List of Car 54, Where Are You? episodes
This is the list of episodes from the television sitcom Car 54, Where Are You?.
Series overview
| Season | Episodes | Originally aired | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| First aired | Last aired | ||||
| 1 | 30 | September 17, 1961 | April 22, 1962 | ||
| 2 | 30 | September 16, 1962 | April 14, 1963 | ||
Episodes
Season 1 (1961–62)
| No. overall | No. in season | Title | Directed by | Written by | Original air date | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 1 | "Who's for Swordfish?" | Al De Caprio | Terry Ryan & Nat Hiken | September 17, 1961 | |
| Police officers Gunther Toody and Francis Muldoon prepare to go on a fishing trip---assuming they can get their off days rescheduled without chaos to do it and avoid having to go to traffic court. | ||||||
| 2 | 2 | "Something Nice for Sol" | Al De Caprio | Terry Ryan & Nat Hiken | September 24, 1961 | |
| After much indecision, Toody and Muldoon buy orthopedic shoes as a surprise gift for Abrams, but they must first put him to sleep so the orthopedist can make a cast of his feet. | ||||||
| 3 | 3 | "Home Sweet Sing Sing" | Nat Hiken | Marty Roth & Nat Hiken | October 1, 1961 | |
| Toody and Muldoon help out an ex-convict who's homesick for prison---but his insistence on his prison routine baffles Toody and Lucille. | ||||||
| 4 | 4 | "Change Your Partner" | Nat Hiken | Tony Webster & Nat Hiken | October 8, 1961 | |
| Headquarters wants to know the secret of Toody and Muldoon's friendship, since they have never switched partners. | ||||||
| 5 | 5 | "I Won't Go" | Nat Hiken | Gary Belkin & Nat Hiken | October 15, 1961 | |
| Mrs. Bronson (Molly Picon) refuses to move out of her condemned apartment. (Al Lewis appears as Al Spencer, a city employee in charge of evicting her) | ||||||
| 6 | 6 | "Muldoon's Star" | Nat Hiken | Harold Flender & Nat Hiken | October 22, 1961 | |
| Toody and Muldoon are assigned to shield a movie star from her fans—the same star on whom Muldoon has a big crush. | ||||||
| 7 | 7 | "The Paint Job" | Nat Hiken | Marty Roth & Nat Hiken | October 29, 1961 | |
| While Car 54 is in a garage for repairs, Toody and Muldoon hastily borrow a stranger's car and quickly repaint it to look like theirs, not knowing that the car they borrowed was actually stolen by a hit and run stolen car ring. (Al Lewis appears in the role of an auto paint & body man). | ||||||
| 8 | 8 | "Love Finds Muldoon" | Nat Hiken | Nat Hiken | November 5, 1961 | |
| Lucille takes a shot at matchmaking for the bachelor Muldoon. His intended match Alice Ghostley stalks Muldoon everywhere, but then later plays hard to get. | ||||||
| 9 | 9 | "The Gypsy Curse" | Nat Hiken | Tony Webster & Nat Hiken | November 12, 1961 | |
| A gypsy places a curse on Toody. | ||||||
| 10 | 10 | "Thirty Days Notice" | Nat Hiken | Ben Joelson, Art Baer & Nat Hiken | November 19, 1961 | |
| The Toodys search for a new apartment. | ||||||
| 11 | 11 | "Catch Me on the Paar Show" | Nat Hiken | Terry Ryan & Nat Hiken | November 26, 1961 | |
| After Toody and Muldoon encounter host Hugh Downs, he agrees to let officer Fleisher tell jokes on The Jack Paar Show and the fame goes to his head. | ||||||
| 12 | 12 | "The Taming of Lucille" | Al De Caprio | Tony Webster & Nat Hiken | December 3, 1961 | |
| Toody is inspired to stand up to Lucille after seeing a performance of The Taming of the Shrew. | ||||||
| 13 | 13 | "Put It in the Bank" | Al De Caprio | Will Glickman, Sid Zelinka & Nat Hiken | December 10, 1961 | |
| Toody decides to invest his club's funds in the stock market. When they visit the office of the company they invested in, onlookers fear they're coming to arrest its president, which causes the company's value to plummet. (First appearance of Al Lewis as Officer Schnauzer) | ||||||
| 14 | 14 | "Get Well, Officer Schnauzer" | Al De Caprio | Terry Ryan & Nat Hiken | December 17, 1961 | |
| Toody and Muldoon try to collect reward money to get Schnauser a get-well gift. Through a misunderstanding, a panicked bank teller (Charlotte Rae) thinks they are armed robbers and gives them a fortune. | ||||||
| 15 | 15 | "Christmas at the 53rd" | Al De Caprio | Terry Ryan & Nat Hiken | December 24, 1961 | |
| Toody and Muldoon are excited to perform at the 53rd Precinct's Christmas party. Alice Ghostley also performs. | ||||||
| 16 | 16 | "The Sacrifice" | Al De Caprio | Tony Webster & Nat Hiken | January 7, 1962 | |
| Muldoon may be the precinct's quickest recall of police regulations, but he's afraid of taking the sergeant's test. | ||||||
| 17 | 17 | "Boom, Boom, Boom" | Al De Caprio | Sid Zelinka, Will Glickman & Nat Hiken | January 14, 1962 | |
| Toody and Muldoon enter a barbershop-quartet contest---driving guest judge Jan Murray (playing himself) to a nervous breakdown---or more. | ||||||
| 18 | 18 | "Toody & Muldoon Crack Down" | Al De Caprio | Terry Ryan & Nat Hiken | January 21, 1962 | |
| Captain Block gives the Car 54 crew orders to crack down on lawbreakers. | ||||||
| 19 | 19 | "Toody's Paradise" | Al De Caprio | Will Glickman, Sid Zelinka & Nat Hiken | January 28, 1962 | |
| Toody's undercover assignment is almost blown when his sister-in-law sees him with his fictitious family on that assignment---and leads Lucille to believe he has two families. | ||||||
| 20 | 20 | "How High Is Up?" | Al De Caprio | Tony Webster & Nat Hiken | February 4, 1962 | |
| Muldoon has grown an inch too high for police regulation -- and it doesn't help that his dance partner Shari Lewis is only 5 feet tall. | ||||||
| 21 | 21 | "Toody and the Art World" | Al De Caprio | Nat Hiken | February 11, 1962 | |
| An artist says only Toody can understand his work. | ||||||
| 22 | 22 | "What Happened to Thursday?" | Al De Caprio | Tony Webster & Nat Hiken | February 18, 1962 | |
| Breaking up the weekly arguments at the Schnausers’ apartment becomes a routine for Toody and Muldoon, until they trick Schnauser into thinking Thursday is Friday. | ||||||
| 23 | 23 | "How Smart Can You Get?" | Al De Caprio | Story by : Tony Webster & Nat Hiken Teleplay by : Tony Webster | February 25, 1962 | |
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Toody and Muldoon are ordered to give a genius rookie officer an orientation that threatens to break up the Car 54 team when the rookie proves a genuinely stimulating conversationalist for Muldoon. In 1997, TV Guide ranked this episode #61 on its list of the 100 Greatest Episodes.[1] | ||||||
| 24 | 24 | "Today I Am a Man" | Al De Caprio | Story by : Tony Webster & Nat Hiken Teleplay by : Tony Webster | March 4, 1962 | |
| Muldoon has a date for Saturday, so he asks for someone to cover a shift. | ||||||
| 25 | 25 | "No More Pickpockets" | Al De Caprio | Tony Webster & Nat Hiken | March 11, 1962 | |
| Toody and Muldoon feel bad for never being cited for bravery---but not half as bad as they'll feel when a mousy but skilled pickpocket (Wally Cox) lifts both men's identification during a special World Series detail, tricking police into jailing them. | ||||||
| 26 | 26 | "The Beast Who Walked the Bronx" | Al De Caprio | Terry Ryan & Nat Hiken | March 18, 1962 | |
| Thanks to a particularly active rumour mill of fragmented information, the meek captain assigned to cover on Capt. Block's vacation has the 53rd fearing the second coming of Hitler as their temporary commander. | ||||||
| 27 | 27 | "The Courtship of Sylvia Schnauser" | Al De Caprio | Tony Webster | March 25, 1962 | |
| Unsatisfied with her wedding in city hall, Sylvia Schnauser wants to renew hers and Schnauser's vows in a big ceremony. | ||||||
| 28 | 28 | "The Auction" | Al De Caprio | Story by : Sid Zelinka and Will Glickman Teleplay by : Sid Zelinka, Will Glickman & Nat Hiken | April 1, 1962 | |
| Toody and Muldoon go to an auction to get a second "Aleutian Ceremonial Chair" for the captain, only to discover that the captain sold it to the auction in the first place. | ||||||
| 29 | 29 | "Quiet! We're Thinking" | Al De Caprio | Terry Ryan | April 8, 1962 | |
| Toody and Muldoon volunteer to do detective work for the captain. However, an eleven-year-old boy ends up doing all the detective work for them. | ||||||
| 30 | 30 | "I Love Lucille" | Al De Caprio | Tony Webster & Nat Hiken | April 22, 1962 | |
| Lucille hopes a change in hair colour gets Toody to pay her more attention---until he can't stop showing her off at the policeman's ball. | ||||||
Season 2 (1962–63)
| No. overall | No. in season | Title | Directed by | Written by | Original air date | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 31 | 1 | "Hail to the Chief" | Nat Hiken | Tony Webster | September 16, 1962 | |
| One of the officers in the 53rd Precinct is going to drive the President's car when he arrives in New York---Muldoon, who almost caves in under the stress of driving his hero. | ||||||
| 32 | 2 | "One Sleepy People" | Nat Hiken | Terry Ryan | September 23, 1962 | |
| A steamy movie on TV may mislead Muldoon and Lucille into thinking each crushes on the other. | ||||||
| 33 | 3 | "A Man Is Not an Ox" | Nat Hiken | Billy Friedberg & Nat Hiken | September 30, 1962 | |
| Captain Block wants to know why Toody and Muldoon are always sick at the same time. | ||||||
| 34 | 4 | "Schnauser's Last Ride" | Nat Hiken | Tony Webster | October 7, 1962 | |
| Schnauser feels heartbroken over his horse being retired. | ||||||
| 35 | 5 | "Toody & Muldoon Sing Along with Mitch" | Nat Hiken | Buddy Arnold & Ben Joelson | October 14, 1962 | |
| Mitch Miller holds auditions at the 53rd for his tv show. | ||||||
| 36 | 6 | "Occupancy, August 1st" | Nat Hiken | Gary Belkin | October 21, 1962 | |
| Mrs. Bronson moves into her apartment before it's finished. | ||||||
| 37 | 7 | "Remember St. Petersburg" | Nat Hiken | Tony Webster | October 28, 1962 | |
| Toody and Muldoon convince a phony fortune-teller that Schnauser is royalty. | ||||||
| 38 | 8 | "That's Show Business" | Nat Hiken | Gary Belkin | November 4, 1962 | |
| Toody and Muldoon get themselves into trouble when they invest in a play featuring Muldoon's sister. | ||||||
| 39 | 9 | "Toody Undercover" | Nat Hiken | Terry Ryan | November 11, 1962 | |
| Toody goes undercover as a contact for gangsters. | ||||||
| 40 | 10 | "I Hate Captain Block" | Stanley Prager | Ben Joelson & Buddy Arnold | November 18, 1962 | |
| Captain Block's parrot will only talk to Toody. | ||||||
| 41 | 11 | "A Star Is Born in the Bronx" | Stanley Prager | Terry Ryan | November 25, 1962 | |
| Lucille and Sylvia compete to be the leading lady in Muldoon's play. | ||||||
| 42 | 12 | "Pretzel Mary" | Nat Hiken | Story by : Art Baer Teleplay by : Gary Belkin & Art Baer | December 2, 1962 | |
| Toody and Muldoon crack down on Pretzel Mary, a peddler selling pretzels without a license, until they discover her secret when swapping her battered old furniture for new pieces. | ||||||
| 43 | 13 | "142 Tickets on the Aisle" | Stanley Prager | Tony Webster | December 9, 1962 | |
| The Brotherhood Club wants to see a Broadway show, but the only available tickets are to a lame Western mistaken to be raided for obscenity when Toody and Muldoon visit the box office. | ||||||
| 44 | 14 | "Stop Thief" | Stanley Prager | Tony Webster | December 16, 1962 | |
| Toody and Muldoon suspect Captain Block of being a kleptomaniac. | ||||||
| 45 | 15 | "Je t'adore Muldoon" | Stanley Prager | Ben Joelson | December 30, 1962 | |
| Muldoon takes his mother to the Mardi Gras ball. | ||||||
| 46 | 16 | "The White Elephant" | Stanley Prager | Terry Ryan | January 6, 1963 | |
| A gang of criminals rent a diner so they can dig a tunnel to the bank. | ||||||
| 47 | 17 | "Benny the Bookie's Last Chance" | Stanley Prager | Art Baer & Gary Belkin | January 13, 1963 | |
| Benny the Bookie is out on parole and Toody and Muldoon are in charge of him. | ||||||
| 48 | 18 | "The Presidential Itch" | Stanley Prager | Story by : Robert Van Scoyk Teleplay by : Nat Hiken, Billy Friedberg and Robert Van Scoyk | January 20, 1963 | |
| Toody and Muldoon compete to become president of the Brotherhood Club. | ||||||
| 49 | 19 | "Toody & Muldoon Meet the Russians" | Stanley Prager | Nat Hiken & Billy Friedberg | January 27, 1963 | |
| Toody and Muldoon make Soviet dignitaries into American capitalists. | ||||||
| 50 | 20 | "Here We Go Again" | Stanley Prager | Gary Belkin & Art Baer | February 3, 1963 | |
| Muldoon uncovers evidence that his father may not have been the hero cop he thought he was. | ||||||
| 51 | 21 | "The Star Boarder" | Stanley Prager | Terry Ryan | February 10, 1963 | |
| The Toodys' boarder claims to be a preacher. | ||||||
| 52 | 22 | "The Biggest Day of the Year" | Stanley Prager | Lou Solomon & Bob Howard | February 17, 1963 | |
| Toody's inability to count correctly unleashes chaos in the 53rd Precinct. | ||||||
| 53 | 23 | "Here Comes Charlie" | Stanley Prager | Nat Hiken & Billy Friedberg | February 24, 1963 | |
| The 53rd Precinct has a policeman who drinks on the job. | ||||||
| 54 | 24 | "See You at the Bar Mitzvah" | Stanley Prager | Max Wilk | March 3, 1963 | |
| Toody and Muldoon attempt to find guests for a bar mitzvah. | ||||||
| 55 | 25 | "I've Been Here Before" | Stanley Prager | Terry Ryan | March 10, 1963 | |
| Criminals use Toody's favorite TV show to commit their crimes. | ||||||
| 56 | 26 | "Joan Crawford Didn't Say No" | Stanley Prager | Story by : Nak Hiken Teleplay by : Gary Belkin | March 17, 1963 | |
| Toody and Muldoon are sent to bust Mrs. Bronson's matchmaking business. | ||||||
| 57 | 27 | "Lucille Is 40" | Stanley Prager | Ben Joelson & Art Baer | March 24, 1963 | |
| Toody gets a wig for Lucille's fortieth birthday. | ||||||
| 58 | 28 | "The Loves of Sylvia Schnauser" | Stanley Prager | Tony Webster & Nat Hiken | March 31, 1963 | |
| Sylvia helps the 53rd take down a phony publishing company. | ||||||
| 59 | 29 | "Puncher & Judy" | Stanley Prager | Nat Hiken | April 7, 1963 | |
| Toody and Mulddon meet a girl named Judy (Shari Lewis), who talks them into enlisting Sugar Ray Robinson to help discourage a male hair dresser from continuing his amateur boxing career. | ||||||
| 60 | 30 | "The Curse of the Snitkins" | Stanley Prager & Nat Hiken | Story by : Nat Hiken, Art Baer & Ben Joelson Teleplay by : Art Baer & Ben Joelson | April 14, 1963 | |
| Toody and Muldoon regret talking Snitkin, a jinx, into transferring to their precinct. | ||||||
References
- "Special Collector's Issue: 100 Greatest Episodes of All Time". TV Guide (June 28–July 4). 1997.
External links
- Car 54, Where Are You? – list of episodes at IMDb
- TV.com
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