I’m the only cab driver in this place.” Elaine Nardo (Marilu Henner) was the single mother holding down two jobs to support her family.
He expressed that sentiment perfectly in the pilot: “Me, I’m a cab driver. Alex Rieger (Judd Hirsch) was the father figure in the garage, the one who’d (mostly) made peace with the fact he was a Sunshine lifer. Few of them had the desire to be full-time cabbies, but the need for work and a lack of success in their chosen fields kept them coming back to the garage.īrooks and company captured that feeling with Taxi’s ensemble, carrying over the MTM Enterprises sensibility that favored characters with depth and detail. The new production company’s first show was based on an article Brooks and Davis had read in New York magazine: “Night-Shifting For The Hip Fleet.” Written by Mark Jacobson, the article profiles the drivers for a Greenwich Village cab company-an eclectic mix, most of whom used the job to support less profitable endeavors: They were actually college professors, priests, musicians, artists, writers, etc. Following the end of that show, Brooks formed the John Charles Walters Company alongside fellow Mary Tyler Moore writers Dave Davis, Ed. Brooks, who’d already done his part to reinvigorate the sitcom format-winning a slew of Emmys in the process-with The Mary Tyler Moore Show.
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