The actor who played Captain Block appeared on The Munsters episode as the head of a car company, who turns out to be a wizard who put a curse on the Ford Edsel.
Joe E. Ross. Ooh 😮 Ooh 😮! That used to just crack me up as a kid watching this show. I tried it in school one day and cracked up the teacher and the class. What great actors these folks were.
With so many downright inane TV shows that stayed on the air for 5 years and longer, I can’t understand how this show lasted only two years. I have been watching it on TH-cam a lot lately and it strikes me as being one of the best comedies of all time. It must’ve ran into some bad scheduling. It is far too good to have lasted only two years.
Nat Hiken, the show’s writer & producer, couldn’t work with Joe E Ross more than 2 years. Hiken discovered Ross in a dive bar in Miami & gave him a role on Sgt Bilko. Ross was a slob, a drunk, a drug user & married 8 hookers. Ross decided he was the star of Car 54 and became impossible to work with. Hiken tried to fire Ross but Ross became hysterical, so Hiken ended the show.
@@alfredhitchcock1041 well Alfred l can't believe that Ross's real life was more bizarre of any fantasy stories on your Alfred Hitchcock presents series. Well he is pretty quirky on the show, but we never thought he'd be like this in real life. Unless you're pulling our leg
I'm 74 and I laughed my ass off. The next day at school we made up one liners as different characters !😂😂 From watching all the classics- Sid Ceasar and cast, Steve Allen and the comedy shows from 1957-65 I developed a satirical sense of humor. I notice that people in my age group have such a better sense of humor !😂
ALL OF THESE VARIOUS OLDER CLASSIC TV EPISODES ARE REALLY GREAT TO SEE ONCE AGAIN SO MANY YEARS AFTER THE DAYS OF OUR YOUTH WITH MANY NOW VERY WELL KNOWN ACTORS BEFORE THEY REACHED THEIR ULTIMATE FAME - THANK YOU VERY MUCH FOR FINDING AND POSTING THEM.
I've only watched maybe 6 episodes of Car 54 in my entire life. Today I watched another on your channel. Ty for sharing. I had to sub, so I can watch more. Joe E makes me laugh, and when I'm not laughing, I'm just sitting there with a huge smile on my face til I laugh again.
If you watch the Original Twilight Zone, the Police Psychiatrist is featured in the Episode "It's a Good Life." He's the guy who gets transformed into the Jack in the Box at the end and 'wished away into the cornfield.'
The psychiatrist is played by Don Keefer, who was the unfortunate victim of being turned in to a jack-in-the-box by Anthony Freemont in the Twilight Zone episode "It's a Good Life." As it turns out, being "wished in to the cornfield" means being sent to The Bronx to analyze Al Lewis, Charlotte Rae, and Joe E. Ross.
Larry Storch also played a part in the "Pretzel Annie" episode as a drunk who got drunk just talking about the neighborhood bars and how they served drinks. Truly funny routine.
Thanks, Pippy, for posting CAR-54. I haven't seen CAR-54 since I was a teenager back in the 1960's, it was one of my favorite shows and watching it now really brings back a lot of memories. You are one, COOL-CHICK!
+Marlene Ansley Weird, because i was born several years after the show, I refer to the characters as Grandpa Monster and Mrs Garrett. Sylvia Snauser was a nasty character a counter-muse similar to Mrs Oleson on "Little House On The Prairie".
Larry Storch been acting a long time I see, this is the first seen him this young, he's been on so many tv series such as "Columbo", "CHiPs" & in movie "Airport 1975" to name a few. He's 97 going on 98 January 8, 2021. Good actor.
Charlotte Rae (aka Mrs Whitney from Bilko, also Private Flaschmann at the beginning and Private Mullen (albeit it as a extra). Though this was one of Al Lewis' finest performances in this series.
Seance people emerged during.the 1860's. People.back then wanted to get on touch with relatives killed during the Civil.War. After wards. it became a big fad lasted into the.early 20th century.
It's always a madcap good time when Sylvia runs amok, but the best part has to be Toody going so far undercover he can't remember his old life... on a ten minute assignment.
This episode plays like a vaudeville sketch from the good old days. You don't know where the plot is going to go next and it's fun throughout. It's interesting that they give Larry Storch screen credit. He does very little in the episode. It must be an example of an agency's "deal". I love pippykins channel!
Thanks for posting these Pippykins. I was unaware of this show until I recently watched the Munsters on Netflix and a friend mentioned it. Great to see Fred Gwynne and Al Lewis together in this as well. :)
Like most things today situation comedies have pretty much gone by the wayside. Let me be more thorough, network television as a whole has pretty much run out gas with the on slough of social networking etc. virtually extinguishing television viewing as we once knew it when growing up in the 50's & 60's. These here classic shows never seem to lose their charm & even become funnier with age.
i remember watching car 54 in the 60s as a child. the times of the day. they nver showed a husband and wife in one bed together. even Lucy and DESI slept in separate beds. yet they never thought twice of smoking. every movie in the 40s youd see the lady or male lead pop out a cigarette and light it. ..
No pastrami in today's Bronx. I mean real pastrami at the Jewish deli. or is there one left in Riverdale? and this is how I know Charlotte Rae...this and Bilko. And Al Lewis.
@@Rodin99 It'll eventually be lost to gentrification, just like everything else. "Here today (and everyday for almost a hundred years) gone tomorrow...
I be interested to find how many of the show's extras are still among the living. Probably some or most of the kids in several episodes, and Muldoon's two younger sisters might still be around too.
Does anyone know anything about the actor that plays Alvin (Maurice Brenner)? I know that he was on Nat Hiken's Sgt Bilko as Fleischmann and that he died in a care home for indigent actors--any new info would be great!
He is in another episode, maybe more, as officer Julie working the precinct's switchboard. The episode with Jack Weston as officer Luther Snitkin for sure.
FRED GWEN WAS HURMAN MUNSTER AND EVON DE CARLO WAS LILY MUNSTER HURMAN MUNSTERS WIFE AND BEVERLY OWEN WAS THEIR DAUGHTER AND BUCH PATRICK WAS EDDIE MUNSTER THEIR SON AND I'VE GOT SIRES ONE AND TWO ON DVD AND IT WAS A VERY FUNNY COMEDY ACTOR IN THE MUNSTERS AND SADLY FRED GWEN DIED AND HE WAS A VERY TALL ACTOR IN THE MUNSTERS 😔
Absurdism at its best! I think this show was just too much for the American public. Most of the 60's was really bad TV (at least the sit-coms) and this was did not fit into a neat slot. Too bad for us. 😥😥
Those were the days, when excellent writers produced great manuscripts for excellent tv-shows!
I cannot believe HOW HILARIOUS the part in the Locker room was at the end!
I was LAUGHING OUT LOUD!!!! 😂🤣😂🤣😂🤧🤥😂😭😭😭😭😭😭😭
Charlotte Rae and Al Lewis were fabulous together. Still hilarious after all these years.
Yes.
Capt. Block kills me with that look.
Hilarious episode. Could not stop laughing. 😄
The actor who played Captain Block appeared on The Munsters episode as the head of a car company, who turns out to be a wizard who put a curse on the Ford Edsel.
I remember. Was hillarious.
Joe E. Ross. Ooh 😮 Ooh 😮! That used to just crack me up as a kid watching this show. I tried it in school one day and cracked up the teacher and the class. What great actors these folks were.
Hope you did "I knew it...I knew it" and "Do you Mind" as well!
Fred Quinn a great judge in my cousin vinny!
Car 54 was an example of good things happening inside that old silent movie studio in The Bronx in NYC .
With so many downright inane TV shows that stayed on the air for 5 years and longer, I can’t understand how this show lasted only two years. I have been watching it on TH-cam a lot lately and it strikes me as being one of the best comedies of all time. It must’ve ran into some bad scheduling. It is far too good to have lasted only two years.
Nat Hiken, the show’s writer & producer, couldn’t work with Joe E Ross more than 2 years. Hiken discovered Ross in a dive bar in Miami & gave him a role on Sgt Bilko. Ross was a slob, a drunk, a drug user & married 8 hookers. Ross decided he was the star of Car 54 and became impossible to work with. Hiken tried to fire Ross but Ross became hysterical, so Hiken ended the show.
@@alfredhitchcock1041 well Alfred l can't believe that Ross's real life was more bizarre of any fantasy stories on your Alfred Hitchcock presents series. Well he is pretty quirky on the show, but we never thought he'd be like this in real life. Unless you're pulling our leg
Uncle David's ghost didn't want anything to do with his nephew Alvin when he found that he was completely broke 😂
I'm 74 and I laughed my ass off. The next day at school we made up one liners as different characters !😂😂 From watching all the classics- Sid Ceasar and cast, Steve Allen and the comedy shows from 1957-65 I developed a satirical sense of humor.
I notice that people in my age group have such a better sense of humor !😂
ALL OF THESE VARIOUS OLDER CLASSIC TV EPISODES ARE REALLY GREAT TO SEE ONCE AGAIN SO MANY YEARS AFTER THE DAYS OF OUR YOUTH WITH MANY NOW VERY WELL KNOWN ACTORS BEFORE THEY REACHED THEIR ULTIMATE FAME - THANK YOU VERY MUCH FOR FINDING AND POSTING THEM.
Imagine some of today’s actors trying to make this stuff work?
Another great episode 😅
I've only watched maybe 6 episodes of Car 54 in my entire life. Today I watched another on your channel. Ty for sharing. I had to sub, so I can watch more. Joe E makes me laugh, and when I'm not laughing, I'm just sitting there with a huge smile on my face til I laugh again.
If you watch the Original Twilight Zone, the Police Psychiatrist is featured in the Episode "It's a Good Life." He's the guy who gets transformed into the Jack in the Box at the end and 'wished away into the cornfield.'
I love this show....
The psychiatrist is played by Don Keefer, who was the unfortunate victim of being turned in to a jack-in-the-box by Anthony Freemont in the Twilight Zone episode "It's a Good Life." As it turns out, being "wished in to the cornfield" means being sent to The Bronx to analyze Al Lewis, Charlotte Rae, and Joe E. Ross.
It's not a Police Station, it's a madhouse! AMAAAAAAADDDDDDDDHHOOOOUUUUSE!!!!!!!!!!
Larry Storch also played a part in the "Pretzel Annie" episode as a drunk who got drunk just talking about the neighborhood bars and how they served drinks. Truly funny routine.
"Charlie the drunk"
I think he plays that character in two episodes.
@@kidmack1121 He's actually in a third episode about police brutality.
Thanks, Pippy, for posting CAR-54. I haven't seen CAR-54 since I was a teenager back in the 1960's, it was one of my favorite shows and watching it now really brings back a lot of memories. You are one, COOL-CHICK!
Excellent episode of Var 54 Where Are You ?
Car 54 great stuff. 66 yrs old and still watching the God old oldest. Thanks guys!
Hi
OMG I forgot that Mrs Garrett was in this series!! Thanks for the upload.. they just don't make 'em like this anymore!
absolute genius writing...
Beyond words. And really...... Sylvia!
I LOVED this show! I was about 9 or ten years old when I watched this! :)
+Marlene Ansley Weird, because i was born several years after the show, I refer to the characters as Grandpa Monster and Mrs Garrett. Sylvia Snauser was a nasty character a counter-muse similar to Mrs Oleson on "Little House On The Prairie".
me to i was about 10
Larry Storch been acting a long time I see, this is the first seen him this young, he's been on so many tv series such as "Columbo", "CHiPs" & in movie "Airport 1975" to name a few. He's 97 going on 98 January 8, 2021. Good actor.
You forgot Larry as Corporal Agarn in F Troop. That show was a hoot.
He was even on Married With Children, as an acting school teacher I think...
I watched this when I was a kid. Still funny!
the dog in your profile picture is very cute!
I just love how Queen Elizabeth II was a punchline in this episode in 1962 and she's still queen in 2021.
She will still be Queen when entropy claims the universe
@@Salt-Upon-Woundss, are you Prince Charles?
Charlotte Rae (aka Mrs Whitney from Bilko, also Private Flaschmann at the beginning and Private Mullen (albeit it as a extra). Though this was one of Al Lewis' finest performances in this series.
Seance people emerged during.the 1860's. People.back then wanted to get on touch with relatives killed during the Civil.War. After wards. it became a big fad lasted into the.early 20th century.
I was on about a dozen episodes of Blue Bloods. I'd give them all up to go back in time to do 1 episode of Car 54.
Fay Dewitt had such an awesome accent
It's always a madcap good time when Sylvia runs amok, but the best part has to be Toody going so far undercover he can't remember his old life... on a ten minute assignment.
This episode plays like a vaudeville sketch from the good old days. You don't know where the plot is going to go next and it's fun throughout. It's interesting that they give Larry Storch screen credit. He does very little in the episode. It must be an example of an agency's "deal". I love pippykins channel!
I believe the same woman who acts as the voice of the spirit is the Russian woman in another episode.
This is great, because Al lewis played as a Count in the Munsters.
grampa
Dehydrated Water AND in another episode Muldoon aka Fred Gwynne was described as “like Frankenstein” I think you’re right!
Corp Agarn.meets Granpa Munster.
He was in an episode of "Gomer Pyle USMC" as well. Great actor he was.
That's right, the Munsters! I was so young, but this reminded me of how hi tech we thought it was when color TV came out!
Charlotte Rae always overacted her character in every episode she was in...such a beautifully done comedy act.
Larry Storch is looking real young here, but In F Troop, he was the best.
Good funny classic shit man......LOL
✌❤🇨🇦
Thanks for posting these Pippykins. I was unaware of this show until I recently watched the Munsters on Netflix and a friend mentioned it. Great to see Fred Gwynne and Al Lewis together in this as well. :)
Funny episode !!
Toody.... "I'm Goo Goo"
"You know how some people think they're Napoleon... well, I'd settle for that" :)
Larry "Corporal AGARNE" Storch, what a comedy genius
LIKE OLD TIMES, THANK UPLOADER!!!!!!!!!!!
You have to see the one with Storch when he was a drunk and they were trying to rehabilitate him.
A VERY FUNNY COMEDY episode OF CAR 54 WHERE ARE YOU 😁
few of these actors are in the phill sivers show best ever
Love Charlotte Rae.
⌚⌚⌚⌚⌚⌚TIMELESS COMEDY SERIES
🚔🚔🚔🚔🚔🚔CAR 54
📺📺📺📺📺📺TV AT ITS BEST
OMG This is so funny it's better than anything i've ever seen on television!
Fantastic
Like most things today situation comedies have pretty much gone by the wayside. Let me be more thorough, network television as a whole has pretty much run out gas with the on slough of social networking etc. virtually extinguishing television viewing as we once knew it when growing up in the 50's & 60's. These here classic shows never seem to lose their charm & even become funnier with age.
i remember watching car 54 in the 60s as a child. the times of the day. they nver showed a husband and wife in one bed together. even Lucy and DESI slept in separate beds. yet they never thought twice of smoking. every movie in the 40s youd see the lady or male lead pop out a cigarette and light it. ..
Gpa breaking the 4th wall. Lol hilarious!
Charlotte Rae was unbelievable.
I make a pot roast with a Jewish recipe and have it with German potato pancakes and gravy because of this episode.
The episode I believe was called the Fregosi emerald.
LOL! my name is Sonia and my Gypsy father sent me this channel
The lady in curlers with the cigarette. The red general in toddy and muldoon meet the russians......
To think there are people who believe in fortune tellers..And there allowed to vote..
They're, sorry just couldn't let it go by. Now i am going to miss spell,any somebody will call me on it.
TH-cam is just great. the signal is stoping a lot.
No pastrami in today's Bronx. I mean real pastrami at the Jewish deli. or is there one left in Riverdale? and this is how I know Charlotte Rae...this and Bilko. And Al Lewis.
Is it true they make the pastrami out of White babies?
LIEBMAN'S Kosher
552 W 235th St.
Between Johnson and Oxford in Kingsbridge
Only been there since 1953!
I'm going there next trip up there.
@@kidmack1121 in that case I need to go before they close...or maybe they have with the pandemic...I mean for good.
@@Rodin99
It'll eventually be lost to gentrification, just like everything else.
"Here today (and everyday for almost a hundred years) gone tomorrow...
@@kidmack1121 you said it
Toody.... What was she like????
Isn't that Corporal Agarn? F Troop?
Yes it is !
Yes, the great character actor Larry Storch
They were great to bad they are gone now
I be interested to find how many of the show's extras are still among the living.
Probably some or most of the kids in several episodes, and Muldoon's two younger sisters might still be around too.
Does anyone know anything about the actor that plays Alvin (Maurice Brenner)? I know that he was on Nat Hiken's Sgt Bilko as Fleischmann and that he died in a care home for indigent actors--any new info would be great!
He is in another episode, maybe more, as officer Julie working the precinct's switchboard.
The episode with Jack Weston as officer Luther Snitkin for sure.
Sylvia.............
AHHHAAAHA o man... The Power of Suggestion
Playing checkers on the dashboard. Is that considered distracted driving?
Only if it's chess.
fabulou
Was Fred Gwynne using a hearing aid? The scene in the locker room looks like he's wearing one and then it seems to disappear. Just curious.
wow larry storch
Hi
It's not so funny when the joke is on you...
FRED GWEN WAS HURMAN MUNSTER AND EVON DE CARLO WAS LILY MUNSTER HURMAN MUNSTERS WIFE AND BEVERLY OWEN WAS THEIR DAUGHTER AND BUCH PATRICK WAS EDDIE MUNSTER THEIR SON AND I'VE GOT SIRES ONE AND TWO ON DVD AND IT WAS A VERY FUNNY COMEDY ACTOR IN THE MUNSTERS AND SADLY FRED GWEN DIED AND HE WAS A VERY TALL ACTOR IN THE MUNSTERS 😔
Absurdism at its best! I think this show was just too much for the American public.
Most of the 60's was really bad TV (at least the sit-coms) and this was did not fit into a neat slot.
Too bad for us. 😥😥
It was that blasted cold war that ended this show. If they left that nonsense out car 54 could have lasted many years.
The one thing i didn't like about this episode was it felt like the con artists got away with it
Sylvia's timing on history is a little off even though she's quite funny with her delusion. The last Czar died in 1918.
LOL!!! 23:46
Wacky.