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Taxi

Summary Taxi's television history is filled with contradictions. Produced by some of television comedy's most well-regarded talent, the show was canceled by two different networks. Despite winning fourteen Emmy Awards in only five seasons, the program's ratings were rock-bottom for its final seasons. Although it thrives in syndication and is sti...

Created By: James L. Brooks, Stan Daniels, David Davis, Ed. Weinberger

  • 1978
  • TV-14
  • ABC
  • 1978
  • TV-14
  • ABC

Taxi

5 Seasons
Season 1 Premiere: Sep 12, 1978
Metascore Generally Favorable Based on 17 Critic Reviews
77
User Score Universal Acclaim Based on 6 User Ratings
8.2
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Summary Taxi's television history is filled with contradictions. Produced by some of television comedy's most well-regarded talent, the show was canceled by two different networks. Despite winning fourteen Emmy Awards in only five seasons, the program's ratings were rock-bottom for its final seasons. Although it thrives in syndication and is sti...

Created By: James L. Brooks, Stan Daniels, David Davis, Ed. Weinberger

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Metascore
Generally Favorable Based on 17 Critic Reviews
77
88% Positive
15 Reviews
12% Mixed
2 Reviews
0% Negative
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Metascore
Generally Favorable Based on 17 Critic Reviews
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88% Positive
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12% Mixed
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0% Negative
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91
Oct 18, 2022
The personable cast carries the creators' vision of a New York full of false hope, made tolerable by a network of friends. And then there's that Bob James theme song, so pretty and forlorn, playing in the opening credits over an endless shot of a cab crossing a bridge and never getting anywhere. It's the whole mood and meaning of the show, established in less than a minute.
By Noel Murray FULL REVIEW
83
Oct 18, 2022
Like "the Mary Tyler Moore Show" this something-for-everyone comedy touches the nerves of character without forsaking the pratfall. [11 Sep 1978, p.25]
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80
Oct 18, 2022
As a situation, Taxi is no better or worse than any other situation comedy on television. But the series has two distinctive assets. The scripts tend to be better than average. And the cast, headed by Judd Hirsch as the somewhat sour, deadpan AleX, happens to have coalesced rather rapidly into a first‐rate repertory company.
By John J. O'Connor FULL REVIEW
80
Oct 18, 2022
Taxi is a joyride, a warm, breezy, character-oriented comedy in the tradition of "The Mary Tyler Moore Show" and "Barney Miller." [12 Sep 1978, p.72]
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75
Oct 18, 2022
Judd Hirsch, Jeff Conaway, Tony Danza, Randall Carver, Marilu Henner and Andy Kaufman are a New York cab crew in a sitcom that does produce some genuine comedy.
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75
Oct 18, 2022
Even if it gets permanently blocked in traffic, Latka and Hirsch are a lot for the average TV sitcom. [12 Sep 1978, p.35]
By Marvin Kitman FULL REVIEW
40
Oct 18, 2022
There could be a lot of laughs in the daily lives of cab drivers and tales to be spun out of their reasons for hacking. But Brooks and company have let their concept sputter away into a shapeless gagbag, wasting entirely their principal actor, Judd Hirsch, to say nothing of the supporting players aspiring to some kind of steady employment. [12 Sep 1978, p.134]
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Universal Acclaim Based on 6 User Ratings
8.2
83% Positive
5 Ratings
17% Mixed
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Production Company:
  • John-Charles-Walters Productions
  • Paramount Television
Initial Release Date: Sep 12, 1978
Number of seasons: 5 Seasons
Rating: TV-14
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Awards

Golden Globes, USA
• 4 Wins & 26 Nominations
Primetime Emmy Awards
• 18 Wins & 34 Nominations
Writers Guild of America, USA
• 1 Win & 12 Nominations

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