The BEST episodes of Chico and the Man season 4
Every episode of Chico and the Man season 4, ranked from best to worst by thousands of votes from fans of the show. The best episodes of Chico and the Man season 4!
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 - The Americanization of Charo
Season 4 - Episode 12 - Aired 1/6/1978
Aunt Charo takes her citizenship test and becomes an American Citizen.
#2 - Buenas Dias, Mr. President
Season 4 - Episode 18 - Aired 6/16/1978
Ed becomes agitated when the President decides to visit his garage when he comes to town.
#3 - Waiting for Chongo
Season 4 - Episode 23 - Aired 7/28/1978
A motorcycle gang that know Monica comes and pretty much ransacks the garage and Ed doesn't know how to get rid of them.
#4 - The Hot Rock
Season 4 - Episode 22 - Aired 7/21/1978
Louie comes up with an invention. He wants to make a barbecue that relies on solar energy. Enthusiascic about the idea, Ed runs to his insurance company and tries to get money to launch the idea.
#5 - The Peeping Tom
Season 4 - Episode 21 - Aired 7/14/1978
Ed is falsley accused by a woman who swears that he is a peeping Tom and is watching her on a daily basis.
#6 - Help Wanted
Season 4 - Episode 20 - Aired 7/7/1978
Monica upsets Ed by getting a job at a sleazy restaraunt.
#7 - Della and Son
Season 4 - Episode 19 - Aired 6/30/1978
Della tries to convince her son Tony to help her and her catering business.
#8 - Ed Brown's Car Wash
Season 4 - Episode 17 - Aired 6/9/1978
For her Uncle Ed, Monica decides to drum up business by having an all-girl in tight shirts and shorts car wash.
#9 - A New Girl in Town
Season 4 - Episode 16 - Aired 6/2/1978
In an attempt to add more characters to the show, Monica, Ed Brown's niece, tells her tragic story and moves in with Ed.
#10 - Charo and the Matador
Season 4 - Episode 15 - Aired 1/27/1978
Charo's Matador fiancee Antonio, comes to sweep her off her feet to get married.
#11 - Raul Runs Away (2)
Season 4 - Episode 14 - Aired 1/20/1978
Ed goes to Mexico to try and track Raul down. In an old church they meet and Ed explains that he misses the first Chico, but tells Raul that he is afraid that he'll get too attached and that Raul will leave him the same way Chico left him. This is a very touching episode and the only episode that was filmed. They filmed it because they went on location to Mexico. They taped all the others in Burbank CA.
#12 - 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.
#13 - Who's Been Sleeping in My Car?
Season 4 - Episode 1 - Aired 9/16/1977
Ed who returns from Mexico, learns that he has an 11 year old stowaway in the back of his car. This little kid is determined to stay with Ed in the USA.
#14 - Ed's Team
Season 4 - Episode 11 - Aired 12/30/1977
Raul wants to join a basketball team and he can if Ed sponsors it, so that is what he does.
#15 - Ed, the Hero
Season 4 - Episode 10 - Aired 12/9/1977
On a class report, Ed writes about Ed. He writes that Ed fixes poor people's cars for free. When word gets out, Poor folks from all over the neigborhood swamp Ed with trying to get thier cars fixed.
#16 - Charo Takes Over
Season 4 - Episode 9 - Aired 12/2/1977
Charo tries to drum up Ed's business by taking matters into her own hands.
#17 - Aunt Charo
Season 4 - Episode 8 - Aired 11/18/1977
Raul's Aunt Charo comes to the Garage to take Raul back to Spain, but he would rather stay with Ed.
#18 - The Proposal
Season 4 - Episode 7 - Aired 11/11/1977
Ed and Della decide to have Christmas dinner together. As they are eating and drinking wine, they both get drunk and before you know it, Ed proposes marriage to Della and Della accepts. But when they become sober, they realize what they have done and try not to go back on their work no matter what. Will this wedding go ahead?
#19 - The Matter of Privacy
Season 4 - Episode 6 - Aired 11/4/1977
Ed tries to teach Raul how important it is to respect one's privacy. The moral blows up when Ed opens a package that is for Raul.
#20 - The Bed
Season 4 - Episode 5 - Aired 10/21/1977
Ed had stuffed 700 dollars in his own mattress. I say had because Raul, knowing that Ed needed a new one, traded the old one in for a newer one. Anyway, they have to go and try to get all the money back.
#21 - The Third Letter
Season 4 - Episode 4 - Aired 10/14/1977
Ed needs a third reference letter to officially adopt Raul.
#22 - Take Me, I'm Yours
Season 4 - Episode 3 - Aired 9/30/1977
When a social worker comes to take Raul away, Ed decides to adopt him as his own.
#23 - Su Casa, Mi Casa?
Season 4 - Episode 2 - Aired 9/23/1977
Ed waits for word from Raul's parents. Later, Ed finds out that Raul is an orphan and needs a parent.