flackjacket Wow, what an utter pile of steaming poop. Decades is showing a weekend "series binge" of this show, which I've never seen before. I usually like the old black and white shows, but this is pure crap. First is the annoying theme song, "Car 54 where are you?" The obvious answer based on the helium induced vocals would be, "Pushing in someone's stool."Joe E. Ross's character is like a three stooges reject, with his constant annoying, "Ew, ew, ew." And Fred Gwynne is a total idiot. Sad to say, he looked better with all the makeup he wore on the Munsters. They really should take all of the episodes of this train wreck, soak them in gasoline and set them on fire.

grizzledgeezer Nat Hiken's "You'll Never Get Rich" (later renamed "The Phil Silvers Show", but commonly known as "Sgt. Bilko") was the first //really good// American sitcom. It was actually funny. (The same basic premise -- a con man in the Army -- would later be "borrowed" by "F Troop".)I was 14 when "Car 54...", Hiken's follow-up series, premiered. It just wasn't up to "You'll Never Get Rich". Oh, there was a great episode or two (the one in which T&M attempt to get tickets for a play remains a classic), but the show, as a whole, disappointed me. Nothing in it matched Phil Silver's constant conniving.Watching reruns, I realize how unappreciative I was of the generally smart writing. The humor is mostly character-based, not the piling on of lame jokes and forced humor. New York, being the city it is, offered plenty of room for oddball situations (a lode which would further be mined by "Barney Miller".)"Car 54..." isn't a truly great sitcom, but it's better than 95% of the sitcoms that have (dis)graced American television. It's worth an occasional viewing.

kelly-anne312 I'm fourteen and I've always said I've grown up in the wrong times. Car 54 just proves it.I'm known for loving the classic TV shows, especially ones none of my friends have heard of or have never seen. I'm a huge fan of Car 54 and The Munsters.There's just something about programmes like them. My friends wouldn't watch them at all because they're in black and white and because some bits of humour I understand more than them.I'm also a huge fan of the classic Batman. It makes me think I should've grown up in the 50's and 60's, so I was around to watch them all when they first aired.Car 54 is, without a doubt, one of the most amazing TV shows in history!

democratsforbush i loved the theme song i wish it was on some cable or lptv channel i remember Nipsy Russel, was it his first TV gig? Fred Gwynne and Al lewis are a good comedy duo, later in the Munsters another cute showi did not realize that the networks tried to remake show. A modern day producer is too into anti USA propaganda and anti family themes this show was pure, fun.I would wait for it to come on and i would sing the theme song with them. I was very young and lived in the Bronx, so i was tickled when I heard the name Bronx, even though it was actually a negative comment about a holdup in the Bronx, Brooklyns broken out in fights.well , you know how it goes