Season 1
24 episodes · Sep 2, 1993
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- S1E1
Pilot
Sep 2, 199330mRecovering 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.
- S1E2
Thirty Day Chip
Sep 7, 199330mJohn 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.
- S1E3
Celibate!
Sep 14, 199330mJohn is not about to celebrate when his sponsor orders him to be celibate -- especially when it's for six long months.
- S1E4
This is Not a Step
Sep 21, 199330mJohn'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.
- S1E5
The Unforgiven
Sep 28, 199330mJohn takes stock of himself while helping a runaway teen realize that she can go home.
- S1E6
Pros and Cons
Oct 5, 199330mA 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.
- S1E7
Jumping Off the Wagon
Oct 12, 199330mBadgered 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.""
- S1E8
The Past Comes Back
Oct 26, 199330mA startled John begins questioning his sexuality after another male alcoholic visits to make amends -- by apologizing for seducing him.
- S1E9
There's a Mister Hitler Here to See You
Nov 2, 199330mJohn'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.
- S1E10
Amends
Nov 23, 199330mJohn tries to make amends to ex-wife Carol and son Tony he ran out on.
- S1E11
Newcomer
Dec 7, 199330mJohn's passionate love affair hits a snag when his perfect woman joins AA -- and must be celibate for six months.
- S1E12
My Hero
Dec 14, 199330mJohn'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.
- S1E13
God
Dec 21, 199330mJohn 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.
- S1E14
The Big Slip
Jan 4, 199430mJohn's order to train his boss's harebrained nephew, who been in AA for a year but is still a basketcase.
- S1E15
Death and Dishonor
Jan 11, 199430mJohn'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.
- S1E16
Don't Drink and Drive Nuclear Waste
Jan 18, 199430mEntrusted 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.
- S1E17
Eggs
Jan 30, 199430mHemingway 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.
- S1E18
Another Average Night
Feb 1, 199430mJohn's girlfriend turns out to be married -- when her husband confronts John with a gun; Mahalia's estranged husband arrives.
- S1E19
Dirty Deeds
Feb 1, 199430mAt 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.
- S1E20
John and Carol
Feb 8, 199430mCarol is furious when Tony leaves her to stay with John; Mahalia worries about her brooding son Dante.
- S1E21
Grit
Mar 15, 199430mOfficer 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.
- S1E22
Date Night
Mar 22, 199430mDexter 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.
- S1E23
Wasted Lives
Mar 29, 199430mJohn 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.
- S1E24
A Dark and Stormy Night
Apr 12, 199430mHemingway is feeling suicidal on his birthday, but discovers new meaning when the entire bus station is held host age by a gun-toting lunatic.