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 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.