Season 1 (1993)

Episodes: 24

Star Cast: John Larroquette , Liz Torres , Daryl Mitchell , Chi McBride ,

Episodes List

Ep.1 Pilot

Air Date: 1993-09-02

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 Thirty Day Chip

Air Date: 1993-09-07

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 Celibate!

Air Date: 1993-09-14

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

Ep.4 This is Not a Step

Air Date: 1993-09-21

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 The Unforgiven

Air Date: 1993-09-28

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

Ep.6 Pros and Cons

Air Date: 1993-10-05

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.

Ep.7 Jumping Off the Wagon

Air Date: 1993-10-12

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 The Past Comes Back

Air Date: 1993-10-26

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

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

Air Date: 1993-11-02

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.

Ep.10 Amends

Air Date: 1993-11-23

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

Ep.11 Newcomer

Air Date: 1993-12-07

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

Ep.12 My Hero

Air Date: 1993-12-14

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 God

Air Date: 1993-12-21

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 The Big Slip

Air Date: 1994-01-04

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

Ep.15 Death and Dishonor

Air Date: 1994-01-11

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.

Ep.16 Don't Drink and Drive Nuclear Waste

Air Date: 1994-01-18

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 Eggs

Air Date: 1994-01-30

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 Another Average Night

Air Date: 1994-02-01

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

Ep.19 Dirty Deeds

Air Date: 1994-02-01

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 John and Carol

Air Date: 1994-02-08

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

Ep.21 Grit

Air Date: 1994-03-15

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 Date Night

Air Date: 1994-03-22

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.

Ep.23 Wasted Lives

Air Date: 1994-03-29

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.