The BEST episodes of Chico and the Man
Every episode of Chico and the Man ever, ranked from best to worst by thousands of votes from fans of the show. The best episodes of Chico and the Man!
Ed Brown, a hard-drinking, curmudgeonly mechanic and bigot in a Los Angeles barrio, hires Chico Rodriguez, a young Chicano from the neighborhood. Over time, Ed warms to the young man and a father-son type of relationship develops.
#1 - Too Many Crooks
Season 2 - Episode 21 - Aired 2/25/1976
Ed, not knowing that he gave a handout to a crook, eventually Ed has all kinds of crooks from the neigborhood coming to him for a handout as well. Of course it is money they are after.
#2 - E Pluribus Used Car
Season 1 - Episode 6 - Aired 10/25/1974
Louis gives Ed and Chico his used car to sell which gives Chico the idea of selling used cars as a part of Ed's business.
#3 - 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.
#4 - 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.
#5 - Paint Job
Season 2 - Episode 1 - Aired 9/12/1975
Ed and Chico clash over the wall of their alley for an art competition.
#6 - 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.
#7 - The Strike
Season 2 - Episode 11 - Aired 11/28/1975
Chico joins a union for mechanics, but is forced to picket Ed's Garage.
#8 - Veterans
Season 1 - Episode 8 - Aired 11/8/1974
Chico and Ed try getting Veterans financing from the Government.
#9 - The Invention
Season 2 - Episode 12 - Aired 12/5/1975
Ed creates a new invention. He decides to design training wheels for motorcycles. While trying to get the idea patented, they get swindled out of five hundred bucks for the patent process.
#10 - Bird in a Gilded Cage
Season 2 - Episode 10 - Aired 11/21/1975
Ed has stirred emotions when he sees his favorite silent film actress waiting tables at a local cafe.
#11 - 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.
#12 - New Suit
Season 1 - Episode 4 - Aired 10/4/1974
Ed does not want to attend his former Army reunion.
#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.
#14 - If I Were a Rich Man
Season 1 - Episode 16 - Aired 1/31/1975
Ed tries to snap Chico out of falling in love with and spending too much on a woman he has fallen in love with.
#15 - Natural Causes
Season 1 - Episode 11 - Aired 12/20/1974
When Ed hears about a death of an friend, he begins to think that he may be the next one to meet his maker.
#16 - Return of Aunt Connie
Season 2 - Episode 20 - Aired 2/18/1976
Chico's Aunt Connie visits and when she does, Chico and Ed realize that she is a con artist.
#17 - The Face Job
Season 2 - Episode 22 - Aired 3/3/1976
Ed's public life is almost destroyed when he is offered a free face lift.
#18 - The Juror
Season 2 - Episode 13 - Aired 12/19/1975
Chico is assigned Jury duty, and he finds out that the defendant on his jury is actually a good friend of Ed's.
#19 - Misfortune Teller
Season 2 - Episode 9 - Aired 11/14/1975
Ed tries to prevent the bank from foreclosing the mortgage on his garage by visiting a fortune teller.
#20 - Mister Butterfly
Season 2 - Episode 8 - Aired 11/7/1975
A Japenese man visits the garage claiming to be Ed's long lost son.
#21 - 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.
#22 - 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.
#23 - The Doctor Story
Season 1 - Episode 19 - Aired 2/21/1975
Ed would rather fix his aching shoulder himself than go to see a doctor.
#24 - 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?
#25 - Auntie Connie
Season 2 - Episode 3 - Aired 9/26/1975
Ed develops the hots for Chico's visiting Aunt Connie.