The BEST episodes of Car 54, Where Are You? season 1
Every episode of Car 54, Where Are You? season 1, ranked from best to worst by thousands of votes from fans of the show. The best episodes of Car 54, Where Are You? season 1!
Car 54, Where Are You? features the misadventures of two of New York's finest in the mythical 53rd precinct in the Bronx. Gunther Toody, a short, stocky and dim-witted henpecked husband, is partnered with Francis Muldoon, a tall, lanky and smart bachelor.
#1 - Boom, Boom, Boom
Season 1 - Episode 17 - Aired 1/14/1962
Jan Murray, playing himself, is asked to judge a barbershop quartet contest among city employees. The Whipoorwills from the 53rd Precinct practice their introduction "boom, boom, boom" everywhere they go”and everywhere they go, Jan Murray goes, until he is practically out of his mind from hearing "boom, boom, boom."
#2 - How Smart Can You Get?
Season 1 - Episode 23 - Aired 2/25/1962
Muldoon gets a new partner, which not only intimidates Toody but causes Muldoon to neglect his duties because he's so involved in intellectual conversations.
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#3 - No More Pickpockets
Season 1 - Episode 25 - Aired 3/11/1962
A professional pickpocket steals Toody's wallet and assumes Toody's identity, arresting many other pickpockets before he's finally caught.
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#4 - The Beast Who Walked the Bronx
Season 1 - Episode 26 - Aired 3/18/1962
When the inspector announces that Capt. Block needs to take a well-deserved vacation, a temporary replacement is sent in.
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#5 - Muldoon's Star
Season 1 - Episode 6 - Aired 10/22/1961
With Theresa Tangere's popularily out of control, the Muldoon's keep her temporarily at their home, out of the public eye. Meanwhile, shy Francis is enamored with the blonde bombshell.
#6 - Something Nice for Sol
Season 1 - Episode 2 - Aired 9/24/1961
The 53rd Precinct decides to buy a surprise gift for Sgt. Abrams for 25 years of service. First they decide to buy an identification bracelet, then a dressing gown (robe), and finally a specially made pair of orthopedic shoes. Problems arise because these shoes cannot be made without Mr. Webster measuring Sol's feet to produce them.
#7 - I Love Lucille
Season 1 - Episode 30 - Aired 4/22/1962
Lucille dies her hair to get Gunther to notice her, and when he finally does, look out.
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#8 - Toody and the Art World
Season 1 - Episode 21 - Aired 2/11/1962
An artist gives Toody one of his paintings, but Toody doesn't realize its real worth until it's too late.
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#9 - Change Your Partners
Season 1 - Episode 4 - Aired 10/8/1961
Since Toody and Muldoon have been successful partners for nine years, the captain is asked to find out how this could possibly be. Both Toody and Muldoon are questioned so much that they begin to wonder themselves and arguing ensues.
#10 - I Won't Go
Season 1 - Episode 5 - Aired 10/15/1961
Mrs. Bronson manages to evade eviction from her apartment by charming everyone who tries to give her notice.
#11 - Today I Am a Man
Season 1 - Episode 24 - Aired 3/4/1962
Sick of his goody-two-shoes reputation, Muldoon is determined to change what people think of him and become a man about town.
#12 - The Auction
Season 1 - Episode 28 - Aired 4/1/1962
Leo is in charge of deciding on a gift for the captain's 25th wedding anniversary, and insists upon getting a cheese knife. But when Toody and Muldoon have to deliver paperwork to the captain at his home, they find that their boss collects antiques. He shows them an outlandish chair, and tells them how he wishes that he had the other half of this one and only pair. Shortly thereafter, Toody finds a chair just like it at an auction house which he plans on getting for the Captain at all costs.
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#13 - Quiet! We're Thinking
Season 1 - Episode 29 - Aired 4/8/1962
Unknowingly, Toody's 11 year old nephew Marvin's casual remarks help Toody and Muldoon solve tough cases, but by the time they realize what's happening, they're not the only ones that want to have Marvin around.
#14 - Home Sweet Sing Sing
Season 1 - Episode 3 - Aired 10/1/1961
Toody and his wife taken in an ex-con, hoping to rehabilitate him.
#15 - The Courtship of Sylvia Schnauser
Season 1 - Episode 27 - Aired 3/25/1962
After attending a large wedding, Sylvia becomes upset that she had been married by a justice of the peace, insisting upon rectifying that situation at all costs.
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#16 - How High is Up?
Season 1 - Episode 20 - Aired 2/4/1962
When Muldoon discovers that he's grown an inch, one inch above company rules, he goes into a panic.
#17 - Gypsy Curse
Season 1 - Episode 9 - Aired 11/12/1961
When Toody goes undercover to expose a thieving gypsy, she puts a curse of hives and martial troubles on him in return. Toody then begins to experience these supposed problems, and eventually he, Lucille, and Muldoon seek to counteract the hex to bring life back to normal for all involved.
#18 - Thirty Days Notice
Season 1 - Episode 10 - Aired 11/19/1961
Disgusted by the conditions of their apartment, Toody gives his landlord Mr. Corfu 30 days notice. Mr. Corfu is absolutely thrilled with this decision and promptly seeks to find another family to move in. Meanwhile Toody and Lucille have trouble finding suitable housing as a replacement, so Toody makes plans to sublet an apartment of Al Cooper who is very possibly going to be spending 3-5 years in prison anyway. In the end, Mr. Cooper gets vindicated, the family that takes over the Toody apartment moves out because of the awful living conditions, the Toodys move back in, and everything is back to normal.
#19 - The Taming of Lucille
Season 1 - Episode 12 - Aired 12/3/1961
With Rose's example of an ultra submissive wife, Gunther is frustrated with his wife's strong personality, but once Lucille becomes docile as a result of watching Shakespeare, he decides that he's not so sure he likes having a doormat for a spouse.
#20 - The Sacrifice
Season 1 - Episode 16 - Aired 1/7/1962
With Toody's TV out of commission and with the urging of his wife, he reads a book entitled ""The Sacrifice"" which inspires him to encourage Muldoon to better himself. However, this backfires, causing Muldoon to doubt his present job capabilities.
#21 - Who's for Swordfish?
Season 1 - Episode 1 - Aired 9/17/1961
Toody and Muldoon go through much trouble to go fishing for swordfish on a fellow officer's brother-in-law's cruiser.
#22 - Get Well, Officer Schnauser
Season 1 - Episode 14 - Aired 12/17/1961
With bank robber ""No Face"" on the loose, Muldoon and Toody are on the look-out. Through a series of unbelievable events, Muldoon robs the neighborhood bank without realizing it, eventually bestowing the loot onto Schnauser who's recuperating in the hospital.
#23 - Toody's Paradise
Season 1 - Episode 19 - Aired 1/28/1962
Toody goes undercover with a female police officer and a boy to catch a purse snatcher, and when Lucille gets wind of this new assignment, she thinks that her husband has another life elsewhere.
#24 - Toody and Muldoon Crack Down
Season 1 - Episode 18 - Aired 1/21/1962
After the chief inspector finds Toody and Muldoon's sector what he deems less than desirable, he insists that Capt. Block see to it that things change within 24 hours or ELSE.
#25 - Put It in the Bank
Season 1 - Episode 13 - Aired 12/10/1961
As department treasurer, Toody has the bright idea of investing the department's kitty in the stock market, but regrets that decision shortly thereafter.