8.3/1029 votesLoading...#1 - Chico's Cousin Pepe
Season 2 Episode 19 - Aired 2/11/1976
Chico's blind, skirt chasing, singer of a cousin visits Chico and meets Ed.
Director: N/A
Writer: Seaman Jacobs
- 8.2/1021 votesLoading...
#2 - Chico's Padre
Season 3 Episode 15 - Aired 2/4/1977
Gilberto, Chico's father who he hasn't seen in many years, returns to Chico to try and give him a chance to better his life by living with him. Chico's father is rich.
Director: N/A
Writer: George Arthur Bloom
- 8.1/1022 votesLoading...
#3 - The Disappearance
Season 2 Episode 5 - Aired 10/10/1975
Chico thinks that Ed is spending too much time living in the past and not getting on with life.
Director: N/A
Writer: N/A
- 8.0/1058 votesLoading...
#4 - Pilot
Season 1 Episode 1 - Aired 9/13/1974
Conservative elderly man Ed Brown meets a Chicano man who rides in Ed's garage on a bike, looking for a job. After a day of persuasion, Ed agrees to give Chico a job as his mechanic.
Director: Peter Baldwin
Writer: Michael Ross, James Komack
- 7.7/1022 votesLoading...
#5 - Long Live the Man
Season 1 Episode 22 - Aired 3/14/1975
Everyone thinks that Ed had died, and when Ed finds out about it, he gets upset because nobody had cried for him when they heard the misleading news.
Director: N/A
Writer: N/A
- 7.6/1018 votesLoading...
#6 - The Big Brush-Off
Season 2 Episode 17 - Aired 1/28/1976
Chico is having some women problems. A girl that he likes will not go out with Chico because he looks too much like her ex-fiance.
Director: N/A
Writer: N/A
- 7.6/1012 votesLoading...
#7 - Raul Runs Away (1)
Season 4 Episode 13 - Aired 1/20/1978
Raul finds out about the first Chico who died (Freddie Prinze). He finds the van hidden in the garage. He goes into the van and plays Chico's old guitar. When Ed hears the music an eerie feeling comes over him. He checks the van hoping that somehow Chico came back. When he finds Raul in the van, he gets mad. He bashes the guitar over the van and screams at Raul. Raul runs upstairs and prepares to run away thinking that he cannot replace the first Chico and that Ed doesn't love him anymore.
Director: N/A
Writer: N/A
- 7.5/1026 votesLoading...
#8 - Garage Sale
Season 1 Episode 13 - Aired 1/3/1975
An inspecor inspects Ed's garage and when he find a pile of junk in front of an emergency exit, he issues an ultimatum...Either he gets rid of the junk, or he gets a hefty fine. Ed then decides to profit from the ultimatum by having a garage sale.
Director: Peter Baldwin
Writer: Ed Jurist
- 7.5/1020 votesLoading...
#9 - Chico Packs His Bags
Season 3 Episode 3 - Aired 10/22/1976
Chico decides that he would rather move out on his own, away from Ed than give into Ed's rules.
Director: N/A
Writer: N/A
- 7.4/1038 votesLoading...
#10 - Second Thoughts
Season 1 Episode 2 - Aired 9/20/1974
Ed has second thoughts about hiring Chico and tries as best as he can to get rid of him.
Director: Peter Baldwin
Writer: Burt Styler
- 7.2/1026 votesLoading...
#11 - Borrowed Trouble
Season 1 Episode 5 - Aired 10/11/1974
Chico tries to persuade Ed to take a loan from the bank to improve conditions of customer service.
Director: Peter Baldwin
Writer: N/A
- 7.2/1023 votesLoading...
#12 - The Manuel Who Came to Dinner
Season 1 Episode 12 - Aired 12/27/1974
A car is towed into Ed's garage and when this man comes to the garage, it turns out that this man was a Chicano friend of Ed's from the past.
Director: Peter Baldwin
Writer: David Pollock, Elias Davis
- 7.2/1024 votesLoading...
#13 - Sammy Steps In
Season 1 Episode 18 - Aired 2/14/1975
When his car acts up, Sammy Davis, Jr. pulls into the garage to get it fixed. However, he quickly learns that this is just no ordinary garage, with Sammy Davis, Jr. fans crawling out of the woodwork.
Director: James Komack
Writer: N/A
- 7.2/1018 votesLoading...
#15 - Ms. Liz
Season 2 Episode 7 - Aired 10/31/1975
Chico falls head over heels for a woman named Liz, in fact he likes her so much that he decides to marry her.
Director: N/A
Writer: Jack Mendelsohn
- 7.0/1028 votesLoading...
#16 - No Room in the Garage
Season 1 Episode 9 - Aired 11/15/1974
A pregnant Spanish woman comes in the garage and Ed thinks that she is looking for him because he thinks that Chico may be the father of the unborn child.
Director: Peter Baldwin
Writer: N/A
- 7.0/1028 votesLoading...
#17 - The Letter
Season 1 Episode 10 - Aired 12/6/1974
Chico wants to participate with his cousin's business in New York.
Director: Peter Baldwin
Writer: James Komack
- 7.0/1010 votesLoading...
#18 - The Americanization of Charo
Season 4 Episode 12 - Aired 1/6/1978
Aunt Charo takes her citizenship test and becomes an American Citizen.
Director: N/A
Writer: N/A
- 6.9/1020 votesLoading...
#19 - The Giveaway
Season 1 Episode 20 - Aired 2/28/1975
Chico is carrying large amounts of cash and working strange hours.
Director: N/A
Writer: Eric Cohen
- 6.9/1016 votesLoading...
#20 - The Accident
Season 2 Episode 18 - Aired 2/4/1976
After Chico gets into an accident, Ed burrows from his own insurance money to send Chico to school.
Director: N/A
Writer: N/A
- 6.9/1029 votesLoading...
#21 - Ed Talks to God
Season 3 Episode 18 - Aired 3/4/1977
Ed does not feel like appearing at his own birthday party. Chico however tries to find a way for Ed to go, so he gets ahold of a good old friend of Ed's and has him impersonate the voice of God by hooking sound equipment and a microphone all over the garage.
Director: N/A
Writer: N/A
- 6.8/1028 votesLoading...
#22 - Lifestyle
Season 1 Episode 7 - Aired 11/1/1974
Ed thinks that something kinky was going on between Chico and his girlfriend when he caught them in the back seat of Chico's van.....but was Ed just jumping to conclusions?
Director: Peter Baldwin
Writer: N/A
- 6.8/1023 votesLoading...
#23 - Ed Steps Out
Season 1 Episode 17 - Aired 2/7/1975
A widowed baker buys a bakery in the area and has her dibbs on Ed.
Director: Peter Baldwin
Writer: Jerry Ross
- 6.8/1021 votesLoading...
#24 - Louie's Retirement
Season 1 Episode 21 - Aired 3/7/1975
Louie, who has retired, wants to spend his remaining years haning around the garage.
Director: James Komack
Writer: N/A
- 6.8/1025 votesLoading...
#25 - Chico and the Van
Season 2 Episode 6 - Aired 10/17/1975
A city ""Truent Officer"" let's say tells Chico that his van is illegal in the states, so Chico moves in with Ed.
Director: N/A
Writer: N/A
The Best Episodes of Chico and the Man
Every episode of Chico and the Man ranked from best to worst. Let's dive into the Best Episodes of Chico and the Man!
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...
Genre:Comedy
Network:NBC
Best Episodes Summary
"Chico's Cousin Pepe" is the best rated episode of "Chico and the Man". It scored 8.3/10 based on 29 votes. Directed by N/A and written by Seaman Jacobs, it aired on 2/11/1976. This episode scored 0.1 points higher than the second highest rated, "Chico's Padre".