Car 54 Where Are You: Complete First Season Review

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(More customer reviews)Somebody was drunk when they compiled the episodes for this set. Here is the correct viewing order:
117/Sep/61 Who's For Swordfish?
224/Sep/61 Something Nice for Sol
301/Oct/61 Home Sweet Sing Sing
408/Oct/61 Change Your Partners
515/Oct/61 I Won't Go
622/Oct/61 Muldoon's Star
729/Oct/61 Paint Job
805/Nov/61 Love Finds Muldoon
912/Nov/61 Gypsy Curse
1019/Nov/61 Thirty Days Notice
11 26/Nov/61 Catch Me on the Paar Show
12 03/Dec/61 The Taming of Lucille
13 10/Dec/61 Put It in the Bank
14 17/Dec/61 Get Well, Officer Schnauzer
15 24/Dec/61 Christmas at the 53rd
16 07/Jan/62 The Sacrifice
17 14/Jan/62 Boom, Boom, Boom
18 21/Jan/62 Toody and Muldoon Crack Down
19 28/Jan/62 Toody's Paradise
20 04/Feb/62 How High is Up?
21 11/Feb/62 Toody and the Art World
22 18/Feb/62 What Happened to Thursday?
23 25/Feb/62 How Smart Can You Get?
24 04/Mar/62 Today I Am a Man
25 11/Mar/62 No More Pickpockets
26 18/Mar/62 The Beast Who Walked the Bronx
27 25/Mar/62 The Courtship of Sylvia Schnauzer
28 01/Apr/62 The Auction
29 08/Apr/62 Quiet! We're Thinking
30 22/Apr/62 I Love Lucille
I knew something was wrong when disc 4 was telling me it had episodes with Al Lewis before he became a part of the police squad. In the first episode on disc 1 he is already a member, and the Christmas episode would NEVER be the last episode of the season. So the order was just messed up!

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Car 54 Where Are You, one of the best loved and funniest TV shows of alltime finally comes to DVD for the first time. All 30 episodes of theNat Hikenfirst season (1961-62) are included in a set of 4 DVDs, each newlyremastered from the only known set of 35 mm fine grain prints.The show stars Joe E. Ross as Gunther Toody and Fred Gwynne as FrancisMuldoon, a lovably inept squad car team that patrols the Bronx's 53rdprecinct. Muldoon plays the long-suffering voice of reason who invariablyreins in his short stocky partners dimwitted schemes and patiently listensto his hilariously inane prattle. The perfectly cast ensemble of supportingactors includes Beatrice Pons as Toodys domineering shrew of a wife, AlLewis as the rubber-faced, irascible Officer Leo Schnauser, Charlotte Rae asSchnausers moody, hot-tempered wife and Paul Reed as the perpetuallyexasperated captain Block. Each episode was filled out with talent drawnfrom New York's pool of seasoned film and TV veterans, borscht beltcomedians and Broadway stage actors, and the first season featuresmemorable guest star appearances by show biz pros Molly Picon, Wally Cox,Jan Murray, Maureen Stapleton, Jake La Motta and many more.The show was the brainchild of Nat Hiken, already famous for his highlyacclaimed Sgt. Bilko show, and many critics feel Car 54, with its quirkystory lines, offbeat characters and hilarious dialogue even surpassed Bilkoas a comic masterpiece. Drawing on his 25 years of writing experience fortop comedy shows on radio and television (Fred Allen, Milton Berle, MarthaRaye), Hiken created a show rich with New York humor and offbeat charactersin scripts that were polished jewels of comedy. Soon television would optfor more formulaic programming, and Car 54 Where Are You was the last gaspof an early golden era of New York television. Specifically shot as a bonus extra for this release is a brand-newfree-wheeling round table conversation between Bronx-raised comedian RobertKlein and two of the regular cast members --Charlotte Rae, who played SylviaSchnauser, and Hank Garrett, who played Officer Ed Nicholson, one of thecops of the 53rd precinct. Rae and Garrett share stories, anecdotes andmemories with Klein (a fan of Hikens work) that shed light on what went onbehind the scenes.

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