Taxi! (1963)

Creator: Ted Willis

Taxi! is a BBC television comedy-drama series transmitted in 1963 and 1964. Created by Ted Willis, who had developed Dixon of Dock Green, he was well aware of taxicab drivers inclination to provide stories, and intended twelve individual plays for what became the first series. The series stars Sid James as Cab firm owner and driver Sid Stone. Similar to his role in the near contemporary film Carry On Cabby, this was more a drama with humour, Jack Rosenthal scripted a few episodes and Bill Owen appeared as the Cab firm's co-owner Fred Cudell with Ray Brooks as driver Terry Mills.

Cast

Sidney James

Sid Stone

Ray Brooks

Terry Mills

Bill Owen

Fred Cuddell

Diane Aubrey

Sandra

James Beck

Len Gladwin

Artro Morris

Harry Mason

Michael Kilgarriff

Ron Farnes

Sydney Keith

Proprietor of Cab Shelter

Eddie Leslie

Wally Farnes

Jack Bligh

Old Jonty