The John Larroquette Show
The John Larroquette Show
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The John Larroquette Show

6.7 / 10
1993
4 seasons
84 episodes
Comedy

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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Seasons

  • Ep 1

    1.Pilot

    10.0
    02-09-199330m

    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.

  • Ep 2

    2.Thirty Day Chip

    10.0
    07-09-199330m

    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.

  • Ep 3

    3.Celibate!

    10.0
    14-09-199330m

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

  • Ep 4

    4.This is Not a Step

    10.0
    21-09-199330m

    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.

  • Ep 5

    5.The Unforgiven

    28-09-199330m

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

  • Ep 6

    6.Pros and Cons

    05-10-199330m

    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...

  • Ep 7

    7.Jumping Off the Wagon

    12-10-199330m

    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.""

  • Ep 8

    8.The Past Comes Back

    26-10-199330m

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

  • Ep 9

    9.There's a Mister Hitler Here to See You

    02-11-199330m

    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...

  • Ep 10

    10.Amends

    23-11-199330m

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

  • Ep 11

    11.Newcomer

    07-12-199330m

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

  • Ep 12

    12.My Hero

    14-12-199330m

    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.

  • Ep 13

    13.God

    21-12-199330m

    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.

  • Ep 14

    14.The Big Slip

    04-01-199430m

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

  • Ep 15

    15.Death and Dishonor

    11-01-199430m

    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...

  • Ep 16

    16.Don't Drink and Drive Nuclear Waste

    18-01-199430m

    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.

  • Ep 17

    17.Eggs

    30-01-199430m

    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.

  • Ep 18

    18.Another Average Night

    01-02-199430m

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

  • Ep 19

    19.Dirty Deeds

    01-02-199430m

    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.

  • Ep 20

    20.John and Carol

    08-02-199430m

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

  • Ep 21

    21.Grit

    15-03-199430m

    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.

  • Ep 22

    22.Date Night

    22-03-199430m

    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...

  • Ep 23

    23.Wasted Lives

    29-03-199430m

    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...

  • Ep 24

    24.A Dark and Stormy Night

    12-04-199430m

    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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