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Car 54, Where Are You? Season 1 Episodes
Season 1 Episode Guide
30 Episodes 1961 - 1962
Episode 1
Who's for Swordfish?
Sun, Sep 17, 196126 mins
In 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?
Episode 2
Something Nice for Sol
Sun, Sep 24, 196126 mins
Gunther 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.
Episode 3
Home Sweet Sing Sing
Sun, Oct 1, 196126 mins
The boys use extraordinary techniques to rehabilitate a recently released petty thief. Unfortunately, Benny has other ideas.
Episode 4
Change Your Partner
Sun, Oct 8, 196126 mins
Toody 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 ?
Episode 5
I Won't Go
Sun, Oct 15, 196126 mins
Introducing Mrs. Bronson, the sweet Jewish grandmother confounding the boys at the 53rd as well as New York City's bureaucracy.
Episode 6
Muldoon's Star
Sun, Oct 22, 196126 mins
Toody convinces 'Tessie the Torso', a buxom sex-symbol, to stay at Francis's mother's house. It turns out, Muldoon is a huge fan.
Episode 7
The Paint Job
Sun, Oct 29, 196126 mins
A 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.
Episode 8
Love Finds Muldoon
Sun, Nov 5, 196126 mins
Lucille plays matchmaker for Francis.
Episode 9
The Gypsy Curse
Sun, Nov 12, 196126 mins
The boys are told to shut down a gypsy ripoff artist, and when they do, the gypsy puts a curse on Toody.
Episode 10
Thirty Days Notice
Sun, Nov 19, 196126 mins
Gunther and Lucille Toody give their landlord notice because they're fed up with their crumbling apartment.
Episode 11
Catch Me on the Paar Show
Sun, Nov 26, 196125 mins
After a chance traffic stop with Hugh Downs, Gunther finagles an appearance on the Jack Paar show of a fellow officer he thinks is funny.
Episode 12
The Taming of Lucille
Sun, Dec 3, 196130 mins
Toody 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."
Episode 13
Put It in the Bank
Sun, Dec 10, 196130 mins
The 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.
Episode 14
Get Well, Officer Schnauser
Sun, Dec 17, 196130 mins
While 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."
Episode 15
Christmas at the 53rd
Sun, Dec 24, 196126 mins
The 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.
Episode 16
The Sacrifice
Sun, Jan 7, 196226 mins
Muldoon's the big expert on rules and regulations, but he's scared to take the test to become a sergeant.
Episode 17
Boom, Boom, Boom
Sun, Jan 14, 196226 mins
The 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.
Episode 18
Toody & Muldoon Crack Down
Sun, Jan 21, 196227 mins
After 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.
Episode 19
Toody's Paradise
Sun, Jan 28, 196226 mins
Toody 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.
Episode 20
How High Is Up?
Sun, Feb 4, 196226 mins
Muldoon 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.
Episode 21
Toody and the Art World
Sun, Feb 11, 196226 mins
Toody 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.
Episode 22
What Happened to Thursday?
Sun, Feb 18, 196226 mins
The 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.
Episode 23
How Smart Can You Get?
Sun, Feb 25, 196225 mins
The smartest rookie cop is assigned to ride w/chatty Toody & reticent Muldoon. Can Car 54 survive, now that Muldoon has stimulating conversation?
Episode 24
Today I Am a Man
Sun, Mar 4, 196226 mins
Tired 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!
Episode 25
No More Pickpockets
Sun, Mar 11, 196226 mins
During the world's series, Toody and Muldoon act go undercover to spot pickpockets at Yankee Stadium. There Toody encounters a gifted thief who always wanted to be a cop, and after stealing Toody's ID, starts making arrests of his own, including Toody.
Episode 26
The Beast Who Walked the Bronx
Sun, Mar 18, 196226 mins
Burkholtz, 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!
Episode 27
The Courtship of Sylvia Schnauser
Sun, Mar 25, 196230 mins
Leo and Sylvia Schnauser decide to renew their vows with a large wedding ceremony.
Episode 28
The Auction
Sun, Apr 1, 196226 mins
The boys of the 53rd Precinct pull together to buy Captain Block the matching Aleutian Ceremonial Chair he desires to complete his set.
Episode 29
Quiet! We're Thinking
Sun, Apr 8, 196226 mins
Gunther 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.
Episode 30
I Love Lucille
Sun, Apr 22, 196226 mins
Lucille dyes her hair to get Gunther to notice her, and when he finally does, look out.