This character-driven humane comedy from the creators of The Mary Tyler Moore Show rolled out of the garage with a full tank of gas: a lightning-in-a-bottle ensemble, smart, witty, and compassionate writing, and extraordinary characters. The Sunshine Cab Company was a much grittier workplace than the sunny WJM newsroom. Its down, but never out employees--single mother Elaine (Marilu Henner), aspiring actor Bobby (Jeff Conaway), hapless boxer Tony (Tony Danza), reptilian dispatcher Louis (Danny DeVito), naive rube John (Randall Carver), and indeterminately foreign mechanic Latka (comic iconoclast Andy Kaufman)--struggled to keep rolling along. Judd Hirsch's salt-of-the-earth cabbie Alex Rieger solved everyone's problems but his own. Christopher Lloyd was the burn-out Reverend Jim joined the cast in season two.
Cast and Characters
Judd Hirsch as Alex Reiger
Danny DeVito as Louie De Palma
Tony Danza as Tony Banta
Marilu Henner as Elaine O'Connor Nardo
Jeff Conaway as Bobby Wheeler
Andy Kaufman as Latka Gravas
Christopher Llyod as Jim Ignatowski
Rita Pearlman as Zena Sherman
Randall Carver as John Burns
Carol Kane as Simka Dahblitz Gravas
J. Alan Thomas as Jeff Bennet
Broadcast History First Telecast: September 12, 1978 Last Telecast: July 27, 1983 Number of Episodes: 115
Number of Seasons: 5
Original Network: ABC (1978-1982) , NBC (1982-1983)
September 1978- October 1980, ABC, Tuesday 9:30-10:00pm
November 1980- January 1981, ABC, Wednesday 9:00-9:30pm
February 1981- June 1982, ABC, Thursday 9:30-10:00pm
September 1982- December 1982, NBC, Thursday 9:30-10:00pm
January 1983- February 1983, NBC, Saturday 9:30-10:00pm
March 1983- May 1983, NBC, Wednedsay 9:30-10:00pm
June 1983- July 1983, NBC, Wednesday 10:30-11:00pm
Shows 
This character-driven humane comedy from the creators of The Mary Tyler Moore Show rolled out of the garage with a full tank of gas: a lightning-in-a-bottle ensemble, smart, witty, and compassionate writing, and extraordinary characters. The Sunshine Cab Company was a much grittier workplace than the sunny WJM newsroom. Its down, but never out employees--single mother Elaine (Marilu Henner), aspiring actor Bobby (Jeff Conaway), hapless boxer Tony (Tony Danza), reptilian dispatcher Louis (Danny DeVito), naive rube John (Randall Carver), and indeterminately foreign mechanic Latka (comic iconoclast Andy Kaufman)--struggled to keep rolling along. Judd Hirsch's salt-of-the-earth cabbie Alex Rieger solved everyone's problems but his own. Christopher Lloyd was the burn-out Reverend Jim joined the cast in season two.
