Car 54
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lubin-freddy — 14 years ago(December 23, 2011 02:16 AM)
Car 54 was on the air in the '60s, not the '50s.
Another example of the stupidity of splitting up the "classic TV" boards.
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jeffclinthill — 14 years ago(October 10, 2011 05:38 AM)
The trivia that I remember from Car 54 Where Are You is that both Fred Gwyenne (Officer Muldoon) and Joe E Ross(Officer Toody) had previously played soldiers on The Phil Silvers Show. Gwyenne had played a soldier who had been snowbound in Alaska for so long that he had memorized the only book available to him(an encyclopedia of birds) and Master Sergeant Bilko therefore got him on a television quiz show (a' la The 64,000 Question) with the category of birds as his specialty. Ross played a regular, the cook, Sergeant Ritzek. And the woman who played his nagging wife on the Phil Silvers Show, Beatrice Pons, also played his nagging wife in Car 54 Where Are You.
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lubin-freddy — 14 years ago(December 23, 2011 11:10 AM)
Funny, but a few weeks ago, for no reason I could discern, I found myself singing the show's opening song, and remembering every word. This when I can't ever remember where I put that coffee that I just made.
I want to shake every limb in the Garden of Eden
and make every lover the love of my life -
rnigma-1 — 14 years ago(December 28, 2011 05:07 PM)
Perhaps the only TV theme to mention a then-current Russian leader: "Khrushchev's due at Idlewild" (the old name for JFK Airport)
Don't get me started on the awful 1994 movie version, with Dr. Cox from "Scrubs" as Muldoon (perhaps Brad Garrett would have been better) and that dude from "Scrooged" (and the New York Dolls) playing Toody. It's in the IMDb Bottom 100 (#65 right now) and deservedly so. -
NewtonFigg — 11 years ago(November 24, 2014 08:10 PM)
People used to interrupt the filming because they thought Toody and Muldoon were real policemen in a real police car. Eventually, since the show was in B&W, they changed the colors of the car to something that looked real on the screen but didn't confuse passersby.
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NewtonFigg — 11 years ago(March 16, 2015 08:16 PM)
We just watched a 1963 Peter Sellers movie Wrong Arm of the Law. The crooks of London all take a day off, and all the police dispatchers are bored, sitting around doing nothing. One is reading a Car 54 comic book.
