Series regulars or semi-regulars in 'Chico And The Man' from 1970-1982:
- Jack Albertson as Ed Brown (1974-1978)
- Scatman Crothers as Louie (1974-1978)
- Freddie Prinze as Chico Rodriguez (1974-1977)
- Della Reese as Della Rogers (1976-1978)
- Gabriel Melgar as Raul Garcia (1977-1978)
1970-1982 Episode Guide for 'Chico And The Man':
(Episodes with dates prior to 1970 aired as reruns.)
Season 1, episode 1
W: James Komack, Don Nicholl, Michael Ross, Bernie West D: Peter Baldwin
With Rodolfo Hoyos Jr. (Customer), Sidney Clute (Police Officer #1), Jerry Fogel (Police Officer #2). An irascible aging garage owner in the barrio of East Los Angeles takes on a young Chicano in an unpredictable partnership.
Season 1, episode 2
W: Adele Styler, Burt Styler D: Peter Baldwin
With Gladys Holland (Alice), Jack Knight (Delivery Guy), Bill Zuckert (Mr. Dooley). Ed wakes up from a tequila hangover to learn Chico has made him sign a contract. Ed plans drastic action to dissolve the partnership.
Season 1, episode 3
W: James Komack D: Peter Baldwin
With Robert Gibbons (Customer # 2), Bo Kaprall (Customer # 1). Ed Brown becomes baffled by a foreign car in need of repair, figures life has passed him by and decides to retire.
Season 1, episode 4
W: James Komack D: Peter Baldwin
With Carmen Zapata (Customer), Herb Vigran (Charlie). Ed gets invited to join his old buddies at an Army reunion, but he doesn't want to go because he has no new clothes to wear.
Season 1, episode 5
W: Norman Barasch, Carroll Moore D: Peter Baldwin
With Larry Hovis (Customer), Alma Beltran, Raymond Vago (Customer), Julio Medina (Delgado). Though Ed is reluctant, Chico convinces him that borrowing money is a "good old American custom".
Season 1, episode 6
W: Larry Markes, Norm Liebmann D: Peter Baldwin
With Rene Enriquez (Customer). Ed and Chico find a buyer for Louie the garbageman's vintage car.
Season 1, episode 7
W: Ron Friedman D: Peter Baldwin
With Diana Canova (Patty), Robert Carricart (Percival Beltran). After Ed falsely accuses Chico and his girlfriend of shenanigans in the van, he finds it difficult to understand the younger generation's courtship mores.
Season 1, episode 8
W: Bud Wiser, Robert Hilliard, Michael Morris D: Peter Baldwin
With Jonathan Daly (Mr. Sheldon), Paul Lichtman (Cabdriver). Ed converts the garage into a GI-financed auto school with Chico and Louie making up the student body.
Season 1, episode 9
W: Bill Dana D: Peter Baldwin
With Jill Choder (Sharon), Marie Gahva (Dolores). Chico's cousin Dolores arrives from Mexico just in time to deliver her baby in the van.
Season 1, episode 10
W: James Komack D: Peter Baldwin
With Richard Yniguez (Carlos), Howard Storm (Customer), Tom McFadden (Customer). Ed becomes upset when he learns of Chico's plans to move to New York.
Season 1, episode 11
W: Steve Gordon D: Peter Baldwin
With Bill McLean (Alfred), Luis de Cordova (Doctor), Shirley O'Hara (Betty). Ed reads about a friend dying of natural causes and gets help from Chico and a doctor to help fight off this "dreaded disease".
Season 1, episode 12
W: Elias Davis, David Pollock D: Peter Baldwin
With Danny Nunez (Manuel Carrera), Gary Cervantes. Chico arranges a party at the garage for Ed and an old friend with whom he has been feuding for years.
Season 1, episode 13
W: Ed Jurist D: Peter Baldwin
With Florida Friebus (Althea Nelson), Hope Summers (Lucille Nelson), Richard X. Slattery (Inspector Flynn), Louis Quinn (Rudy), Carl Gottlieb, Paul Lichtman. When Ed and Chico stage a garage sale, their antique items are matched by bizarre customers.
Season 1, episode 14
W: Ron Friedman D: Peter Baldwin
With Bruce Kirby (Officer), Rodolfo Hoyos Jr. (Rudy), Alma Beltran (Customer). When Ed insists he saw an accident happen, he is not aware that his friend was the driver of the truck. He faces the dilemma of testifying against his friend or admitting he needs glasses.
Season 1, episode 15
W: Robert Hilliard, Michael Morris D: Peter Baldwin
With Jim Backus (Harold Ericson), Audra Lindley (Doris Ericson). Ed Brown's old buddy Harold uses the garage and a barber shop quartet recording as an alibi for his philandering, much to the chagrin of Chico.
Season 1, episode 16
W: Jerry Ross D: Bill Foster
With Liberty Williams (Marilyn Simmons), Perry Cook (Customer). It's Ed's job to tell Chico that his fiancee has returned his engagement ring, but the message never quite gets delivered.
Season 1, episode 17
W: Jerry Ross D: Peter Baldwin
With Shelley Winters (Shirley Shrift). A widowed bakery owner sets her romantic cap for Ed and gets help from Chico.
Season 1, episode 18
W: Martin Donovan, Robert Hilliard, Michael Morris D: James Komack
With Sammy Davis Jr. (Himself). Sammy Davis Jr. sputters into Ed's garage in his Stutz Black Hawk and his troubles balloon.
Season 1, episode 19
W: Ed Jurist D: Jack Donohue
With Bill McLean (Alfred), Danny Goldman (Dr. Crowley), John J. Fox (Older Doctor), Leslie Paxton (Nurse). Ed scorns advice from Chico and others to get professional help, and instead applies home remedies to his aching shoulder.
Season 1, episode 20
W: Robert Hilliard, Eric Cohen D: Jack Donohue
With Diana Canova (Patty), Roger C. Carmel (Priest), Tony Cacciotti (Customer), Tim Herbert. Several robberies have taken place in the neighborhood, so when Chico suddenly turns up with unexplained wealth, Ed is concerned.
Season 1, episode 21
W: Ben Joelson, Art Baer D: James Komack
With Herbie Faye (Bernie), Damian London (Garbage Man). Louie, the garbage man, "retires" and spends all his spare hours at Ed's garage getting in the way while trying to be helpful.
Season 1, episode 22
W: Michael Morris D: Jack Donohue
With Roger C. Carmel (Priest). A newspaper death notice lists Ed Brown, but his return from a weekend trip sets the neighborhood into a flurry, prompting Chico to conduct a "living" memorial to his partner.
September 12, 1975: Paint Job
Season 2, episode 1
W: Ron Friedman D: Jack Donohue
With Rich Little (Dwayne Devine). Ed and Chico clash over using the wall of their alley for an art competition.
Season 2, episode 2
W: Ron Friedman D: Jack Donohue
With Barbara Cason, Jonathan Daly (Daniel Hanreddy). The city informs Ed of plans to demolish his garage in 48 hours in order to pave the way for a newer gas station.
Season 2, episode 3
W: Howard Albrecht, Sol Weinstein D: Jack Donohue
With Angelina Estrada (Aunt Connie). Ed and Chico get an unexpected visit from a brand-new millionairess who wants to take Chico on a trip around the world.
Season 2, episode 4
W: Ron Friedman D: Jack Donohue
With Avery Schreiber (Miklos). A gypsy arrives at the garage to claim a debt of honor stemming from the time his father saved Ed's life.
Season 2, episode 5
W: Michael Morris D: Jack Donohue When Ed starts living in the past -- singing nostalgic tunes -- Chico and Louie become concerned.
Season 2, episode 6
W: Ann Gibbs, Joel Kimmel D: Jack Donohue
With Ralph Manza (Mr. Gomez), Penny Marshall (Anita). Evicted from his rolling residence by a city inspector, Chico makes the mistake of moving in with Ed.
Season 2, episode 7
W: Jack Mendelsohn, Lynn Roth D: Jack Donohue
With Bill McLean (Customer), Jeannie Linero (Liz Garcia). When Chico returns from his vacation and announces that he has met the girl he plans to marry, Ed decides Chico is crazy.
Season 2, episode 8
W: Ron Friedman D: Jack Donohue
With Beulah Quo (Mariko), George Takei (Yoshi Akimura). A Japanese mother reluctantly confesses to her grown son that Ed is not really his father, just an honorable role model for him to follow.
Season 2, episode 9
W: Sandy Krinski D: Jack Donohue
With Tina Menard, Julio Medina (Banker), Avery Schreiber (Miklos). Miklos the gypsy introduces the barter system to Ed and Chico as a means to save the garage mortgage.
Season 2, episode 10
W: Bernie Kahn D: Jack Donohue
With Bill McLean (Customer), Carmel Myers (Herself), Carlos Romero (Cafe Manager). Just as Ed is reminiscing about his "secret love" for silent film star Carmel Myers, Ed meets her and proceeds to disrupt her life.
Season 2, episode 11
W: Milt Rosen D: Jack Donohue Chico joins a union for mechanics, but is then forced to picket Ed's Garage.
Season 2, episode 12
W: Jay Moriarty, Mike Milligan D: Jack Donohue
With Joe Silver (Mr. Barlow). Chico and Ed are swindled out of $500 when an executive promises to turn Ed's invention into a big money maker.
Season 2, episode 13
W: Sandy Krinski D: Jack Donohue
With Jack Bernardi (Defendant), Della Reese (Judge). When Chico is called for jury duty, Ed discovers the person on trial is an old friend. Filled with good intentions, Ed gets everyone in trouble -- including himself -- when he tries to influence Chico's decision.
Season 2, episode 14
W: Ron Friedman D: Jack Donohue
With Queenie Smith (Tammy), Shirley Kirkes (Lola), E.J. Andre (Doctor), Noela Velasco (Va Va). At Chico's suggestion, Ed visits a retirement community and seriously considers it.
Season 2, episode 15
W: Douglas Tibbles, Barbara Tibbles D: Jack Donohue
With Carole Cook (Flora). Chico accidentally hypnotizes Ed into being sweet and obedient in response to the words "will you".
Season 2, episode 16
W: Arthur Phillips, John L. Greene D: Jack Donohue
With Ronny Graham (Reverend Bemis), Portia Nelson. Chico makes such a successful debut in the pulpit that the Rev. Bemis threatens to quit.
Season 2, episode 17
W: Larry Siegel D: Jack Donohue
With Tony Orlando (Tomas Garcia), Irene de Bari (Maria Esteban). Chico is rebuffed by his new flame because he looks too much like her former fiancee.
Season 2, episode 18
W: Ron Friedman D: Jack Donohue
With Joan Crosby (Nurse McInerney), Arnold Soboloff (Angus). When Chico and Ed are hospitalized with job-related injuries, Chico decides that something is missing from his life and resolves to find a new career.
Season 2, episode 19
W: Fred S. Fox, Seaman Jacobs D: Jack Donohue
With Jose Feliciano (Pepe). Jose Feliciano guests as a cousin who comes between Chico and his girlfriend.
Season 2, episode 20
W: Iris Rainer, Mort Scharfman D: Jack Donohue
With Angelina Estrada (Aunt Connie), Cesare Danova (Count Emilio). Chico and Ed suspect that a fortune hunter is about to prey on Chico's aunt.
Season 2, episode 21
W: Arthur Phillips, John L. Greene D: Jack Donohue
With Billy Barty (Little Hold-up Man), Tim Herbert (Nerdy Robber), Jacquelyn Hyde (Hooker), Harvey Lembeck (Officer Harroway), Joey Bishop (Charlie), Art Evans (Bubba). After a newspaper labels Ed a good samaritan for giving a robber $20, every mugger in town visits him.
Season 2, episode 22
W: Howard Albrecht, Sol Weinstein D: Jack Donohue
With Carole Cook (Flora), Bernie Kopell (Harry Stern). Ed is offered a free facelift but turns it down, almost causing a breakup of his romance.
October 1, 1976: Della Moves In
Season 3, episode 1
W: Hal Kanter, Michael Morris D: Jack Donohue
With Danny Mora (Salvador). Season premiere. A new neighbor moves in across the alley and is greeted by Ed with insults -- not realizing that she owns the land under his garage.
Season 3, episode 2
W: Hal Kanter, Michael Morris D: Jack Donohue
With Johnny Brown (Big Bernie). Ed's 30-year lease on his garage is almost up and he doesn't help matters by insulting the new property owner.
Season 3, episode 3
W: Marty Nadler, Freddie Prinze D: Jack Donohue
With Louisa Moritz (Lorraine), Dee Dee Rescher (Nurse Villa), John Voldstad, Richard Altman, Jacquelyn Hyde (Mrs. Ortega), Willie Bobo. When Ed's nit-picking and feisty ways get to be too much, Chico moves out and rents an apartment.
Season 3, episode 4
W: Howard Albrecht, Sol Weinstein D: Jack Donohue
With Patricia Joyce (Lisa Malone). Chico's ardor is dampened by Ed's repeated visits and almost continuous phone calls for his girlfriend.
Season 3, episode 5
W: Hal Kanter D: Jack Donohue
With Andrew Masset, Jeffrey Kramer (Rojo). When Ed's lucky hat is stolen and he refuses to enter the hospital for a hernia operation, Chico risks his life to get it back.
Season 3, episode 6
W: Hal Kanter, Michael Morris D: Jack Donohue
With Shirley Mitchell (Amanda). Though fully recovered from his operation, Ed hires a nurse, not knowing that she met all four of her husbands in a hospital and nursed them to death.
Season 3, episode 7
W: Patricia Jones, Donald Reiker D: Jack Donohue
With Rudy Challenger (Agent Davis). Ed announces he will no longer pay taxes and foot the bill for politicians who put their girlfriends on the payroll.
Season 3, episode 8
W: Carol Gary, Doris Prouder D: Jack Donohue
With Kristi Jill Wood (Morgan). When Chico proposes marriage to a divorcee he knew in high school, Ed is opposed to the plan -- until he meets her child.
Season 3, episode 9
W: Si Rose D: Jack Donohue
With Maria O'Brien (Anita Gomez). Ed is delighted when a young woman informs him he is the father of the child she is expecting -- though Ed can't remember when or how the alleged affair with the woman took place.
Season 3, episode 10
W: Jack Mendelsohn D: Jack Donohue
With Jim Jordan. Jim Jordan, radio's Fibber McGee, makes his TV acting debut as a 73-year-old mechanic who is hired by Ed Brown in an attempt to give a fellow senior citizen a job, but isn't given anything meaningful to do.
Season 3, episode 11
W: Si Rose D: Jack Donohue
With Bill McLean (Lonesome Rabbit), Rose Marie (Kissy Face). While fiddling with a CB radio, Ed makes a date with somone called "Kissy Face" and the next thing he knows they're headed for Las Vegas in her camper.
Season 3, episode 12
W: Ben Starr, Chuck Stewart D: Jack Donohue
With John J. Fox (Policeman), Danny Mora (Salvador), Charles Pierce (Brad Rushton). A famous female impersonator wants to buy a dress which once belonged to Ed's wife.
Season 3, episode 13
W: Bob O'Brien D: Jack Donohue
With Julio Medina (Dr. Spanola), Peggy de Castro (Mrs. Toro), Romo Vincent, Sam Vlahos (Garcia), Nono Arsu (Sam Vlatto). Ed is elected president of the Barrio Better Business Bureau and takes his position so seriously that he asks Chico to teach him Spanish to prepare him for a confrontation with a city councilman.
Season 3, episode 14
W: Ben Starr, Chuck Stewart D: Jack Donohue
With Milton Frome (Milton Lockman), Chuck Bergansky (Packy O'Brien). Chico steps into the boxing ring, wins a fight, and sees a whole new career opening up for him.
Season 3, episode 15
W: Ron Friedman, Henry Irving, George Bloom D: Jack Donohue
With Wyatt Johnson (Chauffeur), Jerry Hausner (Maynard Jennings), Cesar Romero (Gilberto Rodriguez). A private investigator comes looking for Chico and says that he has been hired by a man claiming to be Chico's father -- whom Chico presumed was dead.
Season 3, episode 16
W: Si Rose D: Jack Donohue
With Jeff Donnell (Peggy Randall), Gary Dontzig (Lawrence Randall). Chico and Della decide that grouchy old Ed needs some female companionship to smooth off his rough edges.
Season 3, episode 17
W: John Fenton Murray D: Jack Donohue
With Roosevelt Grier (Himself), Eddie Quillan (Hobo). Della invites Ed to a black-tie charity event featuring former football player Rosey Grier, and accuses Ed of bigotry when he finds a lame excuse for not going.
Season 3, episode 18
W: Michael Morris D: Jack Donohue
With Edward Andrews (Blinky Foster). Ed refuses to attend his own birthday party, but changes his mind when he hears from "God".
Season 3, episode 19
W: George Arthur Bloom, Beverly Bloomberg D: Jack Donohue
With Pat Buttram (Jed Gibson), Danny Mora (Salvador), Jerry Fujikawa (Chang). Ed sells a rooster, but when he finds out that it will be used for cockfighting, he tries to get the bird back.
Season 3, episode 20
W: George Arthur Bloom, Beverly Bloomberg D: Jack Donohue
With George Gobel (Joe Tubbs), Danny Mora (Salvador), Reb Brown (Frank). Louie is depressed at being forced into retirement, so he buys Joe Tubbs' refuse collection business.
Season 3, episode 21
W: Henry Irving D: Jack Donohue
With John Voldstad (Cab Driver), Lisa Mordente (Sugar Britches), Sonja Haney (Sonja), Alvin Hammer (Telegram Man), Chanin Hale (Annalou Brown), Susan McIver (Susie). After Ed goes off on a fishing trip, his swinging uncle arrives followed by a bevy of girls.
September 16, 1977: Who's Been Sleeping On My Car?
Season 4, episode 1
W: George Arthur Bloom, Beverly Bloomberg D: Jack Donohue
With Bill McLean (Customer), Peter Leeds (Policeman). Season premiere. Ed and Louie, returning from a fishing trip in Mexico, discover that they've caught more than they thought when they find a stowaway (Gabriel Melgar).
Season 4, episode 2
W: Gary Belkin, Jerry Ross D: Jack Donohue
With Jack Fletcher (Mr. Alch). Ed Brown finds it hard to resist Raul's request to stay with him when he discovers the boy is an orphan.
Season 4, episode 3
W: Ben Starr, Chuck Stewart D: Jack Donohue
With Barbara Sharma (Amanda Wilkerson). While Ed is struggling to make a decision on the fate of orphan Raul, a caseworker from Social Services arrives with adoption papers.
Season 4, episode 4
W: Ben Starr, Chuck Stewart D: Jack Donohue
With Rodolfo Hoyos Jr. (Hector Ramirez), Barbara Sharma (Amanda Wilkerson). Ed's plan to become a foster parent to the orphaned Raul hits a snag when he is unable to provide the social worker with three favorable character references.
Season 4, episode 5
W: Gary Belkin D: Jack Donohue
With Hector Elias (Alberto). Raul thinks he's getting a bargain when he trades in Ed's old mattress for two new ones, unaware that his distrustful stepfather has been using the bedding as a piggy bank.
Season 4, episode 6
W: Sandy Krinski, Chet Dowling D: Jack Donohue
With Jim Connell (Inspector Martin). Ed withholds a special delivery parcel from Mexico addressed to Raul because he suspects that the rumpled brown bundle contains pornographic material.
Season 4, episode 7
W: Bob Shayne D: Jack Donohue
With Mark Brown (Andy Rogers). Ed, feeling that his adopted son Raul should not be deprived of motherly love and affection, proposes to Della, who quickly accepts.
Season 4, episode 8
W: Norm Liebmann, Peter Gallay, Gene Farmer, Bill Daley D: Jack Donohue Raul's Aunt Charo comes to the garage to take Raul back to Spain, but he would rather stay with Ed.
Season 4, episode 9
W: Norm Liebmann, Peter Gallay, Gene Farmer, Bill Daley D: Jack Donohue
With Pat Morita (Pat Yamaguchi). Charo tries to drum up Ed's business by taking matters into her own hands.
Season 4, episode 10
W: Carmen Finestra D: Jack Donohue
With Art Lewis (Floyd Varner), Ralph Manza (Hector Gomez), Kenia Borell (Theresa), Margarita Cordova (Rosa Gomez). The garage has a run on charity cases when Raul tries to impress his classmates by writing a composition about Ed fixing cars for free for the poor.
Season 4, episode 11
W: Adele Styler, Burt Styler D: Jack Donohue
With Rene Enriquez (Mr. Rivera). Ed, talked into sponsoring a local basketball team, plots to make a reluctant Raul the star player.
Season 4, episode 12
W: Norm Liebmann, Peter Gallay, Gene Farmer D: Bill Daley, Jack Donohue
With Speedy Zapata. Ed and Raul offer to prepare Raul's Aunt Charo for the citizenship test.
Season 4, episode 13
W: Norm Liebmann, Peter Gallay, Gene Farmer D: Jack Donohue
With Isaac Ruiz (Mando), Roberto Contreras (Captain Salazar), Robert Hegyes (Zoltan). Twelve-year-old Raul, believing he is an intruder after learning that there was once another Chico living and working at the garage, runs away from Ed and returns to Mexico.
Season 4, episode 14
W: Norm Liebmann, Bill Daley D: Jack Donohue
With Gino Conforti (Antonio), Tim Herbert, Don Diamond. Raul's Aunt Charo pretends to fall in madly love with Ed Brown to keep from being claimed by a matador to whom she was betrothed at age eight.
Season 4, episode 15
W: Don Segall D: Jack Donohue
With Tom Williams, Milt Kogan, Jay Gerber, Julie Hill (Monica). Raul brings an aspiring actress home, and wants Ed to make her part of the family.
Season 4, episode 16
W: Norm Liebmann, Bill Daley D: Jack Donohue
With Terri Paine (Customer), R.L. Haase (Customer), Alice Nunn (Mrs. Keever), Charles Fleischer (Charlie), Ray Ballard (Alfred Keefer), Patch Mackenzie (Susie), Hilary Thompson (Lynn). Monica converts Ed Brown's garage into a car wash.
Season 4, episode 17
W: Tom Sawyer D: Bill Larkin
With Trent Dolan (Secret Service Agent), Julie Hill (Monica), Morgan Paull (Secret Service Agent). Fear of a security check prompts Ed to refuse to play host to the President of the United States.
Season 4, episode 18
W: Gary Belkin, Jerry Ross D: Jack Donohue
With Franklyn Ajaye (Tony). Ed tries to persuade Della to babysit for her grandson while her son pursues another of his million-dollar schemes.
Season 4, episode 19
W: Terry Hart D: Jack Donohue
With Cliff Carnell (Police Officer), Louis Guss (Collucci), Ted Cassidy (Bruno). Ed's health is threatened by a hood and his henchmen when he makes Monica quit her job at the roughest bar in town.
Season 4, episode 20
W: Al Schwartz, Sam Locke D: Jack Donohue
With Bill McLean (Ira), Ken Sansom (Doctor), Tom Reese (Cop), Alice Ghostley (Harriett). Ed, convinced by a lady's complaint that he is acting abnormally, tries to get himself arrested.
Season 4, episode 21
W: Ron Friedman D: Jack Donohue
With Ned Glass (Berkowitz), Herb Edelman (Doctor). When Ed is hospitalized, his roommate successfully frightens him with tales of malpractice suits. (Last show of the series.)