James Burroughs

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Fresh Air · Remembering master of the TV sitcom, James Burrows · 26 Jun 2026 podcast

In fact, the script after me won an Emmy.

So by the luck of the draw, I got –

I didn't get the Emmy show.

I got an okay show, and it might have helped me because of the amount of work I had to do and the amount of talking and inspiring I had to do might have, in hindsight, might have really helped me succeed in there and impress the actors.

Okay, so you start off at MTM in television, and then you do Taxi.

About how many episodes would you estimate you did of Taxi?

I think I did 75.

And you were there right from the beginning with Taxi, right?

I was there.

It was after – I kind of left MTM after about three or four years and started to –

Go other places.

I went on Laverne and Shirley where I had a ball, although that was a tough show.

And then I did a show with Ned Beatty.

I was all a hired hand.

I didn't do many pilots or anything like that.

And then the boys from MTM, Ed Weinberger, Jim Brooks, Dan Daniels and Dave Davis had created a show called Taxi and they called me to direct it.

And probably the most difficult show I ever did because the cast was so divergent.

The writing was so outrageous.

The set was so gigantic.

And it was my first really big show where I was in charge from the beginning.

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