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When I tried to dig up an episode for this series, I discovered there could be a lot to wade through; episodes are identified by different actresses who go by the same names (further complicated by the same actress featured on multiple episodes), and episode numbers that have been mislabeled or confused with episodes of other series, such as Fake Agent. I sure wished there was a handy performers’ guide.
For lack of one, I figured I was elected. I’m not the best qualified, since I’m not gifted when it comes to making identifications (particularly with European women). What I have done is round up I.D.s that have been made, via Freeones and elsewhere. Not all may be accurate.
I was attracted to this series, given that a good many episodes offer a “taken-by-surprise” or even a non-consensual element; I don’t appreciate porn that veers off into fantasyland, where the women throw themselves at the men. (Not that we don’t get plenty of that here; “You’re not bad-looking for a taxi driver,” she says many a time, even though all she has is the back of a head -- or eyes reflecting off a rear-view mirror -- to judge by.)
It’s educational, too; I’ve learned (for the ones based in London at least; we also get Prague-based episodes):
1) British women can unfortunately get as tattooed up as their American counterparts;
2) British women go for ultra-long eyelashes, popular in the Swinging Sixties;
3) British accents are not always charming.
I based my episode numbering system on the site’s own order of episodes that can’t normally be found through their tour (or at least I missed it); I accidentally found this “back door” method of accessing their run of videos:
http://faketaxi1.com/
THE LIST, as we will refer to it, is not perfect; not all episodes have been included, and the chronological order is sometimes in disagreement with the numbers the episodes more commonly go by. I’ve gone by the common numbers and have added in parentheses the number from THE LIST.
I can’t emphasize enough the importance of pictures, when it comes to performer guides. So I took the trouble of making frame grabs from downloaded episodes or available screen shots. I also included a mirror for each portrait, in case the image hoster is rude enough to erase the following images, or goes out of business.
Please make additions, identifications and corrections as you see fit.
Please don’t choose “reply” to the list below; offer comments as new posts. (The list below has been broken up into four parts, and they will preferably follow through in a consecutive fashion.)
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Side note: The most personable cabbie is the gray-haired one (with an uncannily unwavering pole, helping us to better understand how the sun once never set on his empire); according to this voice, the actor is Ian Tate (IAFD page).
Later Note: I have now (yes... now) discovered a Freeones guide for one of those sister "Fake" sites, Fake Agent: http://board.freeones.com/showthread.php?616491-Performer-Guide-to-Casting-XXX-FakeAgent/page6; since the actresses freelance from one to the other (as may also be said for the "Public Agent" series), some of the unidentified here could easily pop up there, via the first names. (That Rivasky is something else.)
Later Later Note: As I'm putting in the finishing touches, I came across a thread (http://board.freeones.com/showthread.php?714926-more-fake-taxi-ids) where Member Ticker speaks of having put together a comprehensive I.D. list for this series. (Claims to have pegged every one of the first 105, save for eight; hopefully he will fill in the gaps here.) I thought I had gone through a good enough search on Freeones for Fake Taxi, but I see from Ticker's posting history that there were several threads I have missed. I don't know if Ticker has put up his list anywhere. (If he had done so with my awareness, he would have saved me a whole heck of a lot of trouble.)
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When I tried to dig up an episode for this series, I discovered there could be a lot to wade through; episodes are identified by different actresses who go by the same names (further complicated by the same actress featured on multiple episodes), and episode numbers that have been mislabeled or confused with episodes of other series, such as Fake Agent. I sure wished there was a handy performers’ guide.
For lack of one, I figured I was elected. I’m not the best qualified, since I’m not gifted when it comes to making identifications (particularly with European women). What I have done is round up I.D.s that have been made, via Freeones and elsewhere. Not all may be accurate.
I was attracted to this series, given that a good many episodes offer a “taken-by-surprise” or even a non-consensual element; I don’t appreciate porn that veers off into fantasyland, where the women throw themselves at the men. (Not that we don’t get plenty of that here; “You’re not bad-looking for a taxi driver,” she says many a time, even though all she has is the back of a head -- or eyes reflecting off a rear-view mirror -- to judge by.)
It’s educational, too; I’ve learned (for the ones based in London at least; we also get Prague-based episodes):
1) British women can unfortunately get as tattooed up as their American counterparts;
2) British women go for ultra-long eyelashes, popular in the Swinging Sixties;
3) British accents are not always charming.
I based my episode numbering system on the site’s own order of episodes that can’t normally be found through their tour (or at least I missed it); I accidentally found this “back door” method of accessing their run of videos:
http://faketaxi1.com/
THE LIST, as we will refer to it, is not perfect; not all episodes have been included, and the chronological order is sometimes in disagreement with the numbers the episodes more commonly go by. I’ve gone by the common numbers and have added in parentheses the number from THE LIST.
I can’t emphasize enough the importance of pictures, when it comes to performer guides. So I took the trouble of making frame grabs from downloaded episodes or available screen shots. I also included a mirror for each portrait, in case the image hoster is rude enough to erase the following images, or goes out of business.
Please make additions, identifications and corrections as you see fit.
Please don’t choose “reply” to the list below; offer comments as new posts. (The list below has been broken up into four parts, and they will preferably follow through in a consecutive fashion.)
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Side note: The most personable cabbie is the gray-haired one (with an uncannily unwavering pole, helping us to better understand how the sun once never set on his empire); according to this voice, the actor is Ian Tate (IAFD page).
Later Note: I have now (yes... now) discovered a Freeones guide for one of those sister "Fake" sites, Fake Agent: http://board.freeones.com/showthread.php?616491-Performer-Guide-to-Casting-XXX-FakeAgent/page6; since the actresses freelance from one to the other (as may also be said for the "Public Agent" series), some of the unidentified here could easily pop up there, via the first names. (That Rivasky is something else.)
Later Later Note: As I'm putting in the finishing touches, I came across a thread (http://board.freeones.com/showthread.php?714926-more-fake-taxi-ids) where Member Ticker speaks of having put together a comprehensive I.D. list for this series. (Claims to have pegged every one of the first 105, save for eight; hopefully he will fill in the gaps here.) I thought I had gone through a good enough search on Freeones for Fake Taxi, but I see from Ticker's posting history that there were several threads I have missed. I don't know if Ticker has put up his list anywhere. (If he had done so with my awareness, he would have saved me a whole heck of a lot of trouble.)
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