Taxi (TV series)

Taxi is an award-winning American sitcom that originally aired from 1978 to 1982 on ABC, and from 1982 to 1983 on NBC. The series focuses on the everyday lives of a handful of New York City taxi drivers working for the fictional "Sunshine Cab Company", as well as their abusive dispatcher. The show was produced by the John Charles Walters Company and funded by Paramount.

A non-fiction article entitled "Hip-Shifting for the Night Fleet" by Mark Jacobson, which appeared in the September 22, 1975 issue of New York magazine, helped suggest the idea for the show to James L. Brooks and David Davis, though nothing from it was actually used. The article was a profile of several drivers who worked the night shift for a New York cab company. (A persistent urban legend claims that the show was based on the Harry Chapin song, "Taxi".)