Editing Taxi (TV series) (section)

==Production==
''Taxi'' was inspired by the [[non-fiction]] article "Night-Shifting for the Hip Fleet" by Mark Jacobson, which appeared in the September 22, 1975, issue of ''[[New York (magazine)|New York]]'' magazine.<ref>{{cite news|url=http://nymag.com/news/features/50177|title=Night-Shifting for the Hip Fleet|first=Mark|last=Jacobson|work=[[New York (magazine)|New York]]|date=September 22, 1975|access-date=November 6, 2010|archive-date=January 17, 2011|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110117013315/http://nymag.com/news/features/50177/|url-status=live}}</ref> This article helped suggest the idea for the show to [[James L. Brooks]] and [[David Davis (TV producer)|David Davis]], though nothing from the article was used directly.<ref>Jeff Sorensen, ''The Taxi Book'', St. Martin's Press, 1987, p. 3.</ref>  The article was a profile of several drivers who worked the night shift for a New York cab company.

The series was produced on Stage 23 at Paramount Studios in Los Angeles, California, from July 5, 1978, to February 18, 1983.

When the series was cancelled by ABC, it seemed for a time that the [[Pay television|premium]] [[cable television]] network [[HBO]] would pick up the series. When it did not, the series was picked up by NBC, which at first kept it on at its ABC time slot of [[Must See TV|Thursday]] 9:30 p.m  following the first season of ''[[Cheers]]''. An NBC promo for ''Taxi''{{'}}s move to the network featured Danny DeVito in character as Louie saying "Same time, better station!"<ref>{{cite book|title=[[The Complete Directory to Prime Time Network and Cable TV Shows 1946-Present]]|year=2003|publisher=Ballantine Books|isbn=0-345-45542-8|pages=1174}}</ref>

The taxicabs shown in the show are [[Checker Marathon|Checker]] A11s.