The John Larroquette Show

S01E05: The Unforgiven

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

Overview

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.

Episodes

S01E01 Pilot

September 2, 1993 10.0 30 min
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.

S01E02 Thirty Day Chip

September 7, 1993 10.0 30 min
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.

S01E03 Celibate!

September 14, 1993 10.0 30 min
John is not about to celebrate when his sponsor orders him to be celibate -- especially when it's for six long months.

S01E04 This is Not a Step

September 21, 1993 10.0 30 min
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.

S01E05 The Unforgiven

September 28, 1993 30 min
John takes stock of himself while helping a runaway teen realize that she can go home.

S01E06 Pros and Cons

October 5, 1993 30 min
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.

S01E07 Jumping Off the Wagon

October 12, 1993 30 min
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.""

S01E08 The Past Comes Back

October 26, 1993 30 min
A startled John begins questioning his sexuality after another male alcoholic visits to make amends -- by apologizing for seducing him.

S01E09 There's a Mister Hitler Here to See You

November 2, 1993 30 min
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...

S01E10 Amends

November 23, 1993 30 min
John tries to make amends to ex-wife Carol and son Tony he ran out on.

S01E11 Newcomer

December 7, 1993 30 min
John's passionate love affair hits a snag when his perfect woman joins AA -- and must be celibate for six months.

S01E12 My Hero

December 14, 1993 30 min
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.

S01E13 God

December 21, 1993 30 min
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.

S01E14 The Big Slip

January 4, 1994 30 min
John's order to train his boss's harebrained nephew, who been in AA for a year but is still a basketcase.

S01E15 Death and Dishonor

January 11, 1994 30 min
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.

S01E16 Don't Drink and Drive Nuclear Waste

January 18, 1994 30 min
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.

S01E17 Eggs

January 30, 1994 30 min
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.

S01E18 Another Average Night

February 1, 1994 30 min
John's girlfriend turns out to be married -- when her husband confronts John with a gun; Mahalia's estranged husband arrives.

S01E19 Dirty Deeds

February 1, 1994 30 min
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.

S01E20 John and Carol

February 8, 1994 30 min
Carol is furious when Tony leaves her to stay with John; Mahalia worries about her brooding son Dante.

S01E21 Grit

March 15, 1994 30 min
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.

S01E22 Date Night

March 22, 1994 30 min
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...

S01E23 Wasted Lives

March 29, 1994 30 min
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.

S01E24 A Dark and Stormy Night

April 12, 1994 30 min
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.

Cast

John Larroquette
John Larroquette
John Hemingway
Liz Torres
Liz Torres
Mahalia Sanchez
Daryl Mitchell
Daryl Mitchell
Dexter Wilson
Chi McBride
Chi McBride
Heavy Gene
Lenny Clarke
Lenny Clarke
Adam Hampton
Gigi Rice
Gigi Rice
Carly Watkins
Elizabeth Berridge
Elizabeth Berridge
Eve Eggers
Bill Morey
Bill Morey
Oscar

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