I remember when this show was on when I was a kid and probably haven't an episode in nearly 30 years. Many of the shows like Sanford and Son, All in the family and Good times you can see on a regular basis on anyday of the week. I have not seen any of Chico and the man since I was a kid.
shareEvery now and then, it plays on TY Land.Very rarely, you need to be lucky to catch it. Why it doesn't play more often, I don;t know.
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The series curretnly airs on Saturday nights on the American Life Network.
shareYeah, I just found it on American Life Network! I loved this show as a kid, and I'm so
stoked to see it on TV again! Funny, funny sh**!!!
Is that network only on sattelite? I have DTV and I don't think I get it.
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I would love to see this show again! I loved Freddie (Sr)...in fact I had such acrush on him as a fourth grader. It was very rare you saw Latino's on TV, particularly ones who were depicted in a positive manner.
Bring Back Chico!!!
I'm not trying to be annoying...it just always works out that way.
chico and the man is now on here in canada on the SUN network .it airs week days at 1 30pm,after here's lucy...chico and the man is a great show..very simple story lines and easy going..unlike all the sitcoms of today, chico and the man will stand the test of time.i believe the next generation will tune into this type of show rather than the boring and dull shows like friends where every story line is the same.god bless freddie prinze sr and jack albertson,they truly left a mark on television history.......
shareVery true left us too soon.
I enjoyed it, because I remember that Joe ALberton was the grandfather in the Gene Wilder version of Charley and the Choclate factory.
I also remember an episode where the old man, had a heart attack and drove everyone crazy expecting to be babied
>>>It was very rare you saw Latino's on TV,
The Cisco Kid (I forget the actor's name)
Desi Arnaz "I Love Lucy"
Carlos Ramirez (Alejandro Rey) "TheFlying Nun"
Ceasar Romero (The Joker) "Batman" among others.
Ricardo Montalban (Mr. Roarke) "Fantasy Island"
etcetera
Does anyone know the title of the last show that freddie prinze sr. taped on Chico and the Man? please e mail if you can help thanks....
sharechico and the man is now on here in canada on the SUN network .it airs week days at 1 30pm,after here's lucy...chico and the man is a great show..very simple story lines and easy going..unlike all the sitcoms of today, chico and the man will stand the test of time.i believe the next generation will tune into this type of show rather than the boring and dull shows like friends where every story line is the same.god bless freddie prinze sr and jack albertson,they truly left a mark on television history.......
I also find that television stations in Canada dont always show every episode.They get you hooked, and then change the scehdule.I liked to watch M*A*S*H on THe Prime Network then they moved it to DEJA VU.So enjoy all the great shows like KING OF KENSINGTON, HERE'S LUCY,CHICO AND THE MAN airing now on SUN TV.These shows are in a league all their own.The sitcoms on tv today cant hold a candle to the shows made in the 60 & 70's.God Bless all those GREAT TELEVISION PERFORMERS who have passed on,and left for us, some very fine tv viewing.
shareI agree. I was born in the late 1970s so I am not able to remember the original airings of these shows. However, thanks to all the classic tv show channels (TVLand, American Life, Nick at Nite, etc.), I have watched the reruns since I was a little girl. My Mom told me that even when I was in elementary school or junior high, I commented that the classic shows were better than a lot of the current shows from back then.
shareThe last episode taped by Freddie Prinze was "Ed Talks to God," which was followed by only three more entries to end the third season. At the beginning of the fourth and final seAson, Ed explained to the new Chico, 12 year old Raul (Gabriel Melgar), that the original Chico had died. This last year spent half the shows with Ed trying to adopt Raul, who had stowed away in his trunk returning from a fishing trip in Mexico, with another new character, a girl teen named Monica, who aspires to be an actress, closing out the series. Believe me, I understood how impossible it was for the producers because this show was all about the chemistry between Ed and Chico, and after Freddie died, Jack Albertson just couldn't carry the show on his own (but they all gave it the old college try). The final, ignominious episode has Alice Ghostley accusing Ed of being a peeping tom, and I can't imagine how 66 year old Jack Albertson dealt with his loss (he lived only three more years himself, and the fact that both stars were deceased also played a part in the show's lack of syndication success). ALIAS SMITH AND JONES is another show whose star committed suicide (Peter Duell), while shows like MISTER ED (Larry Keating) had supporting cast members pass on during production. Redd Foxx succumbed after only 7 episodes of THE ROYAL FAMILY, and John Ritter died suddenly after producing 31 episodes of 8 SIMPLE RULES FOR DATING MY TEENAGE DAUGHTER. There are others, but those are perhaps the best known.
shareThe AmericanLife TV Network airs Chico and the Man on Saturday nights at 10PM
shareBut so far they have not aired the Gabriel Melgar eps. No big loss, but still. . . .
shareI was wrong about Sun TV on this one cause they have aired pretty much the enitre series.
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SUN TV seems to air the Gabriel Melgar episodes quite a lot, compared to the other episodes. Or maybe it just feels that way, because the episodes just don't compare to the ones with Chico.
BTW, if you get the "Tony Orlando & Dawn Show" DVD set, there's one episode with Freddie as the guest star, who actually takes Tony's place for the opening number, as a joke on all the viewers, because each was always being mistaken for the other. It also has a super-rare "Tonight Show" clip when Freddie was filling in for Johnny, and Tony was a guest. After some banter, Tony sings a song that Freddie had composed for his (Freddie's) wife.
88 episodes is less than the 'magic number' of 100, plus most of the ones after he died are sub-par. Yeah, I know, 88 episodes is the count on Star Trek:TOS too, but...not the same fanbase. :)
shareI remember seeing repeats on an UHF station in Chicago when I was a teen. That was a while back, but that was the last time I've clicked past it. I guess it is one of those shows that just does not have a lot of interest in seeing again.
shareThat UHF station is in fact WCIU-TV (advertised as "The U")
However, The U doesn't air shows like these. PERIOD.
They air more recent shows like House of Payne, That 70s Show, Frasier, etc.
tRuE sTAR LeGEnd
Your theory does not hold water, because the 39 HONEYMOONER Eps have been on forever.
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88 episodes is less than the 'magic number' of 100, plus most of the ones after he died are sub-par. Yeah, I know, 88 episodes is the count on Star Trek:TOS too, but...not the same fanbase. :)
I've always liked both shows. So same fanase for me. Also "Lost in Space"
Okay, not necesarrily same fanase, so same fanbase:
successful sitcoms syndicated which have less than 100 episodes:
The Munsters
The Addams Family
Mayberry R.F.D.
Gilligan's Island
The Flying Nun
Mork & Mindy
etcetera
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Chico and the Man hasn't done considerably well in syndication for several reasons:share
Only 88 episodes were produced which is a fairly low number (as opposed to the so-called magic number of 100) to warrant a weekday syndication strip.
The violent circumstances surrounding Freddie Prinze's death. In retrospect, it is considerably uncomfortable for most viewers to watch Prinze's later episodes, as he was clearly showing the effects of drug abuse. Much of the post-Freddie Prinze episodes are regarded by many as being very poor from a quality standpoint. This could be in part because it seemed quite apparent that everyone was just going through the motions to squeeze money out of a show that creatively died with Prinze.
It was terribly shocking back in the late 70s that this promising young actor so violently took his own life. People didn't want to watch the reruns and be reminded of that. I remember the show getting picked up for reruns on one of the smaller local stations in the late 70s/early 80s, and it disappeared quickly.
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