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Taxi is an American television sitcom that originally aired on ABC from September 12, 1978, to May 6, 1982, and on NBC from September 30, 1982, to June 15, 1983. It focuses on the everyday lives of a handful of New York City taxi drivers and their abusive dispatcher.
The cabbies meet Reverend Jim at a restaurant, and get him a job as a cab driver. Jim then spreads his special brand of reality around the garage. In 1997, TV Guide ranked this episode #63 on its list of the 100 Greatest Episodes. [2] In 2009, it moved to #51. [3]
Like Father, Like Daughter is the pilot episode of the American sitcom Taxi. It originally aired on September 12, 1978. It originally aired on September 12, 1978. The episode was directed by James Burrows and written by series creators James L. Brooks , Stan Daniels , David Davis , and Ed.
Jim appeared again in Season 2, Episode 3, "Reverend Jim: A Space Odyssey" in which he was first hired as a driver after drugging Louie De Palma, the head dispatcher (played by Danny DeVito). He became a regular on the show by episode 10. As the series progressed, the "Reverend" aspect of the character was less frequently mentioned.
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Taxi! was a BBC television comedy-drama series transmitted in 1963 and 1964. Created by Ted Willis , who had developed Dixon of Dock Green , Willis was well aware of taxicab drivers' inclination to provide stories, and intended 12 individual plays for what became the first series.
Latka Gravas is a fictional character on the television sitcom Taxi portrayed by Andy Kaufman. A sweet-natured and lovable-but-goofy mechanic, Latka is an immigrant from an unspecified nation. [ 1 ] He was based on a character Kaufman created known as Foreign Man .
Taxi is a series of French comedy films, created by screenwriter and producer Luc Besson, consisting of five films primarily set in Marseille. In addition, an American-French remake of the 1998 original was made in 2004 and titled Taxi. In 2014 an American-French TV series called Taxi Brooklyn also aired.