Season 1
Episode: 1x01 | Airdate: Aug 26, 1996
Sam runs Cresta Cabs, a mini-cab company, with the help of his office manager Reen. Baz, a postman working part-time as a driver, copes with a developmentally disabled stepson and tries to find love through a dating agency. Another driver, Phil, is an aspiring rock star who gets into trouble when he discovers that one of his fares is the wife of his idol.
Episode: 1x02 | Airdate: Jan 8, 1998
A new communications system causes problems at Cresta Cabs. Sam and Reen accidentally broadcast a private conversation to all cabs. Sam's partner Dexter returns from abroad after a breakdown caused by his unfaithful wife Tina.
Episode: 1x03 | Airdate: Jan 15, 1998
Cresta Cabs is short of drivers, but Dexter has not returned to work yet. He wrongly suspects Tina of being unfaithful again and gets Cambridge to destroy an expensive painting he bought her, not realizing that Cambridge is in someone else's house.
Episode: 1x04 | Airdate: Jan 22, 1998
Dexter sees the insurance salesman Tina had an affair with at his house. He jumps into the Thames, and soon afterwards the insurance salesman's body is found in the boot of one of the mini-cabs.
Episode: 1x05 | Airdate: Jan 29, 1998
Sam makes the arrangements for Dexter's funeral but things don't go as planned. Henry drives a pregnant woman to the hospital and is mistaken for the baby's father.
Episode: 1x06 | Airdate: Feb 5, 1998
Baz finally connects with one of his dates, but he learns that Andre is the father of her son. Rajiv is mugged in his mini-cab and is afraid to return to work. Sam asks for Rajiv's help with the company accounts and learns that Dexter embezzled large amounts of money.
Episode: 1x07 | Airdate: Feb 12, 1998
Phil is promised a spot for his band in a talent show if he can acquire a boa constrictor for one of his agent's other clients. Marlon gets a job in a grocery store. Sam goes to visit his wife who is in a nursing home with early-onset Alzheimer's.
Season 2
Episode: 2x01 | Airdate: Sep 25, 1999
Cresta Cabs is in financial difficulties after Dexter stole money from the company. His wife Tina loses her house and shows up on Sam's doorstep, interrupting an intimate moment with Reen. Cambridge is tricked into skinny dipping by two female passengers who take his clothes and mini-cab.
Episode: 2x02 | Airdate: Oct 2, 1999
Sam is unable to resist Tina's advances. Phil is in debt to a recording studio. He has car trouble while driving a businessman from the airport and later returns a wallet the man left in his cab.
Episode: 2x03 | Airdate: Oct 9, 1999
Reen learns about Sam and Tina. Upset about Phil's debt, Chrissie takes the kids to her mother's. Phil accepts an offer to work as a driver to Mr. Eugene, the businessman whose wallet he returned. Marlon is taken advantage of by a girl and her friends.
Episode: 2x04 | Airdate: Oct 16, 1999
Tina continues to insinuate herself into Sam's life. Phil realizes that Chrissie has left him. Sam tries to get an important contract for Cresta Cabs but the meeting is a disaster. Rajiv is offered a partnership in Cresta Cabs. Baz wakes up in bed with the owner of his dating agency.
Episode: 2x05 | Airdate: Oct 23, 1999
Tina shows no signs of leaving Sam's house. Sam gets the important contract for Cresta Cabs and goes out to dinner with the company's owner, Helen Jackson. Marlon is tricked into letting some kids steal from the shop where he works. The owner of Baz's dating agency is shocked when he rejects her. Mr. Eugene asks Phil to deliver some packages and hire female escorts for a party.
Episode: 2x06 | Airdate: Oct 30, 1999
Andre meets a young girl in a bar, and Sam goes out with Helen Jackson, but they discover that the girl is Andre's daughter with Helen. Phil brings escorts to Mr. Eugene's party where cocaine is being served.
Episode: 2x07 | Airdate: Nov 6, 1999
Tina learns about Helen and moves out. Reen tells Sam she and her husband are trying to save their relationship. Sam gets caught in an explosion when Barry's mechanic brothers-in-law dump petrol down the toilet. Reen overhears Sam confessing his feelings for her. Phil is arrested and learns that he's been delivering drugs for Mr. Eugene. He agrees to wear a wire but Mr. Eugene reveals that he is untouchable because of the high-powered men who were at his party.
Season 3
Episode: 3x01 | Airdate: Jul 27, 2003
Sam is conned out of a fleet of mini-cabs by a woman claiming to be an old acquaintance.
Episode: 3x02 | Airdate: Aug 3, 2003
Dexter returns and reveals to Sam that he faked his death, but they are unable to tell anyone because of the insurance salesman Dexter killed.
Episode: 3x03 | Airdate: Aug 10, 2003
Sam punches Reen's husband Tommy because he thinks he abused her. He later learns Tommy is dead and wrongly assumes he killed him. Sam and Dexter go on the run. Sam tells his therapist that Dexter is alive, but Dr. Geoff thinks Sam is hallucinating and has him committed to a mental hospital.
Specials
Episode: S01 Special | Airdate: Aug 26, 1996
Sam runs Cresta Cabs, a mini-cab company, with the help of his office manager Reen. Baz, a postman working part-time as a driver, copes with a developmentally disabled stepson and tries to find love through a dating agency. Another driver, Phil, is an aspiring rock star who gets into trouble when he discovers that one of his fares is the wife of his idol.