John Larroquette
John Hemingway
Series SeasonSeason 1 episodes1993
The John Larroquette Show
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Episode 130 min1993-09-02
Pilot
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.
Episode 230 min1993-09-07
Thirty Day Chip
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.
Episode 330 min1993-09-14
Celibate!
John is not about to celebrate when his sponsor orders him to be celibate -- especially when it's for six long months.
Episode 430 min1993-09-21
This is Not a Step
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.
Episode 530 min1993-09-28
The Unforgiven
John takes stock of himself while helping a runaway teen realize that she can go home.
Episode 630 min1993-10-05
Pros and Cons
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.
Episode 730 min1993-10-12
Jumping Off the Wagon
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.""
Episode 830 min1993-10-26
The Past Comes Back
A startled John begins questioning his sexuality after another male alcoholic visits to make amends -- by apologizing for seducing him.
Episode 930 min1993-11-02
There's a Mister Hitler Here to See You
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.
Episode 1030 min1993-11-23
Amends
John tries to make amends to ex-wife Carol and son Tony he ran out on.
Episode 1130 min1993-12-07
Newcomer
John's passionate love affair hits a snag when his perfect woman joins AA -- and must be celibate for six months.
Episode 1230 min1993-12-14
My Hero
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.
Episode 1330 min1993-12-21
God
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.
Episode 1430 min1994-01-04
The Big Slip
John's order to train his boss's harebrained nephew, who been in AA for a year but is still a basketcase.
Episode 1530 min1994-01-11
Death and Dishonor
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.
Episode 1630 min1994-01-18
Don't Drink and Drive Nuclear Waste
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.
Episode 1730 min1994-01-30
Eggs
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.
Episode 1830 min1994-02-01
Another Average Night
John's girlfriend turns out to be married -- when her husband confronts John with a gun; Mahalia's estranged husband arrives.
Episode 1930 min1994-02-01
Dirty Deeds
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.
Episode 2030 min1994-02-08
John and Carol
Carol is furious when Tony leaves her to stay with John; Mahalia worries about her brooding son Dante.
Episode 2130 min1994-03-15
Grit
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.
Episode 2230 min1994-03-22
Date Night
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.
Episode 2330 min1994-03-29
Wasted Lives
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.
Episode 2430 min1994-04-12
A Dark and Stormy Night
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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