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Taxi

HYPNOTIC BRIDGE traversal to Bob James flute/vibraphone theme started this proto-Cheers ensemblecom. DANNY DE VITO was bastardish boss Louie de Palma, JUDD HIRSCH and MARILU HENNER were the “normal” leads. TONY DANZA was thick ex-boxer, CHRISTOPHER “DOC” LLOYD was spaced-out freak Jim Ignatowski and, of course, ANDY KAUFMAN as Latka Gravas. Seminal, before that word stopped being, well, seminal. What happens when it rains? Monetary gains.

6 Comments

6 Comments

  1. Glenn Aylett

    June 21, 2009 at 6:55 pm

    The theme tune, the taxi that drove itself at the end, the famous quote above, a cult show over here and quite witty once you listened carefully.

  2. Applemask

    August 20, 2019 at 5:44 pm

    “Night, Mr. Walters.” “Ungnhnhnnn.”

  3. richardpd

    August 20, 2019 at 11:01 pm

    The theme was called Angela, & originally written just to score an early episode with a character of that name, but the original main theme tune was rejected & it was promoted to the theme.

  4. Tom Ronson

    March 31, 2022 at 4:21 pm

    I remember Jim being annoyingly popular with cut-price impressionists of the calibre of Eddie Large and Robin from The Grumbleweeds for about five minutes in the mid-eighties.

    • Droogie

      November 7, 2022 at 2:37 pm

      @TomRonson Weird you mention that. I recall Who Do You Do impressionist Paul Melba playing Jim in a Taxi skit on Little & Large in the 80’s. Eddie played Danny De Vito and Syd played -um- himself. I hadn’t see Melba on TV for years ( or after this sketch either.) He always looked like a bit half-cut, which meant he did a reasonable impression of Jim’s whacked-out persona. (Mind you, any impressionist would look good alongside Little & Large

  5. Richardpd

    December 12, 2023 at 10:43 pm

    This was one of many shows that was axed by one network in the USA but then bought up by another, though quite a few people behind the scenes moved to Cheers during this period.

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