Wednesday, September 12, 2018

Best comedy on TV ends (video)

Jeremiah Johnson (video); Taxi (wiki); Seth Auberon, CC Liu (eds.), Wisdom Quarterly

Taxi is an American sitcom that originally aired on the ABC network from September 12, 1978 to May 6, 1982 and on NBC from Sept. 30, 1982 to June 15, 1983.

The show won 18 Emmy Awards, including three for Outstanding Comedy Series.

The show focuses on the everyday lives of a handful of New York City taxi drivers and their abusive dispatcher.

Taxi was produced by the John Charles Walters Company, in association with Paramount Network Television, and was created by James L. Brooks, Stan Daniels, David Davis, and Ed Weinberger.

The show focuses on the employees of the fictional Sunshine Cab Company, and its principal setting is the company's fleet garage in Manhattan.

Among the drivers, only Jewish mensch Alex Reiger (Judd Hirsh), who is disillusioned with life, considers cab driving his profession.

The others view it as a temporary job. Elaine Nardo (Marilu Henner) is a single mother working as a receptionist at an art gallery.

Tony Banta (Tony Danza) is a boxer with a losing record.

Bobby Wheeler (Jeff Conaway) is a struggling actor.

John Burns (written out of the show after the first season) is working his way through college.

All take pity on Reverend Jim "Iggy" Ignatowski (Christopher Lloyd), an aging hippie minister, who is burned out from drug abuse during the 1960s. So they help him become a cabbie.

The characters also include Latka Gravas (Andy Kaufman), their innocent, wide-eyed mechanic from an unnamed foreign country, and Louie De Palma (Danny DeVito), the despotic dispatcher. More

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