‘Chico and the Man’ series debuts on NBC-TV 40 years ago this hour (Sep 13 1974)


Video: 'Chico and the Man'

(Friday, September 13, 1974, 8:30 p.m. EDT)Chico and the Man, a sitcom television series about a cantankerous owner of a run down garage in an East Los Angeles barrio and an upbeat, optimistic Chicano young man who comes in looking for a job, debuted tonight as a regular television series on NBC. It starred Jack Albertson and Freddie Prinze.


Video: 'Larry Hovis on Chico and the Man' (from pilot episode)