Car 54, Where Are You? (1961)

Name: Car 54, Where Are You?
Genre: Comedy
Rating: 7.7
Cast: Fred Gwynne, Joe E. Ross, Al Lewis, Paul Reed

Comedy

The misadventures of two of New York's finest in the 53rd precinct in the Bronx. Toody, the short, stocky and dim-witted one, either saves the day or messes things up, much to the chagrin of Muldoon, the tall, lanky and smart one.

IMDb rating: 7.7 (2,187 votes)
Episode average: 7.7 matches the IMDb rating
Seasons: 2
Streaming (US): Amazon Prime Video · Peacock
Language: EN
Type: TV series

Rising trajectory: each season at least as good as the last. Rising Shows ranks whole shows by the shape of their rating trend rather than one average score, which is how you find a show that got better rather than a show that started well. See every Rising show in the explorer →

Browse all Rising shows in the explorer → Open in Rising Shows app → View on IMDb

Ratings refreshed Oct 3, 2026 · 2 seasons indexed

Cast

Seasons

Season 1 (1961)

7.71 avg 30 episodes 7.6 → 7.4 27 min avg

Season 1 episodes - IMDb ratings
#	Title	Rating	Votes
1	Who's for Swordfish?	7.6	167
2	Something Nice for Sol	7.3	130
3	Home Sweet Sing Sing	7.7	109
4	Change Your Partner	7.9	119
5	I Won't Go	8.1	128
6	Muldoon's Star	7.6	111
7	The Paint Job	7.7	114
8	Love Finds Muldoon	7.8	115
9	The Gypsy Curse	7.6	101
10	Thirty Days Notice	7.2	90
11	Catch Me on the Paar Show	7.3	96
12	The Taming of Lucille	7.3	100
13	Put It in the Bank	7.9	100
14	Get Well, Officer Schnauser	8.0	103
15	Christmas at the 53rd	7.1	121
16	The Sacrifice	7.2	87
17	Boom, Boom, Boom	7.9	123
18	Toody & Muldoon Crack Down	7.8	87
19	Toody's Paradise	7.8	94
20	How High Is Up?	7.5	99
21	Toody and the Art World	7.6	99
22	What Happened to Thursday?	8.1	106
23	How Smart Can You Get?	7.7	98
24	Today I Am a Man	8.3	122
25	No More Pickpockets	8.2	107
26	The Beast Who Walked the Bronx	8.2	105
27	The Courtship of Sylvia Schnauser	7.8	94
28	The Auction	7.5	87
29	Quiet! We're Thinking	8.2	104
30	I Love Lucille	7.4	84

Season 2 (1962)

7.78 avg 30 episodes 7.7 → 8.2 26 min avg

Season 2 episodes - IMDb ratings
#	Title	Rating	Votes
1	Hail to the Chief	7.7	109
2	One Sleepy People	7.3	93
3	A Man Is Not an Ox	7.5	83
4	Schnauser's Last Ride	7.4	83
5	Toody & Muldoon Sing Along with Mitch	7.5	86
6	Occupancy, August 1st	8.1	109
7	Remember St. Petersburg	7.3	77
8	That's Show Business	7.6	80
9	Toody Undercover	8.6	113
10	I Hate Captain Block	8.3	111
11	A Star Is Born in the Bronx	7.5	86
12	Pretzel Mary	7.5	85
13	142 Tickets on the Aisle	7.9	84
14	Stop Thief	7.4	76
15	Je T'Adore Muldoon	7.7	81
16	The White Elephant	8.2	88
17	Benny the Bookie's Last Chance	7.7	83
18	The Presidential Itch	7.8	75
19	Toody & Muldoon Meet the Russians	8.1	97
20	Here We Go Again	7.8	85
21	The Star Boarder	7.6	78
22	The Biggest Day of the Year	8.5	97
23	Here Comes Charlie	7.8	87
24	See You at the Bar Mitzvah	7.8	99
25	I've Been Here Before	8.1	87
26	Joan Crawford Didn't Say No	6.9	239
27	Lucille Is 40	7.9	91
28	The Loves of Sylvia Schnauser	7.9	90
29	Puncher & Judy	7.7	90
30	The Curse of the Snitkins	8.2	93

Car 54, Where Are You? (1961)

Cast

Seasons

Shows like this