Car 54

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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.

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jimbo97-1 — 12 years ago(May 19, 2013 12:28 PM)

And I always thought it was "Khrushchev blew up Idelwild"

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bodryn — 13 years ago(July 16, 2012 02:40 PM)

Good old Gunther Toody and Francis Muldoon. I watched this every week and just LOVED it! I still remember that theme song!

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gordonl56 — 13 years ago(July 17, 2012 04:29 AM)

Watched it as a kid and loved it!

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gordonl56 — 13 years ago(October 14, 2012 04:03 PM)

I watched it as a kid. It was pretty funny.

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bodryn — 13 years ago(November 21, 2012 06:52 PM)

I certainly remember Fred Gwynne playing the part of Francis Muldoon. I watched this show every week I could.

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jimbo97-1 — 12 years ago(May 19, 2013 12:31 PM)

I remembered it and much later filled 2 VHS tapes with TVLand reruns. It's still hilarious!

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kueskues — 12 years ago(July 13, 2013 09:20 AM)

Car 54 where are you! I loved that show!
"Thanks for the memories"

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AlanSquier — 12 years ago(September 26, 2013 06:48 AM)

Used to watch this as a kid and loved it!

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jimbirish-634-753726 — 12 years ago(January 15, 2014 02:02 PM)

Oooo Oooo

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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.