Who can forget watching in one’s youth the great sitcom Car 54, Where Are You? It aired for just two glorious seasons, from 1961 to 1963, on NBC on Sunday nights from 8:30 to 9:00 p.m. It was a memorable touch of wry reality, sandwiched between the fantasies of Walt Disney’s Wonderful World of Color and the drama of the Cartwrights of Bonanza. How charming were the comic adventures, the slightly ridiculous trials and tribulations, of those two lovable New York City cops, Officers Gunther Toody (Joe E. Ross) and Francis Muldoon (Fred Gwynne), whose patrol car was—you guessed it—Car No. 54!

And who can forget the great theme song, with its period lyrics from a time when Nikita Khrushchev still ran the Evil Empire and Kennedy airport was still named Idlewild?