The BEST episodes of Chico and the Man season 3

Every episode of Chico and the Man season 3, ranked from best to worst by thousands of votes from fans of the show. The best episodes of Chico and the Man season 3!

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.

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#1 - Morgan and the Man

Season 3 - Episode 8 - Aired 12/3/1976

Chico is reunited with his old high school girlfriend. Thinking the magic is still there, he proposes to her, but she ends up not wanting to marry him.

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#2 - Ready When You Are, CB

Season 3 - Episode 11 - Aired 12/24/1976

Everyone has plans to attend to and people to see except Ed for New years. He then uses a CB radio that is in the garage. He comes across a woman who also doesn't have anyone to spend New Years with and she is on the road. Ed invites her to the garage and she shows up. Later, Della, Chico, and the rest of Ed's friends decide to surprise Ed by joining him for New years. When the element of surprise hits, that is when the gang meets Ed's new friend ""Kissy Face"".

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#3 - Uncle Sonny

Season 3 - Episode 21 - Aired 4/8/1977

While Ed is away, his daring uncle comes to visit and throws an all-night girl party.

Directors: Jack Donohue
Writer: Henry Irving
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#4 - Louie's Can-Can

Season 3 - Episode 20 - Aired 4/1/1977

Louie hires Ed to be a garbage truck driver, after he is forced to retire his job and decides to open his own garbage collecting business.

Directors: Jack Donohue
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#5 - Gregory Peck Is a Rooster

Season 3 - Episode 19 - Aired 3/18/1977

Ed sells a rooster that belongs to him, but when he finds out that the rooster's purpose is to cockfight, he tries to get the bird back.

Directors: Jack Donohue
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#6 - 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.

Directors: Jack Donohue
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#7 - Black Tie Blues

Season 3 - Episode 17 - Aired 2/25/1977

Della wants to attend a formal dance and needs a host to go with her. Nobody wants to go, (Chico, Louie, and Ed) so they all try and find ways to get out of it.

Directors: Jack Donohue
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#8 - Matchmaker, Matchmaker

Season 3 - Episode 16 - Aired 2/18/1977

Della plays matchmaker at trying to set Ed up with a woman. However when Ed gets word that Della did the matchmaking, he immediately wants to call the whole thing off.

Directors: Jack Donohue
Writer: Si Rose
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#9 - 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.

Directors: Jack Donohue
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#10 - Champs Ain't Chumps

Season 3 - Episode 14 - Aired 1/28/1977

Ed displays worry about Chico when Chico decides to want to fight as a professional.

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#11 - Minority of One

Season 3 - Episode 13 - Aired 1/14/1977

Ed is elected President of a Mexican Better Business bureau.

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#12 - The Dress

Season 3 - Episode 12 - Aired 1/7/1977

Ed donates his deceased wife's dress to raise money for a charity auction. He regrets doing the good deed when he finds out that a cross-dresser decides to buy the dress. Ed feels that he should not sell it to a man who will soil his wife's good name, so he fights to try to persuade the man into changing his mind.

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#13 - Old is Old

Season 3 - Episode 10 - Aired 12/17/1976

Ed gets the idea of hiring a senior citizen for the garage when Della persuades him through a debate that seniors don't have the same rights that younger people have.

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#14 - Mucho Macho Ed

Season 3 - Episode 9 - Aired 12/10/1976

A woman visits the garage claiming that Ed is the father to her unborn kid. When he hears of this, he wonders how. He then decides to ask for her hand in marriage.

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#15 - Ed Brown vs. the IRS

Season 3 - Episode 7 - Aired 11/26/1976

Chico and Louie decide that the only way to get Ed's taxes in is to forge his name to the document. This happens after Ed refuses to pay them.

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#16 - Ed's Recuperation

Season 3 - Episode 6 - Aired 11/19/1976

After finding out that the nurse that Ed hired wants to get married to him, Chico and Della try to talk her out of it.

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#17 - In Your Hat

Season 3 - Episode 5 - Aired 11/12/1976

Ed's lucky hat is stolen and while he needs to have an operation, he won't go under the knife until he gets his lucky hat back.

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#18 - Chico's Problem

Season 3 - Episode 4 - Aired 11/5/1976

Chico's girlfriend decides on calling it quits to being a nurse. She then changes her mind after saving Ed's life.

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#19 - 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.

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#20 - Second Coming of Della

Season 3 - Episode 2 - Aired 10/8/1976

When Ed lays off the fighting with his new landlady, Della decides to renew Ed's lease.

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#21 - Della Moves In

Season 3 - Episode 1 - Aired 10/1/1976

Ed gets a new neigbor, but to his dismay it is a loud mouth liberal woman who now owns his garage and threatens eviction.

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