CAR 54 WHERE ARE YOU?

Details

• Release Year: 1961
• Genre: Comedy
• Plot: Many critics, comedians and TV fans have long considered Car 54 Where Are You on of the most brilliant laugh out loud comedy series ever to appear on television. Creator Nat Hiken was already famous for his highly acclaimed Sgt. Bilko show, and when the opportunity to do another TV series came up, he threw himself into the task – writing, producing, casting and directing. The result is a hilarious masterpiece, rich with New York humor and characters in scripts that were polished jewels of lunacy.; ; The show stars Joe E. Ross as the bumbling Gunther Toody and Fred Gwynne as the cultured Francis Muldoon with a supporting cast that includes Beatrice Pons as Toody's domineering shrew of a wife, Al Lewis as the irascible Officer Leo Schnauser, Charlotte Rae as Schnauser's moody hot-tempered wife, and Paul Reed as the perpetually exasperated Captain Block. This first season also features memorable guest star appearances by show biz pros Wally Cox, Jan Murray, Molly Picon, Maureen Stapleton and many more. ; ; Created at a time when a comedy genius like Nat Hiken could work unfettered by network demands for formulaic far, Car 54 Where Are You stands today as one of the greatest achievements in television comedy.
• Cast: Joe E. Ross; Fred Gwynne; Paul Reed; Al Lewis; Hank Garrett; Beatrice Pons; Jack Healy; Albert Henderson; Frederick O'Neal; Jimmy Little; Nipsey Russell; Ruth Masters; Charlotte Rae; Jim Gormley; Joe Warren; Bruce Kirby; Duke Farley; Phillip Carter; Gerald Hiken; Mickey Deems; Mel Stewart; Lawrence Fletcher; Ossie Davis; Nathaniel Frey; Jerome Guardino; Martha Greenhouse; Heywood Hale Broun; Jake LaMotta; John C. Becher; Matt Crowley; Maurice Brenner; Lou Polan; Larry Storch; Billy Sands; Shelley Burton; Al Nesor; Patricia Bright; Bernard West; Michael Vale; Dort Clark; Paul Lipson; Arthur Anderson; Molly Picon; John Alexander; B.S. Pully; Nancy Donohue; Carl Ballantine; Howard Freeman; Paul O'Keefe; Helene Parker; Mildred Clinton; Harry Gresham; Maurice Shrog; Dan Frazer; John Gibson; Dave Kerman; Dana Elcar; Judith Lowry; Alan Manson; Gene Baylos; Alice Ghostley; Lisa Loughlin; Shari Lewis; Charles Nelson Reilly; Ralph Stantley; John McGovern; Margaret Hamilton; Eugene Troobnick; Sybil Lamb; Lu Leonard; Mara Lynn; Henry Lascoe; Phil Leeds; Arlene Golonka; James Dukas; Teddy Hart; Will Hussung; Truman Smith; Florence Anglin; Milo Boulton; Bryant Fraser; Mark Dawson; Hugh Downs; Maureen Stapleton; Wally Cox; Bruce Gordon; Mitch Miller; Jan Murray; Tom Bosley; Jules Munshin; Sugar Ray Robinson; Simon Oakland; Jack Gilford; Rocky Graziano; Sybil Bowan; Severn Darden; June Jerome; George Mathews; Richard Morse; Jacob Kalich; Conrad Nagel; Anne Russell; Sorrell Booke; Frank Campanella; Kenny Delmar; Fay DeWitt; Elisabeth Fraser; Barnard Hughes; David Hurst; Leon Janney; Jay Jostyn; Erik Rhodes; Shepperd Strudwick; Helen Verbit; Godfrey Cambridge; Joe De Santis; Claude Gersene; Zandu Scott; Paula Stewart; John O'Leary; Robert Hastings; Don Keefer; Jeremiah Morris; Ned Wertimer; Edward Atienza; Humphrey Davis; Frank Gioseffi; Van Dexter; Bruce Glover; Walter Arnold; Brandon Maggart; Mona Moore; Harold Norman; Vincent Lynch; Sandi Vincent; Douglas Herrick; Michael Gorrin; Phil Kennedy; Edwin Bruce; Diana Deer; Jock McGraw; Janet Fox; Charles Mayer; Elba Ocampo; Tony Corrado; Shelley Berman; Jane White; Sara Dolley; Greg Morris; Jerry Jarrett; Rik Colitti; Bob Kaliban; Joseph Sweeney; Tom Ahearne; Sally Demay; Gilbert Mack; David Doyle; Diane Deering; Robert Ader; Maria Pinckard; Wayne Wilson; Billie Allen; Arthur Clark; George Del Monte; Everett Everett; Larry Gaynes; George McCoy; Mike Dana; House Jameson; Jock Livingston; Barney Martin; Janet Paul; Florence Robinson; Michael Conrad; William Fort; Fred Harper; Jane Rose; Nicholas Saunders; Sammy Smith; Loretta White; Elizabeth Eustis; Ruth Kobart; Joe Alfasa; Ivy Allen; Jimmy Archer; Marc Alan Austen; Amelie Barleon; Martin E. Brooks; Walter Butterfield; Bill Cameron; Milton Chapman; Lance Cunard; Allan Frank; Tom Geraghty; Jerry Graff; Duane Harper Grant; Mark Hunter; K. Kadison; George Kane; David Kurlan; Abby Lewis; Edwin Lindstrom; Stella Longo; Sylvia Mann; Arne Markusson; Frank Marth; Gloria McCarty; Scotty Moore; John Murphy; Mike O'Dowd; Dick O'Neill; Anita O'Shayne; Iris Paul; Shelly Post; Albert Quinton; Sindee Ann Richards; Ken Roberts; Wood Romoff; Sonnie Sands; Alan Sokoloff; Robert Spiro; Leonard Stea; James Valentine; David Vogel; Claire Waring; Virginia Wilson; Elaine Winters; Bernie Allen; Alice Beardsley; Lou Bernard; Sammy Birch; Jim Boles; Raymond Bramley; Philip Bruns; Roger C. Carmel; Gordon B. Clarke; Nicholas Colasanto; Patricia Cutts; Edgar Daniels; Toni Darnay; Rex Everhart; Betty Garde; Frank Gio; Lucy Greeno; Janis Hansen; Ben Hayes; Hilda Haynes; Katherine Helmond; Patrick Horgan; Harry Hornick; George S. Irving; James Karen; Lainie Kazan; Louise Kirtland; Walter Klavun; Ronald Knight; Lucy Landau; Art Lewis; Athena Lorde; Monica May; Parker McCormick; Frank Milano; Thelma Pelish; Dick Powell; Charles Randall; Bobby Randell; Robbie Reed; Richard Roat; Eugene Roche; Brooks Rogers; Cecil Roy; Mel Ruick; John Seymour; Joe Silver; Stanley Simmonds; Arnold Soboloff; Alfred Spindelman; Harry Stanton; Jean Stapleton; Joseph Sullivan; Noel Thomas; Victor Thorley; Ted Thurston; Herb Voland; Marie Wallace; Bill Wendell; Ruth White; Richard Winter; Bill Adler; Rae Allen; Herschel Bernardi; Ed Bryce; Vince Carrol; Edwin Cooper; Amelia Darling; Jim Demarest; Jack Dodson; Joe Downing; Wally Engelhardt; Brendan Fay; Joey Faye; Nicholas Grimes; Lou Herbert; Patricia Hosley; Walter Kinsella; Alfred Leberfeld; Hal Linden; Joe E. Marks; Joe Marr; Kenneth Mars; Paul Melton; Sylvia Miles; Dan Morgan; Richard Mulligan; Terry O'Sullivan; Jon Richards; Arthur Rubin; Beatrice Ruth; Reuben Singer; Elaine Swann; Ed Wagner; Charles White; Nat Hiken; Al De Caprio; Stanley Prager; Tony Webster; Terry Ryan; Gary Belkin; Art Baer; Ben Joelson; Will Glickman; Sydney Zelinka; Billy Friedberg; Martin Roth; Buddy Arnold; Harold Flender; Bob Howard; Louis Solomon; Robert Van Scoyk; Max Wilk
• Director: Nat Hiken
• Runtime: 13:00
• Company: Shanachie
• Media Format: Series