The show was about the every day life of a handful of New York city taxi drivers and their abusive boss, "Louie De Palma", played by actor Danny DeVito.
The show also starred Judd Hirsch as "Alex Rieger", Marilu Henner as "Elaine O'Connor-Nardo", Tony Danza as "Tony Banta", Andy Kaufman as "Latka Gravas", J. Alan Thomas as "Jeff Bennett", Randall Carver as "John Burns" (from 1978 to 1979), Jeff Conaway as "Bobby Wheeler" (from 1978 to 1981), Carol Kane as "Simka Dahblitz-Gravas" (from 1981 to 1983) and Christopher Lloyd as the "Reverend Jim Ignatowski".