EPISODE GUIDE

Taxi
Season 1.

22 episodes in the catalogue. Explore the stories and air dates, then choose an episode to open FRAME’s player.

1. Like Father, Like Daughter

Air date: 1978-09-12 · 30 min

The cabbies embark on a frantic race against time when they team up in a wild nonstop drive from New York to Miami so that Alex can see his long-lost daughter on her twenty minute layover at the airport.

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2. One-Punch Banta

Air date: 1978-09-19 · 30 min

Tony gets a chance to spar with a world champion. And when he knocks the man down, he gets a bout with a ranked fighter. Everyone but Louie supports him. But before the fight he learns what really happened between him and the champ.

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3. Blind Date

Air date: 1978-09-26 · 30 min

Alex's romantic instincts are triggered by the sexy voice at the answering service. Her alluring manner prompts him to arrange a dinner date that turns into a big surprise.

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4. Bobby's Acting Career

Air date: 1978-10-05 · 30 min

The high spirited taxi gang helps a jittery Bobby fight potential disappointment when he decides that he will end his stage career if he doesn't get an acting job before midnight. Alex confiscates a dog from his abusive owner.

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5. Come as You Aren't

Air date: 1978-10-10 · 30 min

Elaine fears the worst when the cabbies invite themselves to her party for her highbrow art world friends who have no clue that she moonlights as a cab driver.

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6. The Great Line

Air date: 1978-10-17 · 30 min

A pretty girl has John in a whirl, and his determination to meet her prompts the taxi gang to come up with a surefire line that would unfreeze any woman on earth.

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7. High School Reunion

Air date: 1978-10-24 · 30 min

Louie, an outcast in high school, dreads the idea of his class reunion. Wannabe actor Bobby Wheeler comes up with a scheme to help Louie get even with his peers.

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8. Paper Marriage

Air date: 1978-10-31 · 30 min

Mechanic Latka Gravas faces deportation unless he marries a U.S. citizen. The taxi gang comes to his rescue by pitching in and hiring a local "working girl" to be his bride.

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9. Money Troubles

Air date: 1978-11-14 · 30 min

John and his new wife reach a crisis point in their marriage when one of them must drop out of college due to financial woes.

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10. Men are Such Beasts

Air date: 1978-11-21 · 30 min

The taxi gang scrambles to come up with a scheme aimed at ending a one sided romance when a determined, pretty cabbie sets her cap for Tony and joins the Sunshine Cab Co. to be near him.

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11. Memories of Cab 804 (1)

Air date: 1978-11-28 · 30 min

When John crashes Cab 804, the cabbies are shocked into a period of mourning, as they reminisce about the wild and memorable events that occurred when they were driving the legendary cab.

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12. Memories of Cab 804 (2)

Air date: 1978-12-05 · 30 min

Mechanic Latka Gravas frantically works to save the cracked up Cab 804 as the cabbies fondly recall times in the legendary auto when Alex delivered a baby, Louie beat a rich brat out of a wad of money, and Elaine met the perfect man.

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13. A Full House for Christmas

Air date: 1978-12-12 · 30 min

A Christmas party at the garage is interrupted when Louie teams up with Alex in a game of high stakes poker against his card shark brother Nick.

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14. Sugar Mama

Air date: 1979-01-16 · 30 min

Alex befriends a wealthy elderly lady who pays him to take her around the city.

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15. Friends

Air date: 1979-01-30 · 30 min

Tony's friendship with Bobby is tested when he leaves town and Bobby mistakenly kills his goldfish.

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16. Louie Sees the Light

Air date: 1979-02-06 · 30 min

After an operation, Louie panics when he has to keep a promise that he made to God during surgery to turn over a new leaf.

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17. Elaine and the Lame Duck

Air date: 1979-02-13 · 30 min

Alex feels sympathy for a fare who's a real loser with the women and arranges a date for the man with Elaine, who later discovers that her klutzy companion for the evening is a U.S. Congressman.

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18. Bobby's Big Break

Air date: 1979-02-15 · 30 min

Bobby's career dreams come true when he lands a role in a soap opera, prompting him to throw his torn up cabbie's license at Louie, but the dispatcher vows to take revenge if Bobby ever comes crawling back.

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19. Mama Gravas

Air date: 1979-02-27 · 30 min

Mechanic Latka Gravas' youthful and attractive mother makes her first visit to America, and after she and Alex meet and have an evening love affair, Latka assumes that he will soon be getting a new daddy.

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20. Alex Tastes Death and Finds a Nice Restaurant

Air date: 1979-03-06 · 30 min

When Alex's ear is nearly shot off in a holdup attempt in his cab, he stuns his fellow cabbies by quitting and exchanging his driving clothes for a waiter's tuxedo at a snobbish French restaurant.

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21. Hollywood Calling

Air date: 1979-05-08 · 30 min

The cabbies fall victim to a Hollywood style roller coaster ride when a production company visits to do a film on taxi drivers.

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22. Substitute Father

Air date: 1979-05-15 · 30 min

With Elaine going out of town to visit her sick aunt, the guys at the garage take turns watching over her son so that he can compete in a spelling bee.

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