Chico and the Man (1974)

Directed by

Jack Donohue, Peter Baldwin

Genre

sitcom

Country

United States

Length

4 seasons, 88 episodes

Rating

6.1 of 10 from 14 voters

Elsewhere

IMDb

How it feels

A grumpy garage owner in a Mexican American neighborhood reluctantly hires a cheerful young man. They clash at first but slowly develop a grudging friendship.

warmlightheartedbittersweetplayfulearthygentlecomedic

What happens

Chico and the Man is an American sitcom television series that aired on NBC for four seasons from September 13, 1974, to July 21, 1978. It stars Jack Albertson as Ed Brown (the Man), the cantankerous owner of a run-down garage in an East Los Angeles barrio, and Freddie Prinze (until Prinze's suicide in the third season) as Chico Rodriguez, an upbeat, optimistic young Mexican American who comes in looking for a job. It was the first American television series set in a Mexican-American neighborhood. Albertson won an Emmy as Best Actor in a Comedy Series in 1976. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

More like this

• Friends and Lovers (1974)
• The Texas Wheelers (1974)
• The Tycoon (1964)
• Paper Moon (1974)
• Good Times (1974)
• Mr. Deeds Goes to Town (1969)
• The Jeffersons (1975)
• I'm Dickens, He's Fenster (1962)