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Fred Gwynne and Joe E. Ross. Car 54, Where Are You? is an American sitcom that aired on NBC from September 1961 to April 1963. Filmed in black and white, the series starred Joe E. Ross as Gunther Toody and Fred Gwynne as Francis Muldoon, two mismatched New York City police officers who patrol the fictional 53rd precinct in The Bronx.
Gunther and Lucille Toody are fed up with their crumbling apartment. However, all they had to do to get an upgrade is pay 15 percent more, but cheap Toody won't do it. In a moment of anger, Toody tells Mr. Corfu the landlord ( Henry Lascoe ) off and gives his 30-day notice, much to Lucille's horror.
After The Phil Silvers Show ended in 1959, Nat Hiken went on to produce Car 54, Where Are You? and cast Ross as Patrolman Gunther Toody of New York's 53rd Precinct. Fred Gwynne, another Bilko alumnus, played Toody's partner, Francis Muldoon. Toody could usually be counted on at some point to say "Ooh! Ooh!", or "Do you mind? Do—you—mind?".
Partnered in Car 54 are the brash Gunther Toody and the prim, proper Francis Muldoon. Toody and Muldoon's boss, Captain Anderson, assigns them to protect citizen Herbert Hortz, an important witness in the impending trial of local organized crime boss Don Motti.
Author John Gunther, who traveled the world, was host of this series and narrated it. [1] The show ranged "from Manhattan to the Himalayas in search of program material". [2] Subjects of episodes went beyond geographic locations to include topics such as jazz music and space travel, leading Gunther to summarize the series as "inside everywhere ...
James Michael Tyler (May 28, 1962 – October 24, 2021) was an American actor best known for portraying Gunther on the NBC sitcom Friends. [5] Prior to acting, he was an assistant film editor and production assistant. [1] His early works included being the production assistant for Fat Man and Little Boy.
Kim Fields Morgan (née Fields, formerly Freeman) is an American actress and director.She first gained fame as a child actress on the television series Good Times (1978–1979), and rose to greater prominence for her role as Dorothy "Tootie" Ramsey in the NBC sitcom Diff'rent Strokes (1979–1981), as well as its spin-off The Facts of Life (1979–1988).
Gunther Hessenheffer, a character from Disney's TV series Shake It Up; Gunther Thurl, a fictional character in the webcomic Schlock Mercenary; Gunther Toody, a fictional character in the television show Car 54, Where Are You? (and the film based thereon) Gunther, a disguise used by Count Olaf in A Series of Unfortunate Events