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Chico and the Man
1974 - 1978 5.8 (12 votes) 4 Seasons
Genres
Comedy
Networks
NBC
Created By
James Komack

Chico and the Man

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Overview

Chico and the Man is an American sitcom which ran on NBC for four seasons, from September 13, 1974, to July 21, 1978. It stars Jack Albertson as Ed Brown, the cantankerous owner of a run down garage in an East Los Angeles barrio, and Freddie Prinze as Chico Rodriguez, an upbeat, optimistic Chicano young man who comes in looking for a job. It was the first U.S. television series set in a Mexican-American neighborhood.

Key Crew

Producer: James Komack, Hal Kanter

Top Cast

Freddie Prinze
Freddie Prinze

Chico Rodriguez

Della Reese
Della Reese

Della Rogers

Jack Albertson
Jack Albertson

Ed Brown

Scatman Crothers
Scatman Crothers

Louie

Charo
Charo

Aunt Charo

Seasons

Season 1 poster
Season 1 (1974)

No overview available.

22 episodes

Episodes
Episode 1: Pilot
1974-09-13

Conservative elderly man Ed Brown meets a Chicano man who rides in Ed's garage on a bike, looking for a job. After a day of persuasion, Ed agrees to give Chico a job as his mechanic.

Runtime: 30 min
Episode 2: Second Thoughts
1974-09-20

Ed has second thoughts about hiring Chico and tries as best as he can to get rid of him.

Runtime: 30 min
Episode 3: Old Dog
1974-09-27

Ed thinks that he lost his mechanic skills.

Runtime: 30 min
Episode 4: New Suit
1974-10-04

Ed does not want to attend his former Army reunion.

Runtime: 30 min
Episode 5: Borrowed Trouble
1974-10-11

Chico tries to persuade Ed to take a loan from the bank to improve conditions of customer service.

Runtime: 30 min
Episode 6: E Pluribus Used Car
1974-10-25

Louis gives Ed and Chico his used car to sell which gives Chico the idea of selling used cars as a part of Ed's business.

Runtime: 30 min
Episode 7: Lifestyle
1974-11-01

Ed thinks that something kinky was going on between Chico and his girlfriend when he caught them in the back seat of Chico's van.....but was Ed just jumping to conclusions?

Runtime: 30 min
Episode 8: Veterans
1974-11-08

Chico and Ed try getting Veterans financing from the Government.

Runtime: 30 min
Episode 9: No Room in the Garage
1974-11-15

A pregnant Spanish woman comes in the garage and Ed thinks that she is looking for him because he thinks that Chico may be the father of the unborn child.

Runtime: 30 min
Episode 10: The Letter
1974-12-06

Chico wants to participate with his cousin's business in New York.

Runtime: 30 min
Episode 11: Natural Causes
1974-12-20

When Ed hears about a death of an friend, he begins to think that he may be the next one to meet his maker.

Runtime: 30 min
Episode 12: The Manuel Who Came to Dinner
1974-12-27

A car is towed into Ed's garage and when this man comes to the garage, it turns out that this man was a Chicano friend of Ed's from the past.

Runtime: 30 min
Episode 13: Garage Sale
1975-01-03

An inspecor inspects Ed's garage and when he find a pile of junk in front of an emergency exit, he issues an ultimatum...Either he gets rid of the junk, or he gets a hefty fine. Ed then decides to profit from the ultimatum by having a garage sale.

Runtime: 30 min
Episode 14: Out of Sight
1975-01-17

Ed is determined to go to court to testify on a car accident that he may have witnessed with his eye problem.

Runtime: 30 min
Episode 15: The Beard
1975-01-24

Harold, a cheating husband counts on Ed to cover for him on his wild nights out.

Runtime: 30 min
Episode 16: If I Were a Rich Man
1975-01-31

Ed tries to snap Chico out of falling in love with and spending too much on a woman he has fallen in love with.

Runtime: 30 min
Episode 17: Ed Steps Out
1975-02-07

A widowed baker buys a bakery in the area and has her dibbs on Ed.

Runtime: 30 min
Episode 18: Sammy Steps In
1975-02-14

When his car acts up, Sammy Davis, Jr. pulls into the garage to get it fixed. However, he quickly learns that this is just no ordinary garage, with Sammy Davis, Jr. fans crawling out of the woodwork.

Runtime: 30 min
Episode 19: The Doctor Story
1975-02-21

Ed would rather fix his aching shoulder himself than go to see a doctor.

Runtime: 30 min
Episode 20: The Giveaway
1975-02-28

Chico is carrying large amounts of cash and working strange hours.

Runtime: 30 min
Episode 21: Louie's Retirement
1975-03-07

Louie, who has retired, wants to spend his remaining years haning around the garage.

Runtime: 30 min
Episode 22: Long Live the Man
1975-03-14

Everyone thinks that Ed had died, and when Ed finds out about it, he gets upset because nobody had cried for him when they heard the misleading news.

Runtime: 30 min
Season 2 poster
Season 2 (1975)

No overview available.

22 episodes

Episodes
Episode 1: Paint Job
1975-09-12

Ed and Chico clash over the wall of their alley for an art competition.

Runtime: 30 min
Episode 2: This Hallowed Garage
1975-09-19

The City plans to demolish Ed's garage to open a newer, more enhanced power gas station.

Runtime: 30 min
Episode 3: Auntie Connie
1975-09-26

Ed develops the hots for Chico's visiting Aunt Connie.

Runtime: 30 min
Episode 4: Play Gypsy
1975-10-03

Ed meets a Gypsy who wants Ed to train him on how to be a good mechanic.

Runtime: 30 min
Episode 5: The Disappearance
1975-10-10

Chico thinks that Ed is spending too much time living in the past and not getting on with life.

Runtime: 30 min
Episode 6: Chico and the Van
1975-10-17

A city ""Truent Officer"" let's say tells Chico that his van is illegal in the states, so Chico moves in with Ed.

Runtime: 30 min
Episode 7: Ms. Liz
1975-10-31

Chico falls head over heels for a woman named Liz, in fact he likes her so much that he decides to marry her.

Runtime: 30 min
Episode 8: Mister Butterfly
1975-11-07

A Japenese man visits the garage claiming to be Ed's long lost son.

Runtime: 30 min
Episode 9: Misfortune Teller
1975-11-14

Ed tries to prevent the bank from foreclosing the mortgage on his garage by visiting a fortune teller.

Runtime: 30 min
Episode 10: Bird in a Gilded Cage
1975-11-21

Ed has stirred emotions when he sees his favorite silent film actress waiting tables at a local cafe.

Runtime: 30 min
Episode 11: The Strike
1975-11-28

Chico joins a union for mechanics, but is forced to picket Ed's Garage.

Runtime: 30 min
Episode 12: The Invention
1975-12-05

Ed creates a new invention. He decides to design training wheels for motorcycles. While trying to get the idea patented, they get swindled out of five hundred bucks for the patent process.

Runtime: 30 min
Episode 13: The Juror
1975-12-19

Chico is assigned Jury duty, and he finds out that the defendant on his jury is actually a good friend of Ed's.

Runtime: 30 min
Episode 14: The Dream
1976-01-09

Chico tries to persuade Ed to retire and move into a retirement home, but Ed will not go for it naturally.... I don't blame him (lol)

Runtime: 30 min
Episode 15: The Hypnotist
1976-01-16

Chico, not realizing his own strength, hypnotizes Ed and leads him to marrying Flora.

Runtime: 30 min
Episode 16: Reverand Bemis' Altar Ego
1976-01-23

After Chico guest preaches a good sermon at Bemis' church. The people find out that they would rather have Chico preach instead of the Reverend Bemis.

Runtime: 30 min
Episode 17: The Big Brush-Off
1976-01-28

Chico is having some women problems. A girl that he likes will not go out with Chico because he looks too much like her ex-fiance.

Runtime: 30 min
Episode 18: The Accident
1976-02-04

After Chico gets into an accident, Ed burrows from his own insurance money to send Chico to school.

Runtime: 30 min
Episode 19: Chico's Cousin Pepe
1976-02-11

Chico's blind, skirt chasing, singer of a cousin visits Chico and meets Ed.

Runtime: 30 min
Episode 20: Return of Aunt Connie
1976-02-18

Chico's Aunt Connie visits and when she does, Chico and Ed realize that she is a con artist.

Runtime: 30 min
Episode 21: Too Many Crooks
1976-02-25

Ed, not knowing that he gave a handout to a crook, eventually Ed has all kinds of crooks from the neigborhood coming to him for a handout as well. Of course it is money they are after.

Runtime: 30 min
Episode 22: The Face Job
1976-03-03

Ed's public life is almost destroyed when he is offered a free face lift.

Runtime: 30 min
Season 3 (1976)

No overview available.

21 episodes

Episodes
Episode 1: Della Moves In
1976-10-01

Ed gets a new neigbor, but to his dismay it is a loud mouth liberal woman who now owns his garage and threatens eviction.

Runtime: 30 min
Episode 2: Second Coming of Della
1976-10-08

When Ed lays off the fighting with his new landlady, Della decides to renew Ed's lease.

Runtime: 30 min
Episode 3: Chico Packs His Bags
1976-10-22

Chico decides that he would rather move out on his own, away from Ed than give into Ed's rules.

Runtime: 30 min
Episode 4: Chico's Problem
1976-11-05

Chico's girlfriend decides on calling it quits to being a nurse. She then changes her mind after saving Ed's life.

Runtime: 30 min
Episode 5: In Your Hat
1976-11-12

Ed's lucky hat is stolen and while he needs to have an operation, he won't go under the knife until he gets his lucky hat back.

Runtime: 30 min
Episode 6: Ed's Recuperation
1976-11-19

After finding out that the nurse that Ed hired wants to get married to him, Chico and Della try to talk her out of it.

Runtime: 30 min
Episode 7: Ed Brown vs. the IRS
1976-11-26

Chico and Louie decide that the only way to get Ed's taxes in is to forge his name to the document. This happens after Ed refuses to pay them.

Runtime: 30 min
Episode 8: Morgan and the Man

Chico is reunited with his old high school girlfriend. Thinking the magic is still there, he proposes to her, but she ends up not wanting to marry him.

Runtime: 30 min
Episode 9: Mucho Macho Ed
1976-12-10

A woman visits the garage claiming that Ed is the father to her unborn kid. When he hears of this, he wonders how. He then decides to ask for her hand in marriage.

Runtime: 30 min
Episode 10: Old is Old
1976-12-17

Ed gets the idea of hiring a senior citizen for the garage when Della persuades him through a debate that seniors don't have the same rights that younger people have.

Runtime: 30 min
Episode 11: Ready When You Are, CB
1976-12-24

Everyone has plans to attend to and people to see except Ed for New years. He then uses a CB radio that is in the garage. He comes across a woman who also doesn't have anyone to spend New Years with and she is on the road. Ed invites her to the garage and she shows up. Later, Della, Chico, and the rest of Ed's friends decide to surprise Ed by joining him for New years. When the element of surprise hits, that is when the gang meets Ed's new friend ""Kissy Face"".

Runtime: 30 min
Episode 12: The Dress
1977-01-07

Ed donates his deceased wife's dress to raise money for a charity auction. He regrets doing the good deed when he finds out that a cross-dresser decides to buy the dress. Ed feels that he should not sell it to a man who will soil his wife's good name, so he fights to try to persuade the man into changing his mind.

Runtime: 30 min
Episode 13: Minority of One
1977-01-14

Ed is elected President of a Mexican Better Business bureau.

Runtime: 30 min
Episode 14: Champs Ain't Chumps
1977-01-28

Ed displays worry about Chico when Chico decides to want to fight as a professional.

Runtime: 30 min
Episode 15: Chico's Padre
1977-02-04

Gilberto, Chico's father who he hasn't seen in many years, returns to Chico to try and give him a chance to better his life by living with him. Chico's father is rich.

Runtime: 30 min
Episode 16: Matchmaker, Matchmaker
1977-02-18

Della plays matchmaker at trying to set Ed up with a woman. However when Ed gets word that Della did the matchmaking, he immediately wants to call the whole thing off.

Runtime: 30 min
Episode 17: Black Tie Blues
1977-02-25

Della wants to attend a formal dance and needs a host to go with her. Nobody wants to go, (Chico, Louie, and Ed) so they all try and find ways to get out of it.

Runtime: 30 min
Episode 18: Ed Talks to God
1977-03-04

Ed does not feel like appearing at his own birthday party. Chico however tries to find a way for Ed to go, so he gets ahold of a good old friend of Ed's and has him impersonate the voice of God by hooking sound equipment and a microphone all over the garage.

Runtime: 30 min
Episode 19: Gregory Peck Is a Rooster
1977-03-18

Ed sells a rooster that belongs to him, but when he finds out that the rooster's purpose is to cockfight, he tries to get the bird back.

Runtime: 30 min
Episode 20: Louie's Can-Can
1977-04-01

Louie hires Ed to be a garbage truck driver, after he is forced to retire his job and decides to open his own garbage collecting business.

Runtime: 30 min
Episode 21: Uncle Sunny
1977-04-08

While Ed is away, his daring uncle comes to visit and throws an all-night girl party.

Runtime: 30 min
Season 4 (1977)

No overview available.

23 episodes

Episodes
Episode 1: Who's Been Sleeping in My Car?
1977-09-16

Ed who returns from Mexico, learns that he has an 11 year old stowaway in the back of his car. This little kid is determined to stay with Ed in the USA.

Runtime: 30 min
Episode 2: Su Casa, Mi Casa?
1977-09-23

Ed waits for word from Raul's parents. Later, Ed finds out that Raul is an orphan and needs a parent.

Runtime: 30 min
Episode 3: Take Me, I'm Yours
1977-09-30

When a social worker comes to take Raul away, Ed decides to adopt him as his own.

Runtime: 30 min
Episode 4: The Third Letter
1977-10-14

Ed needs a third reference letter to officially adopt Raul.

Runtime: 30 min
Episode 5: The Bed
1977-10-21

Ed had stuffed 700 dollars in his own mattress. I say had because Raul, knowing that Ed needed a new one, traded the old one in for a newer one. Anyway, they have to go and try to get all the money back.

Runtime: 30 min
Episode 6: The Matter of Privacy
1977-11-04

Ed tries to teach Raul how important it is to respect one's privacy. The moral blows up when Ed opens a package that is for Raul.

Runtime: 30 min
Episode 7: The Proposal
1977-11-11

Ed and Della decide to have Christmas dinner together. As they are eating and drinking wine, they both get drunk and before you know it, Ed proposes marriage to Della and Della accepts. But when they become sober, they realize what they have done and try not to go back on their work no matter what. Will this wedding go ahead?

Runtime: 30 min
Episode 8: Aunt Charo
1977-11-18

Raul's Aunt Charo comes to the Garage to take Raul back to Spain, but he would rather stay with Ed.

Runtime: 30 min
Episode 9: Charo Takes Over
1977-12-02

Charo tries to drum up Ed's business by taking matters into her own hands.

Runtime: 30 min
Episode 10: Ed, the Hero
1977-12-09

On a class report, Ed writes about Ed. He writes that Ed fixes poor people's cars for free. When word gets out, Poor folks from all over the neigborhood swamp Ed with trying to get thier cars fixed.

Runtime: 30 min
Episode 11: Ed's Team
1977-12-30

Raul wants to join a basketball team and he can if Ed sponsors it, so that is what he does.

Runtime: 30 min
Episode 12: The Americanization of Charo
1978-01-06

Aunt Charo takes her citizenship test and becomes an American Citizen.

Runtime: 30 min
Episode 13: Raul Runs Away (1)
1978-01-20

Raul finds out about the first Chico who died (Freddie Prinze). He finds the van hidden in the garage. He goes into the van and plays Chico's old guitar. When Ed hears the music an eerie feeling comes over him. He checks the van hoping that somehow Chico came back. When he finds Raul in the van, he gets mad. He bashes the guitar over the van and screams at Raul. Raul runs upstairs and prepares to run away thinking that he cannot replace the first Chico and that Ed doesn't love him anymore.

Runtime: 30 min
Episode 14: Raul Runs Away (2)
1978-01-20

Ed goes to Mexico to try and track Raul down. In an old church they meet and Ed explains that he misses the first Chico, but tells Raul that he is afraid that he'll get too attached and that Raul will leave him the same way Chico left him. This is a very touching episode and the only episode that was filmed. They filmed it because they went on location to Mexico. They taped all the others in Burbank CA.

Runtime: 30 min
Episode 15: Charo and the Matador
1978-01-27

Charo's Matador fiancee Antonio, comes to sweep her off her feet to get married.

Runtime: 30 min
Episode 16: A New Girl in Town
1978-06-02

In an attempt to add more characters to the show, Monica, Ed Brown's niece, tells her tragic story and moves in with Ed.

Runtime: 30 min
Episode 17: Ed Brown's Car Wash
1978-06-09

For her Uncle Ed, Monica decides to drum up business by having an all-girl in tight shirts and shorts car wash.

Runtime: 30 min
Episode 19: Della and Son
1978-06-30

Della tries to convince her son Tony to help her and her catering business.

Runtime: 30 min
Episode 20: Help Wanted
1978-07-07

Monica upsets Ed by getting a job at a sleazy restaraunt.

Runtime: 30 min
Episode 21: The Peeping Tom
1978-07-14

Ed is falsley accused by a woman who swears that he is a peeping Tom and is watching her on a daily basis.

Runtime: 30 min
Episode 22: The Hot Rock
1978-07-21

Louie comes up with an invention. He wants to make a barbecue that relies on solar energy. Enthusiascic about the idea, Ed runs to his insurance company and tries to get money to launch the idea.

Runtime: 30 min
Episode 23: Waiting for Chongo

A motorcycle gang that know Monica comes and pretty much ransacks the garage and Ed doesn't know how to get rid of them.

Runtime: 30 min
Episode 18: Buenas Dias, Mr. President
1978-06-16

Ed becomes agitated when the President decides to visit his garage when he comes to town.

Runtime: 30 min

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