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.
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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.
Applemask
August 20, 2019 at 5:44 pm
“Night, Mr. Walters.” “Ungnhnhnnn.”
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.
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
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.