Chico and the Man

Chico and the Man is an American sitcom which ran from 1974 to 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 (until his suicide late in the third season) 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.

A hard-drinking Anglo widower, Ed stubbornly refuses to fit in with the changing East L.A. neighborhood and has alienated most of the people who live around him. He uses ethnic slurs and berates Chico, a Latino, in an effort to get him to leave when Chico comes looking for a job. Yet Chico sees something in Ed, and sneaks back in at night to clean up the garage and move into an old van that Ed has parked inside. As Ed sees all the effort Chico has put in, he begins to warm to Chico. Over the course of the show, Ed grows to see Chico as family, although Ed denies this on several occasions.

Starring 

Jack Albertson
Freddie Prinze
Della Reese
Scatman Crothers
Bonnie Boland
Isaac Ruiz
Ronny Graham

The chemistry between Jack Albertson's "Ed" and Freddie Prinze's "Chico" was a major factor in making the show a hit in its first two seasons. 
It debuted in the top ten and remained there for the first two seasons.

This the complete series of 88 Episodes

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