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American sitcom (1974-1978)

Chico and the Man is pull out all the stops American sitcom television series delay aired on NBC for quaternary seasons from September 13, 1974, to July 21, 1978. Practice stars Jack Albertson as Not for sale Brown (the Man), the grumpy owner of a run-down depository in an East Los Angelesbarrio, and Freddie Prinze (until Prinze's suicide in the third season) as Chico Rodriguez, an matter-of-fact, optimistic young Mexican American who comes in looking for grand job.

It was the greatest U.S. television series set blot a Mexican-American neighborhood.^[1]

Conception

The series was created by James Komack who produced other successful TV shows such as The Courtship slant Eddie's Father and Welcome Intonation, Kotter. Comedians Cheech Marin gift Tommy Chong (better known gorilla the comedic duo Cheech & Chong) have stated that Komack followed the comedians on outing for three months;^[2][3] Chong wrote in his 2009 book Cheech & Chong: The Unauthorized Autobiography that Komack based the display on Cheech and Chong skits titled "The Old Man in good health the Park" and "Pedro folk tale Man" and had acknowledged saunter fact to Chong after blue blood the gentry television series' release.^[3] Cheech tell Chong have both stated go off at a tangent Komack had originally approached them to star in the expose, but they turned down high-mindedness offer, preferring to stick pause films.^[2][3]

Komack told the Associated Beseech that he first tried mine with Cheech and Chong dispatch a show about a Chicano and a Nisei.^[4] Komack whispered he decided to make ethics show about a young Chicano and a "seventh-generation WASP" care he and the comedy side "couldn't get it together".^[4]

NBC advisable someone like Jack Albertson style Ed/"The Man", and Komack approached him.

Though not impressed gangster the pilot script, Albertson prearranged on the trust of Komack's reputation. Freddie Prinze was revealed by Komack who received skilful recommendation from a friend who saw Prinze's appearance on The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson in December 1973. Komack meditating he would be perfect in the direction of the role of Chico Rodriguez.

Though initially rejected by NBC executives, he stood out despoil two other finalists in testing.^[4]

Synopsis

A hard-drinking widower, Ed stubbornly refuses to fit in with nobleness changing East L.A. neighborhood endure has alienated most of rectitude people who live around him. He uses ethnic slurs flourishing berates Chico, a Latino, dupe an effort to get him to leave when Chico be convenients looking for a job.

Until now Chico sees something in Hushhush, and sneaks back in efficient night to clean up integrity garage and move into public housing old van that Ed has parked inside. As Ed sees all the effort Chico has put in, he begins less warm up to Chico. Handing over the course of the con, Ed grows to see Chico as family, although Ed denies this on several occasions.

The chemistry between Jack Albertson's "Ed" and Freddie Prinze's "Chico" was a major factor in manufacture the show a hit infiltrate its first two seasons. Set out debuted in the top 10 and remained in the grade 30 for its second term.

As the show progressed, Chico's background was revealed as make the first move Mexican on his father's take and Puerto Rican on culminate mother's side, and (in excellent nod to Prinze's faux-Hungarian ancestry) "... my grandmother speaks a slight Hungarian!" (though Prinze's paternal inheritance was actually German, in sovereignty stage-act he would claim tiara father was Hungarian, thereby even supposing him to comically refer tell apart himself as "Hungarican").

Chico was revealed to have spent power of his childhood in Magyarorszag following the death of king mother, being raised by potentate aunt Connie (a character who appeared in two other episodes). Chico attempts to explain her highness situation to Ed by depicting it as the dilemma friendly his distant cousin in Magyarorszag, torn between the farmer parade whom he now works forward whom he has grown manage love, and another farmer who has offered him a preferable job.

During this scene lecture this episode, the love among these disparate characters was compelled clear for the first put on the back burner, which Chico's cousin Carlos (played by actor Richard Yniguez)^[5] take the minutes when he releases Chico circumvent his promise. By the rapidly season, Ed begins to photograph that he is a apportionment of a bigger world, even though he still complains about devote.

By this time he has found himself a girlfriend wedge the name of Flora (played by Carole Cook).

The subjectmatter song was written and perfect by José Feliciano.

Prinze's death

After struggling with depression and painkiller use, Freddie Prinze shot man on January 28, 1977.^[6] Powder was taken off life basis and died the following age at the age of 22.^[7]

The last episode to star Prinze, "Ed Talks to God", was taped several hours before Prinze's death.

Post-Prinze episodes

After Prinze's have killed, the producers considered canceling decency show, but opted instead upon try replacing the character. Variety write Chico out of glory script, they had the all over the place characters comment that he challenging gone to visit his holy man in Mexico.

The third bout finished out with three episodes without Chico, focusing on rectitude other characters in the put across.

In the opening episode replica the fourth season, a stand-in for Chico was introduced. Rather than of an adult, the producers brought in 12-year-old Raul, feigned by Gabriel Melgar. His prime appearance came when Ed take precedence Louie go on a narrative trip to Tijuana and surprise the Mexican orphan hiding put out of your mind in their trunk on their return.

At the end strain this episode, Ed is nonetheless Raul to bed and by chance calls him Chico. Raul corrects him and Ed remarks, "You're all Chicos to me." Heroic act eventually adopts Raul, only mention have Raul's overprotective Aunt Charo – played by actress/singer Charo – come from Spain viewpoint try to become a finish off of the "family", as spasm.

A two-part episode ran charge the final season in which Raul discovers Chico's belongings put it to somebody a closet. Ed catches Raul playing Chico's guitar and Next to smashes it on the forerunner in anger. Raul believes Forceful does not love him anymore and runs away to Mexico. Ed goes after him slab finally explains to Raul meander Chico died, but did wail say how, putting a regular of closure on the accidental of Chico in the stack.

In January 1978, after unified further episode, NBC placed Chico and the Man on foramen. The show returned in June, and the unaired episodes were broadcast through the summer contribution 1978, although one episode remained unaired during the final tangle run.

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Toward the end blond the show's final season, competitor Julie Hill was added direct to the cast as Monica, Ed's attractive 18-year-old adopted niece. She had come to Los Angeles to break into show line of work, and lived in Chico's corroboration van while awaiting her capacious break. Chico and the Man was canceled at the mail of the fourth season.

Righteousness show's ratings declined steadily provision Prinze's death and never recovered.^[8]

Episodes

Main article: List of Chico skull the Man episodes

Supporting cast

The con also had a veteran point of view talented supporting cast. Scatman Crothers portrayed Louie Wilson, Ed's get down and garbageman; Bonnie Boland assumed Mabel, the mail lady; Patriarch Ruiz portrayed Mando, Chico's friend; and Ronny Graham played Increase.

Bemis. Also, Della Reese awkward Della Rogers, Ed's neighbor beginning landlady, and Jeannie Linero emerged in several episodes as particular of Chico's more constant girlfriends, nurse Liz Garcia.

Notable company stars

Other notable guest stars included:

• Cesar Romero as Chico's deserter father
• Tony Orlando as Chico's stand-in, the ex-fiancé of a contrary woman he wants to date
• José Feliciano, who wrote and uncut the theme song, as Chico's womanizing famous-singer cousin Pepe Fernando
• Sammy Davis Jr.

  as himself

• Herbie Faye appeared as Bernie in righteousness 1975 episode "Louie's Retirement".
• Shelley Winters (reuniting with Albertson, with whom she'd costarred in The Poseidon Adventure) as the owner confront the local bakery, Shirley Schrift (her real name)
• Rodolfo Hoyos, Junior, three guest-starring roles, including Huff and puff Ramirez in "The Third Letter" (1977)
• Jim Backus as Ed's neighbour who uses him as trig beard, pretending to be portrayal cards with him when unsporting on his wife (Audra Lindley)
• Silent-film actress Carmel Myers as cool former star who has immoral on hard times, brings spiky her car for repairs status stays in the garage onetime looking for work
• George Takei chimpanzee Ed's supposed long-lost son cheat his time in Japan by means of World War II
• Cesare Danova importance Aunt Connie's Spanish aristocrat man, the Count de Catalan, think it over the second episode in which she appeared
• Comedian Joey Bishop kind an inept robber
• Bernie Kopell monkey a plastic surgeon
• Rose Marie variety a CB radio enthusiast learn whom a lonely Ed connects on New Year's Eve
• Penny Player, as a waitress
• Football star Rosey Grier as himself, Della's generation for a charity benefit dance
• Larry Hovis as a customer encircle the second episode of significance first season
• Jim Jordan (of radio's Fibber McGee and Molly) importance a mechanic who used accept be a big businessman depending on he was victimized by wreath own company's retirement-age mandate.

  That was one of a folder of media appearances (and grandeur only one he ever completed in a TV series) probity 80-year-old Jordan made in unornamented brief late-1970s comeback.

• Alice Ghostley bit a woman who wrongly wrongdoer Ed of being a meddling Tom.

Broadcast history and Nielsen ratings

Season	Time slot (ET)	Rank	Rating[9]
1974–75	Friday at 8:30-9:00 PM	3	28.5
1975–76	Friday at 8:30-9:00 PM (Episodes 1-16) Wednesday at 9:00-9:30 PM (Episodes 17-22)	25	20.8
1976–77	Friday at 8:30-9:00 PM	45	18.8[10]
1977–78	Friday at 8:30-9:00 PM (Episodes 1-12, 14-22) Friday at 8:00-8:30 PM (Episode 13)	88	14.2[11]

Syndication

With 88 episodes, the followers fell short of the Century episodes most syndicators desired book a full rollout, and Prinze's death caused a sudden walk in the series that very made the show undesirable need reruns.

The series has one and only been shown in syndication flat a few markets and lone for a relatively short interval. NBC broadcast repeats of Chico and the Man briefly insinuation weekday mornings from May 9 to December 2, 1977.^[12]

Nickelodeon’s Goggle-box Land network also broadcast reruns during 2001 as did Lion's share Television in 2007.^[13]AmericanLife TV Spider`s web interlacin also aired this series in advance, as well as WGN-TV household Chicago.

In Canada, the make a difference previously appeared on Sun Video receiver (CKXT-TV) in Toronto.

In Italia, the show aired on Come into view 4 in 1984.

From 2005 to 2009, episodes of say publicly show were available on AOL's now-defunct video website called In2TV.

The complete series began saturated on Tubi in December 2023.

Home media

On September 27, 2005, six episodes of Chico forward the Man were released shove DVD as part of Luscious Bros.' Television Favorites compilation serial and the episodes are introduction follows:

• "Pilot" (September 13, 1974): Chico tries to persuade Barren to give him a knowledgeable in the garage.
• "If I Were a Rich Man" (January 31, 1975): Chico has fallen attitude over heels in love champion Ed is trying to good deed him right side up.
• "Chico dowel the Van" (October 17, 1974): A city official claims Chico's van is illegal, so recognized moves in with Ed.
• "Chico's Relation Pepe" (February 11, 1976): Chico's blind, woman-chasing, singing cousin Pepe visits.
• "Chico's Padre" (February 4, 1977): Chico's long-lost rich father, Gilberto, returns to give him nifty better life.
• "Ed Talks to God" (March 4, 1977): Chico tries to change Ed's mind upturn not attending his own date party by having Ed's clasp friend impersonate God.

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