The John Larroquette Show

A fascinating case study in how to destroy a successful situation comedy. In its first season The John Larroquette Show was a daring dark comedy and a hit. Set in a St. Louis long distance bus terminal, with a recovering alcoholic protagonist adrift in a sea of losers, hookers, and street people, black and white, gay and straight, this was unlike anything seen in a sitcom since Hot'l Baltimore a generation before, a comedy that addressed issues on the dark side of the American dream: race, class, gender, abuse of authority, substance addiction, etc. In the second and third season NBC carefully removed each and every element that had made the show interesting, making nonsense of a premise and bland stereotypes of its hard-edged/bizarre characters, then cancelled the show abruptly once everyone had deserted its ridiculously bland fourth season; a great shame.

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Season From To Episodes
All Seasons
Specials 0
Season 1 September 1993 April 1994 24
Season 2 September 1994 August 1995 24
Season 3 September 1995 May 1996 24
Season 4 September 1996 October 1996 12
Unassigned Episodes 0
Season From To Episodes
Unassigned Episodes 84
Absolute ordering places all episodes in a single ordered season. This is generally used for anime.
Season From To Episodes
Season 1 0
Unassigned Episodes 84
Name Number of Episodes Dates
John Whitesell 66 09/02/1993 - 05/21/1996
David Trainer 12 09/18/1996 - 10/30/1996
Jim Vallely 11 09/14/1993 - 04/30/1996
Mitchell Hurwitz 11 09/21/1993 - 09/18/1996
Eve Needleman 2 10/18/1994 - 08/22/1995
Gil Junger 2 01/31/1995 - 08/29/1995
Greg Antonacci 1 04/12/1994
Name Number of Episodes Dates
Don Reo 20 09/02/1993 - 01/16/1996
Judith D. Allison 18 09/07/1993 - 01/16/1996
Pam Brady 5 01/02/1996 - 09/25/1996
J.J. Wall 4 11/02/1993 - 10/25/1994
Martin Weiss 3 11/04/1995 - 02/27/1996
Bill Rosenthal 3 11/14/1995 - 03/12/1996
Catherine LePard 2 08/29/1995 - 05/21/1996
John Levenstein 2
Dorothy Reo 2 02/08/1994 - 05/23/1995
John Ridley 2 12/19/1995 - 12/26/1995
Will Gluck 2 10/30/1996
David Landsberg 2 03/26/1996
Don Seigel 2 10/02/1996
David Richardson 2 01/10/1995 - 02/07/1995
Tom Saunders 2 10/16/1996
Bill Richmond 2 10/05/1993 - 12/14/1993
Paul Perlove 1 10/09/1996
Eva Needleman 1 09/28/1993
Steve Sullivan 1 01/30/1996
Kell Cahoun 1 10/16/1996
Teresa O'Neill 1 03/14/1995
Brenda Hampton 1 10/12/1993
Kell Cahoon 1
John Levinstein 1 05/14/1996
Les Eberhard 1 02/13/1996
Ursula Ziegler 1 01/30/1996
Eve Needlemann 1 01/30/1994
Will Glick 1 05/07/1996
Michael Hurwitz 1 01/04/1994

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