1059 votes#1 - Pilot
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
- 7.8/1045 votes
#2 - 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
- 7.7/1043 votes
#3 - 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: N/A
- 8.0/1046 votes
#4 - 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
- 7.7/1041 votes
#5 - 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: N/A
- 7.5/1041 votes
#6 - 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
- 7.7/1040 votes
#7 - 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
- 8.0/1045 votes
#8 - 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
- 7.7/1041 votes
#9 - 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: N/A
- 8.6/1042 votes
#10 - 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
- 8.0/1061 votes
#11 - 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
- 8.0/1038 votes
#12 - 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
- 7.9/1038 votes
#13 - 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: N/A
- 8.3/1039 votes
#14 - 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: N/A
- 8.3/1039 votes
#15 - 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
- 7.8/1039 votes
#16 - 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: N/A
- 8.1/1037 votes
#17 - Eggs
Season 1 Episode 17 - Aired 1/30/1994
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.
Director: N/A
Writer: N/A
- 7.9/1040 votes
#18 - 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: N/A
- 8.6/1040 votes
#19 - 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
- 7.5/1040 votes
#20 - 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: N/A
- 8.0/1040 votes
#21 - 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: N/A
- 7.7/1040 votes
#22 - 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
- 7.5/1040 votes
#23 - 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
- 8.2/1041 votes
#24 - 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
The Best Episodes of The John Larroquette Show Season 1
Every episode of The John Larroquette Show Season 1 ranked from best to worst. Discover the Best Episodes of The John Larroquette Show Season 1!
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Season 1 Ratings Summary
"Pilot" is the best rated episode of "The John Larroquette Show" season 1. It scored 8.2/10 based on 59 votes. Directed by John Whitesell and written by Don Reo, it aired on 9/2/1993. This episode is rated 0.4 points higher than the second-best, "Thirty Day Chip".