Taxi
Taxi's success was due to its excellent writing, Burrows's award-winning directing using his innovative four-camera technique, and its largely unknown but talented cast. Danny DeVito's Louie DePalma soon became one of the most despised men on television--possibly the most unredeemable and worthless louse of a character ever to reside on the small screen. Andy Kaufman's foreign mechanic Latka Gravas provided over-the-top comedy within an ensemble emphasizing subtle character humor.
Jim has a vision that Alex will die on Thursday at 7 p.m.. Louie is convinced that it is real, but Alex refuses to believe it. Latka is not allowed to talk for a week after a run-in with Tony.
Elaine and Alex travel to Europe together (as friends only)... but it's Elaine and not Alex who ends up having the funnest times and experiences there.
When Latka begins to exhibit multiple personality disorder again, Elaine refers him to a therapist. As a result of the first session, he takes on a new personality: Alex Rieger.
A network executive, in danger of losing his job, uses Jim and his psychic powers to schedule shows. This arrangement does not sit well with Alex, who chastises Jim for being taken advantage of.
Louie jeopardizes his relationship with Zena by sleeping with her vulnerable and intoxicated best friend.
When his father returns to the garage for a visit, Alex is once again reluctant to have a relationship with him. They meet for dinner and his father helps set him up on a date with an attractive woman only to ask her out himself after Alex leaves.
Louie is appalled and devastated when his elderly mother announces her plans to marry a Japanese man she met at her senior citizens' group.
Elaine befriends a reclusive artist who is afraid to leave his apartment. She decides to take him to the garage to help him overcome his fears.
Tony meets a promising young heavyweight boxer and offers to become his manager; the problem is, a mysterious "syndicate" is also showing an interest in the rookie fighter.
Louie gets fired after Elaine accuses him of voyeurism.
Louie, fearful of an apocalypse, starts building a "doom room" to survive a catastrophic event.
After leaving the garage six months ago to pursue his acting career, Bobby Wheeler returns with news that his pilot has been picked up by a network. However, when he later learns that his part was recast, he is afraid that he might have to beg Louie for his job back.
Alex plays hard to get when a young, upbeat new cab driver shows a romantic interest in him.
Tony takes a part time job as chauffeur for a charming young socialite and finds himself falling in love with her.
Latka's girlfriend Simka is back in New York, but can their romance be successfully rekindled once his other personalities - especially lounge lizard Vic Ferrari - begin to vie for her attentions?
When a runaway boy is discovered in the back of a cab, Jim takes him home and decides to adopt him and raise him as his own son, naively unaware that such a course is impossible and illegal.
Tony invites Alex to make up the numbers for a double-date with two attractive twins. Matters take a turn for the worst when the Rev. Jim turns up unexpectedly and Alex spots his ex-wife Phyllis, fresh out of her second divorce.
Elaine decides to treat herself to an expensive hairstyle, but the results leave her in tears. Uncharacteristically, Louie leaps to her defense, but Alex persuades Elaine she needs to stand up for herself.
With the help of a new cab driver, Lucius Franklin (Bubba Smith), Tony's boxing career goes on the rise.
Elaine is invited to a high society dinner, with Jim as her date.
Latka and Simka have a wedding in the garage and at the wedding Simka must pass a test to prove she's chaste.
After Reverend Jim's building gets knocked down he moves in with Louie; unfortunately for Louie he asks Jim to cook something for dinner.
Jim, Tony, Louie share their past, as to what led them to where they are today.
Latka, and Alex share their past, as for how they got where they are now.
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Danny DeVito | Louie De Palma |
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Christopher Lloyd | Reverend Jim Ignatowski |
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Judd Hirsch | Alex Reiger |
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Marilu Henner | Elaine Nardo |
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Tony Danza | Tony Banta |
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Andy Kaufman | Latka Gravas |
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J. Alan Thomas | Jeff Bennett |
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Joyce Goldman | Cab Driver |
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Fritz Hess | Cab Driver |
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Robert Bakanic | Cab Driver |
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Virginia Kennedy | Cab Driver |
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Eugene Jackson | Cab Driver |
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Al Rosen | Cab Driver |
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Elliott Broones | Cab Driver |
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Larri Thomas | Cab Driver |
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Dean Taliaferro | Cab Driver |
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Richard Wakasa | Cab Driver |
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Don Terwilliger | Cab Driver |
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T.J. Castronovo | Tommy Jeffries |
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Leland Sun | Cab Driver |
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Jeff Conaway | Bobby Wheeler |
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Gene LeBell | Referee |
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Eddie Wong | Cab Driver |
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Ebon Alabastur | Bar Patron |
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Carol Kane | Simka Dahblitz-Gravas |
| Packaging | Keep Case |
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| Nr Discs | 3 |
| Distributor | Paramount Pictures |
| Layers | Single side, Single layer |
| Regions | Region 1 |
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| Index | 3790 |
| Added Date | Aug 06, 2015 18:01:17 |
| Modified Date | Dec 04, 2025 21:47:54 |