Taxi - Season 1

Taxi - Season 1

Season 1

The first season of Taxi aired on ABC from September 12, 1978 to May 15, 1979.
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Episodes22
DatesSep 12, 1978 - May 15, 1979
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Episodes

Like Father, Like Daughter
Season 1Episode 130 min

Like Father, Like Daughter

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.

Sep 12, 1978
One-Punch Banta
Season 1Episode 230 min

One-Punch Banta

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.

Sep 19, 1978
Blind Date
Season 1Episode 330 min

Blind Date

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.

Sep 26, 1978
Bobby's Acting Career
Season 1Episode 430 min

Bobby's Acting Career

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.

Oct 5, 1978
Come as You Aren't
Season 1Episode 530 min

Come as You Aren't

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.

Oct 10, 1978
The Great Line
Season 1Episode 630 min

The Great Line

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.

Oct 17, 1978
High School Reunion
Season 1Episode 730 min

High School Reunion

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

Oct 24, 1978
Paper Marriage
Season 1Episode 830 min

Paper Marriage

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

Oct 31, 1978
Money Troubles
Season 1Episode 930 min

Money Troubles

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

Nov 14, 1978
Men are Such Beasts
Season 1Episode 1030 min

Men are Such Beasts

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.

Nov 21, 1978
Memories of Cab 804 (1)
Season 1Episode 1130 min

Memories of Cab 804 (1)

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.

Nov 28, 1978
Memories of Cab 804 (2)
Season 1Episode 1230 min

Memories of Cab 804 (2)

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.

Dec 5, 1978
A Full House for Christmas
Season 1Episode 1330 min

A Full House for Christmas

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

Dec 12, 1978
Sugar Mama
Season 1Episode 1430 min

Sugar Mama

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

Jan 16, 1979
Friends
Season 1Episode 1530 min

Friends

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

Jan 30, 1979
Louie Sees the Light
Season 1Episode 1630 min

Louie Sees the Light

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

Feb 6, 1979
Elaine and the Lame Duck
Season 1Episode 1730 min

Elaine and the Lame Duck

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.

Feb 13, 1979
Bobby's Big Break
Season 1Episode 1830 min

Bobby's Big Break

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.

Feb 15, 1979
Mama Gravas
Season 1Episode 1930 min

Mama Gravas

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.

Feb 27, 1979
Alex Tastes Death and Finds a Nice Restaurant
Season 1Episode 2030 min

Alex Tastes Death and Finds a Nice Restaurant

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.

Mar 6, 1979
Hollywood Calling
Season 1Episode 2130 min

Hollywood Calling

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

May 8, 1979
Substitute Father
Season 1Episode 2230 min

Substitute Father

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

May 15, 1979

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