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.

jimel98 I was much too young to enjoy this when it was on (I was 3 when it went off the air) but was blessed to see it on Nick at Night. I wish they would bring it back again or if it's on DVD, I must have it! This show about two 'hard working' New York City cops was witty and intelligent. Many of my generation think of the sitcoms of the 1950s and early 1960s and picture simple, basic and not terribly funny humor. Picture "Small Wonder" in black and white. This show had heart and some very clever writing. The simplest of everyday situations that a cop can face were turned into comedy gold. It was the "Barney Miller" of it's day. If any of you dear readers ever get a chance to see any of these episodes, check out the one where Toody and Muldoon have a chance to go out fishing on a boat. The lengths they go to to arrange their schedule so as to be free to go out, and the ONE thing that fouls it up are complex and hilarious.The cast was wonderful as well, and of course they would be, otherwise this terrific writing would have been wasted. It's not.

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

Jill-30 "There's a holdup in the Bronx. Brooklyn's broken out in fights. There's a traffic jam in Harlem that's backed up to Jackson Heights. There's a scout troop short a child. Kruschev's due at Idlewild. Car 54, Where Are You?"In the mixed Jewish and Italian 53rd precinct of the Bronx, two mismatched police officers, Gunther Toody and his partner, Francis Muldoon, patrol their section in Car 54. Gunther, a married man, is short, heavyset, and, a dummy. Francis, a bachelor living with his mother, is tall, skinny, and cultured. Practicing an early form of community policing, these two kind-hearted, childish men are beloved in the neighborhood. But their efforts to circumvent stern law usually backfire and embarrass their precinct commander, Captain Block.This program, a gem of Jewish humor, packed a half-hour of riotous laughter into every show. Each character in it was well-formed and extreme. The guest stars were just as hilarious. Although "I Love Lucy" is remembered as the premier TV comedy series of the 1950's, "Car 54, Where Are You?" extracted more humor out of normal situations. One cannot watch it without getting a belly-ache. It was the funniest show on television.