Watch Series: Chico and the Man Released in (1974) - Season 1 produced by USA, The TV Series categorized in Comedy, and content rating TV-G with duration 30 min broadcasted as these networks NBC, Streamed at Putlocker & directed by James Komack, Jack Donohue, Peter Baldwin. 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 Jack Albertson as Ed Brown, the cantankerous owner of a run down garage in an East Los Angeles barrio, and Freddie Prinze as Chico Rodriguez, an upbeat, optimistic Chicano young man who comes in looking for a job. It was the first U.S. television series set in a Mexican-American neighborhood. - Season 1