Car 54, Where Are You?

Car 54, Where Are You?

1961
Car 54, Where Are You?
Car 54, Where Are You?

Car 54, Where Are You?

7.7 | TV-PG | en | Comedy

The misadventures of two of New York's finest in the 53rd precinct in the Bronx. Toody, the short, stocky and dim-witted one, either saves the day or messes things up, much to the chagrin of Muldoon, the tall, lanky and smart one.

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Seasons & Episodes

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EP30  The Curse of the Snitkins
Apr. 14,1963
The Curse of the Snitkins

A jinx arrives at the 53rd and continues his streak of bringing bad luck wherever he goes.

EP29  Puncher & Judy
Apr. 07,1963
Puncher & Judy

At the begging and pleading of a girl (Shari Lewis) at a local beauty parlor, Toody and Muldoon enlist the help of champion boxer, (Sugar Ray Robinson) in a scheme to discourage a local male hair dresser at the same parlor from continuing his amateur boxing career.

EP28  The Loves of Sylvia Schnauser
Mar. 31,1963
The Loves of Sylvia Schnauser

Sylvia Schnauser helps the police dept. to set a trap for con artists posing as book publishers.

EP27  Lucille Is 40
Mar. 24,1963
Lucille Is 40

Lucille is upset over turning 40, so Gunther decides to surprise her by buying her a wig for a birthday gift, a deceptively simple endeavor fraught with misunderstanding and melodrama when nosy Sylvia Schnauser stumbles upon the scheme.

EP26  Joan Crawford Didn't Say No
Mar. 17,1963
Joan Crawford Didn't Say No

When a septuagenarian delicatessen owner reports he will be marrying Joan Crawford, the boys of the 53rd are sent out to bust the phony matrimonial service that promises to pair its clients with Hollywood movie stars.

EP25  I've Been Here Before
Mar. 10,1963
I've Been Here Before

A criminal gang bases its heists on the plots of the television program "Crimebusters," which program is also one of Officer Toody's favorite shows.

EP24  See You at the Bar Mitzvah
Mar. 03,1963
See You at the Bar Mitzvah

When the boys find out that no one is going to the Bar Mitzvah of one boy on their basketball team because of his hated father, they spring into action.

EP23  Here Comes Charlie
Feb. 24,1963
Here Comes Charlie

The boys of the 53rd Precinct attempt to help rehabilitate chronically drunk Charlie by finding him a job where he won't be tempted to drink, but the officers'regular visits to check up on Charlie have an unnerving effect on his teetotalist coworkers. A Larry Storch tour de force!

EP22  The Biggest Day of the Year
Feb. 17,1963
The Biggest Day of the Year

After Tooday tells Muldoon that "today's a very important day",Muldoon,the men & high ranking officials,try to figure out why it is.

EP21  The Star Boarder
Feb. 10,1963
The Star Boarder

Gunther and Lucille Toody are trying to make some extra money. They decide to rent a room,taking in a preacher as a paying boarder. He seems as honest as the day is long but is he actually who he says he is?

EP20  Here We Go Again
Feb. 03,1963
Here We Go Again

Muldoon's father, Patrick was a police captain and a hero -- or was he?

EP19  Toody & Muldoon Meet the Russians
Jan. 27,1963
Toody & Muldoon Meet the Russians

The boys chaperon two Russian ambassadors, and turn them into American capitalists.

EP18  The Presidential Itch
Jan. 20,1963
The Presidential Itch

An unexpected challenger vies to unseat Muldoon in his bid to be reelected as president of the policeman's Brotherhood Club.

EP17  Benny the Bookie's Last Chance
Jan. 13,1963
Benny the Bookie's Last Chance

Benny's up for parole yet again, and the boys are sure he's going straight now. They set him up w/a candy store, and when he gets "in trouble" and tries mightily to get back in jail, the 53rd won't hear of it

EP16  The White Elephant
Jan. 06,1963
The White Elephant

A gang buys the cursed eatery next to the bank to drill through the common wall into the vault -- but the boys of the 53rd stop by to see how they're doing, and help them establish a luncheonette instead.

EP15  Je T'Adore Muldoon
Dec. 30,1962
Je T'Adore Muldoon

To get girl-shy Francis to ask the Captain's niece to the Mardi Gras Ball, the 53rd conspires to boost his ego. Suddenly, he's a Casanova! Who will go to the Ball?

EP14  Stop Thief
Dec. 16,1963
Stop Thief

After overhearing the Captain rehearsing a play in his office, the boys think he's a kleptomaniac! They "cover" for him by re-stealing all his Xmas presents. Can they make things right by the end of Christmas Eve?

EP13  142 Tickets on the Aisle
Dec. 09,1962
142 Tickets on the Aisle

When the boys of the 53rd Precinct suddenly show an interest in the clean and uplifting Broadway epic "Little Miss Pioneer," so does the prurient public.

EP12  Pretzel Mary
Dec. 02,1962
Pretzel Mary

The boys finally bust a nasty nuisance in the Park - "Pretzel Mary". When they see her deplorable living conditions they replace her furniture - not realizing what they're taking away.

EP11  A Star Is Born in the Bronx
Nov. 25,1962
A Star Is Born in the Bronx

Sylvia Schnauser goes into delusional rapture when asked to plug cookies on television.

EP10  I Hate Captain Block
Nov. 18,1962
I Hate Captain Block

When Toody takes care of Captain Block's parrot, he decides to teach it to talk. But this backfires when he says he hates Captain Block in front of the bird, and the parrot begins repeating it.

EP9  Toody Undercover
Nov. 11,1962
Toody Undercover

Toody winds up undercover as part of a mob ring. His intimate knowledge of the area (bank layouts, burglar alarms & patrolmen habits) makes him a better crook than cop.

EP8  That's Show Business
Nov. 04,1962
That's Show Business

Muldoon's sister Peggy lands a part in the play "Waiting for Wednesday" and the boys of the 53rd Precinct become financial backers before learning that it's a gritty play about police brutality.

EP7  Remember St. Petersburg
Oct. 28,1962
Remember St. Petersburg

A fortune-telling scam ring mistakes Leo as royalty, and calls Sylvia with the news. Another mistake has the con artists convincing an undercover Toody that he's royalty, and Leo's his brother.

EP6  Occupancy, August 1st
Oct. 21,1962
Occupancy, August 1st

Mrs. Bronson causes trouble again -- by moving in to her promised apartment on the day it was promised to her -- but it's not finished! Once again she's adept at deflecting all opponents.

EP5  Toody & Muldoon Sing Along with Mitch
Oct. 14,1962
Toody & Muldoon Sing Along with Mitch

When the 53rd precinct Whippoorwills audition for Mitch Miller, it's clear which of the 4 is the problem, but who will tell Toody?

EP4  Schnauser's Last Ride
Oct. 07,1962
Schnauser's Last Ride

The boys recount what happened when Schnauser was taken off his mounted police route.

EP3  A Man Is Not an Ox
Sep. 30,1962
A Man Is Not an Ox

When a medical doctor sees similarities between two oxen yoked together for 10 years and Car 54's occupants, the boys try to behave out-of-sync, but fail.

EP2  One Sleepy People
Sep. 23,1962
One Sleepy People

Francis and Lucille get the wrong idea, while watching a steamy movie on TV, that each loves the other.

EP1  Hail to the Chief
Sep. 16,1962
Hail to the Chief

Because their partnership has lasted so long, the secret service choose Toody and Muldoon to drive the president to the U.N. Unfortunately, Muldoon is incapacitated by the stress of ferrying his hero, Kennedy.

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7.7 | TV-PG | en | Comedy | More Info
Released: 1961-09-17 | Released Producted By: NBC , Eupolis Productions Country: United States of America Budget: 0 Revenue: 0 Official Website:
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The misadventures of two of New York's finest in the 53rd precinct in the Bronx. Toody, the short, stocky and dim-witted one, either saves the day or messes things up, much to the chagrin of Muldoon, the tall, lanky and smart one.

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Fred Gwynne , Joe E. Ross , Al Lewis

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Reviews

bkoganbing Some of the warmest and funniest humor that was ever put on television came from the fertile pen of Nat Hiken when he created Car 54 Where Are You. As it came out at the beginning of the Kennedy presidency and only lasted two seasons, it can be said that it was a perfect fit for the Camelot years. After November of 1963 a gentle show like this albeit about cops would not have made it any longer.In fact I can hardly believe it only lasted for two seasons, it seemed to go on forever in syndication. Speaking of JFK there was one episode I remember vividly about a patrolman who got a reputation as a jinx and no one wanted to ride with him. He did however pick up a certain VIP in 1960 and deliver him to a television broadcast. The VIP was Richard Nixon on the way to his debate.The leads were Joe E. Ross and Fred Gwynne. Ross was a veteran of that other Nat Hiken creation the Phil Silvers Show where he played Mess Sergeant Rizzo. Ross played Gunther Toody who was an amiable goof who was assigned to give the benefit of his street wisdom to new partner Francis Muldoon. Gwynne as Muldoon was a tall shy almost backward kid and the only one who Toody might have seemed to have wisdom to impart. The funny thing is that somehow these two got through some very interesting situations and many times came out on top if not always by the book. They drove precinct Captain Bloch (Paul Reed) to total distraction.The mark of a great show is the fact that even after almost 50 years I can still remember some individual episodes. I remember Molly Picon as Mrs. Bronson who simply would not be dispossessed from her home. I remember an episode with a parrot who learned from Ross to say I hate Captain Bloch. I remember a really wonderful episode where Toody and Muldoon try to get a decent bar mitzvah turnout for the son of Pokrass the landlord played by B.S. Pully. That was difficult because the stingy Pokrass was probably the most hated man in the Bronx. Still they managed in something not covered in the police manual.You can see a lot of Car 54 in the Barney Miller Show in the next decade and I've a feeling that Toody and Muldoon may have wound up as instructors at the Police Academy. I so wish the TV Land Channel would run this show.
rooster_davis This is a tremendous show. For one thing the characters were all unique and well developed and funny in their own way - like, say, the characters on Seinfeld. Nobody is on the show just to fill in the gaps and provide some dialog, virtually every character is an oddball and a key player in the show in his or her own way. Some of my favorite episodes and moments: --Officer Muldoon, the shy bachelor, has a secret heartthrob - Theresa Tangiers, a stupid blonde bimbo of a Hollywood actress. Through a strange turn of events (of course) she ends up rooming at Muldoon's house. When introduced to Muldoon's younger sister who is in college, the vapid Tangiers says 'Good! Someone I can talk to on my own innalectual level!' --When officer Schnauzer and his wife attend a wedding, she regrets that she and her husband were married at City Hall and she wants to have a REAL wedding, starting with being courted and proposed to. At first everyone thinks this is nuts but one at a time she draws most of the other characters in, to the point where she regresses to being a 'young' single girl living with her parents (the Toody's) and eventually wins her fancy wedding. But on the day of the wedding, with guests and minister waiting at a fancy place and a big reception, Schnauzer and his wife call to say that they are so back-in-love again that they couldn't wait and once more get married at City Hall. The Toody's get 'married' so as to not let the event go to waste, while Muldoon rolls his eyes. --Talking about whether Leo Schnauzer had an unhappy childhood, Gunther Toody says that he must have been unhappy, because 'Imagine that face, on a kid.' --In one episode Toody and Muldoon try to buy something special for Captain Block as a Christmas present and decide to buy an antique for his collection. ("But they're so old..." offers Toody.) The Captain has an Aleution ceremonial chair, a big ugly thing, which is part of a matched set but the owner of the other chair refuses to sell it. When Toody finds the matching chair at an auction house he and Muldoon go all out to win it at the auction, having Ofcr. Schnauzer come to bid in plain clothes. Their presence in uniform at the auction scares all the other auction-goers so that they are afraid to bid on anything. As a result, to not draw attention to themselves and the chair they want to buy, they bid on other things besides the chair but since nobody else is bidding they are getting everything for cheap. The despondent auctioneer is seeing things like a hand-carved cuckoo clock that took nine years to make, selling for ten cents. At the end they get the chair, and then find out that it was the Captain's chair - the fact that he couldn't have both chairs made him so mad that he got rid of the one he had, and they have just gone through all this to buy it back for him. --Toody decides to become an expert on SOMETHING so he brings home the first volume of the encyclopedia. "What are going to do with that?" his wife asks? "What do most people do with a book?" he responds. "Most people READ it, but what are YOU going to do with it?" she asks again. The woman who played Toody's wife (Beatrice Pons) was a gem. My favorite line of hers is when she consoles her husband, "You're not stupid, you just don't know too much." This is a tremendous show. How it lasted only a couple of seasons is beyond me. I am waiting for it to come out on DVD and I will definitely grab the whole set of episodes. An all-time comedy classic.
tksaysso Car 54 Where are You? is one of the funniest TV series to ever appear on television. The chemistry between the dim-witted but affable Gunther Toody (played by Borscht-belt stand-up comic Joe E. Ross ) and his cultured but painfully shy bachelor partner Francis Muldoon ( played by the pre-Munsters Fred Gwynne ) rings true in every episode. You definitely get the feeling watching this comedy that these two cops are closer than brothers. What really makes this series outstanding though is the superior writing and the supporting actors. Wally Cox, Nipsey Russell, Godfrey Cambridge, Charlotte Rae, Ossie Davis, Jake LaMotta ( the subject of Scorcese's 'Raging Bull' ), Rocky Graziano, Sugar Ray Robinson, Jack Gilford..these are just a handful of some of the well-known actors and personalities you'll see when watching this series.I recently found the entire series for sale on the internet and I have thoroughly enjoyed it."Oooo.....Oooo!!"
democratsforbush i loved the theme song i wish it was on some cable or lptv channel i remember Nipsy Russel, was it his first TV gig? Fred Gwynne and Al lewis are a good comedy duo, later in the Munsters another cute showi did not realize that the networks tried to remake show. A modern day producer is too into anti USA propaganda and anti family themes this show was pure, fun.I would wait for it to come on and i would sing the theme song with them. I was very young and lived in the Bronx, so i was tickled when I heard the name Bronx, even though it was actually a negative comment about a holdup in the Bronx, Brooklyns broken out in fights.well , you know how it goes