8.6/1084 votesLoading...#1 - The Biggest Day of the Year
Season 2 Episode 22 - Aired 2/17/1963
After Tooday tells Muldoon that "today's a very important day",Muldoon,the men & high ranking officials,try to figure out why it is.
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8.4/1096 votesLoading...#2 - Toody Undercover
Season 2 Episode 9 - Aired 11/11/1962
Toody winds up undercover as part of a mob ring. His intimate knowledge of the area (bank layouts, burglar alarms & patrolmen habits) makes him a better crook than cop.
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8.3/10103 votesLoading...#3 - Today I Am a Man
Season 1 Episode 24 - Aired 3/4/1962
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!
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8.1/1093 votesLoading...#4 - No More Pickpockets
Season 1 Episode 25 - Aired 3/11/1962
The boys go under cover at Yankee Stadium to stem the onslaught of pickpockets. One skilled pilferer turns the tide on Toody; who ends up arrested?
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8.1/1090 votesLoading...#5 - The Beast Who Walked the Bronx
Season 1 Episode 26 - Aired 3/18/1962
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!
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8.1/1088 votesLoading...#6 - Quiet! We're Thinking
Season 1 Episode 29 - Aired 4/8/1962
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.
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8.1/1095 votesLoading...#7 - I Hate Captain Block
Season 2 Episode 10 - Aired 11/18/1962
When Toody takes care of Captain Block's parrot, he decides to teach it to talk. But this backfires when he says he hates Captain Block in front of the bird, and the parrot begins repeating it.
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8.1/1074 votesLoading...#8 - The White Elephant
Season 2 Episode 16 - Aired 1/6/1963
A gang buys the cursed eatery next to the bank to drill through the common wall into the vault -- but the boys of the 53rd stop by to see how they're doing, and help them establish a luncheonette instead.
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8.0/10106 votesLoading...#9 - I Won't Go
Season 1 Episode 5 - Aired 10/15/1961
Introducing Mrs. Bronson, the sweet Jewish grandmother confounding the boys at the 53rd as well as New York City's bureaucracy.
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8.0/1082 votesLoading...#10 - Toody & Muldoon Meet the Russians
Season 2 Episode 19 - Aired 1/27/1963
The boys chaperon two Russian ambassadors, and turn them into American capitalists.
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8.0/1074 votesLoading...#11 - I've Been Here Before
Season 2 Episode 25 - Aired 3/10/1963
A criminal gang bases its heists on the plots of the television program "Crimebusters," which program is also one of Officer Toody's favorite shows.
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8.0/1077 votesLoading...#12 - The Curse of the Snitkins
Season 2 Episode 30 - Aired 4/14/1963
A jinx arrives at the 53rd and continues his streak of bringing bad luck wherever he goes.
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7.9/10106 votesLoading...#13 - Boom, Boom, Boom
Season 1 Episode 17 - Aired 1/14/1962
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.
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7.9/1093 votesLoading...#14 - What Happened to Thursday?
Season 1 Episode 22 - Aired 2/18/1962
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.
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7.9/1088 votesLoading...#15 - Occupancy, August 1st
Season 2 Episode 6 - Aired 10/21/1962
Mrs. Bronson causes trouble again -- by moving in to her promised apartment on the day it was promised to her -- but it's not finished! Once again she's adept at deflecting all opponents.
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7.8/1086 votesLoading...#16 - Put It in the Bank
Season 1 Episode 13 - Aired 12/10/1961
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.
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7.8/1074 votesLoading...#17 - Here We Go Again
Season 2 Episode 20 - Aired 2/3/1963
Muldoon's father, Patrick was a police captain and a hero -- or was he?
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7.7/1097 votesLoading...#18 - Love Finds Muldoon
Season 1 Episode 8 - Aired 11/5/1961
Lucille plays matchmaker for Francis.
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7.7/1087 votesLoading...#19 - Get Well, Officer Schnauser
Season 1 Episode 14 - Aired 12/17/1961
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."
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7.7/1074 votesLoading...#20 - Toody & Muldoon Crack Down
Season 1 Episode 18 - Aired 1/21/1962
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.
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7.7/1072 votesLoading...#21 - 142 Tickets on the Aisle
Season 2 Episode 13 - Aired 12/9/1962
When the boys of the 53rd Precinct suddenly show an interest in the clean and uplifting Broadway epic "Little Miss Pioneer," so does the prurient public.
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7.7/1078 votesLoading...#22 - Here Comes Charlie
Season 2 Episode 23 - Aired 2/24/1963
The boys of the 53rd Precinct attempt to help rehabilitate chronically drunk Charlie by finding him a job where he won't be tempted to drink, but the officers'regular visits to check up on Charlie have an unnerving effect on his teetotalist coworkers. A Larry Storch tour de force!
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7.7/1086 votesLoading...#23 - See You at the Bar Mitzvah
Season 2 Episode 24 - Aired 3/3/1963
When the boys find out that no one is going to the Bar Mitzvah of one boy on their basketball team because of his hated father, they spring into action.
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7.7/1075 votesLoading...#24 - Lucille Is 40
Season 2 Episode 27 - Aired 3/24/1963
Lucille is upset over turning 40, so Gunther decides to surprise her by buying her a wig for a birthday gift, a deceptively simple endeavor fraught with misunderstanding and melodrama when nosy Sylvia Schnauser stumbles upon the scheme.
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7.7/1074 votesLoading...#25 - The Loves of Sylvia Schnauser
Season 2 Episode 28 - Aired 3/31/1963
Sylvia Schnauser helps the police dept. to set a trap for con artists posing as book publishers.
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The Best Episodes of Car 54, Where Are You?
Every episode of Car 54, Where Are You? ranked from best to worst. Let's dive into the Best Episodes of Car 54, Where Are You?!
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...
Genre:Comedy
Network:NBC
Best Episodes Summary
"The Biggest Day of the Year" is the best rated episode of "Car 54, Where Are You?". It scored 8.6/10 based on 84 votes. Directed by N/A and written by N/A, it aired on 2/17/1963. This episode scored 0.2 points higher than the second highest rated, "Toody Undercover".