When ABC cancelled the series in 1982, HBO considered purchasing the show, only to lose out to NBC, which promoted the show in ads stating "Same time, better network". However, NBC then cancelled it after one season.
According to writer, producer and director James Burrows, when Danny DeVito first auditioned for the part of Louie De Palma, he entered the room of writers and producers with the script, threw it on the table and said, "Who wrote this shit?" He was hired straight away for his sheer audacity and attitude.
Most of the Taxi cast appeared on Cheers (1982) as well; and vice versa. Ted Danson, George Wendt, Carol Kane, J. Alan Thomas, Rhea Perlman, and Christopher Lloyd all appeared on Taxi and Cheers. Danny Devito, who was married to Rhea Perlman at the time, never appeared on Cheers but was rumoured to be the basis for Nick Tortelli.
Before closing their doors for good in 1982, the Checker Motors Corporation, of Kalamazoo, Michigan, supplied cars to the series.
Jeff Conaway was discovered passed out on one of his filming days by one of the producers. It was common knowledge in the Hollywood community that Conaway was addicted to drugs at this point. During the filming of he "Greased Lightning" number in ग्रीस (1978), Conaway slipped and fell off a car and hurt his back, which led to him needing painkillers which eventually spiraled into an opiate addition. The producers wrote him out of the episode, and divvied up his lines amongst the other cast members. When they saw that they didn't lose any laughs by not using him, they realized they didn't need him, so they fired him. Conaway later told a reporter that he quit the show because the producers "dishonored me", but this wasn't true.
Tony Danza: [name] Tony Danza used his own given name as the character in several TV series. He was Tony Banta on "Taxi," Tony Micelli on Who's the Boss? (1984), Tony Canetti on Hudson Street (1995), and Tony DiMeo on The Tony Danza Show (1997). He then hosted as himself on a talk show, also called The Tony Danza Show (2004).