The John Larroquette Show (1993)
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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Episode 1 - Pilot
Release Date: 1993-09-02Recovering 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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Episode 2 - Thirty Day Chip
Release Date: 1993-09-07John 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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Episode 3 - Celibate!
Release Date: 1993-09-14John 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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Episode 4 - This is Not a Step
Release Date: 1993-09-21John'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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Episode 5 - The Unforgiven
Release Date: 1993-09-28John takes stock of himself while helping a runaway teen realize that she can go home.
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Episode 6 - Pros and Cons
Release Date: 1993-10-05A 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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Episode 7 - Jumping Off the Wagon
Release Date: 1993-10-12Badgered 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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Episode 8 - The Past Comes Back
Release Date: 1993-10-26A startled John begins questioning his sexuality after another male alcoholic visits to make amends -- by apologizing for seducing him.
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Episode 9 - There's a Mister Hitler Here to See You
Release Date: 1993-11-02John'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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Episode 10 - Amends
Release Date: 1993-11-23John tries to make amends to ex-wife Carol and son Tony he ran out on.
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Episode 11 - Newcomer
Release Date: 1993-12-07John's passionate love affair hits a snag when his perfect woman joins AA -- and must be celibate for six months.
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Episode 12 - My Hero
Release Date: 1993-12-14John'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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Episode 13 - God
Release Date: 1993-12-21John 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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Episode 14 - The Big Slip
Release Date: 1994-01-04John'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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Episode 15 - Death and Dishonor
Release Date: 1994-01-11John'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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Episode 16 - Don't Drink and Drive Nuclear Waste
Release Date: 1994-01-18Entrusted 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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Episode 17 - Eggs
Release Date: 1994-01-30Hemingway 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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Episode 18 - Another Average Night
Release Date: 1994-02-01John's girlfriend turns out to be married -- when her husband confronts John with a gun; Mahalia's estranged husband arrives.
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Episode 19 - Dirty Deeds
Release Date: 1994-02-01At 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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Episode 20 - John and Carol
Release Date: 1994-02-08Carol is furious when Tony leaves her to stay with John; Mahalia worries about her brooding son Dante.
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Episode 21 - Grit
Release Date: 1994-03-15Officer 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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Episode 22 - Date Night
Release Date: 1994-03-22Dexter 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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Episode 23 - Wasted Lives
Release Date: 1994-03-29John 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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Episode 24 - A Dark and Stormy Night
Release Date: 1994-04-12Hemingway is feeling suicidal on his birthday, but discovers new meaning when the entire bus station is held host age by a gun-toting lunatic.