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.
The best episode of "The John Larroquette Show" season 1 is "Pilot", rated 8.2/10 from 58 user votes. It was directed by John Whitesell and written by Don Reo. "Pilot" aired on 9/2/1993 and is rated 0.5 point(s) higher than the second highest rated, "Thirty Day Chip".
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
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
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
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
John takes stock of himself while helping a runaway teen realize that she can go home.
Director: John Whitesell
Writer: N/A
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
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
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
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
John tries to make amends to ex-wife Carol and son Tony he ran out on.
Director: John Whitesell
Writer: Don Reo
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
Carol is furious when Tony leaves her to stay with John; Mahalia worries about her brooding son Dante.
Director: John Whitesell
Writer: N/A
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
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
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
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