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 Bennett

Broadcast History, Episode Guide & TV Schedule

First Telecast: September 12, 1978
Last Telecast: July 27, 1983
Number of Seasons: 5
Number of Episodes: 115
Original Network: ABC (1978-1982) , NBC (1982-1983)
Original Primetime Television Schedule:

• 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

Theme Song and Intro

"Angela" by Bob James

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