Chico and the Man

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.

Comedy

Seasons

1. Pilot

Air Date: 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.

2. Second Thoughts

Air Date: 1974-09-20

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

3. Old Dog

Air Date: 1974-09-27

Ed thinks that he lost his mechanic skills.

4. New Suit

Air Date: 1974-10-04

Ed does not want to attend his former Army reunion.

5. Borrowed Trouble

Air Date: 1974-10-11

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

6. E Pluribus Used Car

Air Date: 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.

7. Lifestyle

Air Date: 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?

8. Veterans

Air Date: 1974-11-08

Chico and Ed try getting Veterans financing from the Government.

9. No Room in the Garage

Air Date: 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.

10. The Letter

Air Date: 1974-12-06

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

11. Natural Causes

Air Date: 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.

12. The Manuel Who Came to Dinner

Air Date: 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.

13. Garage Sale

Air Date: 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.

14. Out of Sight

Air Date: 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.

15. The Beard

Air Date: 1975-01-24

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

16. If I Were a Rich Man

Air Date: 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.

17. Ed Steps Out

Air Date: 1975-02-07

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

18. Sammy Steps In

Air Date: 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.

19. The Doctor Story

Air Date: 1975-02-21

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

20. The Giveaway

Air Date: 1975-02-28

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

21. Louie's Retirement

Air Date: 1975-03-07

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

22. Long Live the Man

Air Date: 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.

1. Paint Job

Air Date: 1975-09-12

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

2. This Hallowed Garage

Air Date: 1975-09-19

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

3. Auntie Connie

Air Date: 1975-09-26

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

4. Play Gypsy

Air Date: 1975-10-03

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

5. The Disappearance

Air Date: 1975-10-10

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

6. Chico and the Van

Air Date: 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.

7. Ms. Liz

Air Date: 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.

8. Mister Butterfly

Air Date: 1975-11-07

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

9. Misfortune Teller

Air Date: 1975-11-14

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

10. Bird in a Gilded Cage

Air Date: 1975-11-21

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

11. The Strike

Air Date: 1975-11-28

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

12. The Invention

Air Date: 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.

13. The Juror

Air Date: 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.

14. The Dream

Air Date: 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)

15. The Hypnotist

Air Date: 1976-01-16

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

16. Reverand Bemis' Altar Ego

Air Date: 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.

17. The Big Brush-Off

Air Date: 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.

18. The Accident

Air Date: 1976-02-04

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

19. Chico's Cousin Pepe

Air Date: 1976-02-11

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

20. Return of Aunt Connie

Air Date: 1976-02-18

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

21. Too Many Crooks

Air Date: 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.

22. The Face Job

Air Date: 1976-03-03

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

1. Della Moves In

Air Date: 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.

2. Second Coming of Della

Air Date: 1976-10-08

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

3. Chico Packs His Bags

Air Date: 1976-10-22

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

4. Chico's Problem

Air Date: 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.

5. In Your Hat

Air Date: 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.

6. Ed's Recuperation

Air Date: 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.

7. Ed Brown vs. the IRS

Air Date: 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.

8. Morgan and the Man

Air Date:

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.

9. Mucho Macho Ed

Air Date: 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.

10. Old is Old

Air Date: 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.

11. Ready When You Are, CB

Air Date: 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"".

12. The Dress

Air Date: 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.

13. Minority of One

Air Date: 1977-01-14

Ed is elected President of a Mexican Better Business bureau.

14. Champs Ain't Chumps

Air Date: 1977-01-28

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

15. Chico's Padre

Air Date: 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.

16. Matchmaker, Matchmaker

Air Date: 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.

17. Black Tie Blues

Air Date: 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.

18. Ed Talks to God

Air Date: 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.

19. Gregory Peck Is a Rooster

Air Date: 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.

20. Louie's Can-Can

Air Date: 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.

21. Uncle Sunny

Air Date: 1977-04-08

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

1. Who's Been Sleeping in My Car?

Air Date: 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.

2. Su Casa, Mi Casa?

Air Date: 1977-09-23

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

3. Take Me, I'm Yours

Air Date: 1977-09-30

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

4. The Third Letter

Air Date: 1977-10-14

Ed needs a third reference letter to officially adopt Raul.

5. The Bed

Air Date: 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.

6. The Matter of Privacy

Air Date: 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.

7. The Proposal

Air Date: 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?

8. Aunt Charo

Air Date: 1977-11-18

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

9. Charo Takes Over

Air Date: 1977-12-02

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

10. Ed, the Hero

Air Date: 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.

11. Ed's Team

Air Date: 1977-12-30

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

12. The Americanization of Charo

Air Date: 1978-01-06

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

13. Raul Runs Away (1)

Air Date: 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.

14. Raul Runs Away (2)

Air Date: 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.

15. Charo and the Matador

Air Date: 1978-01-27

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

16. A New Girl in Town

Air Date: 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.

17. Ed Brown's Car Wash

Air Date: 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.

19. Della and Son

Air Date: 1978-06-30

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

20. Help Wanted

Air Date: 1978-07-07

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

21. The Peeping Tom

Air Date: 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.

22. The Hot Rock

Air Date: 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.

23. Waiting for Chongo