Chico and the Man

- Season 1

(1974)

"Chico" successfully persuades cranky, bigoted garage owner Ed Brown to take him on as an employee & partner in the business and to live in the garage in Ed's old van.

Ed tries to break Chico's iron clad contract to be partners in the garage.

His unfamiliarity with foreign cars leads Ed to believe that the old dog is all washed up.

Ed needs a new suit to attend a reunion of his old army battalion.

Chico convinces Ed that they need a loan for spare parts to build up the business.

Louie asks Ed to sell his battered Studebaker, with disastrous results.

Ed gets the wrong impression about what Chico and his girlfriend were doing in the van.

Chico convinces Ed that a government loan can ease their credit problem at the garage.

A very pregnant woman unexpectedly shows up, allowing Ed Brown's daughter to deliver a newborn Chicano right there in Ed Brown's garage.

Chico tries to tell Ed that he has to work for his cousin in New York.

Ed believes his time is short after reading about the demise of his former best friend, from natural causes.

Chico's latest customer turns out to be a Chicano army buddy of Ed's.

Ed must hold a garage sale to dispense with all of his old mementos, or risk a hefty fine.

Blind as a bat Ed Brown wants to testify that his old friend was responsible for a collision on his street corner.

Ed is forced to cover for an old army buddy who has been cheating on his wife.

Chico wants to marry his girlfriend Marilyn.

There's a new woman in the neighborhood, boasting about her glazed buns.

Sammy Davis Jr. drops by and recognizes Ed as an old dancing partner from vaudeville.

Ed has a sore shoulder, Chico gets the pain.

A sleepy Chico has Ed wondering how he's been spending his nights, before learning about a series of robberies plaguing the neighborhood.

Ed didn't count on Louie's retirement to mean a third hand at the garage.

Ed reads his own obituary, and learns just how many mourners he would have had if he'd only died.