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The series follows the adventures of New York City Police Department officers Gunther Toody (Joe E. Ross), badge #1432, and Francis Muldoon (Fred Gwynne), badge #723 and #1987 in early episodes, assigned to Patrol Car 54. Toody is short, stocky, nosy, and not very bright, and he lives with his loud, domineering wife Lucille (Beatrice Pons ...
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?".
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. At the same time, the two officers must deal with upheavals in their personal lives, as well as the day-to-day travails of being beat cops .
A criminal gang bases its heists on the plots of the television program "Crimebusters'. The program is also one of Officer Toody's favorite shows. When the gang pull their first heist, Toody explains how it was done to the Inspector (Lawrence Fletcher). The Inspector asks for Toody's help when a bank is robbed next.
Gunther Breech, a character in the Canadian animated TV show Jane and the Dragon; Bernie Gunther, the protagonist of Philip Kerr's Berlin Noir novels; Welkin Gunther, a character in the video game Valkyria Chronicles; Gunther Hermann, a character in the video game Deus Ex; Gunther Hessenheffer, a character from Disney's TV series Shake It Up
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 ...
Tailfins gave a Space Age look to cars, and along with extensive use of chrome became commonplace by the end of the decade. 1950s American automobile culture has had an enduring influence on the culture of the United States, as reflected in popular music, major trends from the 1950s and mainstream acceptance of the "hot rod" culture. The American manufacturing economy switched from producing ...
Wendt offers his best wishes to astronaut Walter M. Schirra Jr., command pilot of the 1965 Gemini 6A mission, as he arrives in the white room atop Pad 19.. As a McDonnell engineer, Wendt supervised spacecraft launch pad preparations at Cape Canaveral during the Mercury and Gemini crewed space programs beginning with the flight of Ham the chimpanzee in 1961.