• Premiered: Sep 1978
  • Episodes: 114
  • Followers: 65
  • Ended
  • ABC (US)
  • Tuesday at 21
  • Comedy

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Season 5
5x1
Love Un-American Style
Episode overview
Air date
Sep 30, 1982
Newlyweds Latka & Samka throw a Shloogel, one of their religion's traditions. The shloogel is, in effect, a party at Mario's where they set all the gang up on blind dates. Tony is set up .. show full overview
5x2
Jim's Inheritance
Episode overview
Air date
Oct 07, 1982
When Jim's father passes away and leaves him a substantial inheritance, Jim's siblings sue to have Jim declared incompetent and his inheritance placed in an account that the brother will .. show full overview
5x3
Alex Goes off the Wagon
Episode overview
Air date
Oct 14, 1982
In this episode, we learn that Alex can be a compulsive gambler. Alex even scares Louie off with his compulsion, but Jim talks some sense into Alex at the end (after having bankrolled him initially).
5x4
Scenskees from a Marriage (1)
Episode overview
Air date
Oct 21, 1982
Latka is sent to rescue a female cabbie who is stranded in a snowstorm, but he breaks down as he reaches her. The two are freezing in her cab and decide to make love in order to avoid .. show full overview
5x5
Scenskees from a Marriage (2)
Episode overview
Air date
Oct 28, 1982
Latka and Simka throw a party and decide the last to arrive will be the one that Simka must sleep with. Alex barely edges out Louie, in hilarious fashion. Simka goes to Alex's apartment .. show full overview
5x6
Crime and Punishment
Episode overview
Air date
Nov 04, 1982
Louie lets Jeff, his assistant dispatcher, take the rap for skimming money from the company (that Louie is actually responsible for), assuring Jeff that he'll smooth everything over. .. show full overview
5x7
Alex the Gofer
Episode overview
Air date
Nov 11, 1982
Alex, who loves the theater, takes a part time job as a gofer for a young producer and director, but soon feels mistreated by his younger bosses. Louie, spying on Alex at his new job, .. show full overview
5x8
Louie's Revenge
Episode overview
Air date
Nov 18, 1982
Louie gets a call from Emily, who jilted him in an earlier episode, who is drunk and drugged and wants to meet him at a nearby bar. Louie decides to go over there to throw a drink in her .. show full overview
5x9
Travels with My Dad
Episode overview
Air date
Nov 25, 1982
Tony's dad, a merchant seaman who Tony hasn't seen much of, arranges to bring Tony on a sea trip with him. Tony is hesitant but doesn't want to disappoint his dad, so he goes along. On .. show full overview
5x10
Elaine and the Monk
Episode overview
Air date
Dec 02, 1982
Latka and Simka introduce Elaine to a friend of theirs visiting from their country named Zifka. Zifka is a monk who has taken a vow of silence but during his vacation is allowed a week .. show full overview
5x11
Zena's Honeymoon
Episode overview
Air date
Dec 09, 1982
Zena comes to the garage and announces she's getting married and asks the gang to let Louie know that she wants to speak with him. After telling Louie, he becomes convinced that she .. show full overview
5x12
Get Me Through the Holidays
Episode overview
Air date
Dec 16, 1982
Alex's ex-wife, Phyllis, depressed and lonely, comes to see Alex, who takes pity on her and includes her in his holiday plans. This turns ugly, when she manages to bring the whole gang .. show full overview
5x13
Louie Moves Uptown
Episode overview
Air date
Jan 22, 1983
Louie decides to buy a luxury co-op apartment with some help on the down payment from the newly wealthy Jim. Unfortunately, Louie first has to convince a snooty co-op board that he is .. show full overview
5x14
Alex's Old Buddy
Episode overview
Air date
Jan 29, 1983
Alex takes ownership of his old dog, Buddy, who has been living at his sister's place in the country. Buddy is now 19 and Alex wants to spend as much time with him as possible. The dog .. show full overview
5x15
Sugar Ray Nardo
Episode overview
Air date
Feb 05, 1983
When Elaine's son, Jason, watched Tony coaching youth boxing, he wants to get involved. Alex and Tony talk Elaine into letting Jason box, despite her better judgement. In Jason's first .. show full overview
5x16
A Taxi Celebration (1)
Episode overview
Air date
Mar 23, 1983
Part one of a two part clip show featuring highlights of Taxi.
5x17
A Taxi Celebration (2)
Episode overview
Air date
Mar 23, 1983
Part two of a two part clip show featuring highlights of Taxi.
5x18
Alex Gets Burned by an Old Flame
Episode overview
Air date
Mar 30, 1983
Diane, an old friend of Jim's comes to the garage looking for Jim, and Alex takes a liking to her. Alex makes some less than flattering remarks about Jim, not realizing that she and Jim .. show full overview
5x19
Louie and the Blind Girl
Episode overview
Air date
Apr 06, 1983
Louie plans to his girlfriend, Judy (a blind woman introduced to him earlier this season by Latka & Simka), but before he can do it, Judy tells him that she's having an operation to get .. show full overview
5x20
Arnie Meets the Kids
Episode overview
Air date
Apr 13, 1983
Elaine is seriously dating the nerdy Arnie, also introduced in the Shloogel Show episode earlier this season, and decides it's time for him to meet her kids although she isn't sure if .. show full overview
5x21
Tony's Baby
Episode overview
Air date
Apr 20, 1983
Tony is depressed when he learns his girlfriend, Vicki (also introduced in the "Shloogel Show" episode) is pregnant. He decides to "do the right thing" and marry her, although when he .. show full overview
5x22
Jim's Mario's
Episode overview
Air date
May 18, 1983
Jim decides to buy Mario's with some of his inheritance money, but first must convince his brother Tom (who controls his trust fund) that this is a wise investment. Initially, Mario's is .. show full overview
5x23
A Grand Gesture
Episode overview
Air date
May 25, 1983
Newly wealthy Jim gives each of the gang $1000 to give away, in an effort to teach them how good it feels to give someone else $1000. Latka & Simka give the money to their minister, who .. show full overview
5x24 Show finale
Simka's Monthlies
Episode overview
Air date
Jun 15, 1983
Simka is exhibiting strange behavior, and this behavior is quite untimely in that she keeps cancelling appointments with immigration and she's likely to be deported. Eventually, her .. show full overview

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