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  • ABC
  • Sep 12, 1978
  • ABC
  • Sep 12, 1978
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

  • ABC
  • Sep 12, 1978
  • ABC
  • Sep 12, 1978
Taxi
Season 1
5 Seasons
Season Premiere: Sep 12, 1978
Metascore Generally favorable Based on 17 Critic Reviews
77
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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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Episode 1 • Sep 12, 1978 • 30 m
Like Father, Like Daughter
Alex and the guys drive a Taxi from New York City to Miami so that Alex can see his daughter, whom he hasn't seen in 15 years, before she leaves for school in Portugal.
Episode 2 • Sep 19, 1978 • 30 m
One-Punch Banta
Tony gets a chance to spar with a world champion. And when he knocks the man down, he gets a bout with a ranked fighter. Everyone but Louie supports him. But before the fight he learns what really happened between him and the champ.
Episode 3 • Sep 26, 1978 • 25 m
Blind Date
Alex goes on a blind date with Angela, whom he knows only as a witty and winsome voice on the telephone. Latka finds an envelope of money in the backseat of a cab. Who gets to keep it?
Episode 4 • Oct 3, 1978 • 25 m
Bobby's Acting Career
Would be actor Bobby Wheeler made a wager with himself. Bobby had 3 years to make it as an actor and at 24 hours to go, Bobby attends any audition possible to hopefully beat the clock.
Episode 5 • Oct 10, 1978 • 25 m
Come as You Aren't
Episode 6 • Oct 17, 1978 • 25 m
The Great Line
Episode 7 • Oct 24, 1978 • 25 m
High School Reunion
Louie, an outcast in high school, dreads the idea of his class reunion. Wanna-be actor Bobby Wheeler comes up with a scheme to help Louie get even with his peers.
Episode 8 • Oct 31, 1978 • 25 m
Paper Marriage
In order for Latka to stay in the country, he gets married to a call girl. The wedding is held in the garage led by the Reverend Jim Ignatowski.
Episode 9 • Nov 14, 1978 • 25 m
Money Troubles
When John and his new wife are strapped for money, Alex considers giving them a loan.
Episode 10 • Nov 21, 1978 • 25 m
Men Are Such Beasts
Tony is tormented by a crazy, pill-popping, one-time love interest who refuses to break up with him and gets a job at the garage just to be with him.
Episode 11 • Nov 28, 1978 • 25 m
Memories of Cab 804: Part 1
After cab driver John Burns has an accident in taxicab #804, the gang at Sunshine Cab, while mechanic Latka is making repairs, talks about memorable customers they encountered in that cab.
Episode 12 • Dec 5, 1978 • 25 m
Memories of Cab 804: Part 2
Latka is still trying to repair Cab 804 and the stories of memorable customers the drivers encountered in the cab continue.
Episode 13 • Dec 12, 1978 • 25 m
A Full House for Christmas
Louie's gambling brother, Nick from Las Vegas, comes to visit the garage. Irritated that Nick refuses to spend time with their mother, Louie bankrolls Alex in a card game to try and get back at him.
Episode 14 • Jan 16, 1979 • 25 m
Sugar Mama
Alex befriends a wealthy elderly lady who pays him to take her around the city.
Episode 15 • Jan 30, 1979 • 25 m
Friends
Tony's friendship with Bobby is tested when he leaves town and Bobby mistakenly kills his goldfish.
Episode 16 • Feb 6, 1979 • 25 m
Louie Sees the Light
When Louie ends up in the hospital for an operation, he makes a promise to God that if he is able to pull through, he will change his ways. He is quickly tested by an unconvinced Bobby.
Episode 17 • Feb 13, 1979 • 25 m
Elaine and the Lame Duck
While out on a fare, Alex befriends a socially inept congressman who is dumped by a woman. Feeling sorry for the guy, Alex fixes him up on a date with Elaine.
Episode 18 • Feb 15, 1979 • 25 m
Bobby's Big Break
Actor/cab driver Bobby Wheeler lands a role on a soap opera but the cynical Louie DePalma believes it wont last. Leading Alex to have a serious talk with Louie.
Episode 19 • Feb 27, 1979 • 25 m
Mama Gravas
Latka Gravas's mother comes to visit and because he must work, he asks Alex to keep his mother company for him leading Alex to end up with more than he bargained for.
Episode 20 • Mar 6, 1979 • 25 m
Alex Tastes Death and Finds a Nice Restaurant
After being shot in his cab, Alex quits the garage and takes a job as a waiter at a high-class French restaurant.
Episode 21 • May 8, 1979 • 25 m
Hollywood Calling
A Hollywood movie producer comes to the garage to interview and follow cabbies in order to get material for his latest film.
Episode 22 • May 15, 1979 • 25 m
Substitute Father
With Elaine going out of town to visit her sick aunt, the guys at the garage takes turns watching over her son so that he can compete in a spelling bee.
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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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