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.

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.

Oooo Oooo

Used to watch this as a kid and loved it!

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

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

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

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

Watched it as a kid and loved it!

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

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

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.

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

Yeah, I remember. Funny show.
Just think, with today's GPS technology, they wouldn't have to ask, "Car 54, where are you?"

"The Phil Silvers Show" and "Car 54" were both created by Nat Hiken no surprise that they shared a few performers. And both shows had characters with dog names (Schnauzer, Doberman).

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.

I think Car 54. Where are You? is one of the funniest shows. It is on MeTV early Sunday mornings. Al Lewis always made me laugh out loud with his lines.

Car 54 was on the air in the '60s, not the '50s.
Another example of the stupidity of splitting up the "classic TV" boards.
I want to shake every limb in the Garden of Eden
and make every lover the love of my life

Car 54 was on the air in the '60s, not the '50s.