Car 54, Where Are You? (1961)
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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Episode 1 - Who's for Swordfish?
Release Date: 1961-09-17In the pilot, the boys are desperate to angle for swordfish. After shift-swapping with the entire precinct and avoiding any issuance of tickets (to avert court duty), will they go?
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Episode 2 - Something Nice for Sol
Release Date: 1961-09-24Gunther Toody drives the entire station batty chairing the committee to get everyone's favorite desk Sgt. Sol Abrams a surprise 25 year present. Toody keeps changing his little mind seeking the perfect gift, and insists on parliamentary procedure for meetings. Abrams' sore feet confine him to desk work, so he worries that it'll be 25 and out, if the brass find out how bad the precinct's sweetheart's hurting.
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Episode 3 - Home Sweet Sing Sing
Release Date: 1961-10-01The boys use extraordinary techniques to rehabilitate a recently released petty thief. Unfortunately, Benny has other ideas.
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Episode 4 - Change Your Partner
Release Date: 1961-10-08Toody and Muldoon's 9 blissful years as partners stun a researcher who finds the average prowl car pair last only 16 months before screaming to be switched. If the NYPD management engineer can discover their secret and replicate it, that'll save the blue brass many headaches. But Gunther and Francis' precinct mates don't want to know what actually goes on in Car 54, or even worse: can New York's finest clone empty-headed chatterbox Toody and somber, cerebral Muldoon ?
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Episode 5 - I Won't Go
Release Date: 1961-10-15Introducing Mrs. Bronson, the sweet Jewish grandmother confounding the boys at the 53rd as well as New York City's bureaucracy.
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Episode 6 - Muldoon's Star
Release Date: 1961-10-22Toody convinces 'Tessie the Torso', a buxom sex-symbol, to stay at Francis's mother's house. It turns out, Muldoon is a huge fan.
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Episode 7 - The Paint Job
Release Date: 1961-10-29A car thieving ring is using an auto body shop to paint stolen cars and resell them. The 53rd is down to only two patrol cars, so the boys are desperate to keep their beloved car 54. When it's damaged by a pulled-over driver, they take it to the same repair shop.
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Episode 8 - Love Finds Muldoon
Release Date: 1961-11-05Lucille plays matchmaker for Francis.
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Episode 9 - The Gypsy Curse
Release Date: 1961-11-12The boys are told to shut down a gypsy ripoff artist, and when they do, the gypsy puts a curse on Toody.
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Episode 10 - Thirty Days Notice
Release Date: 1961-11-19Gunther and Lucille Toody give their landlord notice because they're fed up with their crumbling apartment.
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Episode 11 - Catch Me on the Paar Show
Release Date: 1961-11-26After a chance traffic stop with Hugh Downs, Gunther finagles an appearance on the Jack Paar show of a fellow officer he thinks is funny.
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Episode 12 - The Taming of Lucille
Release Date: 1961-12-03Toody is feeling henpecked by Lucille, but musters the courage to become king of his castle after seeing a stirring performance of Shakespeare's "The Taming of the Shrew."
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Episode 13 - Put It in the Bank
Release Date: 1961-12-10The 53rd Precinct's Brotherhood Club's newly elected treasurer Gunther Toody is determined to invest their hard-earned $800 in the stock market despite the protests of his fiscally conservative colleagues.
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Episode 14 - Get Well, Officer Schnauser
Release Date: 1961-12-17While Schnauser is laid up in the hospital, Toody is tapped by the FBI to go undercover to help them nab notorious bank robber "No Face."
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Episode 15 - Christmas at the 53rd
Release Date: 1961-12-24The boys from the 53rd put on a Christmas review. Two Gilbert & Sullivan parodies featuring Capt. Block & Muldoon, a heart-tugging song from Toody, and other sketches.
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Episode 16 - The Sacrifice
Release Date: 1962-01-07Muldoon's the big expert on rules and regulations, but he's scared to take the test to become a sergeant.
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Episode 17 - Boom, Boom, Boom
Release Date: 1962-01-14The boys are attempting to win the barbershop quartet competition for "the old man" Capt. Block. The rules require all 163 quartets to perform the same song, which drives poor Jan Murray to insanity.
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Episode 18 - Toody & Muldoon Crack Down
Release Date: 1962-01-21After the police chief drives through Toody & Muldoon's sector, he's so angered by the scores of violations he sees he orders an investigation - with surprising results.
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Episode 19 - Toody's Paradise
Release Date: 1962-01-28Toody is on an undercover detail in Brooklyn with a female cop as his wife and a small boy as his child. When Lucille's sister spots him there, the rumors start flying wildly.
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Episode 20 - How High Is Up?
Release Date: 1962-02-04Muldoon discovers he's grown an inch to 6-foot-seven, putting him one inch over the police regulation and putting him over the edge with paranoia about his height.
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Episode 21 - Toody and the Art World
Release Date: 1962-02-11Toody is the only person who can appreciate Karpathia's abstract masterpiece, "Lower Manhattan at Sunset (from the New Jersey Side)." This episode features an inspired performance from Severn Darden.
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Episode 22 - What Happened to Thursday?
Release Date: 1962-02-18The 53rd is embarrassed by the domestic dispute calls that come every Thursday night - from the Schnausers. Toody convinces Leo (along w/the rest of the boys) that Thursday's actually Friday leading to expected hilarious confusion.
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Episode 23 - How Smart Can You Get?
Release Date: 1962-02-25The smartest rookie cop is assigned to ride w/chatty Toody & reticent Muldoon. Can Car 54 survive, now that Muldoon has stimulating conversation?
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Episode 24 - Today I Am a Man
Release Date: 1962-03-04Tired of being stereotyped as a mama's boy, Muldoon feigns having a hot date at "the hottest club in the Bronx". When his bluff is called by doubting coworkers, he quickly commandeers a puritan family who gets the wrong impression from his weapon!
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Episode 25 - No More Pickpockets
Release Date: 1962-03-11The boys go under cover at Yankee Stadium to stem the onslaught of pickpockets. One skilled pilferer turns the tide on Toody; who ends up arrested?
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Episode 26 - The Beast Who Walked the Bronx
Release Date: 1962-03-18Burkholtz, relegated to the Lost & Found for 15 years due to his extreme laxity is the only choice to sub for Capt. Block on his forced two week vacation. The boys mistake his absence from active duty thinking it's because he was too tough!
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Episode 27 - The Courtship of Sylvia Schnauser
Release Date: 1962-03-25Leo and Sylvia Schnauser decide to renew their vows with a large wedding ceremony.
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Episode 28 - The Auction
Release Date: 1962-04-01The boys of the 53rd Precinct pull together to buy Captain Block the matching Aleutian Ceremonial Chair he desires to complete his set.
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Episode 29 - Quiet! We're Thinking
Release Date: 1962-04-08Gunther and Lucille's 11-year-old nephew Marvin, in the Big Apple for a Boy Scout event, helps Toody and Muldoon crack the cases that have flummoxed New York's Finest.
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Episode 30 - I Love Lucille
Release Date: 1962-04-22Lucille dyes her hair to get Gunther to notice her, and when he finally does, look out.