7.5/10129 votes#1 - Who's for Swordfish?
Season 1 Episode 1 - Aired 9/17/1961
In the pilot, the boys are desperate to angle for swordfish. After shift-swapping with the entire precinct and avoiding any issuance of tickets (to avert court duty), will they go?
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7.3/10107 votes#2 - Something Nice for Sol
Season 1 Episode 2 - Aired 9/24/1961
Gunther Toody drives the entire station batty chairing the committee to get everyone's favorite desk Sgt. Sol Abrams a surprise 25 year present. Toody keeps changing his little mind seeking the perfect gift, and insists on parliamentary procedure for meetings. Abrams' sore feet confine him to desk work, so he worries that it'll be 25 and out, if the brass find out how bad the precinct's sweetheart's hurting.
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7.5/1090 votes#3 - Home Sweet Sing Sing
Season 1 Episode 3 - Aired 10/1/1961
The boys use extraordinary techniques to rehabilitate a recently released petty thief. Unfortunately, Benny has other ideas.
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7.6/1098 votes#4 - Change Your Partner
Season 1 Episode 4 - Aired 10/8/1961
Toody and Muldoon's 9 blissful years as partners stun a researcher who finds the average prowl car pair last only 16 months before screaming to be switched. If the NYPD management engineer can discover their secret and replicate it, that'll save the blue brass many headaches. But Gunther and Francis' precinct mates don't want to know what actually goes on in Car 54, or even worse: can New York's finest clone empty-headed chatterbox Toody and somber, cerebral Muldoon ?
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8.0/10106 votes#5 - 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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7.4/1094 votes#6 - Muldoon's Star
Season 1 Episode 6 - Aired 10/22/1961
Toody convinces 'Tessie the Torso', a buxom sex-symbol, to stay at Francis's mother's house. It turns out, Muldoon is a huge fan.
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7.5/1098 votes#7 - The Paint Job
Season 1 Episode 7 - Aired 10/29/1961
A car thieving ring is using an auto body shop to paint stolen cars and resell them. The 53rd is down to only two patrol cars, so the boys are desperate to keep their beloved car 54. When it's damaged by a pulled-over driver, they take it to the same repair shop.
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7.7/1097 votes#8 - Love Finds Muldoon
Season 1 Episode 8 - Aired 11/5/1961
Lucille plays matchmaker for Francis.
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7.5/1089 votes#9 - The Gypsy Curse
Season 1 Episode 9 - Aired 11/12/1961
The boys are told to shut down a gypsy ripoff artist, and when they do, the gypsy puts a curse on Toody.
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7.1/1077 votes#10 - Thirty Days Notice
Season 1 Episode 10 - Aired 11/19/1961
Gunther and Lucille Toody give their landlord notice because they're fed up with their crumbling apartment.
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7.0/1082 votes#11 - Catch Me on the Paar Show
Season 1 Episode 11 - Aired 11/26/1961
After a chance traffic stop with Hugh Downs, Gunther finagles an appearance on the Jack Paar show of a fellow officer he thinks is funny.
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7.1/1083 votes#12 - The Taming of Lucille
Season 1 Episode 12 - Aired 12/3/1961
Toody is feeling henpecked by Lucille, but musters the courage to become king of his castle after seeing a stirring performance of Shakespeare's "The Taming of the Shrew."
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7.8/1086 votes#13 - 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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7.7/1087 votes#14 - 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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7.1/10103 votes#15 - Christmas at the 53rd
Season 1 Episode 15 - Aired 12/24/1961
The boys from the 53rd put on a Christmas review. Two Gilbert & Sullivan parodies featuring Capt. Block & Muldoon, a heart-tugging song from Toody, and other sketches.
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7.1/1077 votes#16 - The Sacrifice
Season 1 Episode 16 - Aired 1/7/1962
Muldoon's the big expert on rules and regulations, but he's scared to take the test to become a sergeant.
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7.9/10106 votes#17 - 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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7.7/1074 votes#18 - 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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7.5/1079 votes#19 - Toody's Paradise
Season 1 Episode 19 - Aired 1/28/1962
Toody is on an undercover detail in Brooklyn with a female cop as his wife and a small boy as his child. When Lucille's sister spots him there, the rumors start flying wildly.
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7.4/1089 votes#20 - How High Is Up?
Season 1 Episode 20 - Aired 2/4/1962
Muldoon discovers he's grown an inch to 6-foot-seven, putting him one inch over the police regulation and putting him over the edge with paranoia about his height.
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7.4/1084 votes#21 - Toody and the Art World
Season 1 Episode 21 - Aired 2/11/1962
Toody is the only person who can appreciate Karpathia's abstract masterpiece, "Lower Manhattan at Sunset (from the New Jersey Side)." This episode features an inspired performance from Severn Darden.
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7.9/1093 votes#22 - 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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7.6/1087 votes#23 - How Smart Can You Get?
Season 1 Episode 23 - Aired 2/25/1962
The smartest rookie cop is assigned to ride w/chatty Toody & reticent Muldoon. Can Car 54 survive, now that Muldoon has stimulating conversation?
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8.3/10103 votes#24 - 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 votes#25 - 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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The Best Episodes of Car 54, Where Are You? Season 1
Every episode of Car 54, Where Are You? Season 1 ranked from best to worst. Discover the Best Episodes of Car 54, Where Are You? Season 1!
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
Season 1 Ratings Summary
"Who's for Swordfish?" is the best rated episode of "Car 54, Where Are You?" season 1. It scored 7.5/10 based on 129 votes. Directed by N/A and written by N/A, it aired on 9/17/1961. This episode is rated 0.2 points higher than the second-best, "Something Nice for Sol".